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The Project Gutenberg EBook of This Giddy Globe, by Oliver Herford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: This Giddy Globe Author: Oliver Herford Release Date: July 14, 2008 [EBook #26053] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** 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 [Illustration: PETER SIMPLE, F.T.G. K. Mosely, Sculp.] 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 PART I: WHY IS THE GLOBE CHAPTER PAGE I THE CREATION 15 PREFACE 19 II A LONG JUMP 20 III THE GIDDY GLOBE 23 IV THE USE OF THE GLOBE 25 V THE EQUATOR 28 VI THE EARTH'S CRUST 30 VII THE TEMPERATURE OF THE GLOBE 32 VIII THE AGE OF THE GLOBE 35 IX THE FACE OF THE GLOBE 38 X CLIMATE AND WEATHER 44 XI LAND AND WATER 4
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