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Chapter Fifteen

Imperial self I can never make the journey to the Emerald City. Eighty-six is too old for travelling."

"Has your Majesty forgotten the wonderful brains given to you by the Wizard of Oz!"

"I had—for a moment," confessed the Scarecrow. "Be quiet, Tappy, while I think." Pressing his head against the magic bean pole the Scarecrow thought and thought—harder than he had ever done in the course of his adventurous life, and in the great silent hall Happy Toko struggled to set himself free.

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