And the King and the Queen were sitting on thrones, and when the King
saw how Kernel Cob had formed his people in order, he was greatly
pleased and said to himself, "Here is a fine General. I will put him
at the head of all my armies."

And Kernel Cobb and Sweetclover were invited to a great banquet, as
splendid as ever you could imagine.

And when they were seated, Sweetclover saw some flowers on the banquet
table which were very beautiful, white with silver calyx, and they
were called Silverfloss, and Sweetclover whispered to Silverfloss:

"Do you understand Earth talk?"

"Ting-a-ling," answered Silverfloss, and it sounded like the tinkling
of a little silver bell.

"What did she say?" asked Kernel Cob.

"It must be Moonflower talk," said Sweetclover, and she looked about
and saw some Edelweiss and she was very glad and said: "Edelweiss,
Edelweiss, how came you here?"

Now you must know the Edelweiss is a little white flower that grows
away up in the snow of the mountains of Switzerland.

"One night I was blown up here in a great snow storm and I've been
here ever since," said Edelweiss.

"Can you speak Moonflower talk?" asked Sweetclover.

"Yes," said Edelweiss.

"Very well," said Kernel Cob, "we are trying to find Jackie and Peggs'
motheranfather and we came all the way from the Earth on a parasol to
do so. Maybe you can help us."

"I would if I could," replied Edelweiss. "But I am afraid they are not
here. I've been here over four seasons and I've never seen a human
being, and even if they were here they couldn't live here because it's
too cold."

"You bet it is," said Kernel Cob, and he shivered till the medals on
his coat rattled.

"Maybe they could be here in some other part of the Moon!" said
Sweetclover. "Would you mind looking?"

"I would be glad to look," said Edelweiss, for he was a very polite
little flower and had very pretty manners.

And turning to Silverfloss he asked her if she had seen two
earth-people on the Moon.

"Ting-a-ling," answered Silverfloss and you would have thought it was
two bells tinkling.

"She says there never was a human being on the Moon," said Edelweiss.

"Well if they are not here," said Kernel Cob, "we had better go before
we freeze to death," and his teeth chattered.

"How'll we get off?" asked Sweetclover.

"I'll tell Silverfloss to weave you a strand of silver," and he turned
to Silverfloss and said some tinkling words to her.

"She's doing it