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Lilian Bell

The Runaway Equator, and the Strange Adventures of a Little Boy in Pursuit of It

Published by Good Press, 2021

goodpress@okpublishing.info

EAN 4066338075819

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CHAPTER I

IN WHICH BILLY MEETS NIMBUS

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MOTHER had been helping Billy with his geography lesson, sitting in the garden on a lovely day early in spring, and showing Billy how the earth revolves on its axis. To illustrate this difficult matter and to make it interesting, she had taken a big yellow orange to represent the Earth and had used a stick of lemon candy for the Pole. She made the Equator out of a black rubber band such as you put around fat envelopes.

Then, when Billy said that he understood, Mother dug a hole in the orange and stuck the lemon stick in it and, handing it to Billy, said with a droll twinkle in her blue eyes, which always seemed to be laughing:

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