come-down-from-the-sun

Updated: May 16, 2025

He came down from the sun, he says. What do you think his name is? And you could never guess! It's Sky-High, which is to say, come-down-from-the-sun. And a man in a coach it was that brought him. Sure, I never came here in a coach, but on my two square feet; he came from the consul's office Misther Bradley's and a ship it was that brought him there. Ah, but he's a quare kitchen-boy!

Hezekiah Butterworth - Little Sky-High : Or, The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang