Lyman Frank Baum

The Patchwork Girl of Oz Lyman Frank Baum

Book Excerpt: ...of it for a purpose of her own. Sit down and make yourself comfortable, Unc Nunkie, and after I've finished my task I will talk to you.""You must know," said Margolotte, when they were all seated together on the broad window-seat, "that my husband foolishly gave away all the Powder of Life he first made to old Mombi the Witch, who used to live in the Country of the Gillikins, to the north of here. Mombi gave to Dr. Pipt a Powder of Perpetual Youth in exchange for his Powder of Life, but she cheated him wickedly, for the Powder of Youth was no good and could work no magic at all.""Perhaps the Powder of Life couldn't either," said Ojo.[Illustration]"Yes; it is perfection," she declared. "The first lot we tested on our Glass Cat, which not only began to live but has lived ever since. She's somewhere around the house now.""A Glass Cat!" exclaimed Ojo, astonished."Yes; she makes a very pleasant companion, but admires herself a little more than is considered modest, a...