The streets. One or another of four different 'provisional' city governments had done such an efficient job of stockpiling food that almost none was available at street level. Parker spent the last.

Padded into the living room. 'Becka was sitting in her rocking chair pretending to read a book. Just ten minutes before Joe came in she had finished wiring her little gadget into the Zenith console television following Jesus' instructions to the letter. "You got to be careful taking the back off a television 'Becka " Jesus had told her. "More.
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Entrance of the palace Ozma and Dorothy were met by two other young men in uniform and armed with queer weapons that seemed about halfway between pistols and guns but were like neither. Their conductors bowed and left them and the two in uniforms led the girls into the palace. In a beautiful throne room surrounded by a dozen or more young men and women sat the Queen of the Skeezers Coo-ee-oh. She was a girl who looked older than Ozma or Dorothy -- fifteen or sixteen at least -- and although she was elaborately dressed as if she were going to a ball she was too thin and plain of feature to be pretty. But evidently Queen Coo-ee-oh did not realize this fact for her air and manner betrayed her as proud and haughty and with a high regard for her own importance. Dorothy at once decided she was "snippy" and that she would not like Queen.
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