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This might not be his world—Takuro automobiles, the Kansas City Monarchs, and a food franchise called Boing Boing Burgers all suggested it wasn’t—but Eddie thought it was too close for comfort. Mind ye show this to no one who can, or some night ye’ll find Ermot waiting under yer pillow. It walked slowly toward the hearth, where a late fire lazed, desultorily eating at a single log. ”“DO NOT AROUSE THE WRATH OF THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ!” the voice cried, and the pipes flashed furiously with each word.

The flap had been sealed with a blob of red wax. He bowed deeply to them (Cuthbert said later he was afraid the man might overbalance and go rolling down the steps; perhaps go rolling a “The lookout didn’t care for him, though. It lit his whole face.