Excerpt from Little Treasure Island, Her Story and Her Glory
If you take up a globe of the world, and hold it so that you see the greatest possible space of land, you will see a red spot in the middle. It is Little Treasure Island.
Far away from the island, out in Saskatchewan, a Red Indian schoolboy was looking at a map. They showed him the British Isles, and he looked with astonishment at the little spots. He could hardly believe so small a space stood for the home of the British Empire.
Moving his fingers across the wide Atlantic Ocean, he said at last, "The men who navigate ships from America to England must be very wise and clever." "Yes, they are," replied his teacher; "but what makes you think so?" "Because," said the Red Indian boy, "it is wonderful that they do not sail past England without seeing it."
So lost on the map of the world is the island, and yet in all the boundless universe does any speck of earth so thrill with pride? No nobler thing can happen to any boy or girl than to be born upon this precious isle set in a silver sea, from which has gone out to the ends of the earth a spirit of freedom, a love of truth, a thirst for knowledge, a yearning for justice, a faith in God, a hope for immortality, without which the world could never be the happy place it is to live in.
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