"
"It will be ready in three days," promised the King, and hurried away
to inspect the work and see that the Nomes kept busy.
14. How the Wizard Practiced Sorcery
"Where next?" asked the Wizard when they had left the town of
Fuddlecumjig and the Sawhorse had started back along the road.
"Why, Ozma laid out this trip," replied Dorothy, "and she 'vised us to
see the Rigmaroles next, and then visit the Tin Woodman."
"That sounds good," said the Wizard. "But what road do we take to get
to the Rigmaroles?"
"I don't know, 'zactly," returned the little girl; "but it must be
somewhere just southwest from here."
"Then why need we go way back to the crossroads?" asked the Shaggy
Man. "We might save a lot of time by branching off here."
"There isn't any path," asserted Uncle Henry.
"Then we'd better go back to the signposts, and make sure of our way,"
decided Dorothy.
But after they had gone a short distance farther the Sawhorse, who
had overheard their conversation, stopped and said:
"Here is a path."
Sure enough, a dim path seemed to branch off from the road they were
on, and it led across pretty green meadows and past leafy groves,
straight toward the southwest.
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