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Don't know," he answered, again.

Dorothy was in despair.

You're just AWFUL stupid, Button-Bright," she said.

Am I?" he asked.

Yes, you are."

Why?" looking up at her with big eyes.

She was going to say: "Don't know," but stopped herself in time.

That's for you to answer," she replied.

It's no use asking Button-Bright questions," said the shaggy man, who had

been eating another apple; "but someone ought to take care of the poor little

chap, don't you think? So he'd better come along with us."

Toto had been looking with great curiosity in the hole which the boy was

digging, and growing more and more excited every minute, perhaps thinking

that Button-Bright was after some wild animal. The little dog began barking

loudly and jumped into the hole himself, where he began to dig with his tiny

paws, making the earth fly in all directions. It spattered over the boy.

Dorothy seized him and raised him to his feet, brushing his clothes with her

hand.

Stop that, Toto!" she called. "There aren't any mice or woodchucks in that

hole, so don't be foolish."

Toto stopped, sniffed at the hole suspiciously, and jumped out of it, wagging

his tail as if he had done something important.

Well," said the shaggy man, "let's start on, or we won't get anywhere before

night comes."

Where do you expect to get to?" asked Dorothy.

I'm like Button-Bright. I don't know," answered the shaggy man, with a

laugh. "But I've learned from long experience that every road leads

somewhere, or there wouldn't be any road; so it's likely that if we travel long

enough, my dear, we will come to some place or another in the end. What

place it will be we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure to find out

when we get there."

The Road to Oz