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Ruler who rules us from a distance and unknown to us is welcome to the job.
But what has happened to your Royal Ozma?"
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Someone has stolen her," said the Wizard. "Do you happen to have any
talented magician among your people, one who is especially clever, you
know?"
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No, none especially clever. We do some magic, of course, but it is all of the
ordinary kind. I do not think any of us has yet aspired to stealing Rulers,
either by magic or otherwise."
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Then we've come a long way for nothing!" exclaimed Trot regretfully.
But we are going farther than this," asserted the Patchwork Girl, bending her
stuffed body backward until her yarn hair touched the floor and then walking
around on her hands with her feet in the air.
The High Coco-Lorum watched Scraps admiringly.
"
You may go farther on, of course," said he, "but I advise you not to. The
Herkus live back of us, beyond the thistles and the twisting lands, and they
are not very nice people to meet, I assure you."
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Are they giants?" asked Betsy.
"
They are worse than that," was the reply. "They have giants for their slaves
and they are so much stronger than giants that the poor slaves dare not rebel
for fear of being torn to pieces."
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How do you know?" asked Scraps.
Everyone says so," answered the High Coco-Lorum.
Have you seen the Herkus yourself?" inquired Dorothy.
No, but what everyone says must be true, otherwise what would be the use of
their saying it?"
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We were told before we got here that you people hitch dragons to your
chariots," said the little girl.
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So we do," declared the High Coco-Lorum. "And that reminds me that I ought
to entertain you as strangers and my guests by taking you for a ride around
our splendid City of Thi." He touched a button, and a band began to play. At
least, they heard the music of a band, but couldn't tell where it came from.
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