Excerpt from Stories From the Old Testament for Children
The people of whom I am to tell you, if you will listen, dear children, lived a long time ago, when the world was very different from what it is now. There were no rail roads or steamboats, there were no telegraphs or tele phones, there were only a few good roads, and a journey was a very serious undertaking.
And the geography of the world at that time was all topsy-turvy, according to our way of thinking. Nowa days, we live in America and England and France and Germany; and Asia and Africa we think of only in our lessons, or when we plan hunts for tigers and elephants, or expeditions to make our fortunes. But in the days of our stories, Germany and France and England and America were just great forests, with the wild beasts running through them, and all the cities and shops and schools were over in Asia and Africa.
The inhabitants of those countries did not know anything about the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean; but they sailed away on the Mediterranean, which was their Great Sea, and their bravest men were quite content with the adventures they could find along its shores.
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