[CHAPTER 10]
The Witch of the Black Forest
Dorothy and her companion were too stunned to answer, and in two thumping steps the owner of the voice was upon them.
"Do you dare to defy a member of the Invincible Black Watch?" breathed the stranger, grasping Pigasus roughly by the right wing.
"No! No! We don't exactly defy you," squealed the pig, flapping his other wing frantically, "but how can we follow a blackguard whom we cannot even see?"
"Then how do you know I am a blackguard?" demanded their captor suspiciously.
"From your voice," screamed Pigasus, jerking this way and that way in an effort to free himself. "I'd know you for a blackguard anywhere. Unhand me, you surly black monster."
"You talk a lot for a fellow who cannot see," scoffed the Guard, tightening his grip on the pig's wing. "Is the girl blind too?"
"We're not blind at all and why should we be,
In this horrid black forest how could we see?"
cried Dorothy, her indignation getting the better of her fright.