Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-06
TWO AND A MAP.


|Hst re independent. Doesn't it, darling?'
Yes, dearest. - a gust of wind
s#ept down and tore the map-in two
|alb bees, as the auctioneers say.
You should have pasted bit Of tape
MI the back of the folds" he said.
Then it wouldn't have torn
L would have done it with pleasure
If you had asked me. -
Il can't think of everything. How
M, the first thing to do in using a
<. Up is to find out where you are ON it.
MI w, as you see, we are here" He
NM inted to a spot on the map with his
Be neil.
''This is the road we are now on, and
lat is the crossroad just in front of
y "
"Oh, mol That's all wrong. -
w "In what way wrong?" he asked
Idly.
Because the crossroad is a canal.'
Il fail to see how a crossrOad can be
y canal. Besides, you can see the road
"a yourself-ordinary hard highroad,
NJ d no canal about it. p"
Don't be silly, dear. I didn't mean
he crossroad on the-er-earth. I
Meant the crossrOad on the map that
"a t the crossroad. -
every lucid, indeed he observed
ven more icily.
"When you try to be sarcastic, you
My make ugly faces and don t say any
hing really good. Look here. You
|hink that we are at this point on the
Zap, don't you? Very well. And you
'hink this line represents the crossroad
ii front of US, don't you? Very well, it
besn't. Because that line isn't meant
'br road, bat canal"
Chow do you know?'
Because it's colored brown. -
SIT is. l hadn't noticed it..
81 knew you We're in the wrong, but
bu are always so obstinate. Now, as d
pad isn't canal''-
"Wait minute"-rather angrily.
n You're quite as wrong as L am. The
,rown line means a railway"
Its all the same thing. Ican't walk
ID a canal and can't walk on a rail
Fay. AT any rate, 1 won't 1 suppose
rou want me to be run over.
my dear girl, do be reasonable. [
amt ask you to walk ON a railway
when there isn't any railway"
''You said the brown line meant
know you did, - very en-
,hatically.
$50 it does ON the map"
"We're not walking on the map.
Mere walking ON the-er-land.
"That is precisely what I was trying
b explain to you. There is no railway
b the-er-reality, and therefore we
hn't be at the spot where we thought
Re were
"Where you thought we were. I
new you were wrong all the time. It's
10 good having map if you don't
now how to use it. Give it to me. -
She took it and screwed her eyes up,
Examining closely. Give got it!'' she
ried in triumph. ''This is Pilling."
"But we left Pilling an hour ago"
"Of course. I'm going to trace our
pad from there. Now look Here is
be name Pilling. And the little black
pot at one end means the village itself,
ne exact position of it. -
''Thanks for the information.
fWait. There's black spot at each
md Of the name. There must be some
histake. Oh, 1 see. It's all right. One
# the black spots is smut. Poof!
Vow I've blown away the spo5 which
wasn't Pilling.''
$50 on. Blow away the spot which
S Pilling. Blow the whole concern, !
ay I'm sick of it.
eff you wouldn't lose your temper
md would have little patience, l
hould be able to put you right. - She
raced with a pin. 1--WE left Pilling-
o. Then we turned to the left-so. So
We must be just here now. :" And she
ug her pin triumphantly through the
nap at the point, and it went right
trough and pricl1ed her knee and hurt
er.
IF that is so,' he said, 81 have only
ne thing to ask. It's not important, of
curse, but where's the crossroad?"
I'm front of you, with a white fence
n each side of it. It's plain enough "
why do you keep confusing between
he road ON the map and the road on
he-er-well, the other road?''
Its you who make the confusion, -
ne Sa1u, mixing up ra1IcanS WIN nal
Eays-I mean, of course, nalrails with
Oh, you know what I
leanr'
''I'm blessed if I do. I only know
here's a crossroad here, and there no
ON the map. The map can't
e wrong.
''Then the real road must be- she
nn1ied bitterly 'sGet q niece of India
ubber and rub it out and make it fit
ne map"
There was a moments pause, and
hen they both happened to look up at
be same moment and both exclaimed
1yously:
Here's boyp'
So they asked the boy the way and
-ent ON rejoicing, and peace reigned
gain
They left the man behind them nv