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CHAPTER 21 - THE ESCAPE FROM THE SILVER ISLAND
"Well!" gasped Dorothy, fanning herself with her hat, "I never was so s'prised
in my life!"
"Nor I," exclaimed the Scarecrow. "The Grand Gheewizard will be suing you
for parassault and battery. But how did it happen?"
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Well," began Dorothy, "as soon as the parasol opened, I flew up so fast that
I could hardly breathe. Then, after I'd gone ever so far, it came to me that if
the parasol went up when it was up, it would come down when it was down.
I couldn't leave you all in such a fix-- so I closed it, and--"
"Came down!" finished the Scarecrow with a wave of his hand. "You always
do the right thing in the right place, my dear."
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It was lucky I hit the vase, wasn't it?" sighed Dorothy. "But I'm rather sorry
about the Princes."
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Served 'em right," growled the Cowardly Lion. "They'll make very good pigs!"
But who's to rule the island?" demanded Sir Hokus, turning his gaze
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reluctantly from the smoking dragonskin.
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This will require thought," said the Scarecrow pensively. "Let us all think."
"I doubt that I can ever think again." The Doubtful Dromedary wagged his
head from side to side in a dazed fashion.
Just leave it to our dear Karwan Bashi." The Comfortable Camel nodded
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complacently at the Knight and began plucking sly wisps from the
Scarecrow's boot top. For a short time there was absolute silence.
Then Sir Hokus, who had been thinking tremendously with his elbows on
his knees, burst out, "Why not Sir Pudding, here? Why not this honest
Punster? Who but Happy Toko deserves the throne?"
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The very person!" cried the Scarecrow, clasping his yellow gloves, and
taking off his silver hat, he set it impulsively upon the head of the fat little
Silver Islander.
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He'll make a lovely Emperor," said Dorothy. "He's so kind-hearted and jolly.
And now the Scarecrow can abdicate and come home to Oz."
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