It is plain to me that you are a remarkable group--as remarkable in your way as I am in mine--and so you are welcome to my domain.

Nice place, isn't it?
But lonesome--dreadfully lonesome." "Why did they shut you up here ?" asked Scraps, who was regarding the queer, square creature with much curiosity.
"Because I eat up all the honey-bees which the Munchkin farmers who live around here keep to make them honey." "Are you fond of eating honey-bees ?" inquired the boy.
"Very.

They are really delicious.

But the farmers did not like to lose their bees and so they tried to destroy me.

Of course they couldn't do that." "Why not ?" "My skin is so thick and tough that nothing can get through it to hurt me.