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.Hurry up, you elegant old thing, we needyou in this picture.""No we don't, we'll go on by ourselves." Snip looked angrilyat Kabumpo and, taking Tora's arm, began to walk off."Oh wait!" gasped Dorothy, more embarrassed by Kabumpo'srudeness than by the dummy's ridiculousness."Kabumpo doesn't mean that.He'sreally awfully jolly when you get to know him better."Page 64 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Don't bother, my dear," Tora smiled, a little sadly.Reachingup he took off both his ears and put them quietly into his pocket."I neverlisten to unpleasant conversations," explained the old man simply."Good-bye," said Snip, bowing rather stiffly to Dorothy."Ifyou reach the Emerald City before we do, be sure to tell Ozma about herfather.""Now please don't go," begged Dorothy."Wait! Wait!" In greatdistress she dashed over to the Elegant Elephant and poured out the wholestory of the lost King 'of Oz and of Mombi's wickedness.When Tora had so unexpectedly taken off his ears Kahumpo'slittle eyes had fairly rolled in his head and now, as he listened to Dorothy'sstrange recital, they began to snap and sparkle with interest.If there wasone thing Kabumpo enjoyed, it was being mixed up in a royal adventure.Findingthe lost King of Oz would be a very creditable thing, even for an elephant soelegant as himself.It might even gain him an important position at court,thought Kabumpo craftily.And what a choice bit of news to carry home toPumperdink-that Ozma was not the Queen at all, and that he, Kabumpo theMagnificent, had helped find the real monarch and had been present at thecoronation.Already his imagination leaped ahead to this important event.Concealing, in his pompous and provoking fashion, his realinterest and excitement, Kabumpo set Dorothy upon his back and started in adignified and stately manner toward Tora and Snip."I understand you are friends of the lost King of Oz," wheezedKabumpo grandly, as he came up beside them."Are you going on to the EmeraldCity? Care to ride?" he asked graciously.This was as near an apology asKabumpo ever got."Hear! Hear!" spluttered the dummy, who was walking stifflybehind the tailor.Of course Tora could not do this, as his ears were still inhis pocket, but Snip, looking inquiringly up at Dorothy saw her motionearnestly for him to yield.He decided to overlook the elephant's rudeness andgave Kabumpo a signal to lift him up."Did she say you were a mutton boy?" asked Kabumpo, as heplaced Snip beside the little girl."No, a button boy," corrected Dorothy hastily, "from theKingdom of Kimbaloo, you know."'"Ah yes," grunted Kabumpo condescendingly, "I remember hearingof Kimbalo-a buttony sort of place across the mountains from Pumperdink."Snip was about to retort with something short and sassy, whenKabumpo lifted up the tailor and as Tora seemed terribly alarmed by thesuddenness of his transit through the air, Snip helped him to settlecomfortably instead of talking.He just got Tora firmly seated in time tocatch Humpy, whom the Elegant Elephant tossed aloft as carelessly as he woulda bale of hay."All ready?" boomed Kabumpo importantly."Well, then here wego." And before anyone could answer he was off, moving swiftly and surely as abattleship through the waving billows of wheat.Page 65 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"What did you find for lunch?" called Humpy curiously.Snipand Tora hadn't breath to say anything, and Dorothy was too worried about Ozmato want to talk.But Kabumpo, instead of answering, threw up his trunk,sending forth such a volley of shrill bellows that Snip's hair rose on end andthe ears in Tora's pocket gave a terrified bounce.Humpy chuckled, as helistened to the shrill trumpeting of the Elegant Elephant.He had thought of ajoke!"Ah, he has eaten a trumpet vine," mused the dummy dreamily,as the noise died away.But it ceased for only a moment, for trumpeting wasKabumpo's way of clearing a path for himself and, determined to reach thecapitol before Mombi, the witch, he travelled as never before and, clinging toeach other and to Kabumpo's harness and robe, the four riders made the bestthey could of the worst journey they had ever taken.CHAPTER 16Humpy Hailed As KingKABUMPO would never have stopped until he reached the EmeraldCity itself, had it not been for the mountain.Rushing like an express trainfrom a small dim wood, the Elegant Elephant came unexpectedly upon a steepwall of rock.With a snort of surprise he stopped so sharply that everyone inthe party went sailing over his head.Humpy,' who was lightest, sailedfarthest and, landing first, made a splendid cushion for Snip and Dorothy tofall on.Tora, fortunately, plumped into a patch of gooseberry bushes, so thatno one was really hurt."Didn't I do that well?" asked the dummy, as Dorothy and Snipjumped up."Falling's my specialty and falling for you, Princess," he rose andmade Dorothy an exceedingly shaky bow, "falling for you, is a real pleasure.""Well I'm kinda glad you did fall first," gasped the littlegirl, running to help Snip pull Tora out of the bushes."Did I understand Dorothy to say your name was Kabumpo?"inquired the dummy, addressing himself blandly to the Elegant Elephant.Kabumpo nodded without taking his eyes from the mass of jagged stone ahead."Well, that accounts for the bumpo.I understand perfectlynow," continued Humpy conversationally, as he picked up his crown and set itsolemnly on his head."But next time, next time, old rascal!" He wagged hisfinger playfully at the Elegant Elephant."Old rascal! Old rascal!" sputtered Kabumpo, swinging round ina fury."How dare you talk to me like that, you good for nothing son of asofa, you hair brained piece of a night shirt!""Well, I may be stuffed with hair, but you're stuffed with hayand I don't see much difference except," Humpy backed rapidly out of Kabumpo'sreach, "except that the person who stuffed you didn't finish the job.You'refull of wrinkles," he announced judicially.Kabumpo made a swing at the dummy with his trunk and then,Page 66 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlthinking better of it, turned angrily away and, mumbling and wheezing underhis breath, began to move majestically toward the rocky barrier.Seeing thatno more fun was to be had out of him, Humpy hurried over to the tailor, whowas walking unsteadily between Dorothy and Snip.He had put on his ears andwas listening attentively to the little girl's remarks about the ElegantElephant.Dorothy was telling how faithfully Kabumpo had served his master,the Prince of Pumperdink."It may be so, it may be so," muttered Tora, gazing after thegreat beast doubtfully, "but he seems to me a trifle abrupter, almostdangerous!""But he's very fast," said Dorothy coaxingly, "and if he hadnot stopped when he did we'd have been thrown upon the rocks.""That's so," put in Snip, who had rather enjoyed his wild rideupon the elephant's back."Well, well, I daresay I am old fashioned," sighed the tailor,settling his specs resignedly, "and if you and Dorothy can stand this mad modeof travel, I'll try not to mind it either.""Fall on me next time," invited the dummy generously.Humpy'sexpression as he made this suggestion was so comical that Tora laughed inspite of himself."But how are we going to cross the mountain?" put in Snipdismally."It's too steep for Kabumpo to climb and I don't see any way 'rounddo you?"Dorothy shook her head."I don't even remember a mountainbeing here," observed the little girl with a troubled frown
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