r that opens only outwards.

At a recent conference of Bees and Flowers, Peter Simple suggested a
Revolving Door as a compromise.

A commission was at once appointed by President Chu Chin Chow to report
on Revolving Doors.

The matter is still being revolved. It may end in a Revolution.

* * *

The inhabitants of China are the most Moral and Patriotic people in the
World, and their army is second to none in bravery and won the World
War.

CHAPTER XLI

JAPAN

[Illustration: (Japanese text)]

TRANSLATION

The inhabitants of Japan are the most Moral and Patriotic people in
the World, and their army is second to none in bravery and won the
World War.

CHAPTER XLII

EGYPT, INDIA, ITALY, SPAIN, GREECE, ETC.

[Illustration]

No work on Geography could be called complete without a description of
these six (counting, etc.) countries.

If the Reader should ask me how I came to leave six such important
countries to the last page, I should be compelled to change the subject.

Writing a little Geography Book is like packing a very small bag for a
journey round the world, only instead of cramming it with shirts and
shoes and collars and handkerchiefs and brushes, you stuff it full of
countries, and when you try to close it (as with the bag) you always
find that you have left out at least several of the most important
things.

No amount of squeezing (or sitting on the lid) will make room for six
such big countries in a little book that is already as full as it can
be.

The only thing to do is to take out all the countries and lay them in a
row and see which you can get along best without; you can't possibly
spare any of the large countries; the question is how many of the little
countries together would----*

* You are digressing again,
worse than ever! This thing
has got to stop!
_The Reader._

Oh, very well! If that's the way the Reader feels about it it shall stop
right here.

[Illustration: THE END]

* * * * *

EPILOGUE

_If this little world to-night_
_Suddenly should fall thro' space_
_In a hissing, headlong flight_
_Shrivelling from off its face,_
_As it falls into the sun,_
_In an insta