"Mercy!" spluttered Dorothy, nearly choking on her coffee. "Do your ears tell you everything?"
"Oh no, just odds and ends of things," answered Tora, reaching up to touch them affectionately.
"Well, did they tell you about me?" inquired Humpy, straightening his crown importantly.
"No," smiled the old man. "That's just what we're waiting to hear, though I declare I have seen you somewhere before. Have you ever seen me?"
Humpy shook his head very positively and Dorothy, settling back against a tree, proceeded with her story. Introducing herself modestly and beginning with Wish Way, she related every single thing that had happened since her fall into California.
Snip was especially interested in Dorothy's sudden change in size. "Is that what tore your dress?" he asked curiously.
The little girl nodded and Tora, ruffling up his silver locks and looking first at Dorothy and then at Humpy, murmured over and over: "Well, I can hardly believe my ears, I can hardly believe my ears!"
