Then suddenly he stopped short in the middle of his flight.
"Would you like to see for yourself, Griselda ?" he said.

"There would be about time to do it," he added to himself, "and it would fulfil her other wish, too." "See the moon for myself, do you mean ?" cried Griselda, clasping her hands.

"I should rather think I would.

Will you really take me there, cuckoo ?" "To the other side," said the cuckoo.

"I couldn't take you to this side." "Why not?
Not that I'd care to go to this side as much as to the other; for, of course, we can _see_ this side from here.