Mandy and Nox learn that old King Kerr is one of Wutz' agents and that Wutz is holding the rightful King Kerry prisoner. They actually do steal the Magic Picture, Glinda's Great Book of Records, and the jug that is the confinement vessel of Ruggedo, the Gnome King (he was transformed into a jug at the end of Pirates in Oz). He is plotting to have his agents steal all the main magical artifacts of Oz. Wutz controls a subversive network of spies and secret agents located in many parts of the land of Oz. The domain is ruled by an evil and ambitious tyrant called the Wizard Wutz. A doorway hidden under a waterfall leads them to a subterranean world under the Silver Mountain.
They swim rivers and survive a flood on their way to the Gillikin Country. When a clue indicates that King Kerry can be found at a place called the Silver Mountain, the enterprising Mandy leads Nox on a search for the missing monarch. Mandy discovers that the Royal Ox's horns have magic powers: they can be unscrewed from his head, and when they are, the right horn grants wishes, and his left horn offers clues. (It is Nox who gives the girl her nickname, Handy Mandy.) Nox is preoccupied by the political situation of Keretaria: the rightful king, a boy named Kerry, has disappeared, and his throne has been usurped by his uncle Kerr. Mandy is reprieved from the dungeons by Nox the Royal Ox, who takes her as his personal slave. Mandy, for her part, is amazed to meet so many two-handed people on Mt. "This iron hand.I use for ironing, lifting hot pots from the stove and all horrid sort of hard work this leather hand I keep for beating rugs, dusting, sweeping, and so on this wooden hand I use for churning and digging in the garden these two red rubber hands for dishwashing and scrubbing, and my two fine white hands I keep for holding and braiding my hair." They are outraged by the intrusion of such an outlandish figure - for Mandy has seven arms and hands. Mandy finds a silver hammer, and meets a white ox with golden horns she blunders into the court of King Kerr of Keretaria and his courtiers. The force propels her across the Deadly Desert to Oz she lands in the little principality of Keretaria in the Munchkin Country, her impact cushioned by the power of a magic blue daisy. The story opens with a bang and a splash: an underground spring erupts in a geyser that blasts Mandy into the sky. Mern (a location otherwise unidentified). The book's heroine is an "honest and industrious" goat-girl named Mandy, who grazes her flock on the slopes of Mt.
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