. Dorothy and the wizard in Oz . and proved a great Wizards sword-blade snapped into a dozen pieces at thefirst blow he struck against the wooden people. Zeb poundedaway with the Gargoyle he was using as a club until he hadknocked down dozens of foes; but at the last they clustered sothickly about him that he no longer had room in which toswing his arms. The horse performed some wonderful kick-ing and even Eureka assisted when she leaped bodily uponthe Gargoyles and scratched and bit at them like a wild-cat. But all this bravery amounted to nothing at all. Thewooden things wound
. Dorothy and the wizard in Oz . and proved a great Wizards sword-blade snapped into a dozen pieces at thefirst blow he struck against the wooden people. Zeb poundedaway with the Gargoyle he was using as a club until he hadknocked down dozens of foes; but at the last they clustered sothickly about him that he no longer had room in which toswing his arms. The horse performed some wonderful kick-ing and even Eureka assisted when she leaped bodily uponthe Gargoyles and scratched and bit at them like a wild-cat. But all this bravery amounted to nothing at all. Thewooden things wound their long arms around Zeb and theWizard and held them fast. Dorothy was captured in thesame way, and numbers of the Gargoyles clung to Jims legs,so weighting him down that the poor beast was made a desperate dash to escape and scampered alongthe ground like a streak; but a grinning Gargoyle flew afterher and grabbed her before she had gone very far. All of them expected nothing less than instant death; but 146. THE FIGHT WITH THE GARGOYLES. A Wonderful Escape to their surprise the wooden creatures flew into the air withthem and bore them far away, over miles and miles of woodencountry, until they came to a wooden city. The houses ofthis city had many corners, being square and six-sided andeight-sided. They were tower-like in shape and the best ofthem seemed old and weather-worn; yet all were strong andsubstantial. To one of these houses which had neither doors nor win-dows, but only one broad opening far up underneath the roof,the prisoners were brought by their captors. The Gargoylesroughly pushed them into the opening, where there was aplatform, and then flew away and left them. As they hadno wings the strangers could not fly away, and if they jumpeddown from such a height they would surely be killed. Thecreatures had sense enough to reason that way, and the onlymistake they made was in supposing the earth people wereunable to overcome such ordinary difficul
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