"I wish she would," says Jackie.

"Did you hear that?" says Sweetclover.

"What?" asked Kernel Cob.

"That they would like to find their motheranfather," says Sweetclover.

"Are they lost?" asks Kernel Cob.

"Yes," says Sweetclover.

"Who lost them?" asks Kernel Cob.

"Hush!" says Sweetclover.

For a long time nobody spoke and pretty soon a little breeze swayed
Kernel Cob over toward Sweetclover and he said:

"Let's try to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather. Let us pray to
the fairies that something will come along to help us."

"Good!" said Sweet clover, and they prayed and prayed and prayed.

And just then a great wind came and raised the parasol from the
ground, and the hook of the handle caught in Kernel Cob's belt and
pulled him up with it and Sweetclover was just in time to catch hold
of him as he sailed away. And Jackie and Peggs sat upon the grass and
cried because they had lost their little dolls.

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CHAPTER III

And the parasol went up and up in the sky all the afternoon, and, try
as he would, Kernel Cob could not get it to stop.

"I wonder what the fairies are sending us up here for?" shouted Kernel
Cob.

"Maybe they're in Heaven," said Sweetclover, and just then the parasol
went skimming through a beautiful white cloud, and the sun was dancing
on it, making it look like pink eiderdown.

And soon they came out of the cloud and were in the blue sky again.

And up and up they sailed. And the sun dipped down in the sea, and its
light went out, and the stars came out and began to peep through the
sky like little fire-flies, and the moon came up, too, to see what was
going on, and it grew bigger and bigger till it was nearly as big as
the old Earth.

And then they came to the Moon and could see little people running
around the edge waving their hands excitedly, and they were all
dressed in silver clothing, and when Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were
landed the Moonpeople ran to them and wondered.

And everything about them was silver. Churches and houses and rocks
and rivers and trees and everything.

And the Moonpeople ran ahead in great confusion to show them the way.

And Kernel Cob formed them into line and put himself at the head of
the column, as a general does, and they marched in step and everything
until they came to the Palace of the King, which was of silver with
turrets and spires of diamonds, and glittered so you could scarcely
see.