Which tells of what can be seen from the Keep of Clarides
It was one day shortly after this that Honey-Bee and George, without being observed, climbed the steps of the watch-tower which stands in the middle of the Castle of Clarides. Having reached the platform they shouted at the top of their voices and clapped their hands.
Their view extended down the hillside divided into brown and green squares of cultivated fields. Woods and mountains lay dimly blue against the distant horizon.
“Little sister,” cried George, “little sister, look at the whole wide world!”
“The world is very big,” said Honey-Bee. “My teachers,” said George, “have taught me that it is very big; but, as Gertrude our housekeeper says, one must see to believe.”
They went the round of the platform.
“Here is something wonderful, little brother,” cried Honey-Bee. “The castle stands in the middle of the earth and we are on the watch-tower in the middle of the castle, and so we are standing in the middle of the earth. Ha! ha! ha!”
And, indeed, the horizon formed a circle about the children of which the watch-tower was the centre.
“We are in the middle of the earth! Ha! ha! ha!” George repeated.
Whereupon they both started a-thinking.