[The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lost Princess of Oz CHAPTER 11 7/12
First it looked with one bright eye and then turned its head and looked at him with the other eye.
Then, fluttering its wings a little, it said, "Oho! So you've eaten the enchanted peach, have you ?" "Was it enchanted ?" asked Button-Bright. "Of course," replied the Bluefinch.
"Ugu the Shoemaker did that." "But why? And how was it enchanted? And what will happen to one who eats it ?" questioned the boy. "Ask Ugu the Shoemaker.
He knows," said the bird, preening its feathers with its bill. "And who is Ugu the Shoemaker ?" "The one who enchanted the peach and placed it here--in the exact center of the Great Orchard--so no one would ever find it.
We birds didn't dare to eat it; we are too wise for that.
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