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Kabumpo in Oz

into it. Above Peg's pleasant reflection in the mirror they read these startling and important words:

This is Peg Amy, Princess
of Sun Top Mountain.

While Pompa stared with round eyes the words faded out and this new legend formed in the glass:

This is the Proper Princess.

"I always knew you were a Princess," cried Wag, turning a somersault.

The big rabbit had just come right-side-up, when a still more amazing thing happened. The wooden body of Peg melted before their eyes and in its place stood the loveliest little Princess in the world. And yet, with all her beauty, she was strangely like the old Peg. Her eyes had the same merry twinkle and her mouth the same pleasant curve.

"Oh!" cried Princess Peg, holding her arms out to her friends. "Now I am the happiest person in Oz!"

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