The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-04
TWO AND A MAP.

He unfolded the map carefully and
spread 1t out. That's what like abou,
a map" he said. you never need to
ask your way. It makes you 80 much
more Independent. Doesn't it, darling?"
Eyes, dearest"
A gust Of wind swept down and tore
the map-in two places, as the auc-
tioneer says.
"You should have pasted a bit Of
tape at the back Of the folds" he said.
Then it wouldn't have torn"
Il would have done it with pleasure
II you had asked NO."
Il can't think of everything. How
ever, the first thing to do in using a
map is to find out where you are on it.
Now, as you see, we are here" He
pointed to spot on the map with his
pencil. This is the road we are now
on, and that is the crossroad just in
front Of u.s.
"Oh, no! That's all wrong"
"In what way all wrong?" he asked,
coldly.
Because the crossroad is canal"
Il fail to see how crossroad can be
a canal. Besides, you can see the road
for yourself--ordinary hard highroad,
and no canal about it,
Don't be silly, dear. I didn't mean
the crossroad on the-er-earth.
meant the crossroaG on the map that
isn't the crossroad."
Very lucid, indeed" he observed,
even more icily.
When you try to be sarcastic you
only make ugly faces and don't say
anything good. Look here! You think
that we are at this point on the map.
don't you? Very well. And you think
this line represents the crossroads in
front of US, don't you? Very well, It
doesn't. Because that line isn't meant
for road, but canal"
How do you know?" a,
Because it's colored brown" q
at is. hadn't noticed it."
II knew you were In the wrong, but
you are always so obstinate. Now, as
ROAD lSnJ canal
wait a minute"-rather angrily.
1.-THE brown line means railway"
tits all the same thing. can't walk
on canal and can't walk on rail-
way. At any rate, l won't. l suppose
you want me to be run over"
my dear girl, do be reasonable.
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.
80 1t does on the map"
I'VE are 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
in the-er-reality and therefore we
can't be at the spot where we thought
we were"
Where you thought we were.
knew you were wrong all the time.
It's no good having map II you don't
know how to use it. Give it to me-"
She took it and screwed her eyes up,
examining closely.
1--WE got it" she cried in triumph.
This is Pilling."
But we left Pilling an hour ago."
"Of course. FIN going to trace our
road from there. Now look. Here is
the name Pilling. And the little black
spot at one end means the village it.
self, the exact position Of it,
Thanks for the information"
"Wait. There's black spot at each
end of the name. It's all right. One
of the black spots is smut. Poof!
Vow I've blown away the spot which
wasn't Pilling."
go on. Blow away the spot which
is Pilling. Blow the whole concern,
say I'm sick Of it,"
"If you wouldn't lose your temper
and would have little patience,
should be able to put you right" She
traced with pin. I'VE left Pilling-so.
Then we turned to the left-so. So we
must be just here now"
And she dug her pin triumphantly
through the map at the point, and 1t
went right through and pricked her
knee and hurt her.
IF that is So" he said, II have only
one thing to ask. 1t is not important,
of course, but where's the crossroad?'
in front Of you, with white fence
on each side of 1t. It's plain enough"
why do you keep confusing be-
tween the road on the, map and the
road on the-er-well, the other road?"
Its you who make the confusion"
she said, mixing up railcans with nal
ways-I mean, Of course, nalrails with
canways-oh, you know what mean"
I'm blessed If do. l only know
there's a crossroad here, and there's
no crossroad on the map. The map
can't be wrong"
"Then the real road must be-" she
replied, bitterly. Get piece of India
rubber and rub it out and make it fit
the map"
There was moments pause, and
then they both happened to look up at
the same moment and both exclaimed
joyously-
So they asked the boy the way and
went on rejoicing, and peace reigned
again.
They left the map behind them by
accident. Afterward they both said
that was pity.-Black and White.