"Sure I am. Why I'm as old as the world!"
"Old as that Man-in-the-Moon?" continued Marmaduke, and the odd little
fellow replied:
"Just as old."
Marmaduke looked up at the moon sailing far above them. And the old man,
sitting there on the moon-mountain, nodded as much as to say that Jack was
quite right.
Now the sleigh reached the top of the hill just where it touches the sky.
Surely there they would stop.