. Happy holidays . ETURN OF THE MAD SAILOR SARAH A. HASTE In a corner of the palace garden some of theroyal pages were gathered about one of theircompanions. Ho, Diego! cried one of these boys. Whatnews to-day from the Mad Sailor? When it is time for news from my father,answered Diego, drawing himself up proudly, itshall be great news, I promise you! Time! cried one of the others. It isnearly seven months since the Mad Sailor startedout from Palos! Isnt seven months enoughtime? Long before this your father reached theedge of the world and sailed right over it. Down,down, down he fell, he and h
. Happy holidays . ETURN OF THE MAD SAILOR SARAH A. HASTE In a corner of the palace garden some of theroyal pages were gathered about one of theircompanions. Ho, Diego! cried one of these boys. Whatnews to-day from the Mad Sailor? When it is time for news from my father,answered Diego, drawing himself up proudly, itshall be great news, I promise you! Time! cried one of the others. It isnearly seven months since the Mad Sailor startedout from Palos! Isnt seven months enoughtime? Long before this your father reached theedge of the world and sailed right over it. Down,down, down he fell, he and his ships and his men! The earth is round! replied Diego. Thereis no edge to sail over. It is only foolish peoplewho think so. My father will sail on and will reach land on the other side of the world! Ho-ho-ho! laughed all the other boys. Theearth round! Ho-ho-ho! Everyone knows that the earth is flat, and 4 4O Happy Holidays that h rests upon the back of a great turtle!said a page named Gomez. How round does. When the Mad Sailor set out for the west, was hesailing up-hill? Ho-ho-ho! the earth look to you, Diego? Look across thegarden. Does it curve up or down? You haveseen the great sea, havent you? When the MadSailor set out for the west, was he sailing up-hill?Ho-ho-ho! Columbus Day 41 If the world is round, said another page,laughing, what about the people on the otherside? If there are people under us, they mustbe walking with their heels upward and theirheads hanging down! Yes, jeered another, and in that land, Isuppose it rains and snows upward! My father says that in those countries,down is toward the earth, and up is towardthe sky, just as it is here, answered Diego. There are terrible monsters in the Sea ofDarkness, said Gomez. They will swallowyour fathers three ships at one mouthful. It is not so, replied Diego, with sea is just the same blue sea that laps thewharf at Palos. Far to the west are wonderfulislands. Farther still are the shores of India.
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