"George stayed away to make the hay
To please his own dear mother,
And you can take the case to law
To save all future bother."
CHAPTER VII.
LITTLE SCIENTISTS AT SEA.
"Gravity was discovered by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling from the leaves."—LITTLE JIM, aged 10.
"If the earth did not revolt it would be either all equal days or all equal nights," is the deliberate judgment of one young geographer; and the state of mental obfuscation here discovered finds a counterpart in many geographical answers given in the earlier days. Sodom and Gomorrah have been described as the two most famous volcanoes in the world; and the Nile has been mentioned as rising in Mungo Park. Penzance has been spoken of as "the place where the pirates come from"; and the Red Indians have been located as coming from Red India. Here is a brief list of what I may call geographical "howlers."
In the Geography Lesson.—"The sun never sets on English possessions, because the sun sets in the West, and all the English possessions are in the North, South, and East."