_Carolyn Wells._

Wales is the home of the Welsh bards so called because the language in
which they are written, which resembles a mixture of Chech, Chinese,
Celtic and Chocktaw, is _barred_ from the concert and operatic stage.

The most famous products of Wales are the Welsh Rabbit, the Prince of
Wales and Lloyd George.

The Welsh Rabbit, born in a chafing dish and prolific as his namesake of
Australia, has spread all over the Giddy Globe and been a potent factor
in keeping the world awake.

Lloyd George too (strange parallel!) was born in a political chafing
dish and has been an even more powerful factor in keeping the world
awake.

Let us hope that the Prince of Wales (Bless him) will follow in the
footsteps of this illustrious pair and live to keep the world awake long
after this Geography has gone into its hundred thousandth edition!

The Prince has been immortalized in the following lines:

_"Hurray!" cried the Kitten,_
_"Hurray!"_
_As he merrily set the sails,_
_"I sail o'er the ocean_
_today, today,_
_To look at the Prince of Wales!"_

_"Oh, Kitten, pause at the brink!_
_And think of the angry gales!"_
_"Ah, yes," cried the Kitten, "but think!_
_Oh, think of the Prince of Wales!"_

_"But, Kitten," I cried, dismayed,_
_"If you live through the angry gales_
_You know you will be afraid_
_To look at the Prince of Wales!"_

_Said the Kitten, "No such thing!_
_Why should he make me wince?_
_If a Cat may look at a King,_
_A Kitten may look at a Prince!"_

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PART III

FOREIGN COUNTRIES

CHAPTER XXVII

SOUTH AMERICA

From the beginning of time up to the present century, the continents of
North and South America were joined together in terrestrial bonds of
matrimony.

[Illustration: SOUTH AMERICAN WILD HORSE
(From an instantaneous photograph of an animal cracker)]

They were seemingly inseparable.

The first indication that everything was not as it should be with this
long united couple, was in the year 1880, when a Frenchman named De
Lesseps (who had already succeeded in divorcing Asia and Africa)
attempted to bring about a separation.

The attempt, however, was a failure, and, after dragging on for eight
years, proceedings were dropped for want of funds.

Fourteen years later President Roosevelt, desiring to remove all