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-seventh of February, 2300 B.C.