Baum, L Frank - Oz 16 by Baum L Frank

Author:Baum, L Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER 12

The Delicious Sea of Soup

Strange puffed Kabumpo, swinging along rapidly.

"I hear water," answered Pompa, peering out over Kabumpo's head,

"and there it is!" Rippling silver under the rays of the moon, which shone brightly, lay a great inland sea.

The trees had thinned out, and a smooth, sandy beach stretched down to the shore. A slight mist hunt in the air and all around was the delicious fragrance of vegetable soup.

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"Somebody's making soup," sighed the Prince, "but who, and where?"

"Never mind, Pompa," wheezed the Elegant Elephant, walking down to the water's edge, "perhaps you can catch some fish, and while you cook them I'll go back and eat some leaves."

With a jerk of his trunk, Kabumpo pulled a length of the heavy silver thread from his torn robe and handed it up to Pompa. Fastening a jeweled pin to one end, the Prince cast his line far out into the waves. At the first tug he drew it in. "What is it?" asked the Elegant Elephant, as Pompa pulled the dripping line over his trunk.

"Oh, how delicious! How wonderful!" ex-claimed the once fastidious Prince of Pumper-dink. Kabumpo could hear him munching away with relish.

"What is it?" he asked again.

"A carrot! A lovely, red, delightful, tender carrot!"

"Carrot! Who ever heard of a sea carrot?" grunted Kabumpo. "I'm afraid you're not yourself, my boy. Let me see it."

Snaps and crunches, as Pompa consumed his strange catch, were the only answer, and in real alarm the Elegant Elephant moved away from the shore, and in doing so bumped against a white sign, stuck in the sand.

"Please Don't Fall In," directed the sign politely. "It Spoils the Soup.

"Soup!" sputtered Kabumpo. Then another sign caught his eye: "Soup Sea-Salted To Taste-Help Yourself"

"Come down-come down here directly!" cried the Elegant Elephant, snatching the Prince from his back. "Here's the soup--a whole sea full. Now all you need is a bowl."

Swallowing convulsively the last bit of carrot, Pompa stood staring out over the tossing, smoking soup sea. Every now and then a bone or a vegetable would bob out of the waves, and the poor hungry Prince of Pumperdink thought he had never seen a more lovely sight in his life.

"We'll probably be awarded a china medal for this," chuckled the Elegant Elephant. "Won't old Pumper's eyes stick out when we tell him about it? But now for a bowl!"

Swinging his trunk gently, Kabumpo walked up the white beach, and had not gone more than a dozen steps before he came to a cluster of huge

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shells. He turned one over curiously. "Why, it's a soup bowl," whistled the Elegant Elephant. He rushed back with it to Pompadore, who still stood dreamily surveying the soup.

"I never thought I'd be so thrilled by a common soup bowl," thought Kabumpo, staring at the Prince in amusement. He stepped out on a rock and dipped up a bowl of the hot liquid.

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