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I thought you said you did not know how to use the magic of the Nome King's

Belt," said the Wizard to Dorothy.

I didn't know at that time," she replied, "but afterward I remembered how the

Nome King once used the Magic Belt to enchant people and transform 'em into

ornaments and all sorts of things, so I tried some enchantments in secret, and

after a while I transformed the Sawhorse into a potato masher and back again,

and the Cowardly Lion into a pussycat and back again, and then I knew the

thing would work all right."

When did you perform those enchantments?" asked the Wizard, much

surprised.

One night when all the rest of you were asleep but Scraps, and she had gone

chasing moonbeams."

Well," remarked the Wizard, "your discovery has certainly saved us a lot of

trouble, and we must all thank the Frogman, too, for making such a good

fight. The dove's shape had Ugu's evil disposition inside it, and that made the

monster bird dangerous."

The Frogman was looking sad because the bird's talons had torn his pretty

clothes, but he bowed with much dignity at this well-deserved praise. Cayke,

however, had squatted on the floor and was sobbing bitterly. "My precious

dishpan is gone!" she wailed. "Gone, just as I had found it again!"

Never mind," said Trot, trying to comfort her, "it's sure to be SOMEWHERE,

so we'll cert'nly run across it some day."

Yes indeed," added Betsy, "now that we have Ozma's Magic Picture, we can

tell just where the Dove went with your dishpan. They all approached the

Magic Picture, and Dorothy wished it to show the enchanted form of Ugu the

Shoemaker, wherever it might be. At once there appeared in the frame of the

Picture a scene in the far Quadling Country, where the Dove was perched

disconsolately on the limb of a tree and the jeweled dishpan lay on the ground

just underneath the limb.

But where is the place? How far or how near?" asked Cayke anxiously.

The Book of Records will tell us that," answered the Wizard. So they looked

in the Great Book and read the following:

The Lost Princess of Oz