Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-19

"Nonsense!" snapped Billina.
TT is true" declared Dorothy. l
met him in the Land of OF, and he
travelled with me to the city of the
great Wizard of OF, so as to get some
brains, for his head was only stuffed
with straw. But it seemed to me that
he thought just as we'll before he
got his brains as he did afterward.
DO you expect me to believe all
that rubbish about the Land of Oz?"
enquired Billina, who seemed little
cross-perhaps because bugs were
scarce
What rubbish?" asked the child,
who was now finishing her nuts and
raisins.
why, your impossible stories
about animals that can talk, and a
tin woodman who is alive and scarce
crow who can think.
"They are all there" said Doro-
thy, for 1 have seen them"
II don't believe it," cried the hen'
with a toss of her head.
That's cause you're so ignrant,
replied the girl, who was little Of
Tended at her friend Billina's speech
In, the Land of o." remarked
Tiktok, turning toward them, any
thing is pos-si- BILE. For it Is Won
der-ful fairy country"
There, Billina! what did l say?'
cried Dorothy. And then she turned
to the machine and asked in an
eager tone: DO you know the Land
of OF, Tiktok?"
No; but 1 have heard about it,
said the copper man. For 1t is
only separated from this Land OF
Ev by a broad desert"
Dorothy clapped her hands togeth-
er delightedly.
I'm SO glad of thatr she ex-
claimed. 1T makes me- quite happy
to be so near my old friends. The
scarecrow I told you of, Billina, is
the King of the Land of o."
Pardon me. He is not tho king
now," said Tiktok.
He was when l left there" de-
clared Dorothy.
II know" said Tiktok, but there
was a revolution in the Land of
OF, and the scare-crow was de-posed
by a soldier woman named Gen
er-al Jin-jur. And then Jin-jur was
de-posed by a little girl named Or
ria, who was the rightful heir to the
throne and now rules the land un-
der the title of Oz-ma of o."
That is news to me-" said Dor
othy. thoughtfully. But l s'pose
lots of things have happened since
1 left the Land of OF. l wonder
what has become of the Scarecrow,
and of the Tin Woodman and the
Cowardly Lion. And 1 wonder who
this girl Ozma is, for 1 never heard
of her before"
But Tiktok did not reply to this.
He had turned around again to re-
sumo his thinking.
Dorothy packed the rest of the food
back into the pail so as not to be
wasteful of good things, and the
yellow hen forgot her dignity far
enough to pick up all of the scat
tered crumbs. which she ate rather
greedily, although she had so lately
pretended to despise the things that
Dorothy preferred as food.
By this time Tiktok approached
them with his stiff bow.
BE kind enough to follow me-
he said, "and 1 will lead you away
from here to the town of Evna,
where you will be more com forta-
BILE, and also 1 will protect you
from the Wheelers."
"All right" answered Dorothy
promptly. I'm ready!"
Editors Note-Our next story 1.-THE
Heads of Langwidere." You ask
who is Langwidere?" Well, she is
the Princess who rules in the Land
of Eve. We shall take you with us to
the Land of Ev but be prepared for
little excitement with the Wheel
ers. Tik-tok proves they are harm
less, however, and our journey is
bound to be a delightful one.