Uncle Wiggily, quite boldly. "I don't even believe you are a fairy
prince."

"There it goes again!" cried the mud turtle, and he wept big tears that
made a little puddle of water. "Very few persons do believe in me. But I
assure you I am a fairy prince," he added, "and, what's more, all I would
have had to say to that boy was 'Oskaluluhinniumhaddy,' and he would have
been turned into anything I liked. But I see you still do not believe
me--that is, all but Alice. So I will just do a magic trick for you.
Return here in an hour, and in this very spot you shall find a round
stone. Take a rock and break open the stone and you will see what
happens."

So the Wibblewobble children and Uncle Wiggily went away, wondering what
was going to happen. They came back in an hour, and, sure enough, right
where the mud turtle had been standing was a large, round stone.

"Wonderful!" cried Alice.

"Let's see what's inside," suggested Jimmie.

So he and Uncle Wiggily took up a rock, and hit that stone once, and they
hit it twice, and they hit it three times, and, at the third blow, if that
stone didn't break open, and out stepped the mud turtle fairy prince! He
was right inside that stone! Now, wasn't that a magic trick? I think so,
anyhow.

"Oh, tell us how you did it!" begged Lulu.

"It was very simple, very simple," said the turtle, as he flicked a bit of