34 The Wonder City of Oz 1940 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

The Attack of the Chocolate Soldiers

CRASH! SPLASH! The ozoplane had landed in a field of soft brown mush. The mush was splat tered up through the windows, spotting Jenny’s dress.

“I smell chocolate,” she said. She looked down at her dress and picked off one of the spots. She smelled it and then tasted it. “It is chocolate! Where on Oz can we be?” “We must have crashed into a chocolate star,” said Jack Pumpkinhead. He straightened his head which had been jarred sidewise in the crash.

“It looks like fudge,” said Jenny. “And it smells and tastes like it, too.”

Jack answered, “Scraps and I have never tasted or smelled anything, and never intend to. We go entirely by looks. Let’s go out and look things over.”

The three climbed out of the ozoplane. As soon as Jenny’s feet touched the surface, she began to sink into the chocolate bog. She saw Jack sinking, too. Scraps remained on top, for she weighed only nine pounds.

Jenny looked around. They were in a valley of cream chocolate, surrounded by towering cliffs of hard chocolate with white sugar tops.

“We are trapped,” said Jenny. “What could be sweeter?”

Just then she heard, PLOP, PLOP! Something hard was raining out of the sky into the brown ooze.

“Why, Jack, it’s the shoes! Our plane fell faster than they!” exclaimed Jenny.

Scraps darted here and there over the chocolate! gathering up the members of Jack’s Glee Club.

“It’s plain to be seen’

You’re no longer clean,” said Scraps, as she tossed the shoes into the ozoplane. The shoes at once began polishing themselves.

Jenny had sunk deeper. “It’s lucky I have grown younger,” she thought, “or I’d be so heavy I’d go in over my head.”

“A dry moon or a dusty star would be better than this sickening stuff,” sniffed Jack, with a glitter in the hollow of his eye.

“I agree,” said Jenny. “Chocolate is all right in small amounts. But this is too much of a good thing!”

Far off, Jenny saw something moving down from the sugary tops of the mountains. Some creatures were coming with alarming speed. They leaped over piles of broken chocolate and came racing into the valley.

“Now we’re in hot chocolate!” said Jenny. “As I smell it, those are giant chocolate soldiers!”

She began to struggle to get out of the slush, but she was held fast.

“My fairy foot no longer has any power!” she said in dismay.

The chocolate army loomed around them, so close now that Jenny could see how the soldiers were made. They all looked alike, as if they had been taken from the same mold. Each had a bulge on the left of his nose, and a wiggly line running down his side. Their feet could not be seen, for they were sliding under the surface of the mush. “Why, they look de-feeted already!” Jenny said.

They all moved together. They all acted as one man. ‘When one head turned, all heads turned. When one spoke, all spoke together,

“Halt! Aim! Fire!” The soldiers stopped and raised their chocolate guns.

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