| Show eveah adi ry ta le GRAHAM AIM BOWER THE CITY she was standing near whore where tho the atlantic followed ills his course and she seemed scarcely more than a girl she was very beautifully dressed and looked ver very y rich and also very interesting david wondered it if he dared speak to her and yet atlantic had told him that lie he was expected while he was making L king up his mind 1 d she h e smiled fled at him lin and said in a voice which was waa thrilling evan even though there was a high somewhat 1 I 1 would love to shrill note dote about lt it talk to you are you trying t to 0 see my sisters over beyond that ocean I 1 hoped you would want to talk to me I 1 am always ready to give a stranger welcome welcom 11 1 I would love to t 0 talk to you david said 1 I dont know any of your sisters he added in fact I 1 know there was a you until a few moments ago have icae you any brothers 4 no she said were all a family of girls I 1 must tell you my name it it Is new york new york repeated david but newyork new york a city exactly said the young woman were all cities all we girls im one of the youngest in the family all of us over at this side of ape the world tire are t the he very young children of our world parents but we have the family ways even more than some of those sisters the way we have of gathering people around us were all very sociable by nature we love loe people and people love us people from one city will say to those from another you city Is all very well perhaps it Is better known but we love ours best everywhere you ou will find too how we city girls love people even when members of our family move to the country at once growing towns and then cities spring up its just our wa way y 0 of f gathering friends about us sometimes my people will say we will move out of town a bit and get the country air but they stay too near to me they want to keep in touch and io so it Is yoi will find cities spreading out and out it Is all because the people and the miles cities can cant I 1 t bear to lose one another entirely you have heard people speak of places near cities which now seem a part of the cities and yet which so BO 1 short a time before were farm fann lands its because we dont really want to leave one another ilow how many people come to see met mel some me come to trade just as you to trade r a d e many of yc your u r possessions with your compan igns so I 1 trade with the 0 other t it e r great cities of the world 1 I send forth to them the things which they and they send to r me and then I 1 trade for other ot h e r parts of 0 the country too r r they say im L I 1 good at tills this our world parents of ali ways said we girls gills had great leads heads for business and sitting and a n d 1 I just seemed to talking come by it nat lint some of us send out live stock leather wheat copper cotton tobacco iron steel while some of tile the things we get from other countries are tea and coffee bugari sugar spices silks rubber hides and linen but come and sit down id like to chat with you I 1 think you will be comfortable on my skyscraper couch I 1 have am e it down here by tile the harbor a nice comfy long couch from which we have hae the most beautiful view then ill tell you something of the family lit history story 11 david daud was a little nervous at the thought of sitting upon a skyscraper couch but he tit did so anti ami there lie he was sitting and talking to a city herself it was a wonderful thing to do |
