Tommy Twister’s Discover 24
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“If you imagine yourself placed between
a raspberry tart and a box of tin soldiers
you can understand the state of that little
needle’s mind between the North and South
Poles.

‘When it gets to the Equator it becomes
so naughty as to be quite
unmanageable. It trembles
and fidgets and shakes its
shoulders like a spoilt child,
and pouts. It is quite useless
to slap it, or to put it in the
corner: it will #o¢ behave
itself.

 

‘‘ Now, as the captain steers Tis Pate
his ship with the aid of the Sie etree
little needle, he is afraid to offend NEEDLE,

it deeply for fear that it will refuse
to guide him any more; for if it did he
would possibly have to wander round and
round on the oceans for ever, like the Flying
Dutchman, unless he came across a_police-
man to tell him the way: and there are
no policemen on the ocean.

“So, after sitting down by the binnacle