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Kabumpo in Oz his eyes. "I'm too upset." He hugged the tree again. So Peg climbed to the top of the little hill and, waving her wooden arms to attract the Country's at- tention, called cheerfully: "Yoho, Mr. Land! Where are you going?" D 3 At first the Land only blinked his blue lake-eyes sulkily but, as Peg paid no attention to his ill temper and began making him pretty compliments on his mountains and trees, he gradually cheered up. "I'm going to be an island," he announced finally. "That's where I'm going. I'm tired of being a hot,

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