Chapter Fourteen
hold the match till it burned to the very end. He jumped up clumsily and puffed out the light just in time. Scraps promptly lit another and as she did so the Scarecrow saw a tall blue candle sticking out of the waste basket. “
"Here," said the Straw Man nervously. "Light this and stand it on the mantel there." By the flickering candle light the Scarecrow and Scraps tried to set Dorothy's room to rights. They dragged the mattress from the bed-room and placed the little girls on it, side by side. Sir Hokus was too heavy to move, so they merely loosened his armor and put a sofa cushion under his head. Then, just as Scraps was going for some water, the room began to tremble again.
"I told you it wasn't over," cried Scraps, flinging both arms about the Scarecrow’s neck. And as they rocked to and fro she shouted merrily:
"Shaker! Shaker! Who art thee,
To shake a castle like a tree?
Shaker! Shaker! Go away
And come again some other day!"
"Now, Scraps," begged the Scarecrow, steadying the Patch Work Girl with one hand and catching hold of a table with the other, "everything depends on us. Do try to keep your head!"
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