This Giddy Globe. Herford Oliver

the exception of Mother Earth and old Sol Phœbus, – nothing!

      If you asked an Astronomer whether the Pleiad girls were really the daughters of Atlas, or what Jupiter was doing with eight Moons (if they were Moons), he would think you were trifling with him.

      But is it not possible that the old Greek tales were the garbled gossip of an age-forgotten science of which we have only the A.B.C.?

      If it is Love that makes the world go round (and who can prove that it isn’t?), what makes the other Planets go round?

      How about the movements of the Heavenly Bodies?

      How about —4

      Quite right! Quite right! how we do run on!

      CHAPTER IX

      THE FACE OF THE GLOBE

      There are no good photographs of the Giddy Globe; she refuses to sit.

      Imagine attempting to photograph an obese and flighty Spheroid who spends her time pirouetting round in a circle with all her might and main.

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      The Author is digressing.

      The Reader.

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      Take it away, or we won’t read another word!

      The Reader.

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      Pardon us for interrupting – but we thought this was to be a geogr

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The Author is digressing.

The Reader.

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Take it away, or we won’t read another word!

The Reader.

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Pardon us for interrupting – but we thought this was to be a geography book.

The Reader.

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This is all very interesting, but don’t you think perhaps it is —

The Reader.

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This is all very interesting, but don’t you think perhaps it is —

The Reader.