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How can you wait here and find Button-Bright at one and the same time?"

inquired the Patchwork Girl, hanging by her toes on a limb just over the heads

of the three mortal girls.

Perhaps he'll come back here," answered Dorothy.

If he tries that, he'll prob'ly lose his way," said Trot. "I've known him to do

that lots of times. It's losing his way that gets him lost."

Very true," said the Wizard. "So all the rest of you must stay here while I go

look for the boy."

Won't YOU get lost, too?" asked Betsy.

I hope not, my dear."

Let ME go," said Scraps, dropping lightly to the ground. "I can't get lost, and

I'm more likely to find Button-Bright than any of you." Without waiting for

permission, she darted away through the trees and soon disappeared from

their view.

Dorothy," said Toto, squatting beside his little mistress, "I've lost my growl."

How did that happen?" she asked.

I don't know," replied Toto. "Yesterday morning the Woozy nearly stepped on

me, and I tried to growl at him and found I couldn't growl a bit."

Can you bark?" inquired Dorothy.

Oh, yes indeed."

Then never mind the growl," said she.

But what will I do when I get home to the Glass Cat and the Pink Kitten?"

asked the little dog in an anxious tone.

They won't mind if you can't growl at them, I'm sure," said Dorothy. "I'm sorry

for you, of course, Toto, for it's just those things we can't do that we want to

do most of all; but before we get back, you may find your growl again."

Do you think the person who stole Ozma stole my growl?"

Dorothy smiled.

Perhaps, Toto."

The Lost Princess of Oz