"This one is ugly and dangerous, or they wouldn't cage him up.

Maybe we shall find another that is tame and gentle." "Perhaps there isn't any other, at all," answered Ojo.

"The sign doesn't say: 'Beware a Woozy'; it says: 'Beware the Woozy,' which may mean there's only one in all the Land of Oz." "Then," said Scraps, "suppose we go in and find him?
Very likely if we ask him politely to let us pull three hairs out of the tip of his tail he won't hurt us." "It would hurt him, I'm sure, and that would make him cross," said the cat.
"You needn't worry, Bungle," remarked the Patchwork Girl; "for if there is danger you can climb a tree.

Ojo and I are not afraid; are we, Ojo ?" "I am, a little," the boy admitted; "but this danger must be faced, if we intend to save poor Unc Nunkie.

How shall we get over the fence ?" "Climb," answered Scraps, and at once she began climbing up the rows of bars.