Supreme Highness, Chang Wang Woe of Silver Island, who has abdicated his throne and returned to be a plain Scarecrow in Oz!"
Then, as the eminent Educator of Oz stood gaping at the Scarecrow, "Oh, Ozma, I've so much to tell you!"
"Begin! Begin!" cried the little Wizard, "For everything's mighty mysterious. First the Cowardly lion and two unknown beasts shoot through the air and stop just outside the third story windows and there they hang, although I've tried all my magic to get them down. Then you and the Scarecrow drop in with a strange Knight!"
"Oh, the poor Cowardly Lion!" gasped Dorothy, as the Wizard finished speaking. "The magic fan!" She felt hurriedly in her pocket. "It's gone!"
"It must have slipped out of your pocket and blown them here and they'll never come down till that fan is closed," cried the Scarecrow in an agitated voice.
All this was Greek to Ozma and the others, but when Dorothy begged the little Queen to send for her Magic Belt she did it without question. This belt Dorothy had captured from the Gnome King and it enabled the wearer to wish people and objects wherever one wanted them.
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