"They said he came down when the other man was eatin' porridge.

I should think, if he went back up there, and didn't have any wife and children, he'd be real lonesome!" This idea of Prudy's set the whole school to romancing, although it was in the midst of a recitation.

Flossy said if there was a man in the moon, he must be a giant, or he never could get round over the mountains, which she had heard were very steep.
Ruthie asked if there was anything said about his wife! Susy, who had read considerable poetry was sure she had heard something of a woman up there, named "Cynthia;" but she supposed it was all "moonshine," or "made up," as she expressed it.

She said she meant to ask her aunt Madge to write a fairy story about it.
Here their progress in useful knowledge was cut short by the disappearance of Dotty.

Looking out of the window, they saw the little rogue driving ducks with a broomstick.