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Do you mean to say you can save us from those awful Phanfasms, and
Growleywogs and Whimsies?" asked Dorothy eagerly.
"
"
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I'm sure of it, my dear," asserted the Scarecrow, still smiling genially.
Tell us how!" cried the Tin Woodman.
Not now," said the Scarecrow. "You may all go to bed, and I advise you
to forget your worries just as completely as if you had drunk of the Water
of Oblivion in the Forbidden Fountain. I'm going to stay here and tell my
plan to Ozma alone, but if you will all be at the Forbidden Fountain at
daybreak, you'll see how easily we will save the kingdom when our
enemies break through the crust of earth and come from the tunnel."
So they went away and let the Scarecrow and Ozma alone; but Dorothy
could not sleep a wink all night.
"
He is only a Scarecrow," she said to herself, "and I'm not sure that his
mixed brains are as clever as he thinks they are."
But she knew that if the Scarecrow's plan failed they were all lost; so she
tried to have faith in him.
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