and corner of the map of
Europe, you will find a small pink island no bigger than the state of
Idaho.

[Illustration: THE PLANET JUPITER
(from a photograph)]

But a Country must not be judged by its size.

The Planet Jupiter is twelve times as large as this Giddy Globe of ours,
and has eight private moons of its own, but for all that Jupiter is not
a desirable spot for Lovers, being for the most part molten, and
somewhat spotty.

This little Pink Island is Great Britain, the little mother of
one-fourth of all the countries of the Globe, including the United
States.

[Illustration: THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION
_From poster by James Montgomery Flagg._]

The English People, or (if one _must_ be accurate) the British, are the
most to and fro-ward people in the world; like the bear in the fable
when they are tired of going _to and fro_ they reverse the process and
go _fro and to_.

_With Bibles and Bathtubs_
_And Ballots and Beer_
_And Hope and Hygienics_
_They girdle the Sphere._

[Illustration: THE PRUDENTIAL HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR]

In every quarter of the globe they have planted seeds of self-government
which today are blossoming into an English-Speaking Union under the
British and American Flags that embrace one-fourth of the surface of the
earth.

The climate of England is temperate. Its air is not, like that of the
United States, compared to champagne.

London, the capital, is famous for its fogs; this is due to the absence
of Sky-Scrapers.

London is also the centre of that vicious heritage of the Victorian Era,
Respectability.

For any enjoyable degree of latitude, the Londoner must go to Paris,
Vienna or Buda Pesth and other capitals, which in return take their
degrees of longitude from London (or Greenwich).

This picture shows the famous Rock of Gibraltar, inscribed with the
French motto of British respectability (_Honi soit qui mal y pense_)
done into English.

The principal products of Great Britain are Beef, Bishops, Banks, and
Barometers.

* * *

The inhabitants of England are the most Moral and Patriotic people in
the World, and their army is second to none in bravery and won the World
War.

[Illustration]

CHAPTER XXIV

SCOTLAND

A mountainous, peaty region in the northern part of Great Britain.

[Illustration: "The apparel oft proclaims the man."--HAMLET.]

The Dew distilled from the Scotch mountains, fla