.

"And they told little Wang High-Sky that there were countries beyond the
water, also.

"And the little Wang High-Sky said, 'Let me go and see. There may be
something I can learn in other lands. There may be queer people
there--if so, I would never laugh at them. Let me go and see how they
live!'

"And they put him on board a dragon boat, with lanterns of silver and
pearls, and with sails of silk, and carried him to the great hotel on
the water, that had come from other lands, which was called a ship. For
there truly were people beyond the water.

"And little Wang High-Sky was a very bright boy. He had a diamond in his
brain. So he found a place to live in an awfully good family, and in the
family was a little girl named Lucy.

"And he worked and worked and worked until he could do all things like
the good family.

"And one day he thought he would go home to his palace with stairs of
golden amber and windows of crystal.

"And Lucy thought she would like to see the people in little Wang's
country.

"And Lucy's father and mother said they would take her to the country of
little Wang when he went back.

"And she went to little Wang's country, and she found the trees there a
hundred miles high, and the fishes two hundred miles long, and horses
winged with gold as if just about to fly, and they staid and kept house
in Wang High-Sky's palace two thousand years.

"And she and her father and mother and brother were very joyful when
they all came back.

"And in their own country they found that every one had become rich and
happy, and that people flew about like birds, and that the sun shone in
the night. And!" she added, "isn't that a Jataka story?"

Lucy's mother seemed much pleased, also astonished; but Sky-High said
nothing for some time.

"Do you think me a wang?" asked he, at last.

"I wish you were--oh, how Charlie and I would dance about if you were! I
think the everyday boys in China cannot be like you. And I do not think
you ironed clothes in China. I wish you _were_ a king's son!"

"And what if I were?"

"Oh--I don't know," laughed little Lucy. "Don't we treat you as well as
if you were? Ladies and gentlemen treat ladies and gentlemen like wangs
in America. Don't we, mother?"

"I trust so. I trust our little Sky-High has found it so," answered
Lucy's mother.

"So would Sky-High treat you were you to come to his home," said the
little Chinaman.

"But you have no home, Sky-High," broke in Ch