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At first, Dorothy could see nothing, although she looked around very
carefully. But Billina exclaimed:
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Well, I declare!"
What is it?" asked the little girl: for Toto began barking at something,
and following his gaze she discovered what it was.
A row of spoons had surrounded the three, and these spoons stood
straight up on their handles and carried swords and muskets. Their
faces were outlined in the polished bowls and they looked very stern and
severe.
Dorothy laughed at the queer things.
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"
"
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Who are you?" she asked.
We're the Spoon Brigade," said one.
In the service of his Majesty King Kleaver," said another.
And you are our prisoners," said a third.
Dorothy sat down on an old stump and looked at them, her eyes
twinkling with amusement.
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What would happen," she inquired, "if I should set my dog on your
Brigade?"
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He would die," replied one of the spoons, sharply. "One shot from our
deadly muskets would kill him, big as he is."
"
Don't risk it, Dorothy," advised the Yellow Hen. "Remember this is a
fairy country, yet none of us three happens to be a fairy."
Dorothy grew sober at this.
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P'raps you're right, Billina," she answered. "But how funny it is, to be
captured by a lot of spoons!"
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I do not see anything very funny about it," declared a spoon. "We're the
regular military brigade of the kingdom."
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What kingdom?" she asked.
Utensia," said he.
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