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The Lost Princess of Oz

CHAPTER 9
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Come on into the city; we've been wasting our time." With this, she danced into the wall again and once more disappeared.
Button-Bright, who was rather venture-some, dashed away after her and also became invisible to them.

The others followed more cautiously, stretching out their hands to feel the wall and finding, to their astonishment, that they could feel nothing because nothing opposed them.

They walked on a few steps and found themselves in the streets of a very beautiful city.

Behind them they again saw the wall, grim and forbidding as ever, but now they knew it was merely an illusion prepared to keep strangers from entering the city.
But the wall was soon forgotten, for in front of them were a number of quaint people who stared at them in amazement as if wondering where they had come from.

Our friends forgot their good manners for a time and returned the stares with interest, for so remarkable a people had never before been discovered in all the remarkable Land of Oz.
Their heads were shaped like diamonds, and their bodies like hearts.
All the hair they had was a little bunch at the tip top of their diamond-shaped heads, and their eyes were very large and round, and their noses and mouths very small.


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