A Puzzling Problem Glinda the Good, having decided to try her sorcery upon the abandoned submarine, so that it would obey her commands, asked all of her party, including the Skeezers, to withdraw from the shore of the take to the line of palm trees.

She kept with her only the little Wizard of Oz, who was her pupil and knew how to assist her in her magic rites.

When they two were alone beside the stranded boat, Glinda said to the Wizard: "I shall first try my magic recipe No.

1163, which is intended to make inanimate objects move at my command.

Have you a skeropythrope with you ?" "Yes, I always carry one in my bag," replied the Wizard.