The Girl Ruler rose and motioned the rest to follow her as she made her way to her suite of rooms and the Magic Picture.
CHAPTER 25
The Black Bag of Magic Tools
Ozma swept the velvet drape from the Magic Picture. There was the familiar scene that appeared when the Picture was not in use—a peaceful Oz countryside with rolling fields and hills and a large tree growing in the foreground.
"Show us the Wizard's Black Bag of Magic Tools," Ozma said.
There was no change in the picture.
"What can be wrong?" whispered Dorothy soberly.
"Perhaps the Magic Picture can only show people and not things," suggested the Shaggy Man. "I don't recall our ever having asked it to show an object before."