* This is all very interesting,
but don’t you think perhaps
it is——
The Reader.
Quite right! Quite right! how we do run on!
CHAPTER IX
THE FACE OF THE GLOBE
There are no good photographs of the Giddy Globe; she refuses to sit.
Imagine attempting to photograph an obese and flighty Spheroid who spends her time pirouetting round in a circle with all her might and main.
Perhaps it is to avoid the photographer that the Earth spins, and not merely to reduce her girth as we hinted elsewhere.