, yellow and
green.

The blue portion is called Water and is inhabited by oysters, clams,
submarines, lobsters and turtles, besides delightful schools of fishes
and whales.

The pink, yellow and green portions are called Land and are alive with
human beings and other animals and vegetables.

[Illustration: THE COLLEGE YELL OF A SCHOOL OF WHALES]

Besides the animals and vegetables there are mountains, table-lands,
rivers, forests and lakes.

[Illustration: THE PRESIDENTIAL RANGE
Showing comparative height of principal peaks.--Reading from left to
right: Mt. Washington--Jefferson--Lincoln--Cleveland--Roosevelt--Wilson.

Note:--At the moment this picture was taken a war cloud drifted over
the last two peaks.--Until the cloud passes it will be impossible to
ascertain their altitudes.]

In former times mountains were used as protective barriers. Today
they serve as monuments to Public Men for whom they are named
(_See Presidential Range_), and country seats for retired Grocers
and Fishmongers.

Rivers are the most curious and interesting form of Water.

Though seldom as shallow, they are as lengthy and involved as
Congressional speeches, and have to be curled into the most ludicrous
shapes to get them into the countries where they belong.

[Illustration: A RIVER BED]

The first thing a river does after rising is to betake itself as fast as
it can to the nearest River-Bed, in which it remains for the rest of its
days.

The largest river in the world is the Amazon, named after the
single-breasted suffragette of ancient times.

_QUESTIONS_

_How many rivers can get into one river-bed?_

_Why is a Congressman?_

[Illustration: NOAH SIGHTING ARARAT]

When Noah saw the flood subside,
"The world is going dry!" he cried,
"So let us all, without delay,
Fill up against a drouthy day."

CHAPTER XII

THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD

In the first geography we are told of a young married couple who were
cast into the world for a pomological error on their part, about 4000
B.C.

Some seventeen centuries later, the world was lost sight of in a deluge.

[Illustration: NOAH]

It was re-discovered by a navigator named Noah who, though barely six
hundred years old, was the commander of a sea-going menagerie.

Commander Noah, after cruising about for twelve months and ten days,
landed from his zooelogical water-wagon upon a precipitous Asiatic Jag
called Ararat on the twenty-s