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and walked up a little yellow path to a yellow house, and knocked on the little
yellow door: rap-tap-tap-tap !

A little yellow man, with a great many brass buttons on his clothes, opened
the door and asked them to walk upstairs.

The Man in the Moon was waiting for them on the roof of the house, which
was flat like a veranda. He was a very round
little man, with a round, shining face like a full
moon. The dinner-table was all ready, set with
gold plates, and gold spoons, and gold cups,
and gold knives and forks.

“Vm delighted to see you,
delighted! Sit down and have
some oysters,’ cried the Man

“(THEY GOT ON THE COMET’S BACK AND AWAY THEY WENT in the Moon.

sii a a Willie looked at his plate,
but did not see any oysters; nothing but some little pieces of green cheese.

After they had eaten their cheese, the Man in the Moon called to the little
man in buttons to bring the soup. So the plates were all changed, and in came:
the soup.

Willie looked into his plate, but all he saw was a little green cheese in the

‘ bottom of the soup plate.

“ Well, that’s funny,” thought Willie; but he saw the Treedeedle and the
Owl were eating their cheese, so he ate his.

“ Now we'll have some chicken,” said the Man in the Moon.

“That is nice; I like chicken,’ said the Owl. But-when the plates were
brought in, Willie saw that each one had a square piece of green cheese and
nothing else.

“ Any way, this is better than the Treedeedle’s lunch,” said Willie to him-
self ; “but I wish they would have something different.”

But though the Man in the Moon spoke of the salads, and strawberries and
cream, and ice-cream, and plum cake, and candy, and nuts, and raisins, and all
kinds of good things, Willie saw that they were oily pieces of green cheese of
different sizes.

“ Let’s go fishing,” said the Man in the Moon, after dinner was over.

“‘ How jolly!” said the Owl. “ Where shall we go?”

“To the Milky Way,” cried the Man in the Moon.

So off they started, with long fishing-rods over their shoulders till they came.
to the Milky Way ; it was tumbling along like a river of milk.

The Man in the Moon had a little raft, and he rowed them all out into the
middle of the stream to fish.

They caught all kinds of strange things. First, the Owl caught a pair of
rubber boots, then the Treedeedle caught a pair of boxing-gloves, then the Man