The little boy looked around, and there sat the funniest little dwarf. The dwarf sat cross-legged on an old tree-stump.

“Ever think much about flying?” he said, and he screwed his face up into a thousand wrinkles.

The little boy shook his head.

Then the dwarf said,

“Flying might be easy for you,

The butterflies try it,

The birds try it, too;

Yes, it might be easy for you!”

The little boy said, “I would like to fly; tell me truly how to do it.”

The little dwarf said, “Just lend me your kite.”