The spoon made Cross-Patch clean everything in the house. Then the spoon cried,
“Cross-Patch, take your little men,
Plant the corn in rows again!”
Then Cross-Patch and the little dwarfs worked all night. They planted corn in the little garden. The spoon got so angry it beat them all until they were black and blue; then finally it chased old Cross-Patch away, and away, and away, out into the Land of Nowhere.
The five and twenty little men saw that the corn they had planted was already beginning to grow, so they laid down and went to sleep.
Pretty soon the spoon came back.
There high in the tree sat the little dwarf; beside him sat the Fairy Queen.
The Queen said,
“I try the necklaces, one, two, three,
But none is good enough for me.”