Perhaps it was the wish of their mother which brought it all about; and whatever might have been their own preference in the case, of course the wish of the Widow Pickle had to be granted, just the same as all the others. However that may have been, the facts are very plain: when Zuzu and Lulu awoke to a sense of their surroundings they were back in their own little beds, in their own little room at home, and around them there was no court of Fairy-land, nor any strange forest of the distant island in the sea. They rubbed their eyes, and stared about them for a time. "Did you have a funny dream?" asked Zuzu. "Yes, did you?" said Lulu. "I thought I heard music." "Let's talk about it," said Zuzu. "Very well," said Lulu, "suppose we do, for certainly it was a very beautiful dream." Corrections The first line indicates the original, the second the correction. p. 32: white sparks flew from its extremity, white sparks flew from its extremity. p. 199: been used to a wooden leg for several hundred years' been used to a wooden leg for several hundred years End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The King of Gee-Whiz, by Emerson Hough