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The Scarecrow of Oz

CHAPTER Seventeen
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"I've found my own country, at last, and it is not far from here, either.

I would have come back to you sooner, to see how you are getting along, had not my family and friends welcomed my return so royally that a great celebration was held in my honor.

So I couldn't very well leave Orkland again until the excitement was over." "Can you find your way back home again ?" asked the boy.
"Yes, easily; for now I know exactly where it is.

But where are Trot and Cap'n Bill ?" Button-Bright related to the Ork their adventures since it had left them in Jinxland, telling of Trot's fear that the King had done something wicked to Cap'n Bill, and of Pon's love for Gloria, and how Trot and Button-Bright had been turned out of the King's castle.

That was all the news that the boy had, but it made the Ork anxious for the safety of his friends.
"We must go to them at once, for they may need us," he said.
"I don't know where to go," confessed Button-Bright.


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