Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
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"I'd like to see that Book of Records," mused Cap'n Bill, who didn't
think the description of the Sunset Country at all dreadful. "I'd like to see it myself," returned Ghip-Ghisizzle with a sigh, "but no one can lay hands on it because the Boolooroo keeps it safely locked up in his Treasure Chamber." "Where's the key to the Treasure Chamber?" asked Button-Bright. "The Boolooroo keeps it in his pocket night and day," was the reply. "He is afraid to let anyone see the Book because it would prove he has already reigned three hundred years next Thursday, and then he would have to resign the throne to me and leave the Palace and live in a common house." "My Magic Umbrella is in that Treasure Chamber," said Button-Bright, "and I'm going to try to get it." "Are you?" inquired Ghip-Ghisizzle eagerly. "Well, if you manage to enter the Treasure Chamber, be sure to bring me the Book of Records. If you can do that, I will be the best and most grateful friend you ever had!" "I'll see," said the boy. "It ought not to be hard work to break into the Treasure chamber. Is it guarded?" "Yes. The outside guard is Jimfred Jinksjones, the double patch of the Fredjim whom you have met, and the inside guard is a ravenous creature known as the Blue Wolf, which has teeth a foot long and as sharp as needles." |
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