The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-17
TWO AND A MAP.

III uhioiueU tiic iiuP carefully ana
spread it out. That's what like about
map" he said You never need to
ask your way. 1t makes you so much
more independent. Doesn' it, darling?"
Yes dearest. A gust of wind
swept down and tore tho map-in two
places, as the auctioneers say.
You should have pasted bit of tape
ut the back of the folds" he said.
"Then it wouldn't have torn
IL would have done it with pleasure
if you had asked me"
II can't think of everything. How
ever. the first thing to do in using II
map is to find out where you are on it,
Now. as you see, we are here" He
pointed to spot OH the map with his
pencil
This is the road we arc now on, and
that is the crossroad Just in front of
us"
"Oh. no! That's all wrong"
In what way wrongY'' he asked
coldly.
Because the crossroad is n canal"
II fail to see how crossroad can DO
canal. Besides, you can see the road
for yourself-ordinary hard highroad.
and no canal about it.
Don't be silly, dear. 1 didn't mean
tho crossroad on the-er-earth.
meant the crossroad OH the map that
isn't the crossroad.
Ivory lucid, indeed" he observed
even more icily.
When You try to be sarcastic, YOU
only make ugly faces and don't say any
thing really good. Look here. You
think that we are at this point on tho
map don't you? Very we'll And you
think this line represents the crossroad
i'll front of us, don't you? Very we'll, it
doesn't. Because that limo ISM meant
for road, but canal -
How do you know?'
Because it's colored brown
"It is. l hadn't noticed it,.
II knew you were in tho wrong but
you are always SO obstinate Now. rs u
road isn't canal'-
wait minute rather angrily.
You're quite as wrong as am. The
brown line means Il railway"
Its all the Same thing. Ican't walk
on canal and 1 cam walk on n rail
way. At any rate, won't 1 suppose
you want me to be run over
MY dear girl, do be reasonable. 1
can't ask you to walk on railway
when there isn't any railway"
"You said the brown line meant a
railway-you know you did" very en-
phatically.
$50 it does on the map
We're not walking on the map
We're walking on the-er-land.
THAT is precisely what was trying
to explain to you. There is no railway
i'll the-er-reality, and therefore we
can't be at the spot where we thought
we were''
where you thought we were. I
knew you were wrong all the time. It's
no good having map if you don It
know how to use it. Give it to me- ~
She took it and screwed her eyes ND,
examining closely. GIVE got it!'' she
cried i'll triumph "This is Pilling."
But we left Pilling an hour ago."
"Of course. I'm going to trace our
road from there. Now look. Here is
the name Pilling. And the little blacl,
spot at one end means the village itself,
the exact position of it, -
Thanks for the information.
Wait There's black spot at each
end of the name. There must be some
mistake. Oh. see It's all right. One
of the black spots is smut. Poof
Now Two blown away the spot which
wasn't Pilling"
go on. Blow away the spot which
is Pilling. Blow tho whole concern,
say. I'm sick of it, -
If you wouldn't lose your temper
and would have a little patience, ]
should be able to put you right" She
traced with pin. eve left Pilling-
so. Then we turned to the left-so Sc
we must be just here now And she
dug her pin triumphantly through the
map at the point, and it went right
through and pricl1ed her knee and hurt
her.
If that is so" he said, 81 have only
one thing to ask. It's not important. OF
course, but where s the crossroad?"
9 In front Of ycu, with white fence
on each side of it. It's plain enough -
Why do you keep confusing between
the road on the map and the road OIL
the-er-well, the other road?"
It's you who make the confusion, -
she said, mixing up railcans with nal.
ways-I mean, of course, nalrails with
canways- Oh you know what
meant
I'm blessed if l do only know
there's crossroad here, and there tic
crossroad OH the map The map cant
be wrong"
Then the real road must be, she
replied bitterly. Get Il piece Of India
rubber and rub it out and make it fiji
the map"
There was moments pause, and
then they both happened to look up al
the Same moment and both exclaimed