"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.