in the best baum tradition, puns come thick and fast throughout "the runaway in oz". in chapter 8, "the professor sets out," the reader is informed of the enlarged bug's feelings: "but though he was in an unsettled state of mind, he was not crushed." two pages later, he threatens to become "hopping mad." jenny tells the professor that the wizard is busy "ridding the country of dumb little kings and their little kingdumbs." these three pages can stand as representative of the whole.