The Wizard was so astonished that he took a piece in his own hands and tested it, finding it very hard indeed.
Just then one of the giant servants entered and exclaimed, "Oh, Your Majesty, the cook has burned the soup! What shall we do ?" "How dare you interrupt me ?" asked the Czarover, and grasping the immense giant by one of his legs, he raised him in the air and threw him headfirst out of an open window.

"Now, tell me," he said, turning to Button-Bright, "could your man in Philadelphia crumble marble in his fingers ?" "I guess not," said Button-Bright, much impressed by the skinny monarch's strength.
"What makes you so strong ?" inquired Dorothy.
"It's the zosozo," he explained, "which is an invention of my own.

I and all my people eat zosozo, and it gives us tremendous strength.
Would you like to eat some ?" "No thank you," replied the girl.

"I--I don't want to get so thin." "Well, of course one can't have strength and flesh at the same time," said the Czarover.

"Zosozo is pure energy, and it's the only compound of its sort in existence.