The little man showed me how and where to lay hold while I put my foot round the edge of the door on to the first round of a ladder.

`Once you're up,' he said, `you'll see how you have to go well enough.' I did as he told me, and crept out very carefully.
Then the little man handed me the bundle of dusters, saying, `I always carry them on my reaping hook, but I don't think you could manage it properly.

You shall have it if you like.' I wouldn't take it, however, for it looked dangerous.
"I did the best I could with the dusters, and crawled up to the top of the moon.

But what a grand sight it was! The stars were all over my head, so bright and so near that I could almost have laid hold of them.
The round ball to which I clung went bobbing and floating away through the dark blue above and below and on every side.

It was so beautiful that all fear left me, and I set to work diligently.