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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Do you know how to work that Magic Umbrella?" he asked the Majordomo. "No, your Majesty, I do not," was the reply. "Well, find out. Make the Whiteskins tell you so that I can use it for my own amusement." "I'll do my best, your Majesty," said Ghip-Ghisizzle. "You'll do more than that, or I'll have you patched!" roared the angry Boolooroo.
Ghip-Ghisizzle was to have been my mate, but Ghip escaped, being carried away by the Six Snubnosed Princesses." "Why?" she asked. "One of them means to marry him," explained Tiggle. "Oh, that's worse than being patched!" cried Trot. "Much worse," said Tiggle with a groan. But now an idea occurred to the girl. "Would you like to escape?" she asked the captive.
"They haven't lived six hundred years yet, and only those who have lived that length of time are allowed to march through the Arch of Phinis into the Great Blue Grotto." The King looked at him with a sneer. "Has anyone ever come out of that Arch alive?" he asked. "No," said Ghip-ghisizzle, "but no one has ever gone into the Blue Grotto until his allotted time was up."
"I'd like to see it myself," returned Ghip-Ghisizzle with a sigh, "but no one can lay hands on it because the Boolooroo keeps it safely locked up in his Treasure Chamber." "Where's the key to the Treasure Chamber?" asked Button-Bright. "The Boolooroo keeps it in his pocket night and day," was the reply.
They soon gave up the chase and returned to the City, while the runaway Majordomo was captured by Captain Coralie and marched away to the tent of Rosalie the Witch, a prisoner of the Pinkies. Trot watched from the window the escape of Ghip-Ghisizzle but did not know, of course, who it was.
'Sides all that, I'm the Queen o' Sky Island which means Queen o' the Pinkies an' Queen o' the Blues, both of 'em. So things are run as I say, an' I've made Ghip-Ghisizzle Boolooroo in your place. He'll look after this end of the Island hereafter, an' unless I'm much mistaken, he'll do it a heap better than you did." The former Boolooroo groaned. "What's going to become of me, then?" he asked.
"The slicing and patching proves it, and so do lots of other things." "Now then," said Ghip-Ghisizzle, "let us talk over your duties. It seems you must mix the royal nectar, Cap'n Bill. Do you know how to do that?" "I'm free to say as I don't, friend Sizzle." "The Boolooroo is very particular about his nectar. I think he has given you this job so he can find fault with you and have you punished.
Since last Thursday, I, Ghip-Ghisizzle, have been the lawful Boolooroo of the Blue Country, but now that you are conquered by Queen Trot, I suppose I am conquered, too, and you have no Boolooroo at all." "Hooray!" cried the parrot. "Here's a pretty howdy-do You haven't any Boolooroo!" Trot had listened carefully to the Majordomo's speech.
The Boolooroo was quite busy at the time the Pinkies invaded his country. For Button-Bright had escaped into the Fog Bank, and Ghip-Ghisizzle was afraid the boy would never again be seen in the Blue Country. He did not tell the Boolooroo of this suspicion, because in that case the king would realize he was secure and that his deception could never be proved against him.
When the Blueskins saw Ghip-Ghisizzle, they raised another great shout, for he was the favorite of the soldiers and very popular with all the people. But Ghip-Ghisizzle did not heed the shouting. He was looking downcast and sad, and it was easy to see he was disappointed because he had not conquered the Boolooroo himself.
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