. The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz . l them apart, explained the , when I call Dorothy, they all come running to me ina bunch; its much easier, after all, than having a separatename for each. I m just dying to see em, Billina, said Dorothy, eag-erly. But tell me, my friends, how did you happen to be 157 The Road to Oz here, in the Country of the Winkles, the first of all to meetus? Ill tell you, answered Tik-
. The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz . l them apart, explained the , when I call Dorothy, they all come running to me ina bunch; its much easier, after all, than having a separatename for each. I m just dying to see em, Billina, said Dorothy, eag-erly. But tell me, my friends, how did you happen to be 157 The Road to Oz here, in the Country of the Winkles, the first of all to meetus? Ill tell you, answered Tik-tok, in his monotonous voice,all the sounds of his words being on one level — Prin-cessOz-ma saw you in her mag-ic pic-ture, and knew you werecom-ing here; so she sent Bil-lin-a and me to wel-come you,as she could not come her-self; so that — fiz-i-dig-le cum-so-lut-ing hy-ber-gob-ble in-tu-zib-ick Good gracious! Whatever s the matter now? criedDorothy, as the copper man continued to babble these un-meaning words, which no one could understand at all becausethey had no sense. Dont know, said Button-Bright, who was half whirled away to a distance and turned to look at thecopper man in a T i k - T o k and Billina His thoughts have run down, this time, remarked Bil-lina composedly, as she sat on Tik-toks shoulder and prunedher sleek feathers. When he cant think he cant talk prop-erly, any more than you can. You 11 have to wind up histhoughts, Dorothy, or else Ill have to finish his story myself. Dorothy ran around and got the key again and wound upTik-tok under his left arm, after which he could speak plainlyagain. Par-don me, he said, but when my thoughts run downmy speech has no mean-ing, for words are formed on-ly bythought. I was a-bout to say that Oz-ma sent us to wel-comeyou and in-vite you to come straight to the Em-er-ald was too bus-y to come her-self, for she is pre-par-ing forher birth-day cel-e-bra-tion, which is to be a grand af-fai
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