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buckles. The hats to match these costumes had pointed tops and wide

brims with small gold bells around the edges. His shirts were of fine

linen with frilled bosoms, and his vests were richly embroidered with

colored silks.

Uncle Henry decided that he would first take a bath and then dress

himself in a blue satin suit that had caught his fancy. He accepted his

good fortune with calm composure and refused to have a servant to

assist him. But Aunt Em was "all of a flutter," as she said, and it took

Dorothy and Jellia Jamb, the housekeeper, and two maids a long time to

dress her and do up her hair and get her "rigged like a popinjay," as she

quaintly expressed it. She wanted to stop and admire everything that

caught her eye, and she sighed continually and declared that such finery

was too good for an old country woman, and that she never thought she

would have to "put on airs" at her time of life.

Finally she was dressed, and when she went into the sitting-room there

was Uncle Henry in his blue satin, walking gravely up and down the

room. He had trimmed his beard and mustache and looked very

dignified and respectable.

Tell me, Dorothy," he said; "do all the men here wear duds like these?"

Yes," she replied; "all 'cept the Scarecrow and the Shaggy Man--and of

course the Tin Woodman and Tiktok, who are made of metal. You'll find

all the men at Ozma's court dressed just as you are--only perhaps a little

finer."

Henry, you look like a play-actor," announced Aunt Em, looking at her

husband critically.

An' you, Em, look more highfalutin' than a peacock," he replied.

I guess you're right," she said regretfully; "but we're helpless victims of

high-toned royalty."

Dorothy was much amused.

Come with me," she said, "and I'll show you 'round the palace."

She took them through the beautiful rooms and introduced them to all

the people they chanced to meet. Also she showed them her own pretty

rooms, which were not far from their own.

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