[Explains.] At fairy-parties everybody speaks

One language!

Columbus.

[Jumping up and down in the chair.] What a jolly chair! Hurrah.

A caravel riding the waves it seems!

Come close! [He beckons.] I’ll whisper you my secret! When

Grown up am I no carding wool for me!

I mean to be a sailor! [The Children clap hands delighted, and cry, “Bravo, Christopher!”]

Round the world,

The round, round world around I’ll sail! From Court