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chuckled the Wooden Doll. "When you've had some supper you'll be just as anxious to find the Princess of Sun Top Mountain as you were to find Ozma. Here's the Winkie Country now, and there's a star for good luck."

Peg waved toward the green fields with one hand and toward the clouds with the other. It was dusk now and just one star twinkled cheerily in the sky.

"I'll set you down, but I'm not going away," said the Runaway Country determinedly, "for if that little old gnome doesn't turn up I'm going to catch you all again."

"Ozma never forgets. She'll keep her promise," said Peg. "And you must do just as she told you to do for she has some powerful magic and can send you right back to where you came from."

"Can she?" gulped the Country anxiously.

"You might wait a while, though," suggested Pompa darkly. "After I've seen this new Princess a Runaway Country might be a very good thing."

"Well, you can't expect her to marry you if you talk that way," said Peg warningly, as the Country came to a stop in a huge field of daisies.

"I'll wait," it said hopefully, as the four travelers swung themselves down.