Chapter Fourteen
ment at the topsy turvy room. Even in the dim candle light they could see that something very serious had occurred.
Jack Pumpkinhead picked himself up out of a corner, looking very much dazed.
Just then Dorothy opened her eyes, and Betsy and Trot, spluttering from the water the Patch Work Girl was pouring on their heads, sat up and wanted to know what had happened. In a few words Ozma told them what the magic picture had revealed.
"Ruggedo to a giant's grown
And set us on his head.
We've made some headway, you'll admit,
Since we have gone to bed!"
—shouted Scraps, who was growing more and more excited.
"Rug-ge-do will nev-er re-form," ticked the Copper Man sadly.
"But what are we going to do?" wailed Dorothy. "Suppose he leans over and spills us all out?"
"I shall take my sword," said Sir Hokus, speaking very determinedly, and backing toward the window as he spoke, "climb down, and slay the villain." He threw one leg over the sill.
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