They asked everyone they met for news of Ozma, but none in this district had seen her or even knew that she had been stolen.

And by nightfall they had passed all the farmhouses and were obliged to stop and ask for shelter at the hut of a lonely shepherd.

When they halted, Toto was not far behind.
The little dog halted, too, and stealing softly around the party, he hid himself behind the hut.
The shepherd was a kindly old man and treated the travelers with much courtesy.

He slept out of doors that night, giving up his hut to the three girls, who made their beds on the floor with the blankets they had brought in the Red Wagon.

The Wizard and Button-Bright also slept out of doors, and so did the Cowardly Lion and Hank the Mule.