This brother seems a kindly, honest fellow, but he has done nothing to entitle him to a home in the Land of Oz." "Who else ?" asked Dorothy.
"I have told you about Betsy Bobbin, the little girl who was shipwrecked--in much the same way you once were--and has since been following the Shaggy Man in his search for his lost brother.

You remember her, do you not ?" "Oh, yes!" exclaimed Dorothy.

"I've often watched her and Hank in the Magic Picture, you know.

She's a dear little girl, and old Hank is a darling! Where are they now ?" "Look and see," replied Ozma with a smile at her friend's enthusiasm.
Dorothy turned to the Picture, which showed Betsy and Hank, with Shaggy and his brother, trudging along the rocky paths of a barren country.
"Seems to me," she said, musingly, "that they're a good way from any place to sleep, or any nice things to eat." "You are right," said Tik-Tok.

"I have been in that coun-try, and it is a wil-der-ness." "It is the country of the nomes," explained the Wizard, "who are so mischievous that no one cares to live near them.