Fine line globe with Isaiah 6:8 on upper back
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A single-line outline of the Earth shows continents and islands in a simple map style, with the reference Isaiah 6:8 written above and the phrase Here I am, Lord. Send me. curving along the lower edge of the circle. The linework is thin and even, in black ink on pale skin, with no shading. The globe is centred on the upper back and the lettering is set within the curve of the design.
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The chalk was down to a stub by the time Miss Hollis reached the Cape, and she still had not lifted it from the board. Thirty-one children sat in their wet coats, watching a single unbroken line wander from the Orkneys to the Horn without once leaving the slate. She had learned the trick from a retired surveyor in Hull, who said a coastline was only ever one question asked without stopping.
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She wrote the verse under the circle as she always did, Isaiah six, eight, and read it aloud in the voice she kept for Sundays. Here am I, Lord. Send me. Nobody moved except Eddie Parr, who was picking at a scab on his knuckle and had not looked up since the register.
When she finished he raised his hand, and she nodded, because she had never once refused him. "Miss, if he sends you somewhere, does the map show you the way back?" She thought of her brother in Tobruk and the letter that had come in March with its stamp torn off, and she said that it did, if you drew it carefully enough. Eddie went back to his scab. At the end of the day the caretaker wiped the board, but the globe stayed faintly grey in the corner, the line of the Cape still there under the smear, and Eddie, the last to leave, stood on his toes and followed it all the way round with one finger.
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