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    This Giddy Globe
    This Giddy Globe
    This Giddy Globe
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    This Giddy Globe

    By Oliver Herford

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    Release dateAug 1, 2007

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      This Giddy Globe - Oliver Herford

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of This Giddy Globe, by Oliver Herford

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      Title: This Giddy Globe

      Author: Oliver Herford

      Release Date: July 14, 2008 [EBook #26053]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIS GIDDY GLOBE ***

      Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Anne Storer and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THIS GIDDY GLOBE

      —————————————

      OLIVER HERFORD

      THIS

      GIDDY GLOBE

      BY

      PETER SIMPLE, F.T.G.

      FELLOW OF THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

      EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY

      OLIVER HERFORD, V. D. W. A.

      [Very delightful wit and artist.

      —Woodrow Wilson ]

      NEW YORK

      GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT, 1919,

      BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      TO

      PRESIDENT WILSON

      [With all his faults he quotes me still.]

      PREFACE

      .............................................................

      .............................................................

      .............................................................

      [The Preface, which is strictly private and concerns only ourselves and the Reader, has been removed to another part of the book.]

      The Author makes due Acknowledgment to Charles Scribner’s Sons for the use of certain verses, and to Miss Cecilia Loftus for her series of Perfect Day Pictures.

      CONTENTS

      THIS GIDDY GLOBE

      PART I

      WHY IS THE GLOBE?

      CHAPTER I

      THE CREATION

      Six busy days it took in all

      To make a World and plan its fall,

      The seventh, SOMEONE said ’twas good

      And rested, should you think he could?

      Knowing what the result would be

      There would have been no rest for me!

      Claire Beecher Kummer.

      It takes much longer to write a Geography than, according to Moses, it took to create the World which it is the Geographer’s business to describe; and since the Critic has been added to the list of created beings, it is no longer the fashion for the Author to pass judgment on his own work.

      Let us imagine, however, that concealed in the cargo of Hypothetic Nebula destined for the construction of the Terrestrial Globe was a Protoplasmic Stowaway that sprang to being in the shape of a Critic just as the work of Creation was finished.

      Would it not be interesting to speculate upon that Critic’s reception of the freshly made World?

      We may be sure that he would have found many things not to his liking; technical defects such as the treatment of grass and foliage in green instead of the proper purple; the tinting of the sky which any landscape painter will tell you would be more decorative done in turquoise green than cobalt blue.

      Like the foolish Butterfly in the Talmud, who (to impress Mrs. Butterfly) stamped his tiny foot upon the dome of King Solomon’s Temple, our Critic might have declared the World "Too

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