Maari's Summer [antikvár]

THE COMPASS THAT STARTED THE WHOLE THING The compass was given to Maari as a birthday present. Of course she received other presents, too. It would be hard to remember all of them now, but there must have been a golliwog and a couple of rubber puppies. Or was it a rubber puppy and a couple of golliwogs? Or something quite different? But the compass was there for sure. Maari's compass looked like a watch, only it did not tell time. But then a compass isn't expected to. Instead its needle showed the compass points: the northern point always pointed to the north, and the southern point to the south. The funny thing about it was that whenever you faced one cardinal point, the other was right behind your back. So you knew all the time that each step that took you away from the warm south brought you nearer to the cold north. From that day on Maari never parted with her compass. If it was not on her palm, it rested in her pocket. Guided by the compass she walked through the kitchen and all the rooms in the house. The the back yard and the front yard. And all the other walkable 5