"Onward they went like the wind, past the foot of Cake Mountain with its towering sides and dome of rich, brown crusted cake; on up through the Ice Cream Valley, where, with a mighty roar, the Honey Springs gushed from the ground. Thence over the Ginger Bread Hills and past field after field filled with pie plants, in which an army of brownies were gathering hot pies and sprinkling them with sugar.
"They passed through great groves of cocoanut trees from the tops of which shouting bands of wild monkeys threw cocoanut shells after them; thence through vineyards of ripening grapes and orchards of oranges and lemons, and arrived at last at the border of a most beautiful lake that, with its wild, wonderful surroundings, presented the grandest scene they had ever beheld.
"The great Kimbo backed cautiously up to a towering rock, one side of which presented a straight cliff toward the lake; and when they had stepped from their high perch on the Giant's head to the smooth level top of the great rock, the Queen bade them pause for a moment to look about over the beautiful scene that now lay beneath and before them.
"Stretching away in the distance, almost as far as the eye could see, lay a marvellous lake that, in its fitful, frolicsome mood, resembled some rolling sea of crimson and gold and piled its great billows, glistening in the sunlight, with a resounding crash upon the pebbly shore.
"Far off to the right, and many thousands of feet higher than the rock on which they were standing, a stream came tumbling down from the crown of a tall mountain, and churning its waters into endless foam, fell into a deep and distant valley.
"Pointing away with her pretty hand, the Queen said to the children:
"'Behold, darlings, the famous Butter-milk Falls of which you have heard so much! The stream, as you see, does not enter into this lake, but falls from the top of Cheese Mountain and then wanders away through a sandy valley where it sinks into the ground.'
"For a moment the children gazed upon it; then Arthur exclaimed with some satisfaction:
"I'm glad it doesn't empty here for I never did like butter-milk.'
"The Queen and the children laughed heartily at the very thought.