But when they asked the Goose who he was, Ruggedo the Nome would not
tell them.
"I'm just a Goose," he replied, "and what I was before, I cannot remember."
13. The Loss of the Black Bag
Kiki Aru, in the form of the Li-Mon-Eag, had scrambled into the
high, thick branches of the tree, so no one could see him, and there
he opened the Wizard's black bag, which he had carried away in his
flight. He was curious to see what the Wizard's magic tools looked
like, and hoped he could use some of them and so secure more power;
but after he had taken the articles, one by one, from the bag, he had
to admit they were puzzles to him. For, unless he understood their
uses, they were of no value whatever. Kiki Aru, the Hyup boy, was no
wizard or magician at all, and could do nothing unusual except to use
the Magic Word he had stolen from his father on Mount Munch. So he
hung the Wizard's black bag on a branch of the tree and then climbed
down to the lower limbs that he might see what the victims of his
transformations were doing.
They were all on top of the flat rock, talking together in tones so
low that Kiki could not hear what they said.
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