The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: admiringly. "If you don't ask questions you will learn nothing.
True enough. I was wrong. You're a very clever little boy, come to
think of it--very clever indeed. But now, friends, please come with
me, for it is my duty to escort you at once to the royal palace."
The soldiers marched back through the arch again, and with them
marched the shaggy man, Dorothy, Toto, and Button-Bright. Once
through the opening they found a fine, big city spread out before
them, all the houses of carved marble in beautiful colors. The
decorations were mostly birds and other fowl, such as peacocks,
pheasants, turkeys, prairie-chickens, ducks, and geese. Over each
doorway was carved a head representing the fox who lived in that
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