Q.What does parallel mean?
A.Parallel means when they are equally distant from each other in every part.

Q.If any of you children were reading a book.

that gave an account of some town which had twelve streets, and it is said that the streets were parallel, would you understand what it meant?
A.Yes; it would mean that the streets were all the same way, side by side, like the lines which we now see.

Q.What are those?
A.Diverging or converging straight lines.
Q.What is the difference between diverging and converging lines and parallel lines?
A.Diverging or converging lines are not at an equal distance from each other, in every part, but parallel lines are.

Q.
What does diverge mean?
A.Diverge means when they go from each other, and they diverge at one end and converge at the other.[B] Q.What does converge mean?
A.Converge means when they come towards each other.
Q.Suppose the lines were longer, what would be the consequence?
A.
Please, sir, if they were longer, they would meet together at the end they converge.