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The Patchwork Girl of Oz

CHAPTER Ten
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And there's a Woozy--" "What's a Woozy ?" inquired the Shaggy Man.
"Why, I--I--can't describe it," answered the boy, greatly perplexed.
"But it's a queer animal with three hairs on the tip of its tail that won't come out and--" "What won't come out ?" asked the Shaggy Man; "the tail ?" "The hairs won't come out.

But you'll see the Woozy, if you'll please rescue it, and then you'll know just what it is." "Of course," said the Shaggy Man, nodding his shaggy head.

And then he walked back among the plants, still whistling, and found the three leaves which were curled around Ojo's traveling companions.

The first leaf he cut down released Scraps, and on seeing her the Shaggy Man threw back his shaggy head, opened wide his mouth and laughed so shaggily and yet so merrily that Scraps liked him at once.

Then he took off his hat and made her a low bow, saying: "My dear, you're a wonder.


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