Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... The Story of Maya-of-the-Land-of-Egypt, of the Capturing of Ra, of the Strange Pot With White Lines Upon It, of the Fierce Tribe of Dark Faced Men, and of the Eating of the Salt t4/H, I do love it when it's nasty and rainy and I can't go V-/ out to play!" Carlie-boy squeezed up close to his Old Pops and grabbed his hand off the wheel, and held on tight in a frenzy of sudden joy. That was because the portals of a certain great building were just showing up through the rain. If you think it surprising that Carlie-boy liked this rainy day, it is because you don't know what Carlie-boy was doing. He was going with his Old Pops to visit the Great Museum and spend a happy hour or two wandering from room to room, looking at boats and pistols and strange pictures and machines and old engines and watches and minerals and shells and rugs and meteorites and skeletons and stuffed birds and baskets and pots and spears and flying machines and pieces of the battleship Maine and uniforms of long dead generals and the queer little patent boat that President Lincoln made and medals and gems and bottles of oil and a model of a coal mine and all sorts of curious and interesting things. It's a very nice way to spend a rainy hour or two, the main objection being, from Old Pops' point of view, that about every other glass case produces forty-seven questions, each one of which is likely to be stored up in little Carlie-boy's mind to pop out at some unexpected time when story telling is 'stremely inconvenient. Not that Carlie-boy needs any such aids to question-asking--he can ask the forty-seven questions without ever going to a museum, as easy as anything! But I suppose it helps him to ask them faster. However, to-day he was too busy to ask questions--too busy looking! "Pops! Look ...
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