Just then they heard the big voice of Jim the cab-horse calling to them, and going to the doorway leading to the dome they found the Princess and a throng of her people had entered the House of the Sorcerer.

So they went down to greet the beautiful vegetable lady, who said to them:

“I have been talking with my advisors about you meat people, and we have decided that you do not belong in the Land of the Mangaboos and must not remain here.”

“How can we go away?” asked Dorothy.

“Oh, you cannot go away, of course; so you must be destroyed,” was the answer.

“In what way?” enquired the Wizard.