Show DADDYS EIVEN G mary SONG 1 I beg your pardon said equator Equi tor waking up with a start 1 I must have been asleep you we w e r e david sold said but you teen asleep very long just one of my little naps said H equator q u a t 0 r 1 I go to sleep when I 1 have a visitor for I 1 dont have many visitors 1 I get lonely too for ive such a warm rm heart that I 1 teel eel friendly r endly toward tho the korll then too im the only one of my 1 I feel friendly kind thera era are a toward the dumber dubel ot of zones zodek world tor for example but t only one equator there are ara times when I 1 feel inclined to be upset over having so few visitors but my disposition Is too equal to let it really disturb me yet I 1 would bould not wont want to go where it was cooler im fair about hating cold im equally far from both poles they speak of the north pole pole at at tile the tar far north and the south pole tit at the far south 1 I go to such cold illos pliable elli climates nates explorers and such may mai but you sou wont find equator moving id like to see the north pole said david or even the south pole you see a pole either place said equator and david looked very much astonished no said equator joud no more see a pole either at the extreme north or the extreme south than you see me as a line around tile th earth im just that part of the earth what I 1 am but im a real person in the living map of the world I 1 and the equator looked very sleepy david did hope he go to sleep again lie ile wanted to hear him talk some more it was so nice to hear bear the elie stories searles the me living map people had to tell they were so different from any 0 ther other stories he had ever heard and the equator was such a fat droll creature then too david felt sorry for or the equator with his warm heart not having many friends here tie lie was though ready to stay and equator was about to sleep again equator had said something about a song david would ask him about it I 1 he brightened up at once to be sure he said 1 I have hae no reg regular ular concert songs or drawing room ballads because I 1 never have the opportunity port unity of singing such songs but it if you really could would like to hear me id be glad to sing for you the little lullaby 4 I 1 sing to my sleepy self very often about my 0 only audience 1 I am fair about 7 my lullaby too I 1 could make it twice as long as I 1 shall make it so you vou will only have halt half the suffering ering you ou might have if I 1 sang it all im a real per and I 1 will MR only son h have av 0 half the pleasure I 1 w would uld have in singing it oil ill be fair to td both of us no dont bother to make a polite speech lie ile waved a fat hand at david the equator had a deep deep voice which sounded as though it came from the center of the earth but before lie he began he explained that he called himself quator in the lullaby because it made the rhyme better and lie he wanted to be its as fair as a possible to the rhyme latitude and longitude helped a bit with it too lie he said for they are among my callers so lie he sang his |