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TIIE OREGON f) AILY JQURNAt! ' PORTLAND.' SATURDAY EVENING AUGUST 6; 1001
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I WELL, YOU KNOW, I told you about thit Wizard we rescued
from the wave. He was the era f tint and cruelest of all the Wicked Wi
rdt I ever met. He promised m all kind of good things if we would
take hiny bark to hit island. '
4. SO I GOT ON THIS queer-looking thing's bark, and away -we
galloped up the zigzag mountain road. I could tee the captain, who re
mained in the submarine, way down below, and I .knew he was watching me '
through hit telescope to tee that I was safe. :
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7 WELL, I WAS frightened most to death. ' Guess l sorter forgot ' .
let' where I was for awhile, and, of course. I thought I must be dead. But, .
you tec. the joke wat on me, for I wasn't dead at all. Nope! Jet' stunncJ.
The volcmo thundered in -my ears and the sulphur nearly choked me. I : '
thought I heard someone calling my name, and lure enough there wat the
C dear oU captain not far above me.
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AND WE WERE jusf foolish enough to do it. too. It was a
grand place, and the Wix had a acntmptioiH big palace, and he showed me
all through it. Then he pointed out the great volcano that crowned the
mountain island, and asked if I wanted to go wo and see the fireworks. '
(J&-LIGHTED!
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. y-OP COURSE I DID, for It via a glorious tight to tee the vol.
cano belching out rocju and lava and fire. So the Wii brought out one of
hit pet animals that had some long Gemun name, but be called it hit
"Talkative FrankenMeinheimer" foe short. '
5. PRETTY SOON WE got near the top, and the rumbCng and
roaring of the eruption tkcered me tomethin' awful, and I yetlcd at the
Frankenstcinheimer to take me back, but he only snorted at me and ran all
the faster straight for that awful volcano. ,
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. THEN I SAW IT wat the work of that Wicked WirarJ. and
knew the terrible beast was trained to the work of dumping people in the
awful fire-pit. 1 tried to jump off the monster's back, but was not quirk
enough. Up went hit heelt in the air, and he stopped short like a bucking.
oroncno, ana over nis neaa went poor me. : ., .
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8. HE WAS LOOKING ovc the edge of the crater, and quickly ;m
threw a rope down to where I was lying on a rock. WtH mebbe J diln'i
' " grab it quick nd hang on for dear life I In a jiffy 1 was hauled up over' ' ' .
the edge and ws in the captain't arm. 1 v ..
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r'WE HAD A pretty close cad nf it in escaping from that terrible
The captain wanted to blow up cattle, Wizard and all, but I
begged him not to. to we hurried down the opposite side of the mountain
;nd tneaked aboard the submarine. The Wit and his Frankeristemheimcr
rushed down to the landing, but we only laughed tt them as we sank out of
tight in the submarine "Bcjiie B." . ' '