THE LITTLE PINK BEAR SPEAKS TRULY For several minutes they all stood staring at the black spot on the canvas of the Magic Picture, wondering what it could mean.

"P'r'aps we'd better ask the little Pink Bear about Ozma," suggested Trot.
"Pshaw!" said Button-Bright.

"HE don't know anything." "He never makes a mistake," declared the King.
"He did once, surely," said Betsy.

"But perhaps he wouldn't make a mistake again." "He won't have the chance," grumbled the Bear King.
"We might hear what he has to say," said Dorothy.

"It won't do any harm to ask the Pink Bear where Ozma is." "I will not have him questioned," declared the King in a surly voice.
"I do not intend to allow my little Pink Bear to be again insulted by your foolish doubts.