"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.

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