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After breakfast he waved his hand toward the tents and they became

handkerchiefs again, which were at once returned to the pockets of their

owners. Then they all climbed into the red wagon and the Sawhorse

inquired:

Which way?"

Never mind which way," replied the Wizard. "Just go as you please and

you're sure to be right. I've enchanted the wheels of the wagon, and they

will roll in the right direction, never fear."

As the Sawhorse started away through the trees Dorothy said:

If we had one of those new-fashioned airships we could float away over

the top of the forest, and look down and find just the places we want."

Airship? Pah!" retorted the little man, scornfully. "I hate those things,

Dorothy, although they are nothing new to either you or me. I was a

balloonist for many years, and once my balloon carried me to the Land of

Oz, and once to the Vegetable Kingdom. And once Ozma had a Gump

that flew all over this kingdom and had sense enough to go where it was

told to--which airships won't do. The house which the cyclone brought

to Oz all the way from Kansas, with you and Toto in it--was a real airship

at the time; so you see we've got plenty of experience flying with the

birds."

Airships are not so bad, after all," declared Dorothy. "Some day they'll

fly all over the world, and perhaps bring people even to the Land of Oz."

I must speak to Ozma about that," said the Wizard, with a slight frown.

It wouldn't do at all, you know, for the Emerald City to become a way-

station on an airship line."

No," said Dorothy, "I don't s'pose it would. But what can we do to

prevent it?"

I'm working out a magic recipe to fuddle men's brains, so they'll never

make an airship that will go where they want it to go," the Wizard

confided to her. "That won't keep the things from flying, now and then,

but it'll keep them from flying to the Land of Oz."

The Emerald City of Oz