Where to Live. 
THIS is a matter your fathers and mothers have 
to settle every now and then. By it I do not 
mean simply the house, or the street, but the town 
and district as well. It is a common saying 
amongst grown-ups, that a man must live where 
his work is. And if it can be managed, it is a 
very sensible thing to do. But during the War 
another question troubled many parents, and that 
was, where could they live to be safe from air 
raids and all risks of bombardment? I am afraid 
that the furniture van in some districts was, on 
that account, kept very busy. 
Well, now, in the great Continent of Africa, 
where there are few, or none, of such war perils, 
the same question has been faced by tribes and 
chiefs and heads of families. Tribes have often 
decided the question by fighting. Some West 
African natives say that the people in the Oron 
country and Calabar district came from up-country. 
And they came down because they had to. They 
were driven by a strong foe to the mangrove 
swamps and creeks of the Cross River delta. I am 
given to understand that in the Yoruba Country the 
presence of the earth-worm on, and in, the land 
settles the question for the Yoruba chiefs as to 
where they and their people shall dwell. This is 
how they argue: Where the worm is plentiful 
the soil is good. As we live by tilling the ground, 
