had
herself wickedly enchanted the axe and sword. Nothing remained but for
me to make them new parts out of tin; but, as you see, tin answered the
purpose very well, and I am sure their tin bodies are a great
improvement on their meat bodies."

"Very true," said the Tin Soldier.

"I quite agree with you," said the Tin Woodman. "I happened to find my
old head in your cupboard, a while ago, and certainly it is not as
desirable a head as the tin one I now wear."

"By the way," said the Tin Soldier, "what ever became of _my_ old head,
Ku-Klip?"

"And of the different parts of our bodies?" added the Tin Woodman.

"Let me think a minute," replied Ku-Klip. "If I remember right, you two
boys used to bring me most of your parts, when they were cut off, and I
saved them in that barrel in the corner. You must not have brought me
all the parts, for when I made Chopfyt I had hard work finding enough
pieces to complete the job. I finally had to finish him with one arm."

"Who is Chopfyt?" inquired Woot.

"Oh, haven't I told you about Chopfyt?" exclaimed Ku-Klip. "Of course
not! And he's quite a curiosity, too. You'll be interested in hearing
about Chopfyt. This is how he happened:

"One day, after the Witch had been destroyed and Nimmie Amee had gone to
live with her friends on Mount Munch, I was looking around the shop for
something and came upon the bottle of Magic Glue which I had brought
from the old Witch's house. It occurred to me to piece together the odds
and ends of you two people, which of course were just as good as ever,
and see if I couldn't make a man out of them. If I succeeded, I would
have an assistant to help me with my work, and I thought it would be a
clever idea to put to some practical use the scraps of Nick Chopper and
Captain Fyter. There were two perfectly good heads in my cupboard, and a
lot of feet and legs and parts of bodies in the barrel, so I set to work
to see what I could do.

"First, I pieced together a body, gluing it with the Witch's Magic Glue,
which worked perfectly. That was the hardest part of my job, however,
because the bodies didn't match up well and some parts were missing.
But by using a piece of Captain Fyter here and a piece of Nick Chopper
there, I finally got together a very decent body, with heart and all the
trimmings complete."

"Whose heart did you use in making the body?" asked the Tin Woodman
anxiously.

[Illustration: MEAT GLUE]

"I can't tell, for the parts had