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Why, we're all ready to go," said the Shaggy Man, putting his fingers to
his ears to shut out the monotonous babble of those around the wagon.
So the Wizard spoke to the Sawhorse, who trotted nimbly through the
village and soon gained the open country on the other side of it. Dorothy
looked back, as they rode away, and noticed that the woman had not yet
finished her speech but was talking as glibly as ever, although no one
was near to hear her.
"
If those people wrote books," Omby Amby remarked with a smile, "it
would take a whole library to say the cow jumped over the moon."
"
Perhaps some of 'em do write books," asserted the little Wizard. "I've
read a few rigmaroles that might have come from this very town."
"
Some of the college lecturers and ministers are certainly related to these
people," observed the Shaggy Man; "and it seems to me the Land of Oz is
a little ahead of the United States in some of its laws. For here, if one
can't talk clearly, and straight to the point, they send him to Rigmarole
Town; while Uncle Sam lets him roam around wild and free, to torture
innocent people."
Dorothy was thoughtful. The Rigmaroles had made a strong impression
upon her. She decided that whenever she spoke, after this, she would
use only enough words to express what she wanted to say.
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