Kabumpo in Oz
alive one, I might say. How did you know about Ozma's disappearance and how were you going to help her?"
"Mixed Magic!" whispered Wag, crossing his ears and his eyes as well. "Mixed Magic!"
"Magic?" gulped Kabumpo, swallowing a branch of sticky leaves whole. "Have you any magic?"
"A whole box full," sighed Peg Amy, patting her pocket softly.
"In that box is the magic that brought Peg to life!" shrilled Wag, pointing a trembling paw. "In that box is the magic that made us grow. In that box is the magic that caused Ozma's castle to disappear—!"
"Great Grump!" whistled Kabumpo. "How fortunate we fell in with them, Pompa." He held out his trunk. "Give me the box, my good girl, and you shall be fittingly rewarded when Pompa is King of Oz."
"That's a long time to wait," chuckled Wag, tickled by Kabumpo's outrageous impudence. "No, Peg and I will just keep the box, thank you."
"Of course you will," said Prince Pompadore, frowning at Kabumpo. "But as we are both bound on the same errand, let us travel together. Kabumpo and I are going to kill the giant who ran off with the castle."
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