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cried Pompa. "Oh, do let me try to open it, Peg!"

So Peg handed over Glegg's Magic Box and as they pounded along the Prince tried to pry it open with his pearl pen knife. "It would save us such a lot of trouble," he murmured, holding it up and screwing his eye to the keyhole.

"Better let it alone," advised Wag, wiggling his ears nervously. "Suppose you should grow as big for you as I am for me. Suppose you should explode or vanish!"

"Vanish!" coughed Kabumpo. "Great Grump! Put it away, Pompa. Wait till we reach Ev and make that wicked little Ruggedo open it for us. Who is this Glegg, anyway?"

"A lawless magician, I guess," said Wag, "or he wouldn't have owned a box of Mixed Magic. Ozma doesn't allow anyone to practice magic, you know."

"Why, I'll bet he was the person who sent the scroll!" exclaimed the Prince suddenly. "Don't you remember, Kabumpo, it was signed J. G.?"

"Not a doubt in the world," rumbled Kabumpo.

"I'll throw him up a tree when I catch him and Ruggedo, too!"

"Oh, please don't," begged Peg Amy. "Perhaps they are sorry."