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Of course it was a map of Ireland, Ireland being the map chosen by every map-drawing schoolboy who is free to choose. For a third-form boy it was considered a masterpiece. In the shading of mountains Cyril was already a prodigy. Never, it was said, had the Macgillycuddy Reeks been indicated by a member of that school with a more amazing subtle refinement than by the young Povey.
She adapted, invented, modified things naturally, embroidered all over her task, so to speak, and delivered it in somewhat different shape from the other girls. No room for embroidery there! Languages delighted her, map-drawing bored her, and composition intoxicated her, although she was better at improvising than at the real task of setting down her thoughts in black and white.
Hence almost all mediæval maps are filled up with pictures of these wonders, which were the more necessary as so few people could read. A curious survival of this custom lasted on in map-drawing almost to the beginning of this century, when the spare places in the ocean were adorned with pictures of sailing ships or spouting sea monsters.
But to record geographical knowledge, the first thing that is necessary is a map, and accordingly it is a Greek philosopher named ANAXIMANDER of Miletus, of the sixth century B.C., to whom we owe the invention of map-drawing. Now, in order to make a map of one's own country, little astronomical knowledge is required.
If they wait until the French are in the Palatinate, then I doubt if the French will consent to go again. There will be no possible advantage to Germany in a war of resistance once the scale of her fortunes begins to sink.... It is when we turn to the east of Germany that the map-drawing becomes really animated. Here is the region of great decisions.
From Woolwich he went to Chatham, the headquarters of the Royal Engineers, to have some special training as an Engineer officer. There he found his cleverness at map-drawing a great help in his work, and for nearly two years he worked hard at all that an officer of Engineers must know, and soon he was looked on as a very promising young officer.
"I can draw the lines of a map, sir, and get it pretty straight, as far as the mathematics of map-drawing goes," Tom answered. "But another man has to go over my work and put in the fine touches of the artist. You know what I mean, sir; the fancy fixings of a map." "Yes, I know," nodded Mr. Thurston. You can help me at that, however, if you are careful enough.
Until then he had meant to be an officer of Artillery a "gunner," as they are called. Now he knew that he would always be six months behind his gunner friends, and so decided to work instead for the Engineers, and get his commission as a "sapper." At college, as well as at school, his map-drawing was very good, and his mother was very proud of what he did.
She was not careful enough in her markings, omitting to mark one of the pupils for absence, and two for recitation. Teaching average 88. Miss gave the D class a lesson in Map-Drawing. She should have kept one of the divisions at the board drawing while the other were reciting.
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