A High-Stepping World Tour

I scrambled straight out from that brass magnifying glass and set my sights on an enormous desktop globe mounted in an ornate brass ring! A traveling gentleman like Cornelius couldn't possibly let the whole world sit idle while the morning was young. I scurried up the turned mahogany base, hooked my wooden boots over the curved meridian arc, and gave the equator an ambitious kick to get the continents rolling. Whirrr! The blue oceans blurred into a merry streak of paint. I tipped my chin to salute the passing equator, but the wild spin wobbled my joints, tumbling me right onto the brass finial where I clung grinning fit to burst!