en, let's enter the City an' enjoy the
grand feast that's being cooked. I'm nearly starved, myself, for this
conquerin' kingdoms is hard work."

So the Pinkies and the Blues marched side by side into the City, and
there was great rejoicing and music and dancing and feasting and games
and merrymaking that lasted for three full days. Trot carried Rosalie
and Captain Coralie and Ghip-Ghisizzle to the palace, and of course
Button-Bright and Cap'n Bill were with her. They had the Royal chef
serve dinner at once, and they ate in great state, seated in the Royal
Banquet Hall, where they were waited on by a hundred servants. The
parrot perched upon the back of Queen Trot's chair, and the girl fed it
herself, being glad to have the jolly bird with her again.

After they had eaten all they could and the servants had been sent
away, Trot related her adventures, telling how with the assistance of
the billygoat she had turned the tables on the wicked Boolooroo. Then
she gave Rosalie back her magic ring, thanking the kind Witch for all
she had done for them. "And now," said she, "I want to say to
Ghip-'Sizzle that jus' as soon as we can find Button-Bright's umbrel
we're going to fly home again. I'll always be Queen of Sky Island, but
the Pink and Blue Countries must each have a Ruler. I think I'll make
'Sizzle the Boolooroo of the Blues, but I want you to promise me, Ghip,
that you'll destroy the Great Knife and its frame and clean up the room
and turn it into a skating rink an' never patch anyone as long as you
rule the Blueskins."

Ghip-Ghisizzle was overjoyed at the prospect of being Boolooroo of the
Blues, but he looked solemn at the promise Trot exacted. "I'm not
cruel," he said, "and I don't approve of patching in general, so I'll
willingly destroy the Great Knife. But before I do that, I want the
privilege of patching the Snubnosed Princesses to each other--mixing
the six as much as possible--and then I want to patch the former
Boolooroo to the billygoat, which is the same punishment he was going
to inflict upon Cap'n Bill."

"No," said Trot positively. "There's been enough patching in this
country, and I won't have any more of it. The old Boolooroo and the six
stuck-up Princesses will be punished enough by being put out of the
palace. The people don't like 'em a bit, so they'll be outcasts and
wanderers, and that will make 'em sorry they were so wicked an' cruel
when they were powerful. Am I right, Cap'n Bill?"

"You ar