Chapter 2

CHAPTER TWO A PRINCE AND PRINCESS The sun was up and the sky was full of light when at last the two children awoke. Below them was a land of flowers and lakes and streams and shining palaces. How lovely! 'Does everyone live in a palace here?' asked Mollie, marvelling at so many palaces.

'Oh, yes. It's easy enough to wish for one,' said Nose-About, peering down. 'And then when you're tired of living in an enormous place with windows everywhere, you just wish for a rose-covered cottage. Would you like a palace for a bit? I'll wish you one!' The chair flew downwards. It landed in a field of shining, star-like flowers. 'Here we are,' said the brownie. 'I'll wish for a palace to begin with- and then we can be princes and a princess, and go to Princess Peronel's birthday party.

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I wish for a palace with one thousand and one windows!' And silently and shimmeringly a tall, slender palace rose up round them. The sun shone in through hundreds of windows. 'I'll just count if there are a thousand and one,' said Nose-About.

'Oh no! We simply can't count up to a thousand and one all over again!' groaned Peter. 'I say- look at the wishing-chair. It's standing on that platform there wishing it was a throne!' 'I wish it was a throne!' said Mollie at once. And dear me, the good old wishing- chair changed into a gleaming throne, with a big red velvet cushion on its seat and tassels hanging down its back. It looked very grand indeed.