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But don't take more than a teaspoonful at a time. Once Ugu the Shoemaker

took two teaspoonsful, and it made him so strong that when he leaned against

the city wall, he pushed it over, and we had to build it up again."

Who is Ugu the Shoemaker?"

Button-Bright curiously, for he now remembered that the bird and the rabbit

had claimed Ugu the Shoemaker had enchanted the peach he had eaten.

Why, Ugu is a great magician who used to live here. But he's gone away

now," replied the Czarover.

Where has he gone?" asked the Wizard quickly.

I am told he lives in a wickerwork castle in the mountains to the west of here.

You see, Ugu became such a powerful magician that he didn't care to live in

our city any longer for fear we would discover some of his secrets. So he went

to the mountains and built him a splendid wicker castle which is so strong

that even I and my people could not batter it down, and there he lives all by

himself."

This is good news," declared the Wizard, "for I think this is just the magician

we are searching for. But why is he called Ugu the Shoemaker?"

Once he was a very common citizen here and made shoes for a living," replied

the monarch of Herku. "But he was descended from the greatest wizard and

sorcerer who ever lived in this or in any other country, and one day Ugu the

Shoemaker discovered all the magical books and recipes of his famous great-

grandfather, which had been hidden away in the attic of his house. So he

began to study the papers and books and to practice magic, and in time he

became so skillful that, as I said, he scorned our city and built a solitary

castle for himself."

Do you think," asked Dorothy anxiously, "that Ugu the Shoemaker would be

wicked enough to steal our Ozma of Oz?"

And the Magic Picture?" asked Trot.

And the Great Book of Records of Glinda the Good?" asked Betsy.

And my own magic tools?" asked the Wizard.

Well," replied the Czarover, "I won't say that Ugu is wicked, exactly, but he is

very ambitious to become the most powerful magician in the world, and so I

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