The Marvelous Land of Oz | Page 8

left the house and latched the door behind him. Outside both moon
and stars shone brightly, and the night seemed peaceful and inviting after the close and
ill-smelling kitchen.
"I'll be glad to get away," said Tip, softly; "for I never did like that old woman. I wonder

how I ever came to live with her."
He was walking slowly toward the road when a thought made him pause.
"I don't like to leave Jack Pumpkinhead to the tender mercies of old Mombi," he muttered.
"And Jack belongs to me, for I made him even if the old witch did bring him to life."
He retraced his steps to the cow-stable and opened the door of the stall where the
pumpkin-

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"TIP LED HIM ALONG THE PATH."

32 headed man had been left.
Jack was standing in the middle of the stall, and by the moonlight Tip could see he was
smiling just as jovially as ever.
"Come on!" said the boy, beckoning."
"Where to?" asked Jack.
"You'll know as soon as I do," answered Tip, smiling sympathetically into the pumpkin
face.
"All we've got to do now is to tramp."
"Very well," returned Jack, and walked awkwardly out of the stable and into the
moonlight.
Tip turned toward the road and the man followed him. Jack walked with a sort of limp,
and occasionally one of the joints of his legs would turn backward, instead of frontwise,
almost causing him to tumble. But the Pumpkinhead was quick to notice this, and began
to take more pains to step carefully; so that he met with few accidents.
Tip led him along the path without stopping an instant. They could not go very fast, but
they walked steadily; and by the time the moon sank away and the sun peeped over the
hills they had travelled so great a distance that the boy had no reason to fear pursuit from
the old witch. Moreover, he had turned first into one path, and then into another, so that
should anyone follow them it

33 would prove very difficult to guess which way they had gone, or where to seek them.

Fairly satisfied that he had escaped -- for a time, at least -- being turned into a marble
statue, the boy stopped his companion and seated himself upon a rock by the roadside.
"Let's have some breakfast," he said.
Jack Pumpkinhead watched Tip curiously, but refused to join in the repast. "I don't seem
to be made the same way you are," he said.
"I know you are not," returned Tip; "for I made you."
"Oh! Did you?" asked Jack.
"Certainly. And put you together. And carved your eyes and nose and ears and
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34 mouth," said Tip proudly. "And dressed you."
Jack looked at his body and limbs critically.
"It strikes me you made a very good job of it," he remarked.
"Just so-so," replied Tip, modestly; for he began to see certain defects in the construction
of his man. "If I'd known we were going to travel together I might have been a little more
particular."
"Why, then," said the Pumpkinhead, in a tone that expressed surprise, "you must be my
creator my parent my father!"
"Or your inventor," replied the boy with a laugh. "Yes, my son; I really believe I am!"
"Then I owe you obedience," continued the man, "and you owe me -- support."
"That's it, exactly", declared Tip, jumping up. "So let us be off."
"Where are we going?" asked Jack, when they had resumed their journey.
"I'm not exactly sure," said the boy; "but I believe we are headed South, and that will
bring us, sooner or later, to the Emerald City."
"What city is that?" enquired the Pumpkinhead.
"Why, it's the center of the Land of Oz, and the biggest town in all the country. I've never
been there, myself, but I've heard all about its

35 history. It was built by a mighty and wonderful Wizard named Oz, and everything

there is of a green color -- just as everything in this Country of the Gillikins is of a purple
color."
"Is everything here purple?" asked Jack.
"Of course it is. Can't you see?" returned the boy.
"I believe I must be color-blind," said the Pumpkinhead, after staring about him.
"Well, the grass is purple, and the trees are purple, and the houses and fences are purple,"
explained Tip. "Even the mud in the roads is purple. But in the Emerald City everything
is green that is purple here. And in the Country of the Munchkins, over at the East,
everything is blue; and in the South country of the Quadlings everything is red; and in the