Then he put his eye to the glass and was able to gaze along all the turns and windings of the Magic Spyglass and then deep into the Tube, to where our friends were at that time falling.
"Dear me!" he exclaimed.

"Here comes a dragon." "A big one ?" asked Ruggedo.
"A monster.

He has an electric light on the end of his tail, so I can see him very plainly.

And the other people are all riding upon his back." "How about the eggs ?" inquired the King.
Kaliko looked again.
"I can see no eggs at all," said he; "but I imagine that the dragon is as dangerous as eggs.

Probably Tititi-Hoochoo has sent him here to punish you for dropping those strangers into the Forbidden Tube.