Jack Pumpkinhead watched Tip curiously, but refused to join in the repast. "I don't 
seem to be made the same way you are," he said.
    "I know you are not," returned Tip; "for I made you."
    "Oh! Did you?" asked Jack.
    "Certainly. And put you together. And carved your eyes and nose and ears and mouth," 
said Tip proudly. "And dressed you." Jack looked at his body and limbs critically.
    "It strikes me you made a very good job of it," he remarked.
    "Just so-so," replied Tip, modestly; for he began to see certain defects in the 
construction of his man. "If I'd known we were going to travel together I might have been 
a little more particular."
    "Why, then," said the Pumpkinhead, in a tone that expressed surprise, "you must be my 
creator my parent my father!"
    "Or your inventor," replied the boy with a laugh. "Yes, my son; I really believe I 
am!"
    "Then I owe you obedience," continued the man, "and you owe me - support."
    "That's it, exactly", declared Tip, jumping up. "So let us be off."
    "Where are we going?" asked Jack, when they had resumed their journey.
    "I'm not exactly sure," said the boy; "but I believe we are headed South, and that 
will bring us, sooner or later, to the Emerald City."
    "What city is that?" enquired the Pumpkinhead.
    "Why, it's the center of the Land of Oz, and the biggest town in all the country. 
I've never been there, myself, but I've heard all about its history. It was built by a 
mighty and wonderful Wizard named Oz, and everything there is of a green color -just as 
everything in this Country of the Gillikins is of a purple color."
    "Is everything here purple?" asked Jack.
    "Of course it is. Can't you see?" returned the boy.
    "I believe I must be color-blind," said the Pumpkinhead, after staring about him.
    "Well, the grass is purple, and the trees are purple, and the houses and fences are 
purple," explained Tip.
    "Even the mud in the roads is purple. But in the Emerald City everything is green 
that is purple here. And in the Country of the Munchkins, over at the East, everything is 
blue; and in the South country of the Quadlings everything is red; and in the West 
country of the Winkies, where the Tin Woodman rules, everything is yellow."
    "Oh!" said Jack. Then, after a pause, he asked: "Did you say a Tin Woodman rules the 
Winkies?"
    "Yes; he was one of those who helped Dorothy to destroy the Wicked Witch of the West, 
and the Winkies were so grateful that they invited him to become their ruler, - just as 
the people of the Emerald City invited the Scarecrow to rule them."
    "Dear me!" said Jack. "I'm getting confused with all this history. Who is the 
Scarecrow?"
    "Another friend of Dorothy's," replied Tip.
    "And who is Dorothy?"
    "She was a girl that came here from Kansas, a place in the big, outside World. She 
got blown to the Land of Oz by a cyclone, and while she was here the Scarecrow and the 
Tin Woodman accompanied her on her travels."
    "And where is she now?" inquired the Pumpkinhead.
    "Glinda the Good, who rules the Quadlings, sent her home again," said the boy.
    "Oh. And what became of the Scarecrow?"
    "I told you. He rules the Emerald City," answered Tip.
    "I thought you said it was ruled by a wonderful Wizard," objected Jack, seeming more 
and more confused.
    "Well, so I did. Now, pay attention, and I'll explain it," said Tip, speaking slowly 
and looking the smiling Pumpkinhead squarely in the eye. "Dorothy went to the Emerald 
City to ask the Wizard to send her back to Kansas; and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman 
went with her. But the Wizard couldn't send her back, because he wasn't so much of a 
Wizard as he might have been. And then they got angry at the Wizard, and threatened to 
expose him; so the Wizard made a big balloon and escaped in it, and no one has ever seen 
him since."
    "Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand 
it perfectly all but the explanation."
    "I'm glad you do," responded Tip. "After the Wizard was gone, the people of the 
Emerald City made His Majesty, the Scarecrow, their King; "and I have heard that he 
became a very popular ruler."
    "Are we going to see this queer King?" asked Jack, with interest.
    "I think we may as well," replied the boy; "unless you have something better to do."
    "Oh, no, dear father," said the Pumpkinhead. "I am quite willing to go wherever you 
please."
    
    .
    Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic
    
    The boy, small and rather delicate in appearance seemed somewhat embarrassed at being 
called "father" by the tall, awkward, pumpkinheaded man, but to deny the relationship 
would involve another long and tedious explanation; so he changed the subject by asking, 
abruptly: "Are you tired?"
    "Of course not!" replied the other. "But," he continued, after a pause, "it is quite 
certain I shall wear out my wooden joints if I keep on walking." Tip reflected, as they 
journeyed on, that this was true. He began to regret that he had not constructed the 
wooden limbs more carefully and substantially. Yet how could he ever have guessed that 
the man he had made merely to scare old Mombi with would be brought to life by means of a 
magical powder contained in an old pepper-box?
    So he ceased to reproach himself, and began to think how he might yet remedy the 
deficiencies of Jack's weak joints.
    While thus engaged they came to the edge of a wood, and the boy sat down to rest upon 
an old sawhorse that some woodcutter had left there.
    "Why don't you sit down?" he asked the Pumpkinhead.
    "Won't it strain my joints?" inquired the other.
    "Of course not. It'll rest them," declared the boy.
    So Jack tried to sit down; but as soon as he bent his joints farther than usual they 
gave way altogether, and he came clattering to the ground with such a crash that Tip 
feared he was entirely ruined.
    He rushed to the man, lifted him to his feet, straightened his arms and legs, and 
felt of his head to see if by chance it had become cracked. But Jack seemed to be in 
pretty good shape, after all, and Tip said to him: "I guess you'd better remain standing, 
hereafter. It seems the safest way."
    "Very well, dear father." just as you say, replied the smiling Jack, who had been in 
no wise confused by his tumble.
    Tip sat down again. Presently the Pumpkinhead asked: "What is that thing you are 
sitting on?"
    "Oh, this is a horse," replied the boy, carelessly.