In fact, there is nothing he can do in these dominions as well as our nomes, whose numbers are so great that it worries us to keep them all busy.

So your brother has only to amuse himself." "Why, it's more like visiting, than being a prisoner," asserted Betsy.
"Not exactly," returned Kaliko.

"A prisoner cannot go where or when he pleases, and is not his own master." "Where is my brother now ?" inquired Shaggy.
"In the Metal Forest." "Where is that ?" "The Metal Forest is in the Great Domed Cavern, the largest in all our dominions," replied Kaliko.

"It is almost like being out of doors, it is so big, and Ruggedo made the wonderful forest to amuse himself, as well as to tire out his hard-working nomes.

All the trees are gold and silver and the ground is strewn with precious stones, so it is a sort of treasury." "Let us go there at once and rescue my dear brother," pleaded Shaggy earnestly.
Kaliko hesitated.
"I don't believe I can find the way," said he.