I got out of bed and went to it.

If I could only get up it! I would try once more.

To my delight I found it would bear me.

I climbed and climbed, and the sun and the moon and the stars looked more and more pleased as I got up nearer to them, till at last the sun's face was in a broad smile.

But they did not move from their places, and my head rose above them, and got out at the hole where the ladder came in.