"If her brains can help us out of this trouble, we ought to use them." So he began unharnessing the Sawhorse, and Button-Bright and Dorothy helped him.

When they had removed the harness, the Patchwork Girl told them to take it all apart and buckle the straps together, end to end.
And after they had done this, they found they had one very long strap that was stronger than any rope.

"It would reach across the gulf easily," said the Lion, who with the other animals had sat on his haunches and watched this proceeding.

"But I don't see how it could be fastened to one of those dizzy mountains." Scraps had no such notion as that in her baggy head.

She told them to fasten one end of the strap to a stout limb of the tree, pointing to one which extended quite to the edge of the gulf.