[Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum]@TWC D-Link bookRinkitink in Oz CHAPTER Five 10/17
Therefore, if I stepped upon another man's toes, I would be the other man.
Hoo, hoo, hoo!--the other man--hee, hee, heek-keek-eek! Funny, isn't it ?" "Didn't I say--" began Bilbil. "No matter what you said, my boy," roared the King.
"No fool could have figured that out as nicely as I did." "We have still to decide how to remove the blocks of marble," suggested Inga anxiously. "Fasten a rope to them, and pull," said Bilbil. "Don't pay any more attention to Rinkitink, for he is no wiser than the man who wrote that brainless scroll.
Just get the rope, and we'll fasten Rinkitink to one end of it for a weight and I'll help you pull." "Thank you, Bilbil," replied the boy.
"I'll get the rope at once." Bilbil found it difficult to climb over the ruins to the floor of the banquet hall, but there are few places a goat cannot get to when it makes the attempt, so Bilbil succeeded at last, and even fat little Rinkitink finally joined them, though much out of breath. Inga fastened one end of the rope around a block of marble and then made a loop at the other end to go over Bilbil's head.
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