“Look and see,” replied Ozma with a smile at her friend’s enthusiasm.
Dorothy turned to the picture, which showed Betsy and Hank, with Shaggy and his brother, trudging along the rocky paths of a barren country.
“Seems to me,” she said, musingly, “that they’re a good way from any place to sleep, or any nice things to eat.”
“You are right,” said Tik-Tok. “I have been in that coun-try, and it is a wil-der-ness.”
“It is the country of the nomes,” explained the Wizard, “who are so mischievous that no one cares to live near them. I’m afraid Shaggy and his friends will endure many hardships before they get out of that rocky place, unless—”
He turned to Ozma and smiled.
“Unless I ask you to transport them all here?” she asked.
“Yes, your Highness.”
“Could your magic do that?” inquired Dorothy.