L. Frank Baum - Oz 34 - The Wonder City Of Oz

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TheWonderCityOf Oz – Oz 34

L. Frank Baum

CHAPTER 1

How Jenny Lost the Pepper-Cheese

JENNY JUMP jumped. She was so surprised, she

jumped halfway across the kitchen. She had never

seen such a sight, never in the whole state of New

Jersey!

A tiny man was stealing pepper-cheese out of the

cheese box! He was standing right on the table, and he

was no taller than the cheese box.

Jenny became very angry because she was to have

that pepper-cheese for supper.

"Don't do that," she cried.

The little man turned, and Jenny was startled again.

The man was a Leprechaun! She knew right away he

was one of the Irish fairy folk because he had bushy

red whiskers, a green coat, and an old hat with a white

owl's feather stuck in it. The red whiskers were as

bushy as a porcupine. He held the whole pepper-

cheese against him, and it was almost as big as he was.

The little man looked at Jenny, and she stared back,

remembering that a Leprechaun can't get away as

long as you keep your eyes fixed on him but if you as

much as blink, he'll get away. A Leprechaun will

grant you any wish while your eyes have him in your

power.

Jenny stared and stared, until her eyes began to

hurt. She dared not blink, for if she did the Lepre-

chaun would be free to run away, and she would not

get her wish. Jenny thought hard and fast, trying to

decide what she wanted. Most of all, she wanted the

pepper-cheese for supper.

"Drop the pepper-cheese," she ordered. The cheese

fell to the table.

Jenny's eyes hurt more and more from looking so

hard, but she would not blink until she had made the

Leprechaun give her everything she wanted.

"Make me into a fairy," she said, staring at him.

The strangest things began to happen. Her toes on

one foot began to tingle and want to dance. First one

finger felt that it was tinkling like a silver bell, then

another finger, and then another. Both of her ears

were full of wonderful music, and she could hear the

chairs talking to each other. One eye changed and

saw everything with new and more beautiful colors.

Even the old kitchen wall became as bright as a rain-

bow. She felt like the song of an oriole, and the mur-

muring of leaves. She felt as if everything were

beautiful and happy. She knew that she was being

turned into a real fairy.

Then a terrible thing happened: Jenny's left eye,

the one that wasn't a fairy eye, blinked.

Instantly the Leprechaun ran across the table and

leaped to the window.

"Stop, stop !" Jenny screamed.

The Leprechaun stood on the window sill, but he did

not lift his eyes to Jenny's face.

"Shure, and what d'ye want?" he asked with his

Irish brogue. His voice was as gruff as an old bull

frog's.

"Make me into a full fairy. I'm half girl and half

fairy now. Only one eye is a fairy eye, and one foot;

eight of my fingers are fairy fingers, and both of my

ears. But I want to be all fairy."

"I'll not be doin' it. 'Twill only get ye into trouble,"

the Leprechaun said roughly.

Jenny became so angry, she jumped. She jumped

so high that she was headed right for the ceiling. She

would have jumped clear through it, if she had not

thrown up her hands and stopped herself. When she

dropped down to the floor she was so surprised and

pleased that she forgot to be angry.

"Did you see that?" she asked.

The Leprechaun did not answer, but turned to go.

Jenny was sorry that she had been cross with him.

"Do you have to go so soon?" she said politely.

"If you'll stay, you may have all the cheese you want

-if you only take a little piece."

The Leprechaun jumped back to the table. He

stuffed such a big piece of pepper-cheese into his

mouth that his cheeks bulged wider than his shoul-

ders. With his mouth full he said, "What may your

name be?"

"Jenny Jump," she said.

"How old be ye, Jenny?"

"Fifteen," she snapped, growing angry all over

again. She didn't like the way he kept tearing off

bits of pepper-cheese, while her share grew smaller.

"Now, me own name is a long one, for shure." He

puffed out his chest. "Siko Pompus it is. And it's

857 years old I am!"

"Don't eat any more," Jenny commanded. Siko

Pompus kept eating and eating.

"My, aren't ye the spitfire, now," he said.

When Jenny tried to answer, instead of words,

she was spitting fire. A spark fell on the Lepre-

chaun's bushy 'red beard. The beard began to flame

and smoke, and to Jenny's astonishment, it grew

longer and longer as it burned.

Siko Pompus jumped up and down and screeched,

"Git some water git some water! It's a-growin'

so long, I shan't be able to carry it around."

The red beard grew and grew while it smoked

and flamed, until it half filled the kitchen. Jenny

could no longer see Siko Pompus behind the big,

red, burning beard.

"Be throwin' water on it!" Siko Pompus shouted.

Jenny felt so sorry for the little fellow that she

forgot to be angry. She ran for a bucket of water

and splashed it over his beard. The fire went out,

and the beard lay all over the kitchen floor, like an

old hair mattress.

"More water, more water," Siko Pompus cried.

Jenny fetched a second bucket and threw it over

the beard. The beard began to shrink. It shrank

a little way, then stopped.

"More water, more water," Siko Pompus kept

ordering. Jenny had to fetch so many buckets that

her arms ached. And each time the beard shrank a

little way.

When the beard was back to its own size, Siko

Pompus said gruffly, "Next time ye'll be thinkin'

twice, before losin' your temper."

Jenny was too tired to be angry again. The little

man was not through giving advice.

"Remember, Jenny Jump, that it's half fairy ye

are now. Ye must not be selfish, vain, and fiery

tempered. Now, I'll be takin' another piece of cheese

and go. But I'll come back, sometime!"

"Just a small piece," Jenny said, watching him

closely.

There was hardly any of the cheese left. The

Leprechaun picked up the whole piece, jumped to

the window, and sat in the tree outside.

At that, Jenny was so furious, she stamped her

fairy foot and bounced right out of the window!

She stood surprised. "Well, I never took such a

jump before," she said. "I'll try it again."

She stamped her foot, sailed over the house and

came down on the other side.

"Leaping Leprechauns!" she said. Looking far

off, she saw the mountain that had stood between

her and the rest of the world all her life.

"I wonder if I could jump over that?" she said.

"First I'll have to dress more warmly." Running into

the house, she put on a hat and a cape. Then she

ran out again. She bounced on her fairy foot, and

next minute she was up, sailing over the pine trees

on top of the mountain. She dropped to the other

side.

"Such wonderful things never happened to me in

all my lonesome life. I wonder how far I can really

jump?"

As she said this, she stamped hard with her fairy

foot, and the next instant she shot up and away

through the air.

Jenny sailed for four days, wondering all the time

if she would ever land. Just afternoonon the fourth

day, she looked down and saw a new country. One

section of it was yellow, one blue, one purple, and

another red. And right in the center there was a

green sparkling patch.

"That looks like a land of enchantment," she said.

"I can see it with my magic eye, but not with my

ordinary one. I wish I were down there."

She felt herself beginning to drop.

CHAPTER 2

The Speck in the Magic Picture

O ZMA was in her dressing room in the palace

in theEmeraldCityof the enchanted Land of

Oz of which she is queen. She was being dressed

by her chief maid-in-waiting, Jellia Jamb. The fair

young ruler was wearing her most beautiful clothes.

It was her birthday, and there was to be a parade

in her honor.

Outside the palace, all the strange people and

stranger creatures of Oz had gathered. They stood

cheering for their Queen and for the parade. Every-

body in Oz loves parades. The people had come from

the four states of Oz. The Munchkins came from

the western blue country, the Gillikins, from the

northern purple country, the Winkies, from the

eastern yellow country, and the Quadlings, from

the land to the south that was bright red.

The people were colored the same as their coun-

try, and all their clothes and pets and belongings

were that color, too. It was easy to tell those who

lived in the Emerald City, for they were green.

Ozma was very happy because all was well in her

land, and her subjects were contented and pros-

perous.

"I hope trouble will never come to our fair land,"

she said to her two friends who were watching her

get ready. These two girls were Glinda the Good,

a kindly, red-haired sorceress who ruled in the

South; and Princess Dorothy, who had blown to

Oz from Kansas on a cyclone many years ago.

Jellia Jamb, who stood by with her mouth full

of golden needles and silver thread, started to an-

swer without taking the needles out of her mouth.

"As long as you are Queen, there will be no"

That was all she was able to say. For as her lips

and tongue moved, they worked the needles and

thread in and out and sewed her lips tightly together.

Ozma turned to her maid. "What were you going

to say, Jellia?"

Jellia tried to answer, but the words couldn't get

out of her mouth. They just kept piling up inside

her cheeks. The maid got very excited. She did not

feel any pain, of course, for the needles and thread

were those she had used to make Ozma's dress, and

therefore they were enchanted. But when her mouth

became full of words, Jellia grew more excited.

The more excited she became, the more she talked.

And the more she talked, the fuller her mouth

became.

She was so frightened that she began to scream.

And when the scream came into her mouth, her head

became so full of sound that it lifted her right off

the floor like a balloon.

Dorothy ran and pulled the maid down, saying,

"Help her, dear Ozma. Cut the thread that holds

her lips together."

Ozma shook her head. "The silver thread is

magical, and will not break until I have a new birth-

day dress made. Don't talk any more, Jellia, or

your head will get so big, it will explode."

Dorothy put two heavy emerald book-ends from

the Queen's table on the maid's feet to hold her

down.

Ozma said, "I can't undo the magic of the silver

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