thing to hold to, and he swayed from side to side as if likely to fall
off any moment. Still, he managed to stick to the Woozy's back until
they were close to the walls of the city, when he leaped to the ground.
Next moment the Woozy came dashing back at full speed.

"There's a little strip of ground next the wall where there are no
thistles," he told them, when he had reached the adventurers once more.
"Now, then, friend Hank, see if you can ride as well as the Lion did."

"Take the others first," proposed the Mule. So the Sawhorse and the
Woozy made a couple of trips over the thistles to the city walls and
carried all the people in safety, Dorothy holding little Toto in her
arms. The travelers then sat in a group on a little hillock, just
outside the wall, and looked at the great blocks of gray stone and
waited for the Woozy to bring Hank to them. The Mule was very awkward
and his legs trembled so badly that more than once they thought he would
tumble off, but finally he reached them in safety and the entire party
was now reunited. More than that, they had reached the city that had
eluded them for so long and in so strange a manner.

"The gates must be around the other side," said the Wizard. "Let us
follow the curve of the wall until we reach an opening in it."

"Which way?" asked Dorothy.

"We must guess at that," he replied. "Suppose we go to the left? One
direction is as good as another."

They formed in marching order and went around the city wall to the left.
It wasn't a big city, as I have said, but to go way around it, outside
the high wall, was quite a walk, as they became aware. But around it our
adventurers went, without finding any sign of a gateway or other
opening. When they had returned to the little mound from which they had
started, they dismounted from the animals and again seated themselves on
the grassy mound.

"It's mighty queer, isn't it?" asked Button-Bright.

"There must be _some_ way for the people to get out and in," declared
Dorothy. "Do you s'pose they have flying machines, Wizard?"

"No," he replied, "for in that case they would be flying all over the
Land of Oz, and we know they have not done that. Flying machines are
unknown here. I think it more likely that the people use ladders to get
over the walls."

"It would be an awful climb, over that high stone wall," said Betsy.

"Stone, is it?" cried Scraps, who was again dancing wildly around, for
she never tired and could never