"What's this ?" asked the Wizard, picking up the peach pit and examining it closely.
"Oh," said the boy, "I saved that to show to the girls, and then forgot all about it.

It came out of a lonesome peach that I found in the orchard back yonder, and which I ate while I was lost.

It looks like gold, and I never saw a peach pit like it before." "Nor I," said the Wizard, "and that makes it seem suspicious." All heads were bent over the golden peach pit.

The Wizard turned it over several times and then took out his pocket knife and pried the pit open.

As the two halves fell apart, a pink, cloud-like haze came pouring from the golden peach pit, almost filling the big room, and from the haze a form took shape and settled beside them.