“It’s good, anyway,” said Zeb, “or those little rascals wouldn’t have gobbled it up so greedily.”

“Where are they?” asked Dorothy, in astonishment.

They all looked around, but the piglets had disappeared.

“Dear me!” cried the Wizard; “they must have run away. But I didn’t see them go; did you?”

“No!” replied the boy and the girl, together.

“Here⁠—piggy, piggy, piggy!” called their master, anxiously.

Several squeals and grunts were instantly heard at his feet, but the Wizard could not discover a single piglet.

“Where are you?” he asked.

“Why, right beside you,” spoke a tiny voice. “Can’t you see us?”