“So it does; and I must draw a line for one side of the post, and make this line lean over towards the place where my well is going to be, just as much as the post really leans.”
Miss Anne then drew the line, and asked Lucy to look at it carefully, and see whether it leaned any more, or any less, than the real post did.
Lucy looked at it very carefully, but she could not see that there was any difference.
“Now,” continued Miss Anne, “I must begin to draw the well; and I must have it at just the right distance from the post.”
Then Miss Anne put down her pencil very near to the post, and asked Lucy if she thought that that was about right.
“O no,” said Lucy, “that is a great deal too near.”
Miss Anne then moved the point of her pencil off almost to the end of the paper.
“Would that be right?” said Miss Anne.
“O no; that is too far.”
“But it is not so far as it is in reality, on the ground, from the post to the well.”