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-Title: The Magic of Oz
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-Author: L. Frank Baum
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-                          The Famous Oz Books
-
-
-Since 1900, when L. Frank Baum introduced to the children of America THE
-WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and all the other exciting characters who inhabit
-the land of Oz, these delightful fairy tales have stimulated the
-imagination of millions of young readers.
-
-These are stories which are genuine fantasy—creative, funny, tender,
-exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most absurd
-creatures, each of the 40 volumes which now comprise the series, has
-been eagerly sought out by generation after generation until today they
-are known to all except the very young or those who were never young at
-all.
-
-When, in a recent survey, The New York Times polled a group of teen
-agers on the books they liked best when they were young, the Oz books
-topped the list.
-
-
-                         _THE FAMOUS OZ BOOKS_
-
-                            By L. Frank Baum:
-  THE WIZARD OF OZ
-  THE LAND OF OZ
-  OZMA OF OZ
-  DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ
-  THE ROAD TO OZ
-  THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
-  THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ
-  TIK-TOK OF OZ
-  THE SCARECROW OF OZ
-  RINKITINK IN OZ
-  THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ
-  THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ
-  THE MAGIC OF OZ
-  GLINDA OF OZ
-
-                         By Ruth Plumly Thompson:
-  THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ
-  KABUMPO IN OZ
-  THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ
-  GRAMPA IN OZ
-  THE LOST KING OF OZ
-  THE HUNGRY TIGER OF OZ
-  THE GNOME KING OF OZ
-  THE GIANT HORSE OF OZ
-  JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ
-  THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ
-  PIRATES IN OZ
-  THE PURPLE PRINCE OF OZ
-  OJO IN OZ
-  SPEEDY IN OZ
-  THE WISHING HORSE OF OZ
-  CAPTAIN SALT IN OZ
-  HANDY MANDY IN OZ
-  THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ
-  OZOPLANING WITH THE WIZARD OF OZ
-
-                            By John R. Neill:
-  THE WONDER CITY OF OZ
-  SCALAWAGONS OF OZ
-  LUCKY BUCKY IN OZ
-
-                              By Jack Snow:
-  THE MAGICAL MIMICS IN OZ
-  THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ
-
-                          By Rachel R. Cosgrove:
-  THE HIDDEN VALLEY OF OZ
-
-             By Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren McGraw Wagner:
-  MERRY GO ROUND IN OZ
-
-
-            Chicago    THE REILLY & LEE CO.    _Publishers_
-
-                  [Illustration: This Book Belongs To]
-
-                   [Illustration: _The Magic of Oz_]
-
-                [Illustration: Dorothy _and the_ Wizard]
-
-
-
-
-                            THE MAGIC OF OZ
-
-
-       A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy
-            and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the
-               Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap’n
-             Bill, in their successful search for a Magical
-                   and Beautiful Birthday Present for
-                          Princess Ozma of Oz
-
-
-                                   BY
-                             L. FRANK BAUM
-                        “Royal Historian of Oz”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             ILLUSTRATED BY
-                             JOHN R. NEILL
-
-
-                          The Reilly & Lee Co.
-                                Chicago
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                           Copyright 1919 By
-                              L Frank Baum
-                          All Rights Reserved
-                             MADE IN U.S.A.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-I Dedicate this Book to the Children of our Soldiers, the Americans and
-their Allies, with unmeasured Pride and Affection.
-                                                                L. F. B.
-
-         [Illustration: THE HUNGRY TIGER AND THE COWARDLY LION]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-                             TO MY READERS
-
-Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few
-years in our “great outside world,” we may find incidents so marvelous
-and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of The Land
-of Oz.
-
-However, “The Magic of Oz” is really more strange and unusual than
-anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy
-Desert which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past
-exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.
-
-A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good
-letters sent me—unless stamps were enclosed—but from now on I hope to be
-able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my
-readers favor me.
-
-Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the Oz
-Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write
-them, I am
-                         Yours affectionately,
-                                                          L. FRANK BAUM,
-                                                “Royal Historian of Oz.”
-
-      “OZCOT”
-  at HOLLYWOOD
-  in CALIFORNIA
-        1919
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                            LIST OF CHAPTERS
-
-
-  1 Mount Munch                                                       17
-  2 The Hawk                                                          27
-  3 Two Bad Ones                                                      34
-  4 Conspirators                                                      48
-  5 A Happy Corner of Oz                                              53
-  6 Ozma’s Birthday Presents                                          65
-  7 The Forest of Gugu                                                81
-  8 The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble                                      87
-  9 The Isle of the Magic Flower                                      99
-  10 Stuck Fast                                                      112
-  11 The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu                                121
-  12 Kiki Uses His Magic                                             131
-  13 The Loss of the Black Bag                                       144
-  14 The Wizard Learns the Magic Word                                157
-  15 The Lonesome Duck                                               169
-  16 The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag                               183
-  17 A Remarkable Journey                                            197
-  18 The Magic of the Wizard                                         209
-  19 Dorothy and the Bumble Bees                                     217
-  20 The Monkeys Have Trouble                                        226
-  21 The College of Athletic Arts                                    235
-  22 Ozma’s Birthday Party                                           240
-  23 The Fountain of Oblivion                                        255
-
-                              [Illustration]
-
-                     [Illustration: The Magic of Oz]
-
-                        [Illustration: Mt. Munch]
-
-
-
-
-                              Mount Munch
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 1
-
-On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big,
-tall hill called Mount Munch. On one side, the bottom of this hill just
-touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from
-all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the
-beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins.
-
-The Munchkin folks, however, merely stand off and look at Mount Munch
-and know very little about it; for, about a third of the way up, its
-sides become too steep to climb, and if any people live upon the top of
-that great towering peak that seems to reach nearly to the skies, the
-Munchkins are not aware of the fact.
-
-But people _do_ live there, just the same. The top of Mount Munch is
-shaped like a saucer, broad and deep, and in the saucer are fields where
-grains and vegetables grow, and flocks are fed, and brooks flow and
-trees bear all sorts of things. There are houses scattered here and
-there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves.
-The Hyups seldom go down the mountain, for the same reason that the
-Munchkins never climb up: the sides are too steep.
-
-In one of the houses lived a wise old Hyup named Bini Aru, who used to
-be a clever Sorcerer. But Ozma of Oz, who rules everyone in the Land of
-Oz, had made a decree that no one should practice magic in her dominions
-except Glinda the Good and the Wizard of Oz, and when Glinda sent this
-royal command to the Hyups by means of a strong-winged Eagle, old Bini
-Aru at once stopped performing magical arts. He destroyed many of his
-magic powders and tools of magic, and afterward honestly obeyed the law.
-He had never seen Ozma, but he knew she was his Ruler and must be
-obeyed.
-
-There was only one thing that grieved him. He had discovered a new and
-secret method of transformations that was unknown to any other Sorcerer.
-Glinda the Good did not know it, nor did the little Wizard of Oz, nor
-Dr. Pipt nor old Mombi, nor anyone else who dealt in magic arts. It was
-Bini Aru’s own secret. By its means, it was the simplest thing in the
-world to transform anyone into beast, bird or fish, or anything else,
-and back again, once you knew how to pronounce the mystical word:
-“Pyrzqxgl.”
-
-Bini Aru had used this secret many times, but not to cause evil or
-suffering to others. When he had wandered far from home and was hungry,
-he would say: “I want to become a cow—Pyrzqxgl!” In an instant he would
-be a cow, and then he would eat grass and satisfy his hunger. All beasts
-and birds can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no longer
-hungry, it would say: “I want to be Bini Aru again: Pyrzqxgl!” and the
-magic word, properly pronounced, would instantly restore him to his
-proper form.
-
-Now, of course, I would not dare to write down this magic word so
-plainly if I thought my readers would pronounce it properly and so be
-able to transform themselves and others, but it is a fact that no one in
-all the world except Bini Aru, had ever (up to the time this story
-begins) been able to pronounce “Pyrzqxgl” the right way, so I think it
-is safe to give it to you. It might be well, however, in reading this
-story aloud, to be careful not to pronounce Pyrzqxgl the proper way, and
-thus avoid all danger of the secret being able to work mischief.
-
-Bini Aru, having discovered the secret of instant transformation, which
-required no tools or powders or other chemicals or herbs and always
-worked perfectly, was reluctant to have such a wonderful discovery
-entirely unknown or lost to all human knowledge. He decided not to use
-it again, since Ozma had forbidden him to do so, but he reflected that
-Ozma was a girl and some time might change her mind and allow her
-subjects to practice magic, in which case Bini Aru could again transform
-himself and others at will,—unless, of course, he forgot how to
-pronounce Pyrzqxgl in the meantime.
-
-After giving the matter careful thought, he decided to write the word,
-and how it should be pronounced, in some secret place, so that he could
-find it after many years, but where no one else could ever find it.
-
-That was a clever idea, but what bothered the old Sorcerer was to find a
-secret place. He wandered all over the Saucer at the top of Mount Munch,
-but found no place in which to write the secret word where others might
-not be likely to stumble upon it. So finally he decided it must be
-written somewhere in his own house.
-
-Bini Aru had a wife named Mopsi Aru who was famous for making fine
-huckleberry pies, and he had a son named Kiki Aru who was not famous at
-all. He was noted as being cross and disagreeable because he was not
-happy, and he was not happy because he wanted to go down the mountain
-and visit the big world below and his father would not let him. No one
-paid any attention to Kiki Aru, because he didn’t amount to anything,
-anyway.
-
-Once a year there was a festival on Mount Munch which all the Hyups
-attended. It was held in the center of the saucer-shaped country, and
-the day was given over to feasting and merry-making. The young folks
-danced and sang songs; the women spread the tables with good things to
-eat, and the men played on musical instruments and told fairy tales.
-
-Kiki Aru usually went to these festivals with his parents, and then sat
-sullenly outside the circle and would not dance or sing or even talk to
-the other young people. So the festival did not make him any happier
-than other days, and this time he told Bini Aru and Mopsi Aru that he
-would not go. He would rather stay at home and be unhappy all by
-himself, he said, and so they gladly let him stay.
-
-But after he was left alone Kiki decided to enter his father’s private
-room, where he was forbidden to go, and see if he could find any of the
-magic tools Bini Aru used to work with when he practiced sorcery. As he
-went in Kiki stubbed his toe on one of the floor boards. He searched
-everywhere but found no trace of his father’s magic. All had been
-destroyed.
-
-Much disappointed, he started to go out again when he stubbed his toe on
-the same floor board. That set him thinking. Examining the board more
-closely, Kiki found it had been pried up and then nailed down again in
-such a manner that it was a little higher than the other boards. But why
-had his father taken up the board? Had he hidden some of his magic tools
-underneath the floor?
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Kiki got a chisel and pried up the board, but found nothing under it. He
-was just about to replace the board when it slipped from his hand and
-turned over, and he saw something written on the underside of it. The
-light was rather dim, so he took the board to the window and examined
-it, and found that the writing described exactly how to pronounce the
-magic word Pyrzqxgl, which would transform anyone into anything
-instantly, and back again when the word was repeated.
-
-Now, at first, Kiki Aru didn’t realize what a wonderful secret he had
-discovered; but he thought it might be of use to him and so he took a
-piece of paper and made on it an exact copy of the instructions for
-pronouncing Pyrzqxgl. Then he folded the paper and put it in his pocket,
-and replaced the board in the floor so that no one would suspect it had
-been removed.
-
-After this Kiki went into the garden and sitting beneath a tree made a
-careful study of the paper. He had always wanted to get away from Mount
-Munch and visit the big world—especially the Land of Oz—and the idea now
-came to him that if he could transform himself into a bird, he could fly
-to any place he wished to go and fly back again whenever he cared to. It
-was necessary, however, to learn by heart the way to pronounce the magic
-word, because a bird would have no way to carry a paper with it, and
-Kiki would be unable to resume his proper shape if he forgot the word or
-its pronunciation.
-
-So he studied it a long time, repeating it a hundred times in his mind
-until he was sure he would not forget it. But to make safety doubly sure
-he placed the paper in a tin box in a neglected part of the garden and
-covered the box with small stones.
-
-By this time it was getting late in the day and Kiki wished to attempt
-his first transformation before his parents returned from the festival.
-So he stood on the front porch of his home and said:
-
-“I want to become a big, strong bird, like a hawk—Pyrzqxgl!” He
-pronounced it the right way, so in a flash he felt that he was
-completely changed in form. He flapped his wings, hopped to the porch
-railing and said: “Caw-oo! Caw-oo!”
-
-Then he laughed and said half aloud: “I suppose that’s the funny sound
-this sort of a bird makes. But now let me try my wings and see if I’m
-strong enough to fly across the desert.”
-
-For he had decided to make his first trip to the country outside the
-Land of Oz. He had stolen this secret of transformation and he knew he
-had disobeyed the law of Oz by working magic. Perhaps Glinda or the
-Wizard of Oz would discover him and punish him, so it would be good
-policy to keep away from Oz altogether.
-
-Slowly Kiki rose into the air, and resting on his broad wings, floated
-in graceful circles above the saucer-shaped mountain-top. From his
-height, he could see, far across the burning sands of the Deadly Desert,
-another country that might be pleasant to explore, so he headed that
-way, and with strong, steady strokes of his wings, began the long
-flight.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                                THE HAWK
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 2
-
-Even a hawk has to fly high in order to cross the Deadly Desert, from
-which poisonous fumes are constantly rising. Kiki Aru felt sick and
-faint by the time he reached good land again, for he could not quite
-escape the effects of the poisons. But the fresh air soon restored him
-and he alighted in a broad table-land which is called Hiland. Just
-beyond it is a valley known as Loland, and these two countries are ruled
-by the Gingerbread Man, John Dough, with Chick the Cherub as his Prime
-Minister. The Hawk merely stopped here long enough to rest, and then he
-flew north and passed over a fine country called Merryland, which is
-ruled by a lovely Wax Doll. Then, following the curve of the Desert, he
-turned north and settled on a tree-top in the Kingdom of Noland.
-
-Kiki was tired by this time, and the sun was now setting, so he decided
-to remain here till morning. From his tree-top he could see a house near
-by, which looked very comfortable. A man was milking a cow in the yard
-and a pleasant-faced woman came to the door and called him to supper.
-
-That made Kiki wonder what sort of food hawks ate. He felt hungry, but
-didn’t know what to eat or where to get it. Also he thought a bed would
-be more comfortable than a tree-top for sleeping, so he hopped to the
-ground and said: “I want to become Kiki Aru again—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-Instantly he had resumed his natural shape, and going to the house, he
-knocked upon the door and asked for some supper.
-
-“Who are you?” asked the man of the house.
-
-“A stranger from the Land of Oz,” replied Kiki Aru.
-
-“Then you are welcome,” said the man.
-
-Kiki was given a good supper and a good bed, and he behaved very well,
-although he refused to answer all the questions the good people of
-Noland asked him. Having escaped from his home and found a way to see
-the world, the young man was no longer unhappy, and so he was no longer
-cross and disagreeable. The people thought him a very respectable person
-and gave him breakfast next morning, after which he started on his way
-feeling quite contented.
-
-Having walked for an hour or two through the pretty country that is
-ruled by King Bud, Kiki Aru decided he could travel faster and see more
-as a bird, so he transformed himself into a white dove and visited the
-great city of Nole and saw the King’s palace and gardens and many other
-places of interest. Then he flew westward into the Kingdom of Ix, and
-after a day in Queen Zixi’s country went on westward into the Land of
-Ev. Every place he visited he thought was much more pleasant than the
-saucer-country of the Hyups, and he decided that when he reached the
-finest country of all he would settle there and enjoy his future life to
-the utmost.
-
-In the Land of Ev he resumed his own shape again, for the cities and
-villages were close together and he could easily go on foot from one to
-another of them.
-
-Toward evening he came to a good Inn and asked the inn-keeper if he
-could have food and lodging.
-
-“You can if you have the money to pay,” said the man, “otherwise you
-must go elsewhere.”
-
-This surprised Kiki, for in the Land of Oz they do not use money at all,
-everyone being allowed to take what he wishes without price. He had no
-money, therefore, and so he turned away to seek hospitality elsewhere.
-Looking through an open window into one of the rooms of the Inn, as he
-passed along, he saw an old man counting on a table a big heap of gold
-pieces, which Kiki thought to be money. One of these would buy him
-supper and a bed, he reflected, so he transformed himself into a magpie
-and, flying through the open window, caught up one of the gold pieces in
-his beak and flew out again before the old man could interfere. Indeed,
-the old man who was robbed was quite helpless, for he dared not leave
-his pile of gold to chase the magpie, and before he could place the gold
-in a sack and the sack in his pocket the robber bird was out of sight
-and to seek it would be folly.
-
-Kiki Aru flew to a group of trees and, dropping the gold piece to the
-ground, resumed his proper shape, and then picked up the money and put
-it in his pocket.
-
-“You’ll be sorry for this!” exclaimed a small voice just over his head.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Kiki looked up and saw that a sparrow, perched upon a branch, was
-watching him.
-
-“Sorry for what?” he demanded.
-
-“Oh, I saw the whole thing,” asserted the sparrow. “I saw you look in
-the window at the gold, and then make yourself into a magpie and rob the
-poor man, and then I saw you fly here and make the bird into your former
-shape. That’s magic, and magic is wicked and unlawful; and you stole
-money, and that’s a still greater crime. You’ll be sorry, some day.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“I don’t care,” replied Kiki Aru, scowling.
-
-“Aren’t you afraid to be wicked?” asked the sparrow.
-
-“No, I didn’t know I was being wicked,” said Kiki, “but if I was, I’m
-glad of it. I hate good people. I’ve always wanted to be wicked, but I
-didn’t know how.”
-
-“Haw, haw, haw!” laughed someone behind him, in a big voice; “that’s the
-proper spirit, my lad! I’m glad I’ve met you; shake hands.”
-
-The sparrow gave a frightened squeak and flew away.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                              Two Bad Ones
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 3
-
-Kiki turned around and saw a queer old man standing near. He didn’t
-stand straight, for he was crooked. He had a fat body and thin legs and
-arms. He had a big, round face with bushy, white whiskers that came to a
-point below his waist, and white hair that came to a point on top of his
-head. He wore dull-gray clothes that were tight fitting, and his pockets
-were all bunched out as if stuffed full of something.
-
-“I didn’t know you were here,” said Kiki.
-
-“I didn’t come until after you did,” said the queer old man.
-
-“Who are you?” asked Kiki.
-
-“My name’s Ruggedo. I used to be the Nome King; but I got kicked out of
-my country, and now I’m a wanderer.”
-
-“What made them kick you out?” inquired the Hyup boy.
-
-“Well, it’s the fashion to kick kings nowadays. I was a pretty good
-King—to myself—but those dreadful Oz people wouldn’t let me alone. So I
-had to abdicate.”
-
-“What does that mean?”
-
-“It means to be kicked out. But let’s talk about something pleasant. Who
-are you and where did you come from?”
-
-“I’m called Kiki Aru. I used to live on Mount Munch in the Land of Oz,
-but now I’m a wanderer like yourself.”
-
-The Nome King gave him a shrewd look.
-
-“I heard that bird say that you transformed yourself into a magpie and
-back again. Is that true?”
-
-Kiki hesitated, but saw no reason to deny it. He felt that it would make
-him appear more important.
-
-“Well—yes,” he said.
-
-“Then you’re a wizard?”
-
-“No; I only understand transformations,” he admitted.
-
-“Well, that’s pretty good magic, anyhow,” declared old Ruggedo. “I used
-to have some very fine magic, myself, but my enemies took it all away
-from me. Where are you going now?”
-
-“I’m going into the inn, to get some supper and a bed,” said Kiki.
-
-“Have you the money to pay for it?” asked the Nome.
-
-“I have one gold piece.”
-
-“Which you stole. Very good. And you’re glad that you’re wicked. Better
-yet. I like you, young man, and I’ll go to the inn with you if you’ll
-promise not to eat eggs for supper.”
-
-“Don’t you like eggs?” asked Kiki.
-
-“I’m afraid of ’em; they’re dangerous!” said Ruggedo, with a shudder.
-
-“All right,” agreed Kiki; “I won’t ask for eggs.”
-
-“Then come along,” said the Nome.
-
-When they entered the inn, the landlord scowled at Kiki and said:
-
-“I told you I would not feed you unless you had money.”
-
-Kiki showed him the gold piece.
-
-“And how about you?” asked the landlord, turning to Ruggedo. “Have you
-money?”
-
-“I’ve something better,” answered the old Nome, and taking a bag from
-one of his pockets he poured from it upon the table a mass of glittering
-gems—diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
-
-The landlord was very polite to the strangers after that. He served them
-an excellent supper, and while they ate it, the Hyup boy asked his
-companion:
-
-“Where did you get so many jewels?”
-
-“Well, I’ll tell you,” answered the Nome. “When those Oz people took my
-kingdom away from me—just because it was my kingdom and I wanted to run
-it to suit myself—they said I could take as many precious stones as I
-could carry. So I had a lot of pockets made in my clothes and loaded
-them all up. Jewels are fine things to have with you when you travel;
-you can trade them for anything.”
-
-“Are they better than gold pieces?” asked Kiki.
-
-“The smallest of these jewels is worth a hundred gold pieces such as you
-stole from the old man.”
-
-“Don’t talk so loud,” begged Kiki, uneasily. “Some one else might hear
-what you are saying.”
-
-After supper they took a walk together, and the former Nome King said:
-
-“Do you know the Shaggy Man, and the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, and
-Dorothy, and Ozma and all the other Oz people?”
-
-“No,” replied the boy, “I have never been away from Mount Munch until I
-flew over the Deadly Desert the other day in the shape of a hawk.”
-
-“Then you’ve never seen the Emerald City of Oz?”
-
-“Never.”
-
-“Well,” said the Nome, “I knew all the Oz people, and you can guess I do
-not love them. All during my wanderings I have brooded on how I can be
-revenged on them. Now that I’ve met you I can see a way to conquer the
-Land of Oz and be King there myself, which is better than being King of
-the Nomes.”
-
-“How can you do that?” inquired Kiki Aru, wonderingly.
-
-“Never mind how. In the first place, I’ll make a bargain with you. Tell
-me the secret of how to perform transformations and I will give you a
-pocketful of jewels, the biggest and finest that I possess.”
-
-“No,” said Kiki, who realized that to share his power with another would
-be dangerous to himself.
-
-“I’ll give you _two_ pocketsful of jewels,” said the Nome.
-
-“No;” answered Kiki.
-
-“I’ll give you every jewel I possess.”
-
-“No, no, no!” said Kiki, who was beginning to be frightened.
-
-“Then,” said the Nome, with a wicked look at the boy, “I’ll tell the
-inn-keeper that you stole that gold piece and he will have you put in
-prison.”
-
-Kiki laughed at the threat.
-
-“Before he can do that,” said he, “I will transform myself into a lion
-and tear him to pieces, or into a bear and eat him up, or into a fly and
-fly away where he could not find me.”
-
-“Can you really do such wonderful transformations?” asked the old Nome,
-looking at him curiously.
-
-“Of course,” declared Kiki. “I can transform you into a stick of wood,
-in a flash, or into a stone, and leave you here by the roadside.”
-
-The wicked Nome shivered a little when he heard that, but it made him
-long more than ever to possess the great secret. After a while he said:
-
-“I’ll tell you what I’ll do. If you will help me to conquer Oz and to
-transform the Oz people, who are my enemies, into sticks or stones, by
-telling me your secret, I’ll agree to make _you_ the Ruler of all Oz,
-and I will be your Prime Minister and see that your orders are obeyed.”
-
-“I’ll help do that,” said Kiki, “but I won’t tell you my secret.”
-
-The Nome was so furious at this refusal that he jumped up and down with
-rage and spluttered and choked for a long time before he could control
-his passion. But the boy was not at all frightened. He laughed at the
-wicked old Nome, which made him more furious than ever.
-
-“Let’s give up the idea,” he proposed, when Ruggedo had quieted
-somewhat. “I don’t know the Oz people you mention and so they are not my
-enemies. If they’ve kicked you out of your kingdom, that’s your
-affair—not mine.”
-
-“Wouldn’t you like to be king of that splendid fairyland?” asked
-Ruggedo.
-
-“Yes, I would,” replied Kiki Aru; “but you want to be king yourself, and
-we would quarrel over it.”
-
-“No,” said the Nome, trying to deceive him. “I don’t care to be king of
-Oz, come to think it over. I don’t even care to live in that country.
-What I want first is revenge. If we can conquer Oz, I’ll get enough
-magic then to conquer my own kingdom of the Nomes, and I’ll go back and
-live in my underground caverns, which are more home-like than the top of
-the earth. So here’s my proposition: Help me conquer Oz and get revenge,
-and help me get the magic away from Glinda and the Wizard, and I’ll let
-you be King of Oz forever afterward.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“I’ll think it over,” answered Kiki, and that is all he would say that
-evening.
-
-In the night when all in the Inn were asleep but himself, old Ruggedo
-the Nome, rose softly from his couch and went into the room of Kiki Aru
-the Hyup, and searched everywhere for the magic tool that performed his
-transformations. Of course, there was no such tool, and although Ruggedo
-searched in all the boy’s pockets, he found nothing magical whatever. So
-he went back to his bed and began to doubt that Kiki could perform
-transformations.
-
-Next morning he said:
-
-“Which way do you travel to-day?”
-
-“I think I shall visit the Rose Kingdom,” answered the boy.
-
-“That is a long journey,” declared the Nome.
-
-“I shall transform myself into a bird,” said Kiki, “and so fly to the
-Rose Kingdom in an hour.”
-
-“Then transform me, also, into a bird, and I will go with you,”
-suggested Ruggedo. “But, in that case, let us fly together to the Land
-of Oz, and see what it looks like.”
-
-Kiki thought this over. Pleasant as were the countries he had visited,
-he heard everywhere that the Land of Oz was more beautiful and
-delightful. The Land of Oz was his own country, too, and if there was
-any possibility of his becoming its King, he must know something about
-it.
-
-While Kiki the Hyup thought, Ruggedo the Nome was also thinking. This
-boy possessed a marvelous power, and although very simple in some ways,
-he was determined not to part with his secret. However, if Ruggedo could
-get him to transport the wily old Nome to Oz, which he could reach in no
-other way, he might then induce the boy to follow his advice and enter
-into the plot for revenge, which he had already planned in his wicked
-heart.
-
-“There are wizards and magicians in Oz,” remarked Kiki, after a time.
-“They might discover us, in spite of our transformations.”
-
-“Not if we are careful,” Ruggedo assured him. “Ozma has a Magic Picture,
-in which she can see whatever she wishes to see; but Ozma will know
-nothing of our going to Oz, and so she will not command her Magic
-Picture to show where we are or what we are doing. Glinda the Good has a
-Great Book called the Book of Records, in which is magically written
-everything that people do in the Land of Oz, just the instant they do
-it.”
-
-“Then,” said Kiki, “there is no use our attempting to conquer the
-country, for Glinda would read in her book all that we do, and as her
-magic is greater than mine, she would soon put a stop to our plans.”
-
-“I said ‘people,’ didn’t I?” retorted the Nome. “The book doesn’t make a
-record of what birds do, or beasts. It only tells the doings of people.
-So, if we fly into the country as birds, Glinda won’t know anything
-about it.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Two birds couldn’t conquer the Land of Oz,” asserted the boy,
-scornfully.
-
-“No; that’s true,” admitted Ruggedo, and then he rubbed his forehead and
-stroked his long pointed beard and thought some more.
-
-“Ah, now I have the idea!” he declared. “I suppose you can transform us
-into beasts as well as birds?”
-
-“Of course.”
-
-“And can you make a bird a beast, and a beast a bird again, without
-taking a human form in between?”
-
-“Certainly,” said Kiki. “I can transform myself or others into anything
-that can talk. There’s a magic word that must be spoken in connection
-with the transformations, and as beasts and birds and dragons and fishes
-can talk in Oz, we may become any of these we desire to. However, if I
-transformed myself into a tree, I would always remain a tree, because
-then I could not utter the magic word to change the transformation.”
-
-“I see; I see,” said Ruggedo, nodding his bushy, white head until the
-point of his hair waved back and forth like a pendulum. “That fits in
-with my idea, exactly. Now, listen, and I’ll explain to you my plan.
-We’ll fly to Oz as birds and settle in one of the thick forests in the
-Gillikin Country. There you will transform us into powerful beasts, and
-as Glinda doesn’t keep any track of the doings of beasts we can act
-without being discovered.”
-
-“But how can two beasts raise an army to conquer the powerful people of
-Oz?” inquired Kiki.
-
-“That’s easy. But not an army of _people_, mind you. That would be
-quickly discovered. And while we are in Oz you and I will never resume
-our human forms until we’ve conquered the country and destroyed Glinda,
-and Ozma, and the Wizard, and Dorothy, and all the rest, and so have
-nothing more to fear from them.”
-
-“It is impossible to kill anyone in the Land of Oz,” declared Kiki.
-
-“It isn’t necessary to kill the Oz people,” rejoined Ruggedo.
-
-“I’m afraid I don’t understand you,” objected the boy. “What will happen
-to the Oz people, and what sort of an army could we get together, except
-of people?”
-
-“I’ll tell you. The forests of Oz are full of beasts. Some of them, in
-the far-away places, are savage and cruel, and would gladly follow a
-leader as savage as themselves. They have never troubled the Oz people
-much, because they had no leader to urge them on, but we will tell them
-to help us conquer Oz and as a reward we will transform all the beasts
-into men and women, and let them live in the houses and enjoy all the
-good things; and we will transform all the people of Oz into beasts of
-various sorts, and send them to live in the forests and the jungles.
-That is a splendid idea, you must admit, and it’s so easy that we won’t
-have any trouble at all to carry it through to success.”
-
-“Will the beasts consent, do you think?” asked the boy.
-
-“To be sure they will. We can get every beast in Oz on our side—except a
-few who live in Ozma’s palace, and they won’t count.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                              Conspirators
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 4
-
-Kiki Aru didn’t know much about Oz and didn’t know much about the beasts
-who lived there, but the old Nome’s plan seemed to him to be quite
-reasonable. He had a faint suspicion that Ruggedo meant to get the best
-of him in some way, and he resolved to keep a close watch on his
-fellow-conspirator. As long as he kept to himself the secret word of the
-transformations, Ruggedo would not dare to harm him, and he promised
-himself that as soon as they had conquered Oz, he would transform the
-old Nome into a marble statue and keep him in that form forever.
-
-Ruggedo, on his part, decided that he could, by careful watching and
-listening, surprise the boy’s secret, and when he had learned the magic
-word he would transform Kiki Aru into a bundle of faggots and burn him
-up and so be rid of him.
-
-This is always the way with wicked people. They cannot be trusted even
-by one another. Ruggedo thought he was fooling Kiki, and Kiki thought he
-was fooling Ruggedo; so both were pleased.
-
-“It’s a long way across the Desert,” remarked the boy, “and the sands
-are hot and send up poisonous vapors. Let us wait until evening and then
-fly across in the night when it will be cooler.”
-
-The former Nome King agreed to this, and the two spent the rest of that
-day in talking over their plans. When evening came they paid the
-inn-keeper and walked out to a little grove of trees that stood near by.
-
-“Remain here for a few minutes and I’ll soon be back,” said Kiki, and
-walking swiftly away, he left the Nome standing in the grove. Ruggedo
-wondered where he had gone, but stood quietly in his place until, all of
-a sudden, his form changed to that of a great eagle, and he uttered a
-piercing cry of astonishment and flapped his wings in a sort of panic.
-At once his eagle cry was answered from beyond the grove, and another
-eagle, even larger and more powerful than the transformed Ruggedo, came
-sailing through the trees and alighted beside him.
-
-“Now we are ready for the start,” said the voice of Kiki, coming from
-the eagle.
-
-Ruggedo realized that this time he had been outwitted. He had thought
-Kiki would utter the magic word in his presence, and so he would learn
-what it was, but the boy had been too shrewd for that.
-
-As the two eagles mounted high into the air and began their flight
-across the great Desert that separates the Land of Oz from all the rest
-of the world, the Nome said:
-
-“When I was king of the Nomes I had a magic way of working
-transformations that I thought was good, but it could not compare with
-your secret word. I had to have certain tools and make passes and say a
-lot of mystic words before I could transform anybody.”
-
-“What became of your magic tools?” inquired Kiki.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“The Oz people took them all away from me—that horrid girl, Dorothy, and
-that terrible fairy, Ozma, the Ruler of Oz—at the time they took away my
-underground kingdom and kicked me upstairs into the cold, heartless
-world.”
-
-“Why did you let them do that?” asked the boy.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Well,” said Ruggedo, “I couldn’t help it. They rolled eggs at
-me—_eggs_—dreadful eggs!—and if an egg even touches a Nome, he is ruined
-for life.”
-
-“Is any kind of an egg dangerous to a Nome?”
-
-“Any kind and every kind. An egg is the only thing I’m afraid of.”
-
-
-
-
-                          A Happy Corner of Oz
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 5
-
-There is no other country so beautiful as the Land of Oz. There are no
-other people so happy and contented and prosperous as the Oz people.
-They have all they desire; they love and admire their beautiful girl
-Ruler, Ozma of Oz, and they mix work and play so justly that both are
-delightful and satisfying and no one has any reason to complain. Once in
-a while something happens in Oz to disturb the people’s happiness for a
-brief time, for so rich and attractive a fairyland is sure to make a few
-selfish and greedy outsiders envious, and therefore certain evil-doers
-have treacherously plotted to conquer Oz and enslave its people and
-destroy its girl Ruler, and so gain the wealth of Oz for themselves. But
-up to the time when the cruel and crafty Nome, Ruggedo, conspired with
-Kiki Aru, the Hyup, all such attempts had failed. The Oz people
-suspected no danger. Life in the world’s nicest fairyland was one round
-of joyous, happy days.
-
-In the center of the Emerald City of Oz, the capital city of Ozma’s
-dominions, is a vast and beautiful garden, surrounded by a wall inlaid
-with shining emeralds, and in the center of this garden stands Ozma’s
-Royal Palace, the most splendid building ever constructed. From a
-hundred towers and domes floated the banners of Oz, which included the
-Ozmies, the Munchkins, the Gillikins, the Winkies and the Quadlings. The
-banner of the Munchkins is blue, that of the Winkies yellow; the
-Gillikin banner is purple, and the Quadling’s banner is red. The colors
-of the Emerald City are of course green. Ozma’s own banner has a green
-center, and is divided into four quarters. These quarters are colored
-blue, purple, yellow and red, indicating that she rules over all the
-countries of the Land of Oz.
-
-This fairyland is so big, however, that all of it is not yet known to
-its girl Ruler, and it is said that in some far parts of the country, in
-forests and mountain fastnesses, in hidden valleys and thick jungles,
-are people and beasts that know as little about Ozma as she knows of
-them. Still, these unknown subjects are not nearly so numerous as the
-known inhabitants of Oz, who occupy all the countries near to the
-Emerald City. Indeed, I’m sure it will not be long until all parts of
-the fairyland of Oz are explored and their peoples made acquainted with
-their Ruler, for in Ozma’s palace are several of her friends who are so
-curious that they are constantly discovering new and extraordinary
-places and inhabitants.
-
-One of the most frequent discoverers of these hidden places in Oz is a
-little Kansas girl named Dorothy, who is Ozma’s dearest friend and lives
-in luxurious rooms in the Royal Palace. Dorothy is, indeed, a Princess
-of Oz, but she does not like to be called a princess, and because she is
-simple and sweet and does not pretend to be anything but an ordinary
-little girl, she is called just “Dorothy” by everybody and is the most
-popular person, next to Ozma, in all the Land of Oz.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-One morning Dorothy crossed the hall of the palace and knocked on the
-door of another girl named Trot, also a guest and friend of Ozma. When
-told to enter, Dorothy found that Trot had company, an old sailor-man
-with one wooden leg and one meat leg, who was sitting by the open window
-puffing smoke from a corn-cob pipe. This sailor-man was named Cap’n
-Bill, and he had accompanied Trot to the Land of Oz and was her oldest
-and most faithful comrade and friend. Dorothy liked Cap’n Bill, too, and
-after she had greeted him, she said to Trot:
-
-“You know, Ozma’s birthday is next month, and I’ve been wondering what I
-can give her as a birthday present. She’s so good to us all that we
-certainly ought to remember her birthday.”
-
-“That’s true,” agreed Trot. “I’ve been wondering, too, what I could give
-Ozma. It’s pretty hard to decide, ’cause she’s got already all she
-wants, and as she’s a fairy and knows a lot about magic, she could
-satisfy any wish.”
-
-“I know,” returned Dorothy, “but that isn’t the point. It isn’t that
-Ozma _needs_ anything, but that it will please her to know we’ve
-remembered her birthday. But what shall we give her?”
-
-Trot shook her head in despair.
-
-“I’ve tried to think and I can’t,” she declared.
-
-“It’s the same way with me,” said Dorothy.
-
-“I know one thing that ’ud please her,” remarked Cap’n Bill, turning his
-round face with its fringe of whiskers toward the two girls and staring
-at them with his big, light-blue eyes wide open.
-
-“What is it, Cap’n Bill?”
-
-“It’s an Enchanted Flower,” said he. “It’s a pretty plant that stands in
-a golden flower-pot an’ grows all sorts o’ flowers, one after another.
-One minute a fine rose buds an’ blooms, an’ then a tulip, an’ next a
-chrys—chrys—”
-
-“—anthemum,” said Dorothy, helping him.
-
-“That’s it; and next a dahlia, an’ then a daffydil, an’ on all through
-the range o’ posies. Jus’ as soon as one fades away, another comes, of a
-different sort, an’ the perfume from ’em is mighty snifty, an’ they
-keeps bloomin’ night and day, year in an’ year out.”
-
-“That’s wonderful!” exclaimed Dorothy. “I think Ozma would like it.”
-
-“But where is the Magic Flower, and how can we get it?” asked Trot.
-
-“Dun’no, zac’ly,” slowly replied Cap’n Bill. “The Glass Cat tol’ me
-about it only yesterday, an’ said it was in some lonely place up at the
-nor’east o’ here. The Glass Cat goes travelin’ all around Oz, you know,
-an’ the little critter sees a lot o’ things no one else does.”
-
-“That’s true,” said Dorothy, thoughtfully. “Northeast of here must be in
-the Munchkin Country, and perhaps a good way off, so let’s ask the Glass
-Cat to tell us how to get to the Magic Flower.”
-
-So the two girls, with Cap’n Bill stumping along on his wooden leg after
-them, went out into the garden, and after some time spent in searching,
-they found the Glass Cat curled up in the sunshine beside a bush, fast
-asleep.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was
-made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her
-subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat to catch mice,
-but the Cat refused to catch mice and was considered more curious than
-useful.
-
-This astonishing cat was made all of glass and was so clear and
-transparent that you could see through it as easily as through a window.
-In the top of its head, however, was a mass of delicate pink balls which
-looked like jewels but were intended for brains. It had a heart made of
-a blood-red ruby. The eyes were two large emeralds. But, aside from
-these colors, all the rest of the animal was of clear glass, and it had
-a spun-glass tail that was really beautiful.
-
-“Here, wake up,” said Cap’n Bill. “We want to talk to you.”
-
-Slowly the Glass Cat got upon its feet, yawned and then looked at the
-three who stood before it.
-
-“How dare you disturb me?” it asked in a peevish voice. “You ought to be
-ashamed of yourselves.”
-
-“Never mind that,” returned the Sailor. “Do you remember tellin’ me
-yesterday ’bout a Magic Flower in a Gold Pot?”
-
-“Do you think I’m a fool? Look at my brains—you can see ’em work. Of
-course I remember!” said the cat.
-
-“Well, where can we find it?”
-
-“You can’t. It’s none of your business, anyhow. Go away and let me
-sleep,” advised the Glass Cat.
-
-“Now, see here,” said Dorothy; “we want the Magic Flower to give to Ozma
-on her birthday. You’d be glad to please Ozma, wouldn’t you?”
-
-“I’m not sure,” replied the creature. “Why should I want to please
-anybody?”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“You’ve got a heart, ’cause I can see it inside of you,” said Trot.
-
-“Yes; it’s a pretty heart, and I’m fond of it,” said the cat, twisting
-around to view its own body. “But it’s made from a ruby, and it’s hard
-as nails.”
-
-“Aren’t you good for _any_thing?” asked Trot.
-
-“Yes, I’m pretty to look at, and that’s more than can be said of you,”
-retorted the creature.
-
-Trot laughed at this, and Dorothy, who understood the Glass Cat pretty
-well, said soothingly:
-
-“You are indeed beautiful, and if you can tell Cap’n Bill where to find
-the Magic Flower, all the people in Oz will praise your cleverness. The
-Flower will belong to Ozma, but everyone will know the Glass Cat
-discovered it.”
-
-This was the kind of praise the crystal creature liked.
-
-“Well,” it said, while the pink brains rolled around, “I found the Magic
-Flower way up in the north of the Munchkin Country where few people live
-or ever go. There’s a river there that flows through a forest, and in
-the middle of the river in the middle of the forest there is a small
-island on which stands the gold pot in which grows the Magic Flower.”
-
-“How did you get to the island?” asked Dorothy. “Glass cats can’t swim.”
-
-“No, but I’m not afraid of water,” was the reply. “I just walked across
-the river on the bottom.”
-
-“Under the water?” exclaimed Trot.
-
-The cat gave her a scornful look.
-
-“How could I walk _over_ the water on the _bottom_ of the river? If you
-were transparent, anyone could see _your_ brains were not working. But
-I’m sure you could never find the place alone. It has always been hidden
-from the Oz people.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“But you, with your fine pink brains, could find it again, I s’pose,”
-remarked Dorothy.
-
-“Yes; and if you want that Magic Flower for Ozma, I’ll go with you and
-show you the way.”
-
-“That’s lovely of you!” declared Dorothy. “Trot and Cap’n Bill will go
-with you, for this is to be their birthday present to Ozma. While you’re
-gone I’ll have to find something else to give her.”
-
-“All right. Come on, then, Cap’n,” said the Glass Cat, starting to move
-away.
-
-“Wait a minute,” begged Trot. “How long will we be gone?”
-
-“Oh, about a week.”
-
-“Then I’ll put some things in a basket to take with us,” said the girl,
-and ran into the palace to make her preparations for the journey.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                        Ozma’s Birthday Presents
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 6
-
-When Cap’n Bill and Trot and the Glass Cat had started for the hidden
-island in the far-off river to get the Magic Flower, Dorothy wondered
-again what she could give Ozma on her birthday. She met the Patchwork
-Girl and said:
-
-“What are you going to give Ozma for a birthday present?”
-
-“I’ve written a song for her,” answered the strange Patchwork Girl, who
-went by the name of “Scraps,” and who, though stuffed with cotton, had a
-fair assortment of mixed brains. “It’s a splendid song and the chorus
-runs this way:
-
-        “I am crazy;
-        You’re a daisy,
-          Ozma dear;
-        I’m demented;
-        You’re contented,
-          Ozma dear;
-  I am patched and gay and glary;
-  You’re a sweet and lovely fairy;
-  May your birthdays all be happy,
-          Ozma dear!”
-
-“How do you like it, Dorothy?” inquired the Patchwork Girl.
-
-“Is it good poetry, Scraps?” asked Dorothy, doubtfully.
-
-“It’s as good as any ordinary song,” was the reply. “I have given it a
-dandy title, too. I shall call the song: ‘When Ozma Has a Birthday,
-Everybody’s Sure to Be Gay, for She Cannot Help the Fact That She Was
-Born.’”
-
-“That’s a pretty long title, Scraps,” said Dorothy.
-
-“That makes it stylish,” replied the Patchwork Girl, turning a
-somersault and alighting on one stuffed foot. “Now-a-days the titles are
-sometimes longer than the songs.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy left her and walked slowly toward the palace, where she met the
-Tin Woodman just going up the front steps.
-
-“What are you going to give Ozma on her birthday?” she asked.
-
-“It’s a secret, but I’ll tell you,” replied the Tin Woodman, who was
-Emperor of the Winkies. “I am having my people make Ozma a lovely girdle
-set with beautiful tin nuggets. Each tin nugget will be surrounded by a
-circle of emeralds, just to set it off to good advantage. The clasp of
-the girdle will be pure tin! Won’t that be fine?”
-
-“I’m sure she’ll like it,” said Dorothy. “Do you know what _I_ can give
-her?”
-
-“I haven’t the slightest idea, Dorothy. It took me three months to think
-of my own present for Ozma.”
-
-The girl walked thoughtfully around to the back of the palace, and
-presently came upon the famous Scarecrow of Oz, who was having two of
-the palace servants stuff his legs with fresh straw.
-
-“What are you going to give Ozma on her birthday?” asked Dorothy.
-
-“I want to surprise her,” answered the Scarecrow.
-
-“I won’t tell,” promised Dorothy.
-
-“Well, I’m having some straw slippers made for her—all straw, mind you,
-and braided very artistically. Ozma has always admired my straw filling,
-so I’m sure she’ll be pleased with these lovely straw slippers.”
-
-“Ozma will be pleased with anything her loving friends give her,” said
-the girl. “What _I’m_ worried about, Scarecrow, is what to give Ozma
-that she hasn’t got already.”
-
-“That’s what worried me, until I thought of the slippers,” said the
-Scarecrow. “You’ll have to _think_, Dorothy; that’s the only way to get
-a good idea. If I hadn’t such wonderful brains, I’d never have thought
-of those straw foot-decorations.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy left him and went to her room, where she sat down and tried to
-think hard. A Pink Kitten was curled up on the window-sill and Dorothy
-asked her:
-
-“What can I give Ozma for her birthday present?”
-
-“Oh, give her some milk,” replied the Pink Kitten; “that’s the nicest
-thing I know of.”
-
-A fuzzy little black dog had squatted down at Dorothy’s feet and now
-looked up at her with intelligent eyes.
-
-“Tell me, Toto,” said the girl; “what would Ozma like best for a
-birthday present?”
-
-The little black dog wagged his tail.
-
-“Your love,” said he. “Ozma wants to be loved more than anything else.”
-
-“But I already love her, Toto!”
-
-“Then tell her you love her twice as much as you ever did before.”
-
-“That wouldn’t be true,” objected Dorothy, “for I’ve always loved her as
-much as I could, and, really, Toto, I want to give Ozma some _present_,
-’cause everyone else will give her a present.”
-
-“Let me see,” said Toto. “How would it be to give her that useless Pink
-Kitten?”
-
-“No, Toto; that wouldn’t do.”
-
-“Then six kisses.”
-
-“No; that’s no present.”
-
-“Well, I guess you’ll have to figure it out for yourself, Dorothy,” said
-the little dog. “To _my_ notion you’re more particular than Ozma will
-be.”
-
-Dorothy decided that if anyone could help her it would be Glinda the
-Good, the wonderful Sorceress of Oz who was Ozma’s faithful subject and
-friend. But Glinda’s castle was in the Quadling Country and quite a
-journey from the Emerald City.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-So the little girl went to Ozma and asked permission to use the Wooden
-Sawhorse and the royal Red Wagon to pay a visit to Glinda, and the girl
-Ruler kissed Princess Dorothy and graciously granted permission.
-
-The Wooden Sawhorse was one of the most remarkable creatures in Oz. Its
-body was a small log and its legs were limbs of trees stuck in the body.
-Its eyes were knots, its mouth was sawed in the end of the log and its
-ears were two chips. A small branch had been left at the rear end of the
-log to serve as a tail.
-
-Ozma herself, during one of her early adventures, had brought this
-wooden horse to life, and so she was much attached to the queer animal
-and had shod the bottoms of its wooden legs with plates of gold so they
-would not wear out. The sawhorse was a swift and willing traveler, and
-though it could talk if need arose, it seldom said anything unless
-spoken to. When the Sawhorse was harnessed to the Red Wagon there were
-no reins to guide him because all that was needed was to tell him where
-to go.
-
-Dorothy now told him to go to Glinda’s Castle and the Sawhorse carried
-her there with marvelous speed.
-
-“Glinda,” said Dorothy, when she had been greeted by the Sorceress, who
-was tall and stately, with handsome and dignified features and dressed
-in a splendid and becoming gown, “what are you going to give Ozma for a
-birthday present?”
-
-The Sorceress smiled and answered:
-
-“Come into my patio and I will show you.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-So they entered a place that was surrounded by the wings of the great
-castle but had no roof, and was filled with flowers and fountains and
-exquisite statuary and many settees and chairs of polished marble or
-filigree gold. Here there were gathered fifty beautiful young girls,
-Glinda’s handmaids, who had been selected from all parts of the Land of
-Oz on account of their wit and beauty and sweet dispositions. It was a
-great honor to be made one of Glinda’s handmaidens.
-
-When Dorothy followed the Sorceress into this delightful patio all the
-fifty girls were busily weaving, and their shuttles were filled with a
-sparkling green spun glass such as the little girl had never seen
-before.
-
-“What is it, Glinda?” she asked.
-
-“One of my recent discoveries,” explained the Sorceress. “I have found a
-way to make threads from emeralds, by softening the stones and then
-spinning them into long, silken strands. With these emerald threads we
-are weaving cloth to make Ozma a splendid court gown for her birthday.
-You will notice that the threads have all the beautiful glitter and
-luster of the emeralds from which they are made, and so Ozma’s new dress
-will be the most magnificent the world has ever seen, and quite fitting
-for our lovely Ruler of the Fairyland of Oz.”
-
-Dorothy’s eyes were fairly dazed by the brilliance of the emerald cloth,
-some of which the girls had already woven.
-
-“I’ve never seen _any_thing so beautiful!” she said, with a sigh. “But
-tell me, Glinda, what can _I_ give our lovely Ozma on her birthday?”
-
-The good Sorceress considered this question for a long time before she
-replied. Finally she said:
-
-“Of course there will be a grand feast at the Royal Palace on Ozma’s
-birthday, and all our friends will be present. So I suggest that you
-make a fine big birthday cake for Ozma, and surround it with candles.”
-
-“Oh, just a _cake_!” exclaimed Dorothy, in disappointment.
-
-“Nothing is nicer for a birthday,” said the Sorceress.
-
-“How many candles should there be on the cake?” asked the girl.
-
-“Just a row of them,” replied Glinda, “for no one knows how old Ozma is,
-although she appears to us to be just a young girl—as fresh and fair as
-if she had lived but a few years.”
-
-“A cake doesn’t seem like much of a present,” Dorothy asserted.
-
-“Make it a surprise cake,” suggested the Sorceress. “Don’t you remember
-the four and twenty blackbirds that were baked in a pie? Well, you need
-not use live blackbirds in your cake, but you could have some surprise
-of a different sort.”
-
-“Like what?” questioned Dorothy, eagerly.
-
-“If I told you, it wouldn’t be _your_ present to Ozma, but _mine_,”
-answered the Sorceress, with a smile. “Think it over, my dear, and I am
-sure you can originate a surprise that will add greatly to the joy and
-merriment of Ozma’s birthday banquet.”
-
-Dorothy thanked her friend and entered the Red Wagon and told the
-Sawhorse to take her back home to the palace in the Emerald City.
-
-On the way she thought the matter over seriously of making a surprise
-birthday cake and finally decided what to do.
-
-As soon as she reached home, she went to the Wizard of Oz, who had a
-room fitted up in one of the high towers of the palace, where he studied
-magic so as to be able to perform such wizardry as Ozma commanded him to
-do for the welfare of her subjects.
-
-The Wizard and Dorothy were firm friends and had enjoyed many strange
-adventures together. He was a little man with a bald head and sharp eyes
-and a round, jolly face, and because he was neither haughty nor proud he
-had become a great favorite with the Oz people.
-
-“Wizard,” said Dorothy, “I want you to help me fix up a present for
-Ozma’s birthday.”
-
-“I’ll be glad to do anything for you and for Ozma,” he answered. “What’s
-on your mind, Dorothy?”
-
-“I’m going to make a great cake, with frosting and candles, and all
-that, you know.”
-
-“Very good,” said the Wizard.
-
-“In the center of this cake I’m going to leave a hollow place, with just
-a roof of the frosting over it,” continued the girl.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Very good,” repeated the Wizard, nodding his bald head.
-
-“In that hollow place,” said Dorothy, “I want to hide a lot of monkeys
-about three inches high, and after the cake is placed on the banquet
-table, I want the monkeys to break through the frosting and dance around
-on the table-cloth. Then, I want each monkey to cut out a piece of cake
-and hand it to a guest.”
-
-“Mercy me!” cried the little Wizard, as he chuckled with laughter. “Is
-that _all_ you want, Dorothy?”
-
-“Almost,” said she. “Can you think of anything more the little monkeys
-can do, Wizard?”
-
-“Not just now,” he replied. “But where will you get such tiny monkeys?”
-
-“That’s where you’re to help me,” said Dorothy. “In some of those wild
-forests in the Gillikin Country are lots of monkeys.”
-
-“Big ones,” said the Wizard.
-
-“Well, you and I will go there, and we’ll get some of the big monkeys,
-and you will make them small—just three inches high—by means of your
-magic, and we’ll put the little monkeys all in a basket and bring them
-home with us. Then you’ll train them to dance—up here in your room,
-where no one can see them—and on Ozma’s birthday we’ll put ’em into the
-cake and they’ll know by that time just what to do.”
-
-The Wizard looked at Dorothy with admiring approval, and chuckled again.
-
-“That’s really clever, my dear,” he said, “and I see no reason why we
-can’t do it, just the way you say, if only we can get the wild monkeys
-to agree to it.”
-
-“Do you think they’ll object?” asked the girl.
-
-“Yes; but perhaps we can argue them into it. Anyhow, it’s worth trying,
-and I’ll help you if you’ll agree to let this Surprise Cake be a present
-to Ozma from you and me together. I’ve been wondering what _I_ could
-give Ozma, and as I’ve got to train the monkeys as well as make them
-small, I think you ought to make me your partner.”
-
-“Of course,” said Dorothy; “I’ll be glad to do so.”
-
-“Then, it’s a bargain,” declared the Wizard. “We must go to seek those
-monkeys at once, however, for it will take time to train them and we’ll
-have to travel a good way to the Gillikin forests where they live.”
-
-“I’m ready to go any time,” agreed Dorothy. “Shall we ask Ozma to let us
-take the Sawhorse?”
-
-The Wizard did not answer that at once. He took time to think of the
-suggestion.
-
-“No,” he answered at length, “the Red Wagon couldn’t get through the
-thick forests and there’s some danger to us in going into the wild
-places to search for monkeys. So I propose we take the Cowardly Lion and
-the Hungry Tiger. We can ride on their backs as well as in the Red
-Wagon, and if there is danger to us from other beasts, these two
-friendly champions will protect us from all harm.”
-
-“That’s a splendid idea!” exclaimed Dorothy. “Let’s go now and ask the
-Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion if they will help us. Shall we ask
-Ozma if we can go?”
-
-“I think not,” said the Wizard, getting his hat and his black bag of
-magic tools. “This is to be a surprise for her birthday, and so she
-mustn’t know where we’re going. We’ll just leave word, in case Ozma
-inquires for us, that we’ll be back in a few days.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                           The Forest of Gugu
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 7
-
-In the central western part of the Gillikin Country is a great tangle of
-trees called Gugu Forest. It is the biggest forest in all Oz and
-stretches miles and miles in every direction—north, south, east and
-west. Adjoining it on the east side is a range of rugged mountains
-covered with underbrush and small twisted trees. You can find this place
-by looking at the Map of the Land of Oz.
-
-Gugu Forest is the home of most of the wild beasts that inhabit Oz.
-These are seldom disturbed in their leafy haunts because there is no
-reason why Oz people should go there, except on rare occasions, and most
-parts of the forest have never been seen by any eyes but the eyes of the
-beasts who make their home there. The biggest beasts inhabit the great
-forest, while the smaller ones live mostly in the mountain underbrush at
-the east.
-
-Now, you must know that there are laws in the forests, as well as in
-every other place, and these laws are made by the beasts themselves, and
-are necessary to keep them from fighting and tearing one another to
-pieces. In Gugu Forest there is a King—an enormous yellow leopard called
-“Gugu”—after whom the forest is named. And this King has three other
-beasts to advise him in keeping the laws and maintaining order—Bru the
-Bear, Loo the Unicorn and Rango the Gray Ape—who are known as the King’s
-Counselors. All these are fierce and ferocious beasts, and hold their
-high offices because they are more intelligent and more feared than
-their fellows.
-
-Since Oz became a fairyland, no man, woman or child ever dies in that
-land nor is anyone ever sick. Likewise the beasts of the forests never
-die, so that long years add to their cunning and wisdom, as well as to
-their size and strength. It is possible for beasts—or even people—to be
-destroyed, but the task is so difficult that it is seldom attempted.
-Because it is free from sickness and death is one reason why Oz is a
-fairyland, but it is doubtful whether those who come to Oz from the
-outside world, as Dorothy and Button-Bright and Trot and Cap’n Bill and
-the Wizard did, will live forever or cannot be injured. Even Ozma is not
-sure about this, and so the guests of Ozma from other lands are always
-carefully protected from any danger, so as to be on the safe side.
-
-In spite of the laws of the forests there are often fights among the
-beasts; some of them have lost an eye or an ear or even had a leg torn
-off. The King and the King’s Counselors always punish those who start a
-fight, but so fierce is the nature of some beasts that they will at
-times fight in spite of laws and punishment.
-
-Over this vast, wild Forest of Gugu flew two eagles, one morning, and
-near the center of the jungle the eagles alighted on a branch of a tall
-tree.
-
-“Here is the place for us to begin our work,” said one, who was Ruggedo,
-the Nome.
-
-“Do many beasts live here?” asked Kiki Aru, the other eagle.
-
-“The forest is full of them,” said the Nome. “There are enough beasts
-right here to enable us to conquer the people of Oz, if we can get them
-to consent to join us. To do that, we must go among them and tell them
-our plans, so we must now decide on what shapes we had better assume
-while in the forest.”
-
-“I suppose we must take the shapes of beasts?” said Kiki.
-
-“Of course. But that requires some thought. All kinds of beasts live
-here, and a yellow leopard is King. If we become leopards, the King will
-be jealous of us. If we take the forms of some of the other beasts, we
-shall not command proper respect.”
-
-“I wonder if the beasts will attack us?” asked Kiki.
-
-“I’m a Nome, and immortal, so nothing can hurt me,” replied Ruggedo.
-
-“I was born in the Land of Oz, so nothing can hurt me,” said Kiki.
-
-“But, in order to carry out our plans, we must win the favor of all the
-animals of the forest.”
-
-“Then what shall we do?” asked Kiki.
-
-“Let us mix the shapes of several beasts, so we will not look like any
-one of them,” proposed the wily old Nome. “Let us have the heads of
-lions, the bodies of monkeys, the wings of eagles and the tails of wild
-asses, with knobs of gold on the end of them instead of bunches of
-hair.”
-
-“Won’t that make a queer combination?” inquired Kiki.
-
-“The queerer the better,” declared Ruggedo.
-
-“All right,” said Kiki. “You stay here, and I’ll fly away to another
-tree and transform us both, and then we’ll climb down our trees and meet
-in the forest.”
-
-“No,” said the Nome, “we mustn’t separate. You must transform us while
-we are together.”
-
-“I won’t do that,” asserted Kiki, firmly. “You’re trying to get my
-secret, and I won’t let you.”
-
-The eyes of the other eagle flashed angrily, but Ruggedo did not dare
-insist. If he offended this boy, he might have to remain an eagle always
-and he wouldn’t like that. Some day he hoped to be able to learn the
-secret word of the magical transformations, but just now he must let
-Kiki have his own way.
-
-“All right,” he said gruffly; “do as you please.”
-
-So Kiki flew to a tree that was far enough distant so that Ruggedo could
-not overhear him and said: “I want Ruggedo, the Nome, and myself to have
-the heads of lions, the bodies of monkeys, the wings of eagles and the
-tails of wild asses, with knobs of gold on the ends of them instead of
-bunches of hair—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-He pronounced the magic word in the proper manner and at once his form
-changed to the one he had described. He spread his eagle’s wings and
-finding they were strong enough to support his monkey body and lion head
-he flew swiftly to the tree where he had left Ruggedo. The Nome was also
-transformed and was climbing down the tree because the branches all
-around him were so thickly entwined that there was no room between them
-to fly.
-
-Kiki quickly joined his comrade and it did not take them long to reach
-the ground.
-
-
-
-
-                      The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 8
-
-There had been trouble in the Forest of Gugu that morning. Chipo the
-Wild Boar had bitten the tail off Arx the Giraffe while the latter had
-his head among the leaves of a tree, eating his breakfast. Arx kicked
-with his heels and struck Tirrip, the great Kangaroo, who had a new baby
-in her pouch. Tirrip knew it was the Wild Boar’s fault, so she knocked
-him over with one powerful blow and then ran away to escape Chipo’s
-sharp tusks. In the chase that followed a giant porcupine stuck fifty
-sharp quills into the Boar and a chimpanzee in a tree threw a cocoanut
-at the porcupine that jammed its head into its body.
-
-All this was against the Laws of the Forest, and when the excitement was
-over, Gugu the Leopard King called his royal Counselors together to
-decide how best to punish the offenders.
-
-The four lords of the forest were holding solemn council in a small
-clearing when they saw two strange beasts approaching them—beasts the
-like of which they had never seen before.
-
-Not one of the four, however, relaxed his dignity or showed by a
-movement that he was startled. The great Leopard crouched at full length
-upon a fallen tree-trunk. Bru the Bear sat on his haunches before the
-King; Rango the Gray Ape stood with his muscular arms folded, and Loo
-the Unicorn reclined, much as a horse does, between his
-fellow-councillors. With one consent they remained silent, eyeing with
-steadfast looks the intruders, who were making their way into their
-forest domain.
-
-“Well met, Brothers!” said one of the strange beasts, coming to a halt
-beside the group, while his comrade with hesitation lagged behind.
-
-“We are not brothers,” returned the Gray Ape, sternly. “Who are you, and
-how came you in the forest of Gugu?”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“We are two Li-Mon-Eags,” said Ruggedo, inventing the name. “Our home is
-in Sky Island, and we have come to earth to warn the forest beasts that
-the people of Oz are about to make war upon them and enslave them, so
-that they will become beasts of burden forever after and obey only the
-will of their two-legged masters.”
-
-A low roar of anger arose from the Council of Beasts.
-
-“_Who’s_ going to do that?” asked Loo the Unicorn, in a high, squeaky
-voice, at the same time rising to his feet.
-
-“The people of Oz,” said Ruggedo.
-
-“But what will _we_ be doing?” inquired the Unicorn.
-
-“That’s what I’ve come to talk to you about.”
-
-“You needn’t talk! We’ll fight the Oz people!” screamed the Unicorn.
-“We’ll smash ’em; we’ll trample ’em; we’ll gore ’em; we’ll—”
-
-“Silence!” growled Gugu the King, and Loo obeyed, although still
-trembling with wrath. The cold, steady gaze of the Leopard wandered over
-the two strange beasts. “The people of Oz,” said he, “have not been our
-friends; they have not been our enemies. They have let us alone, and we
-have let them alone. There is no reason for war between us. They have no
-slaves. They could not use us as slaves if they should conquer us. I
-think you are telling us lies, you strange Li-Mon-Eag—you mixed-up beast
-who are neither one thing nor another.”
-
-“Oh, on my word, it’s the truth!” protested the Nome in the beast’s
-shape. “I wouldn’t lie for the world; I—”
-
-“Silence!” again growled Gugu the King; and, somehow, even Ruggedo was
-abashed and obeyed the edict.
-
-“What do you say, Bru?” asked the king, turning to the great Bear, who
-had until now said nothing.
-
-“How does the Mixed Beast know that what he says is true?” asked the
-Bear.
-
-“Why, I can fly, you know, having the wings of an Eagle,” explained the
-Nome. “I and my comrade yonder,” turning to Kiki, “flew to a grove in
-Oz, and there we heard the people telling how they will make many ropes
-to snare you beasts, and then they will surround this forest, and all
-other forests, and make you prisoners. So we came here to warn you, for
-being beasts ourselves, although we live in the sky, we are your
-friends.”
-
-The Leopard’s lip curled and showed his enormous teeth, sharp as
-needles. He turned to the Gray Ape.
-
-“What do _you_ think, Rango?” he asked.
-
-“Send these mixed beasts away, your Majesty,” replied the Gray Ape.
-“They are mischief-makers.”
-
-“Don’t do that—don’t do that!” cried the Unicorn, nervously. “The
-stranger said he would tell us what to do. Let him tell us, then. Are we
-fools, not to heed a warning?”
-
-Gugu the King turned to Ruggedo.
-
-“Speak, Stranger,” he commanded.
-
-“Well,” said the Nome, “it’s this way: The Land of Oz is a fine country.
-The people of Oz have many good things—houses with soft beds, all sorts
-of nice-tasting food, pretty clothes, lovely jewels, and many other
-things that beasts know nothing of. Here in the dark forests the poor
-beasts have hard work to get enough to eat and to find a bed to rest in.
-But the beasts are better than the people, and why should they not have
-all the good things the people have? So I propose that before the Oz
-people have the time to make all those ropes to snare you with, that all
-we beasts get together and march against the Oz people and capture them.
-Then the beasts will become the masters and the people their slaves.”
-
-“What good would that do us?” asked Bru the Bear.
-
-“It would save you from slavery, for one thing, and you could enjoy all
-the fine things the Oz people have.”
-
-“Beasts wouldn’t know what to do with the things people use,” said the
-Gray Ape.
-
-“But this is only part of my plan,” insisted the Nome. “Listen to the
-rest of it. We two Li-Mon-Eags are powerful magicians. When you have
-conquered the Oz people we will transform them all into beasts, and send
-them to the forests to live, and we will transform all the beasts into
-people, so they can enjoy all the wonderful delights of the Emerald
-City.”
-
-For a moment no beast spoke. Then the King said: “Prove it.”
-
-“Prove what?” asked Ruggedo.
-
-“Prove that you can transform us. If you are a magician transform the
-Unicorn into a man. Then we will believe you. If you fail, we will
-destroy you.”
-
-“All right,” said the Nome. “But I’m tired, so I’ll let my comrade make
-the transformation.”
-
-Kiki Aru had stood back from the circle, but he had heard all that was
-said. He now realized that he must make good Ruggedo’s boast, so he
-retreated to the edge of the clearing and whispered the magic word.
-
-Instantly the Unicorn became a fat, chubby little man, dressed in the
-purple Gillikin costume, and it was hard to tell which was the more
-astonished, the King, the Bear, the Ape or the former Unicorn.
-
-“It’s true!” shouted the man-beast. “Good gracious, look what I am! It’s
-wonderful!”
-
-The King of the Beasts now addressed Ruggedo in a more friendly tone.
-
-“We must believe your story, since you have given us proof of your
-power,” said he. “But why, if you are so great a magician, cannot you
-conquer the Oz people without our help, and so save us the trouble?”
-
-“Alas!” replied the crafty old Nome, “no magician is able to do
-everything. The transformations are easy to us because we are
-Li-Mon-Eags, but we cannot fight, or conquer even such weak creatures as
-the Oz people. But we will stay with you and advise and help you, and we
-will transform all the Oz people into beasts, when the time comes, and
-all the beasts into people.”
-
-Gugu the King turned to his Counselors.
-
-“How shall we answer this friendly stranger?” he asked.
-
-Loo the former Unicorn was dancing around and cutting capers like a
-clown.
-
-“On my word, your Majesty,” he said, “this being a man is more fun than
-being a Unicorn.”
-
-“You look like a fool,” said the Gray Ape.
-
-“Well, I _feel_ fine!” declared the man-beast.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“I think I prefer to be a Bear,” said Big Bru. “I was born a Bear, and I
-know a Bear’s ways. So I am satisfied to live as a Bear lives.”
-
-“That,” said the old Nome, “is because you know nothing better. When we
-have conquered the Oz people, and you become a man, you’ll be glad of
-it.”
-
-The immense Leopard rested his chin on the log and seemed thoughtful.
-
-“The beasts of the forest must decide this matter for themselves,” he
-said. “Go you, Rango the Gray Ape, and tell your monkey tribe to order
-all the forest beasts to assemble in the Great Clearing at sunrise
-to-morrow. When all are gathered together, this mixed-up Beast who is a
-magician shall talk to them and tell them what he has told us. Then, if
-they decide to fight the Oz people, who have declared war on us, I will
-lead the beasts to battle.”
-
-Rango the Gray Ape turned at once and glided swiftly through the forest
-on his mission. The Bear gave a grunt and walked away. Gugu the King
-rose and stretched himself. Then he said to Ruggedo: “Meet us at sunrise
-to-morrow,” and with stately stride vanished among the trees.
-
-The man-unicorn, left alone with the strangers, suddenly stopped his
-foolish prancing.
-
-“You’d better make me a Unicorn again,” he said. “I like being a man,
-but the forest beasts won’t know I’m their friend, Loo, and they might
-tear me in pieces before morning.”
-
-So Kiki changed him back to his former shape, and the Unicorn departed
-to join his people.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Ruggedo the Nome was much pleased with his success.
-
-“To-morrow,” he said to Kiki Aru, “we’ll win over these beasts and set
-them to fight and conquer the Oz people. Then I will have my revenge on
-Ozma and Dorothy and all the rest of my enemies.”
-
-“But I am doing all the work,” said Kiki.
-
-“Never mind; you’re going to be King of Oz,” promised Ruggedo.
-
-“Will the big Leopard let me be King?” asked the boy anxiously.
-
-The Nome came close to him and whispered:
-
-“If Gugu the Leopard opposes us, you will transform him into a tree, and
-then he will be helpless.”
-
-“Of course,” agreed Kiki, and he said to himself: “I shall also
-transform this deceitful Nome into a tree, for he lies and I cannot
-trust him.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                      The Isle of the Magic Flower
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 9
-
-The Glass Cat was a good guide and led Trot and Cap’n Bill by straight
-and easy paths through all the settled part of the Munchkin Country, and
-then into the north section where there were few houses, and finally
-through a wild country where there were no houses or paths at all. But
-the walking was not difficult and at last they came to the edge of a
-forest and stopped there to make camp and sleep until morning.
-
-From branches of trees Cap’n Bill made a tiny house that was just big
-enough for the little girl to crawl into and lie down. But first they
-ate some of the food Trot had carried in the basket.
-
-“Don’t you want some, too?” she asked the Glass Cat.
-
-“No,” answered the creature.
-
-“I suppose you’ll hunt around an’ catch a mouse,” remarked Cap’n Bill.
-
-“Me? Catch a mouse! Why should I do that?” inquired the Glass Cat.
-
-“Why, then you could eat it,” said the sailor-man.
-
-“I beg to inform you,” returned the crystal tabby, “that I do not eat
-mice. Being transparent, so anyone can see through me, I’d look nice,
-wouldn’t I, with a common mouse inside me? But the fact is that I
-haven’t any stomach or other machinery that would permit me to eat
-things. The careless magician who made me didn’t think I’d need to eat,
-I suppose.”
-
-“Don’t you ever get hungry or thirsty?” asked Trot.
-
-“Never. I don’t complain, you know, at the way I’m made, for I’ve never
-yet seen any living thing as beautiful as I am. I have the handsomest
-brains in the world. They’re pink, and you can see ’em work.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“I wonder,” said Trot thoughtfully, as she ate her bread and jam, “if
-_my_ brains whirl around in the same way yours do.”
-
-“No; not the same way, surely,” returned the Glass Cat; “for, in that
-case, they’d be as good as _my_ brains, except that they’re hidden under
-a thick, boney skull.”
-
-“Brains,” remarked Cap’n Bill, “is of all kinds and work different ways.
-But I’ve noticed that them as thinks that their brains is best is often
-mistook.”
-
-Trot was a little disturbed by sounds from the forest, that night, for
-many beasts seemed prowling among the trees, but she was confident Cap’n
-Bill would protect her from harm. And in fact, no beast ventured from
-the forest to attack them.
-
-At daybreak they were up again, and after a simple breakfast Cap’n Bill
-said to the Glass Cat:
-
-“Up anchor, Mate, and let’s forge ahead. I don’t suppose we’re far from
-that Magic Flower, are we?”
-
-“Not far,” answered the transparent one, as it led the way into the
-forest, “but it may take you some time to get to it.”
-
-Before long they reached the bank of a river. It was not very wide, at
-this place, but as they followed the banks in a northerly direction it
-gradually broadened.
-
-Suddenly the blue-green leaves of the trees changed to a purple hue, and
-Trot noticed this and said:
-
-“I wonder what made the colors change like that?”
-
-“It’s because we have left the Munchkin Country and entered the Gillikin
-Country,” explained the Glass Cat. “Also it’s a sign our journey is
-nearly ended.”
-
-The river made a sudden turn, and after the travelers had passed around
-the bend, they saw that the stream had now become as broad as a small
-lake, and in the center of the Lake they beheld a little island, not
-more than fifty feet in extent, either way. Something glittered in the
-middle of this tiny island, and the Glass Cat paused on the bank and
-said:
-
-“There is the gold flower-pot containing the Magic Flower, which is very
-curious and beautiful. If you can get to the island, your task is
-ended—except to carry the thing home with you.”
-
-Cap’n Bill looked at the broad expanse of water and began to whistle a
-low, quavering tune. Trot knew that the whistle meant that Cap’n Bill
-was thinking, and the old sailor didn’t look at the island as much as he
-looked at the trees upon the bank where they stood. Presently he took
-from the big pocket of his coat an axe-blade, wound in an old cloth to
-keep the sharp edge from cutting his clothing. Then, with a large pocket
-knife, he cut a small limb from a tree and whittled it into a handle for
-his axe.
-
-“Sit down, Trot,” he advised the girl, as he worked. “I’ve got quite a
-job ahead of me now, for I’ve got to build us a raft.”
-
-“What do we need a raft for, Cap’n?”
-
-“Why, to take us to the island. We can’t walk under water, in the river
-bed, as the Glass Cat did, so we must float atop the water.”
-
-“Can you make a raft, Cap’n Bill?”
-
-“O’ course, Trot, if you give me time.”
-
-The little girl sat down on a log and gazed at the Island of the Magic
-Flower. Nothing else seemed to grow on the tiny isle. There was no tree,
-no shrub, no grass, even, as far as she could make out from that
-distance. But the gold pot glittered in the rays of the sun, and Trot
-could catch glimpses of glowing colors above it, as the Magic Flower
-changed from one sort to another.
-
-“When I was here before,” remarked the Glass Cat, lazily reclining at
-the girl’s feet, “I saw two Kalidahs on this very bank, where they had
-come to drink.”
-
-“What are Kalidahs?” asked the girl.
-
-“The most powerful and ferocious beasts in all Oz. This forest is their
-especial home, and so there are few other beasts to be found except
-monkeys. The monkeys are spry enough to keep out of the way of the
-fierce Kalidahs, which attack all other animals and often fight among
-themselves.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Did they try to fight you when you saw ’em?” asked Trot, getting very
-much excited.
-
-“Yes. They sprang upon me in an instant; but I lay flat on the ground,
-so I wouldn’t get my legs broken by the great weight of the beasts, and
-when they tried to bite me I laughed at them and jeered them until they
-were frantic with rage, for they nearly broke their teeth on my hard
-glass. So, after a time, they discovered they could not hurt me, and
-went away. It was great fun.”
-
-“I hope they don’t come here again to drink,—not while we’re here,
-anyhow,” returned the girl, “for I’m not made of glass, nor is Cap’n
-Bill, and if those bad beasts bit us, we’d get hurt.”
-
-Cap’n Bill was cutting from the trees some long stakes, making them
-sharp at one end and leaving a crotch at the other end. These were to
-bind the logs of his raft together. He had fashioned several and was
-just finishing another when the Glass Cat cried: “Look out! There’s a
-Kalidah coming toward us.”
-
-Trot jumped up, greatly frightened, and looked at the terrible animal as
-if fascinated by its fierce eyes, for the Kalidah was looking at her,
-too, and its look wasn’t at all friendly. But Cap’n Bill called to her:
-“Wade into the river, Trot, up to your knees—an’ stay there!” and she
-obeyed him at once. The sailor-man hobbled forward, the stake in one
-hand and his axe in the other, and got between the girl and the beast,
-which sprang upon him with a growl of defiance.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Cap’n Bill moved pretty slowly, sometimes, but now he was quick as could
-be. As the Kalidah sprang toward him he stuck out his wooden leg and the
-point of it struck the beast between its eyes and sent it rolling upon
-the ground. Before it could get upon its feet again the sailor pushed
-the sharp stake right through its body and then with the flat side of
-the axe he hammered the stake as far into the ground as it would go. By
-this means he captured the great beast and made it harmless, for try as
-it would, it could not get away from the stake that held it.
-
-Cap’n Bill knew he could not kill the Kalidah, for no living thing in Oz
-can be killed, so he stood back and watched the beast wriggle and growl
-and paw the earth with its sharp claws, and then, satisfied it could not
-escape, he told Trot to come out of the water again and dry her wet
-shoes and stockings in the sun.
-
-“Are you sure he can’t get away?” she asked.
-
-“I’d bet a cookie on it,” said Cap’n Bill, so Trot came ashore and took
-off her shoes and stockings and laid them on the log to dry, while the
-sailor-man resumed his work on the raft.
-
-The Kalidah, realizing after many struggles that it could not escape,
-now became quiet, but it said in a harsh, snarling voice:
-
-“I suppose you think you’re clever, to pin me to the ground in this
-manner. But when my friends, the other Kalidahs, come here, they’ll tear
-you to pieces for treating me this way.”
-
-“P’raps,” remarked Cap’n Bill, coolly, as he chopped at the logs, “an’
-p’raps not. When are your folks comin’ here?”
-
-“I don’t know,” admitted the Kalidah. “But when they _do_ come, you
-can’t escape them.”
-
-“If they hold off long enough, I’ll have my raft ready,” said Cap’n
-Bill.
-
-“What are you going to do with a raft?” inquired the beast.
-
-“We’re goin’ over to that island, to get the Magic Flower.”
-
-The huge beast looked at him in surprise a moment, and then it began to
-laugh. The laugh was a good deal like a roar, and it had a cruel and
-derisive sound, but it was a laugh nevertheless.
-
-“Good!” said the Kalidah. “Good! Very good! I’m glad you’re going to get
-the Magic Flower. But what will you do with it?”
-
-“We’re going to take it to Ozma, as a present on her birthday.”
-
-The Kalidah laughed again; then it became sober. “If you get to the land
-on your raft before my people can catch you,” it said, “you will be safe
-from us. We can swim like ducks, so the girl couldn’t have escaped me by
-getting into the water; but Kalidahs don’t go to that island over
-there.”
-
-“Why not?” asked Trot.
-
-The beast was silent.
-
-“Tell us the reason,” urged Cap’n Bill.
-
-“Well, it’s the Isle of the Magic Flower,” answered the Kalidah, “and we
-don’t care much for magic. If you hadn’t had a magic leg, instead of a
-meat one, you couldn’t have knocked me over so easily and stuck this
-wooden pin through me.”
-
-“I’ve been to the Magic Isle,” said the Glass Cat, “and I’ve watched the
-Magic Flower bloom, and I’m sure it’s too pretty to be left in that
-lonely place where only beasts prowl around it and no one else sees it.
-So we’re going to take it away to the Emerald City.”
-
-“I don’t care,” the beast replied in a surly tone. “We Kalidahs would be
-just as contented if there wasn’t a flower in our forest. What good are
-the things anyhow?”
-
-“Don’t you like pretty things?” asked Trot.
-
-“No.”
-
-“You ought to admire my pink brains, anyhow,” declared the Glass Cat.
-“They’re beautiful and you can see ’em work.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The beast only growled in reply, and Cap’n Bill, having now cut all his
-logs to a proper size, began to roll them to the water’s edge and fasten
-them together.
-
-
-
-
-                               Stuck Fast
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 10
-
-The day was nearly gone when, at last, the raft was ready.
-
-“It ain’t so very big,” said the old sailor, “but I don’t weigh much,
-an’ you, Trot, don’t weigh half as much as I do, an’ the glass pussy
-don’t count.”
-
-“But it’s safe, isn’t it?” inquired the girl.
-
-“Yes; it’s good enough to carry us to the island an’ back again, an’
-that’s about all we can expect of it.”
-
-Saying this, Cap’n Bill pushed the raft into the water, and when it was
-afloat, stepped upon it and held out his hand to Trot, who quickly
-followed him. The Glass Cat boarded the raft last of all.
-
-The sailor had cut a long pole, and had also whittled a flat paddle, and
-with these he easily propelled the raft across the river. As they
-approached the island, the Wonderful Flower became more plainly visible,
-and they quickly decided that the Glass Cat had not praised it too
-highly. The colors of the flowers that bloomed in quick succession were
-strikingly bright and beautiful, and the shapes of the blossoms were
-varied and curious. Indeed, they did not resemble ordinary flowers at
-all.
-
-So intently did Trot and Cap’n Bill gaze upon the Golden Flower pot that
-held the Magic Flower that they scarcely noticed the island itself until
-the raft beached upon its sands. But then the girl exclaimed: “How funny
-it is, Cap’n Bill, that nothing else grows here excep’ the Magic
-Flower.”
-
-Then the sailor glanced at the island and saw that it was all bare
-ground, without a weed, a stone or a blade of grass. Trot, eager to
-examine the Flower closer, sprang from the raft and ran up the bank
-until she reached the Golden Flowerpot. Then she stood beside it
-motionless and filled with wonder. Cap’n Bill joined her, coming more
-leisurely, and he, too, stood in silent admiration for a time.
-
-“Ozma will like this,” remarked the Glass Cat, sitting down to watch the
-shifting hues of the flowers. “I’m sure she won’t have as fine a
-birthday present from anyone else.”
-
-“Do you s’pose it’s very heavy, Cap’n? And can we get it home without
-breaking it?” asked Trot anxiously.
-
-“Well, I’ve lifted many bigger things than that,” he replied; “but let’s
-see what it weighs.”
-
-He tried to take a step forward, but could not lift his meat foot from
-the ground. His wooden leg seemed free enough, but the other would not
-budge.
-
-“I seem stuck, Trot,” he said, with a perplexed look at his foot. “It
-ain’t mud, an’ it ain’t glue, but somethin’s holdin’ me down.”
-
-The girl attempted to lift her own feet, to go nearer to her friend, but
-the ground held them as fast as it held Cap’n Bill’s foot. She tried to
-slide them, or to twist them around, but it was no use; she could not
-move either foot a hair’s breadth.
-
-“This is funny!” she exclaimed. “What do you ’spose has happened to us,
-Cap’n Bill?”
-
-“I’m tryin’ to make out,” he answered. “Take off your shoes, Trot.
-P’raps it’s the leather soles that’s stuck to the ground.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-She leaned down and unlaced her shoes, but found she could not pull her
-feet out of them. The Glass Cat, which was walking around as naturally
-as ever, now said:
-
-“Your foot has got roots to it, Cap’n, and I can see the roots going
-into the ground, where they spread out in all directions. It’s the same
-way with Trot. That’s why you can’t move. The roots hold you fast.”
-
-Cap’n Bill was rather fat and couldn’t see his own feet very well, but
-he squatted down and examined Trot’s feet and decided that the Glass Cat
-was right.
-
-“This is hard luck,” he declared, in a voice that showed he was uneasy
-at the discovery. “We’re pris’ners, Trot, on this funny island, an’ I’d
-like to know how we’re ever goin’ to get loose, so’s we can get home
-again.”
-
-“Now I know why the Kalidah laughed at us,” said the girl, “and why he
-said none of the beasts ever came to this island. The horrid creature
-knew we’d be caught, and wouldn’t warn us.”
-
-In the meantime, the Kalidah, although pinned fast to the earth by Cap’n
-Bill’s stake, was facing the island, and now the ugly expression which
-passed over its face when it defied and sneered at Cap’n Bill and Trot,
-had changed to one of amusement and curiosity. When it saw the
-adventurers had actually reached the island and were standing beside the
-Magic Flower, it heaved a breath of satisfaction—a long, deep breath
-that swelled the deep chest until the beast could feel the stake that
-held him move a little, as if withdrawing itself from the ground.
-
-“Ah ha!” murmured the Kalidah, “a little more of this will set me free
-and allow me to escape!”
-
-So he began breathing as hard as he could, puffing out his chest as much
-as possible with each indrawing breath, and by doing this he managed to
-raise the stake with each powerful breath, until at last the
-Kalidah—using the muscles of his four legs as well as his deep
-breaths—found itself free of the sandy soil. The stake was sticking
-right through him, however, so he found a rock deeply set in the bank
-and pressed the sharp point of the stake upon the surface of this rock
-until he had driven it clear through his body. Then, by getting the
-stake tangled among some thorny bushes, and wiggling his body, he
-managed to draw it out altogether.
-
-“There!” he exclaimed, “except for those two holes in me, I’m as good as
-ever; but I must admit that that old wooden-legged fellow saved both
-himself and the girl by making me a prisoner.”
-
-Now the Kalidahs, although the most disagreeable creatures in the Land
-of Oz, were nevertheless magical inhabitants of a magical Fairyland, and
-in their natures a certain amount of good was mingled with the evil.
-This one was not very revengeful, and now that his late foes were in
-danger of perishing, his anger against them faded away.
-
-“Our own Kalidah King,” he reflected, “has certain magical powers of his
-own. Perhaps he knows how to fill up these two holes in my body.”
-
-So without paying any more attention to Trot and Cap’n Bill than they
-were paying to him, he entered the forest and trotted along a secret
-path that led to the hidden lair of all the Kalidahs.
-
-While the Kalidah was making good its escape Cap’n Bill took his pipe
-from his pocket and filled it with tobacco and lighted it. Then, as he
-puffed out the smoke, he tried to think what could be done.
-
-“The Glass Cat seems all right,” he said, “an’ my wooden leg didn’t take
-roots and grow, either. So it’s only flesh that gets caught.”
-
-“It’s magic that does it, Cap’n!”
-
-“I know, Trot, and that’s what sticks me. We’re livin’ in a magic
-country, but neither of us knows any magic an’ so we can’t help
-ourselves.”
-
-“Couldn’t the Wizard of Oz help us—or Glinda the Good?” asked the little
-girl.
-
-“Ah, now we’re beginnin’ to reason,” he answered. “I’d probably thought
-o’ that, myself, in a minute more. By good luck the Glass Cat is free,
-an’ so it can run back to the Emerald City an’ tell the Wizard about our
-fix, an’ ask him to come an’ help us get loose.”
-
-“Will you go?” Trot asked the cat, speaking very earnestly.
-
-“I’m no messenger, to be sent here and there,” asserted the curious
-animal in a sulky tone of voice.
-
-“Well,” said Cap’n Bill, “you’ve got to go home, anyhow, ’cause you
-don’t want to stay here, I take it. And, when you get home, it wouldn’t
-worry you much to tell the Wizard what’s happened to us.”
-
-“That’s true,” said the cat, sitting on its haunches and lazily washing
-its face with one glass paw. “I don’t mind telling the Wizard—when I get
-home.”
-
-“Won’t you go now?” pleaded Trot. “We don’t want to stay here any longer
-than we can help, and everybody in Oz will be interested in you, and
-call you a hero, and say nice things about you because you helped your
-friends out of trouble.”
-
-That was the best way to manage the Glass Cat, which was so vain that it
-loved to be praised.
-
-“I’m going home right away,” said the creature, “and I’ll tell the
-Wizard to come and help you.”
-
-Saying this, it walked down to the water and disappeared under the
-surface. Not being able to manage the raft alone, the Glass Cat walked
-on the bottom of the river as it had done when it visited the island
-before, and soon they saw it appear on the farther bank and trot into
-the forest, where it was quickly lost to sight among the trees.
-
-Then Trot heaved a deep sigh.
-
-“Cap’n,” said she, “we’re in a bad fix. There’s nothing here to eat, and
-we can’t even lie down to sleep. Unless the Glass Cat hurries, and the
-Wizard hurries, I don’t know what’s going to become of us!”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                    The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 11
-
-That was a wonderful gathering of wild animals in the Forest of Gugu
-next sunrise. Rango, the Gray Ape, had even called his monkey sentinels
-away from the forest edge, and every beast, little and big, was in the
-great clearing where meetings were held on occasions of great
-importance.
-
-In the center of the clearing stood a great shelving rock, having a
-flat, inclined surface, and on this sat the stately Leopard Gugu, who
-was King of the Forest. On the ground beneath him squatted Bru the Bear,
-Loo the Unicorn, and Rango the Gray Ape, the King’s three Counsellors,
-and in front of them stood the two strange beasts who had called
-themselves Li-Mon-Eags, but were really the transformations of Ruggedo
-the Nome, and Kiki Aru the Hyup.
-
-Then came the beasts—rows and rows and rows of them! The smallest beasts
-were nearest the King’s rock throne; then there were wolves and foxes,
-lynxes and hyenas, and the like; behind them were gathered the monkey
-tribes, who were hard to keep in order because they teased the other
-animals and were full of mischievous tricks. Back of the monkeys were
-the pumas, jaguars, tigers and lions, and their kind; next the bears,
-all sizes and colors; after them bisons, wild asses, zebras and
-unicorns; farther on the rhinoceri and hippopotami, and at the far edge
-of the forest, close to the trees that shut in the clearing, was a row
-of thick-skinned elephants, still as statues but with eyes bright and
-intelligent.
-
-Many other kinds of beasts, too numerous to mention, were there, and
-some were unlike any beasts we see in the menageries and zoos in our
-country. Some were from the mountains west of the forest, and some from
-the plains at the east, and some from the river; but all present
-acknowledged the leadership of Gugu, who for many years had ruled them
-wisely and forced all to obey the laws.
-
-When the beasts had taken their places in the clearing and the rising
-sun was shooting its first bright rays over the treetops, King Gugu rose
-on his throne. The Leopard’s giant form, towering above all the others,
-caused a sudden hush to fall on the assemblage.
-
-“Brothers,” he said in his deep voice, “a stranger has come among us, a
-beast of curious form who is a great magician and is able to change the
-shapes of men or beasts at his will. This stranger has come to us, with
-another of his kind, from out of the sky, to warn us of a danger which
-threatens us all, and to offer us a way to escape from that danger. He
-says he is our friend, and he has proved to me and to my counsellors his
-magic powers. Will you listen to what he has to say to you—to the
-message he has brought from the sky?”
-
-“Let him speak!” came in a great roar from the great company of
-assembled beasts.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-So Ruggedo the Nome sprang upon the flat rock beside Gugu the King, and
-another roar, gentle this time, showed how astonished the beasts were at
-the sight of his curious form. His lion’s face was surrounded by a mane
-of pure white hair; his eagle’s wings were attached to the shoulders of
-his monkey body and were so long that they nearly touched the ground; he
-had powerful arms and legs in addition to the wings, and at the end of
-his long, strong tail was a golden ball. Never had any beast beheld such
-a curious creature before, and so the very sight of the stranger, who
-was said to be a great magician, filled all present with awe and wonder.
-
-Kiki stayed down below and, half hidden by the shelf of rock, was
-scarcely noticed. The boy realized that the old Nome was helpless
-without his magic power, but he also realized that Ruggedo was the best
-talker. So he was willing the Nome should take the lead.
-
-“Beasts of the Forest of Gugu,” began Ruggedo the Nome, “my comrade and
-I are your friends. We are magicians, and from our home in the sky we
-can look down into the Land of Oz and see everything that is going on.
-Also we can hear what the people below us are saying. That is how we
-heard Ozma, who rules the Land of Oz, say to her people: ‘The beasts in
-the Forest of Gugu are lazy and are of no use to us. Let us go to their
-forest and make them all our prisoners. Let us tie them with ropes, and
-beat them with sticks, until they work for us and become our willing
-slaves.’ And when the people heard Ozma of Oz say this, they were glad
-and raised a great shout and said: ‘We will do it! We will make the
-beasts of the Forest of Gugu our slaves!’”
-
-The wicked old Nome could say no more, just then, for such a fierce roar
-of anger rose from the multitude of beasts that his voice was drowned by
-the clamor. Finally the roar died away, like distant thunder, and
-Ruggedo the Nome went on with his speech.
-
-“Having heard the Oz people plot against your liberty, we watched to see
-what they would do, and saw them all begin making ropes—ropes long and
-short—with which to snare our friends the beasts. You are angry, but we
-also were angry, for when the Oz people became the enemies of the beasts
-they also became our enemies; for we, too, are beasts, although we live
-in the sky. And my comrade and I said: ‘We will save our friends and
-have revenge on the Oz people,’ and so we came here to tell you of your
-danger and of our plan to save you.”
-
-“We can save ourselves,” cried an old elephant. “We can fight.”
-
-“The Oz people are fairies, and you can’t fight against magic unless you
-also have magic,” answered the Nome.
-
-“Tell us your plan!” shouted the huge Tiger, and the other beasts echoed
-his words, crying: “Tell us your plan.”
-
-“My plan is simple,” replied Ruggedo. “By our magic we will transform
-all you animals into men and women—like the Oz people—and we will
-transform all the Oz people into beasts. You can then live in the fine
-houses of the Land of Oz, and eat the fine food of the Oz people, and
-wear their fine clothes, and sing and dance and be happy. And the Oz
-people, having become beasts, will have to live here in the forest and
-hunt and fight for food, and often go hungry, as you now do, and have no
-place to sleep but a bed of leaves or a hole in the ground. Having
-become men and women, you beasts will have all the comforts you desire,
-and having become beasts, the Oz people will be very miserable. That is
-our plan, and if you agree to it, we will all march at once into the
-Land of Oz and quickly conquer our enemies.”
-
-When the stranger ceased speaking, a great silence fell on the
-assemblage, for the beasts were thinking of what he had said. Finally
-one of the walrus asked:
-
-“Can you really transform beasts into men, and men into beasts?”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“He can—he can!” cried Loo the Unicorn, prancing up and down in an
-excited manner. “He transformed _me_, only last evening, and he can
-transform us all.”
-
-Gugu the King now stepped forward.
-
-“You have heard the stranger speak,” said he, “and now you must answer
-him. It is for you to decide. Shall we agree to this plan, or not?”
-
-“Yes!” shouted some of the animals.
-
-“No!” shouted others.
-
-And some were yet silent.
-
-Gugu looked around the great circle.
-
-“Take more time to think,” he suggested. “Your answer is very important.
-Up to this time we have had no trouble with the Oz people, but we are
-proud and free, and never will become slaves. Think carefully, and when
-you are ready to answer, I will hear you.”
-
-
-
-
-                          Kiki Uses His Magic
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 12
-
-Then arose a great confusion of sounds as all the animals began talking
-to their fellows. The monkeys chattered and the bears growled and the
-voices of the jaguars and lions rumbled, and the wolves yelped and the
-elephants had to trumpet loudly to make their voices heard. Such a
-hubbub had never been known in the forest before, and each beast argued
-with his neighbor until it seemed the noise would never cease.
-
-Ruggedo the Nome waved his arms and fluttered his wings to try to make
-them listen to him again, but the beasts paid no attention. Some wanted
-to fight the Oz people, some wanted to be transformed, and some wanted
-to do nothing at all.
-
-The growling and confusion had grown greater than ever when in a flash
-silence fell on all the beasts present, the arguments were hushed, and
-all gazed in astonishment at a strange sight.
-
-For into the circle strode a great Lion—bigger and more powerful than
-any other lion there—and on his back rode a little girl who smiled
-fearlessly at the multitude of beasts. And behind the lion and the
-little girl came another beast—a monstrous Tiger, who bore upon his back
-a funny little man carrying a black bag. Right past the rows of
-wondering beasts the strange animals walked, advancing until they stood
-just before the rock throne of Gugu.
-
-Then the little girl and the funny little man dismounted, and the great
-Lion demanded in a loud voice:
-
-“Who is King in this forest?”
-
-“I am!” answered Gugu, looking steadily at the other. “I am Gugu the
-Leopard, and I am King of this forest.”
-
-“Then I greet Your Majesty with great respect,” said the Lion. “Perhaps
-you have heard of me, Gugu. I am called the ‘Cowardly Lion,’ and I am
-King of all Beasts, the world over.”
-
-Gugu’s eyes flashed angrily.
-
-“Yes,” said he, “I have heard of you. You have long claimed to be King
-of Beasts, but no beast who is a coward can be King over me.”
-
-“He isn’t a coward, Your Majesty,” asserted the little girl, “he’s just
-cowardly, that’s all.”
-
-Gugu looked at her. All the other beasts were looking at her, too.
-
-“Who are you?” asked the King.
-
-“Me? Oh, I’m just Dorothy,” she answered.
-
-“How dare you come here?” demanded the King.
-
-“Why, I’m not afraid to go anywhere, if the Cowardly Lion is with me,”
-she said. “I know him pretty well, and so I can trust him. He’s always
-afraid, when we get into trouble, and that’s why he’s cowardly; but he’s
-a terrible fighter, and that’s why he isn’t a coward. He doesn’t like to
-fight, you know, but when he _has_ to, there isn’t any beast living that
-can conquer him.”
-
-Gugu the King looked at the big, powerful form of the Cowardly Lion, and
-knew she spoke the truth. Also the other Lions of the forest now came
-forward and bowed low before the strange Lion.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“We welcome Your Majesty,” said one. “We have known you many years ago,
-before you went to live at the Emerald City, and we have seen you fight
-the terrible Kalidahs and conquer them, so we know you are the King of
-all Beasts.”
-
-“It is true,” replied the Cowardly Lion; “but I did not come here to
-rule the beasts of this forest. Gugu is King here, and I believe he is a
-good King and just and wise. I come, with my friends, to be the guest of
-Gugu, and I hope we are welcome.”
-
-That pleased the great Leopard, who said very quickly:
-
-“Yes; you, at least, are welcome to my forest. But who are these
-strangers with you.”
-
-“Dorothy has introduced herself,” replied the Lion, “and you are sure to
-like her when you know her better. This man is the Wizard of Oz, a
-friend of mine who can do wonderful tricks of magic. And here is my true
-and tried friend, the Hungry Tiger, who lives with me in the Emerald
-City.”
-
-“Is he _always_ hungry?” asked Loo the Unicorn.
-
-“I am,” replied the Tiger, answering the question himself. “I am always
-hungry for fat babies.”
-
-“Can’t you find any fat babies in Oz to eat?” inquired Loo, the Unicorn.
-
-“There are plenty of them, of course,” said the Tiger, “but
-unfortunately I have such a tender conscience that it won’t allow me to
-eat babies. So I’m always hungry for ’em and never can eat ’em, because
-my conscience won’t let me.”
-
-Now of all the surprised beasts in that clearing, not one was so much
-surprised at the sudden appearance of these four strangers as Ruggedo
-the Nome. He was frightened, too, for he recognized them as his most
-powerful enemies; but he also realized that they could not know he was
-the former King of the Nomes, because of the beast’s form he wore, which
-disguised him so effectually. So he took courage and resolved that the
-Wizard and Dorothy should not defeat his plans.
-
-It was hard to tell, just yet, what the vast assemblage of beasts
-thought of the new arrivals. Some glared angrily at them, but more of
-them seemed to be curious and wondering. All were interested, however,
-and they kept very quiet and listened carefully to all that was said.
-
-Kiki Aru, who had remained unnoticed in the shadow of the rock, was at
-first more alarmed by the coming of the strangers than even Ruggedo was,
-and the boy told himself that unless he acted quickly and without
-waiting to ask the advice of the old Nome, their conspiracy was likely
-to be discovered and all their plans to conquer and rule Oz be defeated.
-Kiki didn’t like the way Ruggedo acted either, for the former King of
-the Nomes wanted to do everything his own way, and made the boy, who
-alone possessed the power of transformations, obey his orders as if he
-were a slave.
-
-Another thing that disturbed Kiki Aru was the fact that a real Wizard
-had arrived, who was said to possess many magical powers, and this
-Wizard carried his tools in a black bag, and was the friend of the Oz
-people, and so would probably try to prevent war between the beasts of
-the forest and the people of Oz.
-
-All these things passed through the mind of the Hyup boy while the
-Cowardly Lion and Gugu the King were talking together, and that was why
-he now began to do several strange things.
-
-He had found a place, near to the point where he stood, where there was
-a deep hollow in the rock, so he put his face into this hollow and
-whispered softly, so he would not be heard:
-
-“I want the Wizard of Oz to become a fox—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-The Wizard, who had stood smilingly beside his friends, suddenly felt
-his form change to that of a fox, and his black bag fell to the ground.
-Kiki reached out an arm and seized the bag, and the Fox cried as loud as
-it could:
-
-“Treason! There’s a traitor here with magic powers!”
-
-Everyone was startled at this cry, and Dorothy, seeing her old friend’s
-plight, screamed and exclaimed: “Mercy me!”
-
-But the next instant the little girl’s form had changed to that of a
-lamb with fleecy white wool, and Dorothy was too bewildered to do
-anything but look around her in wonder.
-
-The Cowardly Lion’s eyes now flashed fire; he crouched low and lashed
-the ground with his tail and gazed around to discover who the
-treacherous magician might be. But Kiki, who had kept his face in the
-hollow rock, again whispered the magic word, and the great lion
-disappeared and in his place stood a little boy dressed in Munchkin
-costume. The little Munchkin boy was as angry as the lion had been, but
-he was small and helpless.
-
-Ruggedo the Nome saw what was happening and was afraid Kiki would spoil
-all his plans, so he leaned over the rock and shouted: “Stop,
-Kiki—stop!”
-
-Kiki would not stop, however. Instead, he transformed the Nome into a
-goose, to Ruggedo’s horror and dismay. But the Hungry Tiger had
-witnessed all these transformations, and he was watching to see which of
-those present was to blame for them. When Ruggedo spoke to Kiki, the
-Hungry Tiger knew that he was the magician, so he made a sudden spring
-and hurled his great body full upon the form of the Li-Mon-Eag crouching
-against the rock. Kiki didn’t see the Tiger coming because his face was
-still in the hollow, and the heavy body of the tiger bore him to the
-earth just as he said “Pyrzqxgl!” for the fifth time.
-
-So now the tiger which was crushing him changed to a rabbit, and
-relieved of its weight, Kiki sprang up and, spreading his eagle’s wings,
-flew into the branches of a tree, where no beast could easily reach him.
-He was not an instant too quick in doing this, for Gugu the King had
-crouched on the rock’s edge and was about to spring on the boy.
-
-From his tree Kiki transformed Gugu into a fat Gillikin woman, and
-laughed aloud to see how the woman pranced with rage, and how astonished
-all the beasts were at their King’s new shape.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The beasts were frightened, too, fearing they would share the fate of
-Gugu, so a stampede began when Rango the Gray Ape sprang into the
-forest, and Bru the Bear and Loo the Unicorn followed as quickly as they
-could. The elephants backed into the forest, and all the other animals,
-big and little, rushed after them, scattering through the jungles until
-the clearing was far behind. The monkeys scrambled into the trees and
-swung themselves from limb to limb, to avoid being trampled upon by the
-bigger beasts, and they were so quick that they distanced all the rest.
-A panic of fear seemed to have overtaken the forest people and they got
-as far away from the terrible Magician as they possibly could.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-But the transformed ones stayed in the clearing, being so astonished and
-bewildered by their new shapes that they could only look at one another
-in a dazed and helpless fashion, although each one was greatly annoyed
-at the trick that had been played on him.
-
-“Who are you?” the Munchkin boy asked the Rabbit; and “Who are you?” the
-Fox asked the Lamb; and “Who are you?” the Rabbit asked the fat Gillikin
-woman.
-
-“I’m Dorothy,” said the woolly Lamb.
-
-“I’m the Wizard,” said the Fox.
-
-“I’m the Cowardly Lion,” said the Munchkin Boy.
-
-“I’m the Hungry Tiger,” said the Rabbit.
-
-“I’m Gugu the King,” said the fat Woman.
-
-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.”
-
-
-
-
-                       The Loss of the Black Bag
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 13
-
-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.
-
-“This is certainly a misfortune,” remarked the Wizard in the Fox’s form,
-“but our transformations are a sort of enchantment which is very easy to
-break—when you know how and have the tools to do it with. The tools are
-in my Black Bag; but where is the Bag?”
-
-No one knew that, for none had seen Kiki Aru fly away with it.
-
-“Let’s look and see if we can find it,” suggested Dorothy the Lamb.
-
-So they left the rock, and all of them searched the clearing high and
-low without finding the Bag of Magic Tools. The Goose searched as
-earnestly as the others, for if he could discover it, he meant to hide
-it where the Wizard could never find it, because if the Wizard changed
-him back to his proper form, along with the others, he would then be
-recognized as Ruggedo the Nome, and they would send him out of the Land
-of Oz and so ruin all his hopes of conquest.
-
-Ruggedo was not really sorry, now that he thought about it, that Kiki
-had transformed all these Oz folks. The forest beasts, it was true, had
-been so frightened that they would now never consent to be transformed
-into men, but Kiki could transform them against their will, and once
-they were all in human forms, it would not be impossible to induce them
-to conquer the Oz people.
-
-So all was not lost, thought the old Nome, and the best thing for him to
-do was to rejoin the Hyup boy who had the secret of the transformations.
-So, having made sure the Wizard’s black bag was not in the clearing, the
-Goose wandered away through the trees when the others were not looking,
-and when out of their hearing, he began calling, “Kiki Aru! Kiki Aru!
-Quack—quack! Kiki Aru!”
-
-The Boy and the Woman, the Fox, the Lamb and the Rabbit, not being able
-to find the bag, went back to the rock, all feeling exceedingly strange.
-
-“Where’s the Goose?” asked the Wizard.
-
-“He must have run away,” replied Dorothy. “I wonder who he was?”
-
-“I think,” said Gugu the King, who was the fat Woman, “that the Goose
-was the stranger who proposed that we make war upon the Oz people. If
-so, his transformation was merely a trick to deceive us, and he has now
-gone to join his comrade, that wicked Li-Mon-Eag who obeyed all his
-commands.”
-
-“What shall we do now?” asked Dorothy. “Shall we go back to the Emerald
-City, as we are, and then visit Glinda the Good and ask her to break the
-enchantments?”
-
-“I think so,” replied the Wizard Fox. “And we can take Gugu the King
-with us, and have Glinda restore him to his natural shape. But I hate to
-leave my bag of Magic Tools behind me, for without it I shall lose much
-of my power as a Wizard. Also, if I go back to the Emerald City in the
-shape of a Fox, the Oz people will think I’m a poor Wizard and will lose
-their respect for me.”
-
-“Let us make still another search for your tools,” suggested the
-Cowardly Lion, “and then, if we fail to find the Black Bag anywhere in
-this forest, we must go back home as we are.”
-
-“Why did you come here, anyway?” inquired Gugu.
-
-“We wanted to borrow a dozen monkeys, to use on Ozma’s birthday,”
-explained the Wizard. “We were going to make them small, and train them
-to do tricks, and put them inside Ozma’s birthday cake.”
-
-“Well,” said the Forest King, “you would have to get the consent of
-Rango the Gray Ape, to do that. He commands all the tribes of monkeys.”
-
-“I’m afraid it’s too late, now,” said Dorothy, regretfully. “It was a
-splendid plan, but we’ve got troubles of our own, and I don’t like being
-a lamb at all.”
-
-“You’re nice and fuzzy,” said the Cowardly Lion.
-
-“That’s nothing,” declared Dorothy. “I’ve never been ’specially proud of
-myself, but I’d rather be the way I was born than anything else in the
-whole world.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The Glass Cat, although it had some disagreeable ways and manners,
-nevertheless realized that Trot and Cap’n Bill were its friends and so
-was quite disturbed at the fix it had gotten them into by leading them
-to the Isle of the Magic Flower. The ruby heart of the Glass Cat was
-cold and hard, but still it was a heart, and to have a heart of any sort
-is to have some consideration for others. But the queer transparent
-creature didn’t want Trot and Cap’n Bill to know it was sorry for them,
-and therefore it moved very slowly until it had crossed the river and
-was out of sight among the trees of the forest. Then it headed straight
-toward the Emerald City, and trotted so fast that it was like a crystal
-streak crossing the valleys and plains. Being glass, the cat was
-tireless, and with no reason to delay its journey, it reached Ozma’s
-palace in wonderfully quick time.
-
-“Where’s the Wizard?” it asked the Pink Kitten, which was curled up in
-the sunshine on the lowest step of the palace entrance.
-
-“Don’t bother me,” lazily answered the Pink Kitten, whose name was
-Eureka.
-
-“I must find the Wizard at once!” said the Glass Cat.
-
-“Then find him,” advised Eureka, and went to sleep again.
-
-The Glass Cat darted up the stairway and came upon Toto, Dorothy’s
-little black dog.
-
-“Where’s the Wizard?” asked the Cat.
-
-“Gone on a journey with Dorothy,” replied Toto.
-
-“When did they go, and where have they gone?” demanded the Cat.
-
-“They went yesterday, and I heard them say they would go to the Great
-Forest in the Munchkin Country.”
-
-“Dear me,” said the Glass Cat; “that is a long journey.”
-
-“But they rode on the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion,” explained
-Toto, “and the Wizard carried his Black Bag of Magic Tools.”
-
-The Glass Cat knew the Great Forest of Gugu well, for it had traveled
-through this forest many times in its journeys through the Land of Oz.
-And it reflected that the Forest of Gugu was nearer to the Isle of the
-Magic Flower than the Emerald City was, and so, if it could manage to
-find the Wizard, it could lead him across the Gillikin country to where
-Trot and Cap’n Bill were prisoned. It was a wild country and little
-traveled, but the Glass Cat knew every path. So very little time need be
-lost, after all.
-
-Without stopping to ask any more questions the Cat darted out of the
-palace and away from the Emerald City, taking the most direct route to
-the Forest of Gugu. Again the creature flashed through the country like
-a streak of light, and it would surprise you to know how quickly it
-reached the edge of the Great Forest.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-There were no monkey guards among the trees to cry out a warning, and
-this was so unusual that it astonished the Glass Cat. Going farther into
-the forest it presently came upon a wolf, which at first bounded away in
-terror. But then, seeing it was only a Glass Cat, the Wolf stopped, and
-the Cat could see it was trembling, as if from a terrible fright.
-
-“What’s the matter?” asked the Cat.
-
-“A dreadful Magician has come among us!” exclaimed the Wolf, “and he’s
-changing the forms of all the beasts—quick as a wink—and making them all
-his slaves.”
-
-The Glass Cat smiled and said:
-
-“Why, that’s only the Wizard of Oz. He may be having some fun with you
-forest people, but the Wizard wouldn’t hurt a beast for anything.”
-
-“I don’t mean the Wizard,” explained the Wolf. “And if the Wizard of Oz
-is that funny little man who rode a great Tiger into the clearing, he’s
-been transformed himself by the terrible Magician.”
-
-“The Wizard transformed? Why, that’s impossible,” declared the Glass
-Cat.
-
-“No; it isn’t. I saw him with my own eyes, changed into the form of a
-Fox, and the girl who was with him was changed to a woolly Lamb.”
-
-The Glass Cat was indeed surprised.
-
-“When did that happen?” it asked.
-
-“Just a little while ago in the clearing. All the animals had met there,
-but they ran away when the Magician began his transformations, and I’m
-thankful I escaped with my natural shape. But I’m still afraid, and I’m
-going somewhere to hide.”
-
-With this the Wolf ran on, and the Glass Cat, which knew where the big
-clearing was, went toward it. But now it walked more slowly, and its
-pink brains rolled and tumbled around at a great rate because it was
-thinking over the amazing news the Wolf had told it.
-
-When the Glass Cat reached the clearing, it saw a Fox, a Lamb, a Rabbit,
-a Munchkin boy and a fat Gillikin woman, all wandering around in an
-aimless sort of way, for they were again searching for the Black Bag of
-Magic Tools.
-
-The Cat watched them a moment and then it walked slowly into the open
-space. At once the Lamb ran toward it, crying:
-
-“Oh, Wizard, here’s the Glass Cat!”
-
-“Where, Dorothy?” asked the Fox.
-
-“Here!”
-
-The Boy and the Woman and the Rabbit now joined the Fox and the Lamb,
-and they all stood before the Glass Cat and speaking together, almost
-like a chorus, asked: “Have you seen the Black Bag?”
-
-“Often,” replied the Glass Cat, “but not lately.”
-
-“It’s lost,” said the Fox, “and we must find it.”
-
-“Are you the Wizard?” asked the Cat.
-
-“Yes.”
-
-“And who are these others?”
-
-“I’m Dorothy,” said the Lamb.
-
-“I’m the Cowardly Lion,” said the Munchkin boy.
-
-“I’m the Hungry Tiger,” said the Rabbit.
-
-“I’m Gugu, King of the Forest,” said the fat Woman.
-
-The Glass Cat sat on its hind legs and began to laugh. “My, what a funny
-lot!” exclaimed the Creature. “Who played this joke on you?”
-
-“It’s no joke at all,” declared the Wizard. “It was a cruel, wicked
-transformation, and the Magician that did it has the head of a lion, the
-body of a monkey, the wings of an eagle and a round ball on the end of
-his tail.”
-
-The Glass Cat laughed again. “That Magician must look funnier than you
-do,” it said. “Where is he now?”
-
-“Somewhere in the forest,” said the Cowardly Lion. “He just jumped into
-that tall maple tree over there, for he can climb like a monkey and fly
-like an eagle, and then he disappeared in the forest.”
-
-“And there was another Magician, just like him, who was his friend,”
-added Dorothy, “but they probably quarreled, for the wickedest one
-changed his friend into the form of a Goose.”
-
-“What became of the Goose?” asked the Cat, looking around.
-
-“He must have gone away to find his friend,” answered Gugu the King.
-“But a Goose can’t travel very fast, so we could easily find him if we
-wanted to.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“The worst thing of all,” said the Wizard, “is that my Black Bag is
-lost. It disappeared when I was transformed. If I could find it I could
-easily break these enchantments by means of my magic, and we would
-resume our own forms again. Will you help us search for the Black Bag,
-Friend Cat?”
-
-“Of course,” replied the Glass Cat. “But I expect the strange Magician
-carried it away with him. If he’s a magician, he knows you need that
-Bag, and perhaps he’s afraid of your magic. So he’s probably taken the
-Bag with him, and you won’t see it again unless you find the Magician.”
-
-“That sounds reasonable,” remarked the Lamb, which was Dorothy. “Those
-pink brains of yours seem to be working pretty well to-day.”
-
-“If the Glass Cat is right,” said the Wizard in a solemn voice, “there’s
-more trouble ahead of us. That Magician is dangerous, and if we go near
-him he may transform us into shapes not as nice as these.”
-
-“I don’t see how we could be any _worse_ off,” growled Gugu, who was
-indignant because he was forced to appear in the form of a fat woman.
-
-“Anyway,” said the Cowardly Lion, “our best plan is to find the Magician
-and try to get the Black Bag from him. We may manage to steal it, or
-perhaps we can argue him into giving it to us.”
-
-“Why not find the Goose, first?” asked Dorothy. “The Goose will be angry
-at the Magician, and he may be able to help us.”
-
-“That isn’t a bad idea,” returned the Wizard. “Come on, Friends; let’s
-find that Goose. We will separate and search in different directions,
-and the first to find the Goose must bring him here, where we will all
-meet again in an hour.”
-
-
-
-
-                    The Wizard Learns the Magic Word
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 14
-
-Now, the Goose was the transformation of old Ruggedo, who was at one
-time King of the Nomes, and he was even more angry at Kiki Aru than were
-the others whose shapes had been changed. The Nome detested anything in
-the way of a bird, because birds lay eggs and eggs are feared by all the
-Nomes more than anything else in the world. A goose is a foolish bird,
-too, and Ruggedo was dreadfully ashamed of the shape he was forced to
-wear. And it would make him shudder to reflect that the Goose might lay
-an egg!
-
-So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.
-If an egg touched him he could then be destroyed, and almost any animal
-he met in the forest might easily conquer him. And that would be the end
-of old Ruggedo the Nome.
-
-Aside from these fears, however, he was filled with anger against Kiki,
-whom he had meant to trap by cleverly stealing from him the Magic Word.
-The boy must have been crazy to spoil everything the way he did, but
-Ruggedo knew that the arrival of the Wizard had scared Kiki, and he was
-not sorry the boy had transformed the Wizard and Dorothy and made them
-helpless. It was his own transformation that annoyed him and made him
-indignant, so he ran about the forest hunting for Kiki, so that he might
-get a better shape and coax the boy to follow his plans to conquer the
-Land of Oz.
-
-Kiki Aru hadn’t gone very far away, for he had surprised himself as well
-as the others by the quick transformations and was puzzled as to what to
-do next. Ruggedo the Nome was overbearing and tricky, and Kiki knew he
-was not to be depended on; but the Nome could plan and plot, which the
-Hyup boy was not wise enough to do, and so, when he looked down through
-the branches of a tree and saw a Goose waddling along below and heard it
-cry out, “Kiki Aru! Quack—quack! Kiki Aru!” the boy answered in a low
-voice, “Here I am,” and swung himself down to the lowest limb of the
-tree.
-
-The Goose looked up and saw him.
-
-“You’ve bungled things in a dreadful way!” exclaimed the Goose. “Why did
-you do it?”
-
-“Because I wanted to,” answered Kiki. “You acted as if I was your slave,
-and I wanted to show these forest people that I am more powerful than
-you.”
-
-The Goose hissed softly, but Kiki did not hear that.
-
-Old Ruggedo quickly recovered his wits and muttered to himself: “This
-boy is the goose, although it is I who wear the goose’s shape. I will be
-gentle with him now, and fierce with him when I have him in my power.”
-Then he said aloud to Kiki:
-
-“Well, hereafter I will be content to acknowledge you the master. You
-bungled things, as I said, but we can still conquer Oz.”
-
-“How?” asked the boy.
-
-“First give me back the shape of the Li-Mon-Eag, and then we can talk
-together more conveniently,” suggested the Nome.
-
-“Wait a moment, then,” said Kiki, and climbed higher up the tree. There
-he whispered the Magic Word and the Goose became a Li-Mon-Eag, as he had
-been before.
-
-“Good!” said the Nome, well pleased, as Kiki joined him by dropping down
-from the tree. “Now let us find a quiet place where we can talk without
-being overheard by the beasts.”
-
-So the two started away and crossed the forest until they came to a
-place where the trees were not so tall nor so close together, and among
-these scattered trees was another clearing, not so large as the first
-one, where the meeting of the beasts had been held. Standing on the edge
-of this clearing and looking across it, they saw the trees on the
-farther side full of monkeys, who were chattering together at a great
-rate of the sights they had witnessed at the meeting.
-
-The old Nome whispered to Kiki not to enter the clearing or allow the
-monkeys to see them.
-
-“Why not?” asked the boy, drawing back.
-
-“Because those monkeys are to be our army—the army which will conquer
-Oz,” said the Nome. “Sit down here with me, Kiki, and keep quiet, and I
-will explain to you my plan.”
-
-Now, neither Kiki Aru nor Ruggedo had noticed that a sly Fox had
-followed them all the way from the tree where the Goose had been
-transformed to the Li-Mon-Eag. Indeed, this Fox, who was none other than
-the Wizard of Oz, had witnessed the transformation of the Goose and now
-decided he would keep watch of the conspirators and see what they would
-do next.
-
-A Fox can move through a forest very softly, without making any noise,
-and so the Wizard’s enemies did not suspect his presence. But when they
-sat down by the edge of the clearing, to talk, with their backs toward
-him, the Wizard did not know whether to risk being seen, by creeping
-closer to hear what they said, or whether it would be better for him to
-hide himself until they moved on again.
-
-While he considered this question he discovered near him a great tree
-which had a hollow trunk, and there was a round hole in this tree, about
-three feet above the ground. The Wizard Fox decided it would be safer
-for him to hide inside the hollow tree, so he sprang into the hole and
-crouched down in the hollow, so that his eyes just came to the edge of
-the hole by which he had entered, and from here he watched the forms of
-the two Li-Mon-Eags.
-
-“This is my plan,” said the Nome to Kiki, speaking so low that the
-Wizard could only hear the rumble of his voice. “Since you can transform
-anything into any form you wish, we will transform these monkeys into an
-army, and with that army we will conquer the Oz people.”
-
-“The monkeys won’t make much of an army,” objected Kiki.
-
-“We need a great army, but not a numerous one,” responded the Nome. “You
-will transform each monkey into a giant man, dressed in a fine uniform
-and armed with a sharp sword. There are fifty monkeys over there and
-fifty giants would make as big an army as we need.”
-
-“What will they do with the swords?” asked Kiki. “Nothing can kill the
-Oz people.”
-
-“True,” said Ruggedo. “The Oz people cannot be killed, but they can be
-cut into small pieces, and while every piece will still be alive, we can
-scatter the pieces around so that they will be quite helpless.
-Therefore, the Oz people will be afraid of the swords of our army, and
-we will conquer them with ease.”
-
-“That seems like a good idea,” replied the boy, approvingly. “And in
-such a case, we need not bother with the other beasts of the forest.”
-
-“No; you have frightened the beasts, and they would no longer consent to
-assist us in conquering Oz. But those monkeys are foolish creatures, and
-once they are transformed to Giants, they will do just as we say and
-obey our commands. Can you transform them all at once?”
-
-“No, I must take one at a time,” said Kiki. “But the fifty
-transformations can be made in an hour or so. Stay here, Ruggedo, and I
-will change the first monkey—that one at the left, on the end of the
-limb—into a Giant with a sword.”
-
-“Where are you going?” asked the Nome.
-
-“I must not speak the Magic Word in the presence of another person,”
-declared Kiki, who was determined not to allow his treacherous companion
-to learn his secret, “so I will go where you cannot hear me.”
-
-Ruggedo the Nome was disappointed, but he hoped still to catch the boy
-unawares and surprise the Magic Word. So he merely nodded his lion head,
-and Kiki got up and went back into the forest a short distance. Here he
-spied a hollow tree, and by chance it was the same hollow tree in which
-the Wizard of Oz, now in the form of a Fox, had hidden himself.
-
-As Kiki ran up to the tree the Fox ducked its head, so that it was out
-of sight in the dark hollow beneath the hole, and then Kiki put his face
-into the hole and whispered: “I want that monkey on the branch at the
-left to become a Giant man fifty feet tall, dressed in a uniform and
-with a sharp sword—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-Then he ran back to Ruggedo, but the Wizard Fox had heard quite plainly
-every word that he had said.
-
-The monkey was instantly transformed into the Giant, and the Giant was
-so big that as he stood on the ground his head was higher than the trees
-of the forest. The monkeys raised a great chatter but did not seem to
-understand that the Giant was one of themselves.
-
-“Good!” cried the Nome. “Hurry, Kiki, and transform the others.”
-
-So Kiki rushed back to the tree and putting his face to the hollow,
-whispered:
-
-“I want the next monkey to be just like the first—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-Again the Wizard Fox heard the Magic Word, and just how it was
-pronounced. But he sat still in the hollow and waited to hear it again,
-so it would be impressed on his mind and he would not forget it.
-
-Kiki kept running to the edge of the forest and back to the hollow tree
-again until he had whispered the Magic Word six times and six monkeys
-had been changed to six great giants. Then the Wizard decided he would
-make an experiment and use the Magic Word himself. So, while Kiki was
-running back to the Nome, the Fox stuck his head out of the hollow and
-said softly: “I want that creature who is running to become a
-hickory-nut—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Instantly the Li-Mon-Eag form of Kiki Aru the Hyup disappeared and a
-small hickory-nut rolled upon the ground a moment and then lay still.
-
-The Wizard was delighted, and leaped from the hollow just as Ruggedo
-looked around to see what had become of Kiki. The Nome saw the Fox but
-no Kiki, so he hastily rose to his feet. The Wizard did not know how
-powerful the queer beast might be, so he resolved to take no chances.
-
-“I want this creature to become a walnut—Pyrzqxgl!” he said aloud. But
-he did not pronounce the Magic Word in quite the right way, and
-Ruggedo’s form did not change. But the Nome knew at once that
-“Pyrzqxgl!” was the Magic Word, so he rushed at the Fox and cried:
-
-“I want you to become a Goose—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-But the Nome did not pronounce the word aright, either, having never
-heard it spoken but once before, and then with a wrong accent. So the
-Fox was not transformed, but it had to run away to escape being caught
-by the angry Nome.
-
-Ruggedo now began pronouncing the Magic Word in every way he could think
-of, hoping to hit the right one, and the Fox, hiding in a bush, was
-somewhat troubled by the fear that he might succeed. However, the
-Wizard, who was used to magic arts, remained calm and soon remembered
-exactly how Kiki Aru had pronounced the word. So he repeated the
-sentence he had before uttered and Ruggedo the Nome became an ordinary
-walnut.
-
-The Wizard now crept out from the bush and said: “I want my own form
-again—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Instantly he was the Wizard of Oz, and after picking up the hickory-nut
-and the walnut, and carefully placing them in his pocket, he ran back to
-the big clearing.
-
-Dorothy the Lamb uttered a bleat of delight when she saw her old friend
-restored to his natural shape. The others were all there, not having
-found the Goose. The fat Gillikin woman, the Munchkin boy, the Rabbit
-and the Glass Cat crowded around the Wizard and asked what had happened.
-
-Before he explained anything of his adventure, he transformed them
-all—except, of course, the Glass Cat—into their natural shapes, and when
-their joy permitted them to quiet somewhat, he told how he had by chance
-surprised the Magician’s secret and been able to change the two
-Li-Mon-Eags into shapes that could not speak, and therefore would be
-unable to help themselves. And the little Wizard showed his astonished
-friends the hickory-nut and the walnut to prove that he had spoken the
-truth.
-
-“But—see here!”—exclaimed Dorothy, “What has become of those Giant
-Soldiers who used to be monkeys?”
-
-“I forgot all about them!” admitted the Wizard; “but I suppose they are
-still standing there in the forest.”
-
-
-
-
-                           The Lonesome Duck
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 15
-
-Trot and Cap’n Bill stood before the Magic Flower, actually rooted to
-the spot.
-
-“Aren’t you hungry, Cap’n?” asked the little girl, with a long sigh, for
-she had been standing there for hours and hours.
-
-“Well,” replied the sailor-man, “I ain’t sayin’ as I couldn’t _eat_,
-Trot—if a dinner was handy—but I guess old folks don’t get as hungry as
-young folks do.”
-
-“I’m not sure ’bout that, Cap’n Bill,” she said thoughtfully. “Age
-_might_ make a difference, but seems to me _size_ would make a bigger
-difference. Seeing you’re twice as big as me, you ought to be twice as
-hungry.”
-
-“I hope I am,” he rejoined, “for I can stand it a while longer. I do
-hope the Glass Cat will hurry, and I hope the Wizard won’t waste time
-a-comin’ to us.”
-
-Trot sighed again and watched the wonderful Magic Flower, because there
-was nothing else to do. Just now a lovely group of pink peonies budded
-and bloomed, but soon they faded away, and a mass of deep blue lilies
-took their place. Then some yellow chrysanthemums blossomed on the
-plant, and when they had opened all their petals and reached perfection,
-they gave way to a lot of white floral balls spotted with crimson—a
-flower Trot had never seen before.
-
-“But I get awful tired watchin’ flowers an’ flowers an’ flowers,” she
-said impatiently.
-
-“They’re mighty pretty,” observed Cap’n Bill.
-
-“I know; and if a person could come and look at the Magic Flower just
-when she felt like it, it would be a fine thing, but to _have to_ stand
-and watch it, whether you want to or not, isn’t so much fun. I wish,
-Cap’n Bill, the thing would grow fruit for a while instead of flowers.”
-
-Scarcely had she spoken when the white balls with crimson spots faded
-away and a lot of beautiful ripe peaches took their place. With a cry of
-mingled surprise and delight Trot reached out and plucked a peach from
-the bush and began to eat it, finding it delicious. Cap’n Bill was
-somewhat dazed at the girl’s wish being granted so quickly, so before he
-could pick a peach they had faded away and bananas took their place.
-“Grab one, Cap’n!” exclaimed Trot, and even while eating the peach she
-seized a banana with her other hand and tore it from the bush.
-
-The old sailor was still bewildered. He put out a hand indeed, but he
-was too late, for now the bananas disappeared and lemons took their
-place.
-
-“Pshaw!” cried Trot. “You can’t eat those things; but watch out, Cap’n,
-for something else.”
-
-Cocoanuts next appeared, but Cap’n Bill shook his head.
-
-“Ca’n’t crack ’em,” he remarked, “’cause we haven’t anything handy to
-smash ’em with.”
-
-“Well, take one, anyhow,” advised Trot; but the cocoanuts were gone now,
-and a deep, purple, pear-shaped fruit which was unknown to them took
-their place. Again Cap’n Bill hesitated, and Trot said to him:
-
-“You ought to have captured a peach and a banana, as I did. If you’re
-not careful, Cap’n, you’ll miss all your chances. Here, I’ll divide my
-banana with you.”
-
-Even as she spoke, the Magic Plant was covered with big red apples,
-growing on every branch, and Cap’n Bill hesitated no longer. He grabbed
-with both hands and picked two apples, while Trot had only time to
-secure one before they were gone.
-
-“It’s curious,” remarked the sailor, munching his apple, “how these
-fruits keep good when you’ve picked ’em, but dis’pear inter thin air if
-they’re left on the bush.”
-
-“The whole thing is curious,” declared the girl, “and it couldn’t exist
-in any country but this, where magic is so common. Those are limes.
-Don’t pick ’em, for they’d pucker up your mouth and—Ooo! here come
-plums!” and she tucked her apple in her apron pocket and captured three
-plums—each one almost as big as an egg—before they disappeared. Cap’n
-Bill got some too, but both were too hungry to fast any longer, so they
-began eating their apples and plums and let the magic bush bear all
-sorts of fruits, one after another. The Cap’n stopped once to pick a
-fine cantaloupe, which he held under his arm, and Trot, having finished
-her plums, got a handful of cherries and an orange; but when almost
-every sort of fruit had appeared on the bush, the crop ceased and only
-flowers, as before, bloomed upon it.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“I wonder why it changed back,” mused Trot, who was not worried because
-she had enough fruit to satisfy her hunger.
-
-“Well, you only wished it would bear fruit ‘for a while,’” said the
-sailor, “and it did. P’raps if you’d said ‘forever,’ Trot, it would have
-always been fruit.”
-
-“But why should _my_ wish be obeyed?” asked the girl. “I’m not a fairy
-or a wizard or any kind of a magic-maker.”
-
-“I guess,” replied Cap’n Bill, “that this little island is a magic
-island, and any folks on it can tell the bush what to produce, an’ it’ll
-produce it.”
-
-“Do you think I could wish for anything else, Cap’n, and get it?” she
-inquired anxiously.
-
-“What are you thinkin’ of, Trot?”
-
-“I’m thinking of wishing that these roots on our feet would disappear,
-and let us free.”
-
-“Try it, Trot.”
-
-So she tried it, and the wish had no effect whatever. “Try it yourself,
-Cap’n,” she suggested.
-
-Then Cap’n Bill made the wish to be free, with no better result.
-
-“No,” said he, “it’s no use; the wishes only affect the Magic Plant; but
-I’m glad we can make it bear fruit, ’cause now we know we won’t starve
-before the Wizard gets to us.”
-
-“But I’m gett’n’ tired standing here so long,” complained the girl. “If
-I could only lift one foot, and rest it, I’d feel better.”
-
-“Same with me, Trot. I’ve noticed that if you’ve got to do a thing, and
-can’t help yourself, it gets to be a hardship mighty quick.”
-
-“Folks that can raise their feet don’t appreciate what a blessing it
-is,” said Trot thoughtfully. “I never knew before what fun it is to
-raise one foot, an’ then another, any time you feel like it.”
-
-“There’s lots o’ things folks don’t ’preciate,” replied the sailor-man.
-“If somethin’ would ’most stop your breath, you’d think breathin’ easy
-was the finest thing in life. When a person’s well, he don’t realize how
-jolly it is, but when he gets sick he ’members the time he was well, an’
-wishes that time would come back. Most folks forget to thank God for
-givin’ ’em two good legs, till they lose one o’ ’em, like I did; and
-then it’s too late, ’cept to praise God for leavin’ one.”
-
-“Your wooden leg ain’t so bad, Cap’n,” she remarked, looking at it
-critically. “Anyhow, it don’t take root on a Magic Island, like our meat
-legs do.”
-
-“I ain’t complaining” said Cap’n Bill. “What’s that swimmin’ towards us,
-Trot?” he added, looking over the Magic Flower and across the water.
-
-The girl looked, too, and then she replied.
-
-“It’s a bird of some sort. It’s like a duck, only I never saw a duck
-have so many colors.”
-
-The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it
-drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers
-were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had
-a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.
-When it reached the Isle, it came ashore and approached them, waddling
-slowly and turning its head first to one side and then to the other, so
-as to see the girl and the sailor better.
-
-“You’re strangers,” said the bird, coming to a halt near them, “and
-you’ve been caught by the Magic Isle and made prisoners.”
-
-“Yes,” returned Trot, with a sigh; “we’re rooted. But I hope we won’t
-grow.”
-
-“You’ll grow small,” said the Bird. “You’ll keep growing smaller every
-day, until bye and bye there’ll be nothing left of you. That’s the usual
-way, on this Magic Isle.”
-
-“How do you know about it, and who are you, anyhow?” asked Cap’n Bill.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“I’m the Lonesome Duck,” replied the bird. “I suppose you’ve heard of
-me?”
-
-“No,” said Trot, “I can’t say I have. What makes you lonesome?”
-
-“Why, I haven’t any family or any relations,” returned the Duck.
-
-“Haven’t you any friends?”
-
-“Not a friend. And I’ve nothing to do. I’ve lived a long time, and I’ve
-got to live forever, because I belong in the Land of Oz, where no living
-thing dies. Think of existing year after year, with no friends, no
-family, and nothing to do! Can you wonder I’m lonesome?”
-
-“Why don’t you make a few friends, and find something to do?” inquired
-Cap’n Bill.
-
-“I can’t make friends because everyone I meet—bird, beast or person—is
-disagreeable to me. In a few minutes I shall be unable to bear your
-society longer, and then I’ll go away and leave you,” said the Lonesome
-Duck. “And, as for doing anything, there’s no use in it. All I meet are
-doing something, so I have decided it’s common and uninteresting and I
-prefer to remain lonesome.”
-
-“Don’t you have to hunt for your food?” asked Trot.
-
-“No. In my diamond palace, a little way up the river, food is magically
-supplied me; but I seldom eat, because it is so common.”
-
-“You must be a Magician Duck,” remarked Cap’n Bill.
-
-“Why so?”
-
-“Well, ordinary ducks don’t have diamond palaces an’ magic food, like
-you do.”
-
-“True; and that’s another reason why I’m lonesome. You must remember I’m
-the only Duck in the Land of Oz, and I’m not like any other duck in the
-outside world.”
-
-“Seems to me you _like_ bein’ lonesome,” observed Cap’n Bill.
-
-“I can’t say I like it, exactly,” replied the Duck, “but since it seems
-to be my fate, I’m rather proud of it.”
-
-“How do you s’pose a single, solitary Duck happened to be in the Land of
-Oz?” asked Trot, wonderingly.
-
-“I used to know the reason, many years ago, but I’ve quite forgotten
-it,” declared the Duck. “The reason for a thing is never so important as
-the thing itself, so there’s no use remembering anything but the fact
-that I’m lonesome.”
-
-“I guess you’d be happier if you tried to do something,” asserted Trot.
-“If you can’t do anything for yourself, you can do things for others,
-and then you’d get lots of friends and stop being lonesome.”
-
-“Now you’re getting disagreeable,” said the Lonesome Duck, “and I shall
-have to go and leave you.”
-
-“Can’t you help us any,” pleaded the girl. “If there’s anything magic
-about you, you might get us out of this scrape.”
-
-“I haven’t any magic strong enough to get you off the Magic Isle,”
-replied the Lonesome Duck. “What magic I possess is very simple, but I
-find it enough for my own needs.”
-
-“If we could only sit down a while, we could stand it better,” said
-Trot, “but we have nothing to sit on.”
-
-“Then you will have to stand it,” said the Lonesome Duck.
-
-“P’raps you’ve enough magic to give us a couple of stools,” suggested
-Cap’n Bill.
-
-“A duck isn’t supposed to know what stools are,” was the reply.
-
-“But you’re different from all other ducks.”
-
-“That is true.” The strange creature seemed to reflect for a moment,
-looking at them sharply from its round black eyes. Then it said:
-“Sometimes, when the sun is hot, I grow a toadstool to shelter me from
-its rays. Perhaps you could sit on toadstools.”
-
-“Well, if they were strong enough, they’d do,” answered Cap’n Bill.
-
-“Then, before I go I’ll give you a couple,” said the Lonesome Duck, and
-began waddling about in a small circle. It went around the circle to the
-right three times, and then it went around to the left three times. Then
-it hopped backward three times and forward three times.
-
-“What are you doing?” asked Trot.
-
-“Don’t interrupt. This is an incantation,” replied the Lonesome Duck,
-but now it began making a succession of soft noises that sounded like
-quacks and seemed to mean nothing at all. And it kept up these sounds so
-long that Trot finally exclaimed:
-
-“Can’t you hurry up and finish that ’cantation? If it takes all summer
-to make a couple of toadstools, you’re not much of a magician.”
-
-“I told you not to interrupt,” said the Lonesome Duck, sternly. “If you
-get _too_ disagreeable, you’ll drive me away before I finish this
-incantation.”
-
-Trot kept quiet, after the rebuke, and the Duck resumed the quacky
-muttering. Cap’n Bill chuckled a little to himself and remarked to Trot
-in a whisper: “For a bird that ain’t got anything to do, this Lonesome
-Duck is makin’ consider’ble fuss. An’ I ain’t sure, after all, as
-toadstools would be worth sittin’ on.”
-
-Even as he spoke, the sailor-man felt something touch him from behind
-and, turning his head, he found a big toadstool in just the right place
-and of just the right size to sit upon. There was one behind Trot, too,
-and with a cry of pleasure the little girl sank back upon it and found
-it a very comfortable seat—solid, yet almost like a cushion. Even Cap’n
-Bill’s weight did not break his toadstool down, and when both were
-seated, they found that the Lonesome Duck had waddled away and was now
-at the water’s edge.
-
-“Thank you, ever so much!” cried Trot, and the sailor called out: “Much
-obliged!”
-
-But the Lonesome Duck paid no attention. Without even looking in their
-direction again, the gaudy fowl entered the water and swam gracefully
-away.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                   The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 16
-
-When the six monkeys were transformed by Kiki Aru into six giant
-soldiers fifty feet tall, their heads came above the top of the trees,
-which in this part of the forest were not so high as in some other
-parts; and, although the trees were somewhat scattered, the bodies of
-the giant soldiers were so big that they quite filled the spaces in
-which they stood and the branches pressed them on every side.
-
-Of course, Kiki was foolish to have made his soldiers so big, for now
-they could not get out of the forest. Indeed, they could not stir a
-step, but were imprisoned by the trees. Even had they been in the little
-clearing they could not have made their way out of it, but they were a
-little beyond the clearing. At first, the other monkeys who had not been
-enchanted were afraid of the soldiers, and hastily quitted the place;
-but soon finding that the great men stood stock still, although grunting
-indignantly at their transformation, the band of monkeys returned to the
-spot and looked at them curiously, not guessing that they were really
-monkeys and their own friends.
-
-The soldiers couldn’t see them, their heads being above the trees; they
-could not even raise their arms or draw their sharp swords, so closely
-were they held by the leafy branches. So the monkeys, finding the giants
-helpless, began climbing up their bodies, and presently all the band
-were perched on the shoulders of the giants and peering into their
-faces.
-
-“I’m Ebu, your father,” cried one soldier to a monkey who had perched
-upon his left ear, “but some cruel person has enchanted me.”
-
-“I’m your Uncle Peeker,” said another soldier to another monkey.
-
-So, very soon all the monkeys knew the truth and were sorry for their
-friends and relations and angry at the person—whoever it was—who had
-transformed them. There was a great chattering among the tree-tops, and
-the noise attracted other monkeys, so that the clearing and all the
-trees around were full of them.
-
-Rango the Gray Ape, who was the Chief of all the monkey tribes of the
-forest, heard the uproar and came to see what was wrong with his people.
-And Rango, being wiser and more experienced, at once knew that the
-strange magician who looked like a mixed-up beast was responsible for
-the transformations. He realized that the six giant soldiers were
-helpless prisoners, because of their size, and knew he was powerless to
-release them. So, although he feared to meet the terrible magician, he
-hurried away to the great clearing to tell Gugu the King what had
-happened and to try to find the Wizard of Oz and get him to save his six
-enchanted subjects.
-
-Rango darted into the Great Clearing just as the Wizard had restored all
-the enchanted ones around him to their proper shapes, and the Gray Ape
-was glad to hear that the wicked magician-beast had been conquered.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“But now, O mighty Wizard, you must come with me to where six of my
-people are transformed into six great giant men,” he said, “for if they
-are allowed to remain there, their happiness and their future lives will
-be ruined.”
-
-The Wizard did not reply at once, for he was thinking this a good
-opportunity to win Rango’s consent to his taking some monkeys to the
-Emerald City for Ozma’s birthday cake.
-
-“It is a great thing you ask of me, O Rango the Gray Ape,” said he, “for
-the bigger the giants are the more powerful their enchantment, and the
-more difficult it will be to restore them to their natural forms.
-However, I will think it over.”
-
-Then the Wizard went to another part of the clearing and sat on a log
-and appeared to be in deep thought.
-
-The Glass Cat had been greatly interested in the Gray Ape’s story and
-was curious to see what the giant soldiers looked like. Hearing that
-their heads extended above the tree-tops, the Glass Cat decided that if
-it climbed the tall avocado tree that stood at the side of the clearing,
-it might be able to see the giants’ heads. So, without mentioning her
-errand, the crystal creature went to the tree and, by sticking her sharp
-glass claws in the bark, easily climbed the tree to its very top and,
-looking over the forest, saw the six giant heads, although they were now
-a long way off. It was, indeed, a remarkable sight, for the huge heads
-had immense soldier caps on them, with red and yellow plumes and looked
-very fierce and terrible, although the monkey hearts of the giants were
-at that moment filled with fear.
-
-Having satisfied her curiosity, the Glass Cat began to climb down from
-the tree more slowly. Suddenly she discerned the Wizard’s black bag
-hanging to a limb of the tree. She grasped the black bag in her glass
-teeth, and although it was rather heavy for so small an animal, managed
-to get it free and to carry it safely down to the ground. Then she
-looked around for the Wizard and seeing him seated upon the stump she
-hid the black bag among some leaves and then went over to where the
-Wizard sat.
-
-“I forgot to tell you,” said the Glass Cat, “that Trot and Cap’n Bill
-are in trouble, and I came here to hunt you up and get you to go and
-rescue them.”
-
-“Good gracious, Cat! Why didn’t you tell me before?” exclaimed the
-Wizard.
-
-“For the reason that I found so much excitement here that I forgot Trot
-and Cap’n Bill.”
-
-“What’s wrong with them?” asked the Wizard.
-
-Then the Glass Cat explained how they had gone to get the Magic Flower
-for Ozma’s birthday gift and had been trapped by the magic of the queer
-island. The Wizard was really alarmed, but he shook his head and said
-sadly:
-
-“I’m afraid I can’t help my dear friends, because I’ve lost my black
-bag.”
-
-“If I find it, will you go to them?” asked the creature.
-
-“Of course,” replied the Wizard. “But I do not think that a Glass Cat
-with nothing but pink brains can succeed when all the rest of us have
-failed.”
-
-“Don’t you admire my pink brains?” demanded the Cat.
-
-“They’re pretty,” admitted the Wizard, “but they’re not regular brains,
-you know, and so we don’t expect them to amount to much.”
-
-“But if I find your black bag—and find it inside of five minutes—will
-you admit my pink brains are better than your common human brains?”
-
-“Well, I’ll admit they’re better _hunters_,” said the Wizard,
-reluctantly, “but you can’t do it. We’ve searched everywhere, and the
-black bag isn’t to be found.”
-
-“That shows how much you know!” retorted the Glass Cat, scornfully.
-“Watch my brains a minute, and see them whirl around.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The Wizard watched, for he was anxious to regain his black bag, and the
-pink brains really did whirl around in a remarkable manner.
-
-“Now, come with me,” commanded the Glass Cat, and led the Wizard
-straight to the spot where it had covered the bag with leaves.
-“According to my brains,” said the creature, “your black bag ought to be
-here.”
-
-Then it scratched at the leaves and uncovered the bag, which the Wizard
-promptly seized with a cry of delight. Now that he had regained his
-Magic Tools, he felt confident he could rescue Trot and Cap’n Bill.
-
-Rango the Gray Ape was getting impatient. He now approached the Wizard
-and said:
-
-“Well, what do you intend to do about those poor enchanted monkeys?”
-
-“I’ll make a bargain with you, Rango,” replied the little man. “If you
-will let me take a dozen of your monkeys to the Emerald City, and keep
-them until after Ozma’s birthday, I’ll break the enchantment of the six
-Giant Soldiers and return them to their natural forms.”
-
-But the Gray Ape shook his head.
-
-“I can’t do it,” he declared. “The monkeys would be very lonesome and
-unhappy in the Emerald City and your people would tease them and throw
-stones at them, which would cause them to fight and bite.”
-
-“The people won’t see them till Ozma’s birthday dinner,” promised the
-Wizard. “I’ll make them very small—about four inches high, and I’ll keep
-them in a pretty cage in my own room, where they will be safe from harm.
-I’ll feed them the nicest kind of food, train them to do some clever
-tricks, and on Ozma’s birthday I’ll hide the twelve little monkeys
-inside a cake. When Ozma cuts the cake the monkeys will jump out on to
-the table and do their tricks. The next day I will bring them back to
-the forest and make them big as ever, and they’ll have some exciting
-stories to tell their friends. What do you say, Rango?”
-
-“I say no!” answered the Gray Ape. “I won’t have my monkeys enchanted
-and made to do tricks for the Oz people.”
-
-“Very well,” said the Wizard calmly; “then I’ll go. Come, Dorothy,” he
-called to the little girl, “let’s start on our journey.”
-
-“Aren’t you going to save those six monkeys who are giant soldiers?”
-asked Rango, anxiously.
-
-“Why should I?” returned the Wizard. “If you will not do me the favor I
-ask, you cannot expect me to favor you.”
-
-“Wait a minute,” said the Gray Ape. “I’ve changed my mind. If you will
-treat the twelve monkeys nicely and bring them safely back to the
-forest. I’ll let you take them.”
-
-“Thank you,” replied the Wizard, cheerfully. “We’ll go at once and save
-those giant soldiers.”
-
-So all the party left the clearing and proceeded to the place where the
-giants still stood among the trees. Hundreds of monkeys, apes, baboons
-and orang-outangs had gathered round, and their wild chatter could be
-heard a mile away. But the Gray Ape soon hushed the babel of sounds, and
-the Wizard lost no time in breaking the enchantments. First one and then
-another giant soldier disappeared and became an ordinary monkey again,
-and the six were shortly returned to their friends in their proper
-forms.
-
-This action made the Wizard very popular with the great army of monkeys,
-and when the Gray Ape announced that the Wizard wanted to borrow twelve
-monkeys to take to the Emerald City for a couple of weeks, and asked for
-volunteers, nearly a hundred offered to go, so great was their
-confidence in the little man who had saved their comrades.
-
-The Wizard selected a dozen that seemed intelligent and good-tempered,
-and then he opened his black bag and took out a queerly shaped dish that
-was silver on the outside and gold on the inside. Into this dish he
-poured a powder and set fire to it. It made a thick smoke that quite
-enveloped the twelve monkeys, as well as the form of the Wizard, but
-when the smoke cleared away the dish had been changed to a golden cage
-with silver bars, and the twelve monkeys had become about three inches
-high and were all seated comfortably inside the cage.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The thousands of hairy animals who had witnessed this act of magic were
-much astonished and applauded the Wizard by barking aloud and shaking
-the limbs of the trees in which they sat. Dorothy said: “That was a fine
-trick, Wizard!” and the Gray Ape remarked: “You are certainly the most
-wonderful magician in all the Land of Oz!”
-
-“Oh, no,” modestly replied the little man. “Glinda’s magic is better
-than mine, but mine seems good enough to use on ordinary occasions. And
-now, Rango, we will say good-bye, and I promise to return your monkeys
-as happy and safe as they are now.”
-
-The Wizard rode on the back of the Hungry Tiger and carried the cage of
-monkeys very carefully, so as not to joggle them. Dorothy rode on the
-back of the Cowardly Lion, and the Glass Cat trotted, as before, to show
-them the way.
-
-Gugu the King crouched upon a log and watched them go, but as he bade
-them farewell, the enormous leopard said:
-
-“I know now that you are the friends of beasts and that the forest
-people may trust you. Whenever the Wizard of Oz and Princess Dorothy
-enter the Forest of Gugu hereafter, they will be as welcome and as safe
-with us as ever they are in the Emerald City.”
-
-
-
-
-                          A Remarkable Journey
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 17
-
-“You see,” explained the Glass Cat, “that Magic Isle where Trot and
-Cap’n Bill are stuck is also in this Gillikin country—over at the east
-side of it, and it’s no farther to go across-lots from here than it is
-from here to the Emerald City. So we’ll save time by cutting across the
-mountains.”
-
-“Are you sure you know the way?” asked Dorothy.
-
-“I know all the Land of Oz better than any other living creature knows
-it,” asserted the Glass Cat.
-
-“Go ahead, then, and guide us,” said the Wizard. “We’ve left our poor
-friends helpless too long already, and the sooner we rescue them the
-happier they’ll be.”
-
-“Are you sure you can get ’em out of their fix?” the little girl
-inquired.
-
-“I’ve no doubt of it,” the Wizard assured her. “But I can’t tell what
-sort of magic I must use until I get to the place and discover just how
-they are enchanted.”
-
-“I’ve heard of that Magic Isle where the Wonderful Flower grows,”
-remarked the Cowardly Lion. “Long ago, when I used to live in the
-forests, the beasts told stories about the Isle and how the Magic Flower
-was placed there to entrap strangers—men or beasts.”
-
-“Is the Flower really wonderful?” questioned Dorothy.
-
-“I have heard it is the most beautiful plant in the world,” answered the
-Lion. “I have never seen it myself, but friendly beasts have told me
-that they have stood on the shore of the river and looked across at the
-plant in the gold flowerpot and seen hundreds of flowers, of all sorts
-and sizes, blossom upon it in quick succession. It is said that if one
-picks the flowers while they are in bloom they will remain perfect for a
-long time, but if they are not picked they soon disappear and are
-replaced by other flowers. That, in my opinion, makes the magic plant
-the most wonderful in existence.”
-
-“But these are only stories,” said the girl. “Has any of your friends
-ever picked a flower from the wonderful plant?”
-
-“No,” admitted the Cowardly Lion, “for if any living thing ventures upon
-the Magic Isle, where the golden flowerpot stands, that man or beast
-takes root in the soil and cannot get away again.”
-
-“What happens to them, then?” asked Dorothy.
-
-“They grow smaller, hour by hour and day by day, and finally disappear
-entirely.”
-
-“Then,” said the girl anxiously, “we must hurry up, or Cap’n Bill an’
-Trot will get too small to be comf’table.”
-
-They were proceeding at a rapid pace during this conversation, for the
-Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion were obliged to move swiftly in order
-to keep pace with the Glass Cat. After leaving the Forest of Gugu they
-crossed a mountain range, and then a broad plain, after which they
-reached another forest, much smaller than that where Gugu ruled.
-
-“The Magic Isle is in this forest,” said the Glass Cat, “but the river
-is at the other side of the forest. There is no path through the trees,
-but if we keep going east, we will find the river, and then it will be
-easy to find the Magic Isle.”
-
-“Have you ever traveled this way before?” inquired the Wizard.
-
-“Not exactly,” admitted the Cat, “but I know we shall reach the river if
-we go east through the forest.”
-
-“Lead on, then,” said the Wizard.
-
-The Glass Cat started away, and at first it was easy to pass between the
-trees; but before long the underbrush and vines became thick and
-tangled, and after pushing their way through these obstacles for a time,
-our travelers came to a place where even the Glass Cat could not push
-through.
-
-“We’d better go back and find a path,” suggested the Hungry Tiger.
-
-“I’m s’prised at you,” said Dorothy, eyeing the Glass Cat severely.
-
-“I’m surprised, myself,” replied the Cat. “But it’s a long way around
-the forest to where the river enters it, and I thought we could save
-time by going straight through.”
-
-“No one can blame you,” said the Wizard, “and I think, instead of
-turning back, I can make a path that will allow us to proceed.”
-
-He opened his black bag and after searching among his magic tools drew
-out a small axe, made of some metal so highly polished that it glittered
-brightly even in the dark forest. The Wizard laid the little axe on the
-ground and said in a commanding voice:
-
-  “Chop, Little Axe, chop clean and true;
-  A path for our feet you must quickly hew.
-  Chop till this tangle of jungle is passed;
-  Chop to the east, Little Axe—chop fast!”
-
-Then the little axe began to move and flashed its bright blade right and
-left, clearing a way through vine and brush and scattering the tangled
-barrier so quickly that the Lion and the Tiger, carrying Dorothy and the
-Wizard and the cage of monkeys on their backs, were able to stride
-through the forest at a fast walk. The brush seemed to melt away before
-them and the little axe chopped so fast that their eyes only saw a
-twinkling of the blade. Then, suddenly, the forest was open again, and
-the little axe, having obeyed its orders, lay still upon the ground.
-
-The Wizard picked up the magic axe and after carefully wiping it with
-his silk handkerchief put it away in his black bag. Then they went on
-and in a short time reached the river.
-
-“Let me see,” said the Glass Cat, looking up and down the stream, “I
-think we are below the Magic Isle; so we must go up the stream until we
-come to it.”
-
-So up the stream they traveled, walking comfortably on the river bank,
-and after a while the water broadened and a sharp bend appeared in the
-river, hiding all below from their view. They walked briskly along,
-however, and had nearly reached the bend when a voice cried warningly:
-“Look out!”
-
-The travelers halted abruptly and the Wizard said: “Look out for what?”
-
-“You almost stepped on my Diamond Palace,” replied the voice, and a duck
-with gorgeously colored feathers appeared before them. “Beasts and men
-are terribly clumsy,” continued the Duck in an irritated tone, “and
-you’ve no business on this side of the river, anyway. What are you doing
-here?”
-
-“We’ve come to rescue some friends of ours who are stuck fast on the
-Magic Isle in this river,” explained Dorothy.
-
-“I know ’em,” said the Duck. “I’ve been to see ’em, and they’re stuck
-fast, all right. You may as well go back home, for no power can save
-them.”
-
-“This is the Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” said Dorothy, pointing to the
-little man.
-
-“Well, I’m the Lonesome Duck,” was the reply, as the fowl strutted up
-and down to show its feathers to best advantage. “I’m the great Forest
-Magician, as any beast can tell you, but even I have no power to destroy
-the dreadful charm of the Magic Isle.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Are you lonesome because you’re a magician?” inquired Dorothy.
-
-“No; I’m lonesome because I have no family and no friends. But I like to
-be lonesome, so please don’t offer to be friendly with me. Go away, and
-try not to step on my Diamond Palace.”
-
-“Where is it?” asked the girl.
-
-“Behind this bush.”
-
-Dorothy hopped off the lion’s back and ran around the bush to see the
-Diamond Palace of the Lonesome Duck, although the gaudy fowl protested
-in a series of low quacks. The girl found, indeed, a glistening dome
-formed of clearest diamonds, neatly cemented together, with a doorway at
-the side just big enough to admit the duck.
-
-“Where did you find so many diamonds?” asked Dorothy, wonderingly.
-
-“I know a place in the mountains where they are thick as pebbles,” said
-the Lonesome Duck, “and I brought them here in my bill, one by one and
-put them in the river and let the water run over them until they were
-brightly polished. Then I built this palace, and I’m positive it’s the
-only Diamond Palace in all the world.”
-
-“It’s the only one I know of,” said the little girl; “but if you live in
-it all alone, I don’t see why it’s any better than a wooden palace, or
-one of bricks or cobble-stones.”
-
-“You’re not supposed to understand that,” retorted the Lonesome Duck.
-“But I might tell you, as a matter of education, that a home of any sort
-should be beautiful to those who live in it, and should not be intended
-to please strangers. The Diamond Palace is my home, and I like it. So I
-don’t care a quack whether _you_ like it or not.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Oh, but I do!” exclaimed Dorothy. “It’s lovely on the outside, but—”
-Then she stopped speaking, for the Lonesome Duck had entered his palace
-through the little door without even saying good-bye. So Dorothy
-returned to her friends and they resumed their journey.
-
-“Do you think, Wizard, the Duck was right in saying no magic can rescue
-Trot and Cap’n Bill?” asked the girl in a worried tone of voice.
-
-“No, I don’t think the Lonesome Duck was right in saying that,” answered
-the Wizard, gravely, “but it is possible that their enchantment will be
-harder to overcome than I expected. I’ll do my best, of course, and no
-one can do more than his best.”
-
-That didn’t entirely relieve Dorothy’s anxiety, but she said nothing
-more, and soon, on turning the bend in the river, they came in sight of
-the Magic Isle.
-
-“There they are!” exclaimed Dorothy eagerly.
-
-“Yes, I see them,” replied the Wizard, nodding. “They are sitting on two
-big toadstools.”
-
-“That’s queer,” remarked the Glass Cat. “There were no toadstools there
-when I left them.”
-
-“What a lovely flower!” cried Dorothy in rapture, as her gaze fell on
-the Magic Plant.
-
-“Never mind the Flower, just now,” advised the Wizard. “The most
-important thing is to rescue our friends.”
-
-By this time they had arrived at a place just opposite the Magic Isle,
-and now both Trot and Cap’n Bill saw the arrival of their friends and
-called to them for help.
-
-“How are you?” shouted the Wizard, putting his hands to his mouth so
-they could hear him better across the water.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“We’re in hard luck,” shouted Cap’n Bill, in reply. “We’re anchored here
-and can’t move till you find a way to cut the hawser.”
-
-“What does he mean by that?” asked Dorothy.
-
-“We can’t move our feet a bit!” called Trot, speaking as loud as she
-could.
-
-“Why not?” inquired Dorothy.
-
-“They’ve got roots on ’em,” explained Trot.
-
-It was hard to talk from so great a distance, so the Wizard said to the
-Glass Cat:
-
-“Go to the island and tell our friends to be patient, for we have come
-to save them. It may take a little time to release them, for the Magic
-of the Isle is new to me and I shall have to experiment. But tell them
-I’ll hurry as fast as I can.”
-
-So the Glass Cat walked across the river under the water to tell Trot
-and Cap’n Bill not to worry, and the Wizard at once opened his black bag
-and began to make his preparations.
-
-
-
-
-                        The Magic of the Wizard
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 18
-
-He first set up a small silver tripod and placed a gold basin at the top
-of it. Into this basin he put two powders—a pink one and a sky-blue
-one—and poured over them a yellow liquid from a crystal vial. Then he
-mumbled some magic words, and the powders began to sizzle and burn and
-send out a cloud of violet smoke that floated across the river and
-completely enveloped both Trot and Cap’n Bill, as well as the toadstools
-on which they sat, and even the Magic Plant in the gold flowerpot. Then,
-after the smoke had disappeared into air, the Wizard called out to the
-prisoners:
-
-“Are you free?”
-
-Both Trot and Cap’n Bill tried to move their feet and failed.
-
-“No!” they shouted in answer.
-
-The Wizard rubbed his bald head thoughtfully and then took some other
-magic tools from the bag.
-
-First he placed a little black ball in a silver pistol and shot it
-toward the Magic Isle. The ball exploded just over the head of Trot and
-scattered a thousand sparks over the little girl.
-
-“Oh!” said the Wizard, “I guess that will set her free.”
-
-But Trot’s feet were still rooted in the ground of the Magic Isle, and
-the disappointed Wizard had to try something else.
-
-For almost an hour he worked hard, using almost every magic tool in his
-black bag, and still Cap’n Bill and Trot were not rescued.
-
-“Dear me!” exclaimed Dorothy, “I’m ’fraid we’ll have to go to Glinda,
-after all.”
-
-That made the little Wizard blush, for it shamed him to think that his
-magic was not equal to that of the Magic Isle.
-
-“I won’t give up yet, Dorothy,” he said, “for I know a lot of wizardry
-that I haven’t yet tried. I don’t know what magician enchanted this
-little island, or what his powers were, but I do know that I can break
-any enchantment known to the ordinary witches and magicians that used to
-inhabit the Land of Oz. It’s like unlocking a door; all you need is to
-find the right key.”
-
-“But ’spose you haven’t the right key with you,” suggested Dorothy;
-“what then?”
-
-“Then we’ll have to make the key,” he answered.
-
-The Glass Cat now came back to their side of the river, walking under
-the water, and said to the Wizard: “They’re getting frightened over
-there on the island because they’re both growing smaller every minute.
-Just now, when I left them, both Trot and Cap’n Bill were only about
-half their natural sizes.”
-
-“I think,” said the Wizard reflectively, “that I’d better go to the
-shore of the island, where I can talk to them and work to better
-advantage. How did Trot and Cap’n Bill get to the island?”
-
-“On a raft,” answered the Glass Cat. “It’s over there now on the beach.”
-
-“I suppose you’re not strong enough to bring the raft to this side, are
-you?”
-
-“No; I couldn’t move it an inch,” said the Cat.
-
-“I’ll try to get it for you,” volunteered the Cowardly Lion. “I’m
-dreadfully scared for fear the Magic Isle will capture me, too; but I’ll
-try to get the raft and bring it to this side for you.”
-
-“Thank you, my friend,” said the Wizard.
-
-So the Lion plunged into the river and swam with powerful strokes across
-to where the raft was beached upon the island. Placing one paw on the
-raft, he turned and struck out with his other three legs and so strong
-was the great beast that he managed to drag the raft from off the beach
-and propel it slowly to where the Wizard stood on the river bank.
-
-“Good!” exclaimed the little man, well pleased.
-
-“May I go across with you?” asked Dorothy.
-
-The Wizard hesitated.
-
-“If you’ll take care not to leave the raft or step foot on the island,
-you’ll be quite safe,” he decided. So the Wizard told the Hungry Tiger
-and the Cowardly Lion to guard the cage of monkeys until he returned,
-and then he and Dorothy got upon the raft. The paddle which Cap’n Bill
-had made was still there so the little Wizard paddled the clumsy raft
-across the water and ran it upon the beach of the Magic Isle as close to
-the place where Cap’n Bill and Trot were rooted as he could.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy was shocked to see how small the prisoners had become, and Trot
-said to her friends: “If you can’t save us soon, there’ll be nothing
-left of us.”
-
-“Be patient, my dear,” counselled the Wizard, and took the little axe
-from his black bag.
-
-“What are you going to do with that?” asked Cap’n Bill.
-
-“It’s a magic axe,” replied the Wizard, “and when I tell it to chop, it
-will chop those roots from your feet and you can run to the raft before
-they grow again.”
-
-“Don’t!” shouted the sailor in alarm. “Don’t do it! Those roots are all
-flesh roots, and our bodies are feeding ’em while they’re growing into
-the ground.”
-
-“To cut off the roots,” said Trot, “would be like cutting off our
-fingers and toes.”
-
-The Wizard put the little axe back in the black bag and took out a pair
-of silver pincers.
-
-“Grow—grow—grow!” he said to the pincers, and at once they grew and
-extended until they reached from the raft to the prisoners.
-
-“What are you going to do now?” demanded Cap’n Bill, fearfully eyeing
-the pincers.
-
-“This magic tool will pull you up, roots and all, and land you on this
-raft,” declared the Wizard.
-
-“Don’t do it!” pleaded the sailor, with a shudder. “It would hurt us
-awfully.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“It would be just like pulling teeth to pull us up by the roots,”
-explained Trot.
-
-“Grow small!” said the Wizard to the pincers, and at once they became
-small and he threw them into the black bag.
-
-“I guess, friends, it’s all up with us, this time,” remarked Cap’n Bill,
-with a dismal sigh.
-
-“Please tell Ozma, Dorothy,” said Trot, “that we got into trouble trying
-to get her a nice birthday present. Then she’ll forgive us. The Magic
-Flower is lovely and wonderful, but it’s just a lure to catch folks on
-this dreadful island and then destroy them. You’ll have a nice birthday
-party, without us, I’m sure; and I hope, Dorothy, that none of you in
-the Emerald City will forget me—or dear ol’ Cap’n Bill.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                      Dorothy and the Bumble Bees
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 19
-
-Dorothy was greatly distressed and had hard work to keep the tears from
-her eyes.
-
-“Is that all you can do, Wizard?” she asked the little man.
-
-“It’s all I can think of just now,” he replied sadly. “But I intend to
-keep on thinking as long—as long—well, as long as thinking will do any
-good.”
-
-They were all silent for a time, Dorothy and the Wizard sitting
-thoughtfully on the raft, and Trot and Cap’n Bill sitting thoughtfully
-on the toadstools and growing gradually smaller and smaller in size.
-
-Suddenly Dorothy said: “Wizard, I’ve thought of something!”
-
-“What have you thought of?” he asked, looking at the little girl with
-interest.
-
-“Can you remember the Magic Word that transforms people?” she asked.
-
-“Of course,” said he.
-
-“Then you can transform Trot and Cap’n Bill into birds or Bumblebees,
-and they can fly away to the other shore. When they’re there, you can
-transform ’em into their reg’lar shapes again!”
-
-“Can you do that, Wizard?” asked Cap’n Bill, eagerly.
-
-“I think so.”
-
-“Roots an’ all?” inquired Trot.
-
-“Why, the roots are now a part of you, and if you were transformed to a
-bumble-bee the whole of you would be transformed, of course, and you’d
-be free of this awful island.”
-
-“All right; do it!” cried the sailor-man.
-
-So the Wizard said slowly and distinctly:
-
-“I want Trot and Cap’n Bill to become bumble-bees—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-Fortunately, he pronounced the Magic Word in the right way, and
-instantly Trot and Cap’n Bill vanished from view, and up from the places
-where they had been flew two bumble-bees.
-
-“Hooray!” shouted Dorothy in delight; “they’re saved!”
-
-“I guess they are,” agreed the Wizard, equally delighted.
-
-The bees hovered over the raft an instant and then flew across the river
-to where the Lion and the Tiger waited. The Wizard picked up the paddle
-and paddled the raft across as fast as he could. When it reached the
-river bank, both Dorothy and the Wizard leaped ashore and the little man
-asked excitedly:
-
-“Where are the bees?”
-
-“The bees?” inquired the Lion, who was half asleep and did not know what
-had happened on the Magic Isle.
-
-“Yes; there were two of them.”
-
-“Two bees?” said the Hungry Tiger, yawning. “Why, I ate one of them and
-the Cowardly Lion ate the other.”
-
-“Goodness gracious!” cried Dorothy horrified.
-
-“It was little enough for our lunch,” remarked the Tiger, “but the bees,
-were the only things we could find.”
-
-“How dreadful!” wailed Dorothy, wringing her hands in despair. “You’ve
-eaten Trot and Cap’n Bill.”
-
-But just then she heard a buzzing overhead and two bees alighted on her
-shoulder.
-
-“Here we are,” said a small voice in her ear. “I’m Trot, Dorothy.”
-
-“And I’m Cap’n Bill,” said the other bee.
-
-Dorothy almost fainted, with relief, and the Wizard, who was close by
-and had heard the tiny voices, gave a laugh and said:
-
-“You are not the only two bees in the forest, it seems, but I advise you
-to keep away from the Lion and the Tiger until you regain your proper
-forms.”
-
-“Do it now, Wizard!” advised Dorothy. “They’re so small that you never
-can tell what might happen to ’em.”
-
-So the Wizard gave the command and pronounced the Magic Word, and in the
-instant Trot and Cap’n Bill stood beside them as natural as before they
-had met their fearful adventure. For they were no longer small in size,
-because the Wizard had transformed them from bumble-bees into the shapes
-and sizes that nature had formerly given them. The ugly roots on their
-feet had disappeared with the transformation.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-While Dorothy was hugging Trot, and Trot was softly crying because she
-was so happy, the Wizard shook hands with Cap’n Bill and congratulated
-him on his escape. The old sailor-man was so pleased that he also shook
-the Lion’s paw and took off his hat and bowed politely to the cage of
-monkeys.
-
-Then Cap’n Bill did a curious thing. He went to a big tree and, taking
-out his knife, cut away a big, broad piece of thick bark. Then he sat
-down on the ground and after taking a roll of stout cord from his
-pocket—which seemed to be full of all sorts of things—he proceeded to
-bind the flat piece of bark to the bottom of his good foot, over the
-leather sole.
-
-“What’s that for?” inquired the Wizard.
-
-“I hate to be stumped,” replied the sailor-man; “so I’m goin’ back to
-that island.”
-
-“And get enchanted again?” exclaimed Trot, with evident disapproval.
-
-“No; this time I’ll dodge the magic of the island. I noticed that my
-wooden leg didn’t get stuck, or take root, an’ neither did the glass
-feet of the Glass Cat. It’s only a thing that’s made of meat—like man
-an’ beasts—that the magic can hold an’ root to the ground. Our shoes are
-leather, an’ leather comes from a beast’s hide. Our stockin’s are wool,
-an’ wool comes from a sheep’s back. So, when we walked on the Magic
-Isle, our feet took root there an’ held us fast. But not my wooden leg.
-So now I’ll put a wooden bottom on my other foot an’ the magic can’t
-stop me.”
-
-“But why do you wish to go back to the island?” asked Dorothy.
-
-“Didn’t you see the Magic Flower in the gold flower-pot?” returned Cap’n
-Bill.
-
-“Of course I saw it, and it’s lovely and wonderful.”
-
-“Well, Trot an’ I set out to get that magic plant for a present to Ozma
-on her birthday, and I mean to get it an’ take it back with us to the
-Emerald City.”
-
-“That would be fine,” cried Trot eagerly, “if you think you can do it,
-and it would be safe to try!”
-
-“I’m pretty sure it is safe, the way I’ve fixed my foot,” said the
-sailor, “an’ if I _should_ happen to get caught, I s’pose the Wizard
-could save me again.”
-
-“I suppose I could,” agreed the Wizard. “Anyhow, if you wish to try it,
-Cap’n Bill, go ahead and we’ll stand by and watch what happens.”
-
-So the sailor-man got upon the raft again and paddled over to the Magic
-Isle, landing as close to the golden flower-pot as he could. They
-watched him walk across the land, put both arms around the flower-pot
-and lift it easily from its place. Then he carried it to the raft and
-set it down very gently. The removal did not seem to affect the Magic
-Flower in any way, for it was growing daffodils when Cap’n Bill picked
-it up and on the way to the raft it grew tulips and gladioli. During the
-time the sailor was paddling across the river to where his friends
-awaited him, seven different varieties of flowers bloomed in succession
-on the plant.
-
-“I guess the Magician who put it on the island never thought that any
-one would carry it off,” said Dorothy.
-
-“He figured that only men would want the plant, and any man who went
-upon the island to get it would be caught by the enchantment,” added the
-Wizard.
-
-“After this,” remarked Trot, “no one will care to go on the island, so
-it won’t be a trap any more.”
-
-“There,” exclaimed Cap’n Bill, setting down the Magic Plant in triumph
-upon the river bank, “if Ozma gets a better birthday present than that,
-I’d like to know what it can be!”
-
-“It’ll s’prise her, all right,” declared Dorothy, standing in awed
-wonder before the gorgeous blossoms and watching them change from yellow
-roses to violets.
-
-“It’ll s’prise ev’rybody in the Em’rald City,” Trot asserted in glee,
-“and it’ll be Ozma’s present from Cap’n Bill and me.”
-
-“I think _I_ ought to have a little credit,” objected the Glass Cat. “I
-discovered the thing, and led you to it, and brought the Wizard here to
-save you when you got caught.”
-
-“That’s true,” admitted Trot, “and I’ll tell Ozma the whole story, so
-she’ll know how good you’ve been.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                        The Monkeys Have Trouble
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 20
-
-“Now,” said the Wizard, “we must start for home. But how are we going to
-carry that big gold flowerpot? Cap’n Bill can’t lug it all the way,
-that’s certain.”
-
-“No,” acknowledged the sailor-man; “it’s pretty heavy. I could carry it
-for a little while, but I’d have to stop to rest every few minutes.”
-
-“Couldn’t we put it on your back?” Dorothy asked the Cowardly Lion, with
-a good-natured yawn.
-
-“I don’t object to carrying it, if you can fasten it on,” answered the
-Lion.
-
-“If it falls off,” said Trot, “it might get smashed an’ be ruined.”
-
-“I’ll fix it,” promised Cap’n Bill. “I’ll make a flat board out of one
-of these tree trunks, an’ tie the board on the lion’s back, an’ set the
-flowerpot on the board.” He set to work at once to do this, but as he
-only had his big knife for a tool his progress was slow.
-
-So the Wizard took from his black bag a tiny saw that shone like silver
-and said to it:
-
-  “Saw, little Saw, come show your power;
-  Make us a board for the Magic Flower.”
-
-And at once the Little Saw began to move and it sawed the log so fast
-that those who watched it work were astonished. It seemed to understand,
-too, just what the board was to be used for, for when it was completed
-it was flat on top and hollowed beneath in such a manner that it exactly
-fitted the Lion’s back.
-
-“That beats whittlin’!” exclaimed Cap’n Bill, admiringly. “You don’t
-happen to have _two_ o’ them saws; do you, Wizard?”
-
-“No,” replied the Wizard, wiping the Magic Saw carefully with his silk
-handkerchief and putting it back in the black bag. “It’s the only saw of
-its kind in the world; and if there were more like it, it wouldn’t be so
-wonderful.”
-
-They now tied the board on the Lion’s back, flat side up, and Cap’n Bill
-carefully placed the Magic Flower on the board.
-
-“For fear o’ accidents,” he said, “I’ll walk beside the lion and hold
-onto the flowerpot.”
-
-Trot and Dorothy could both ride on the back of the Hungry Tiger, and
-between them they carried the cage of monkeys. But this arrangement left
-the Wizard, as well as the sailor, to make the journey on foot, and so
-the procession moved slowly and the Glass Cat grumbled because it would
-take so long to get to the Emerald City.
-
-The Cat was sour-tempered and grumpy, at first, but before they had
-journeyed far, the crystal creature had discovered a fine amusement. The
-long tails of the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars of
-their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would slyly seize the tails
-in her paws and pull them. That made the monkeys scream, and their
-screams pleased the Glass Cat immensely. Trot and Dorothy tried to stop
-this naughty amusement, but when they were not looking the Cat would
-pull the tails again, and the creature was so sly and quick that the
-monkeys could seldom escape. They scolded the Cat angrily and shook the
-bars of their cage, but they could not get out and the Cat only laughed
-at them.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-After the party had left the forest and were on the plains of the
-Munchkin Country, it grew dark, and they were obliged to make camp for
-the night, choosing a pretty place beside a brook. By means of his magic
-the Wizard created three tents, pitched in a row on the grass and nicely
-fitted with all that was needful for the comfort of his comrades. The
-middle tent was for Dorothy and Trot, and had in it two cosy white beds
-and two chairs. Another tent, also with beds and chairs, was for the
-Wizard and Cap’n Bill, while the third tent was for the Hungry Tiger,
-the Cowardly Lion, the cage of Monkeys and the Glass Cat. Outside the
-tents the Wizard made a fire and placed over it a magic kettle from
-which he presently drew all sorts of nice things for their supper,
-smoking hot.
-
-After they had eaten and talked together for a while under the twinkling
-stars, they all went to bed and the people were soon asleep. The Lion
-and the Tiger had almost fallen asleep, too, when they were roused by
-the screams of the monkeys, for the Glass Cat was pulling their tails
-again. Annoyed by the uproar, the Hungry Tiger cried: “Stop that
-racket!” and getting sight of the Glass Cat, he raised his big paw and
-struck at the creature. The cat was quick enough to dodge the blow, but
-the claws of the Hungry Tiger scraped the monkeys’ cage and bent two of
-the bars.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Then the Tiger lay down again to sleep, but the monkeys soon discovered
-that the bending of the bars would allow them to squeeze through. They
-did not leave the cage, however, but after whispering together they let
-their tails stick out and all remained quiet. Presently the Glass Cat
-stole near the cage again and gave a yank to one of the tails. Instantly
-the monkeys leaped through the bars, one after another, and although
-they were so small the entire dozen of them surrounded the Glass Cat and
-clung to her claws and tail and ears and made her a prisoner. Then they
-forced her out of the tent and down to the banks of the stream. The
-monkeys had noticed that these banks were covered with thick, slimy mud
-of a dark blue color, and when they had taken the Cat to the stream,
-they smeared this mud all over the glass body of the cat, filling the
-creature’s ears and eyes with it, so that she could neither see nor
-hear. She was no longer transparent and so thick was the mud upon her
-that no one could see her pink brains or her ruby heart.
-
-In this condition they led the pussy back to the tent and then got
-inside their cage again.
-
-By morning the mud had dried hard on the Glass Cat and it was a dull
-blue color throughout. Dorothy and Trot were horrified, but the Wizard
-shook his head and said it served the Glass Cat right for teasing the
-monkeys.
-
-Cap’n Bill, with his strong hands, soon bent the golden wires of the
-monkeys’ cage into the proper position and then he asked the Wizard if
-he should wash the Glass Cat in the water of the brook.
-
-“Not just yet,” answered the Wizard. “The Cat deserves to be punished,
-so I think I’ll leave that blue mud—which is as bad as paint—upon her
-body until she gets to the Emerald City. The silly creature is so vain
-that she will be greatly shamed when the Oz people see her in this
-condition, and perhaps she’ll take the lesson to heart and leave the
-monkeys alone hereafter.”
-
-However, the Glass Cat could not see or hear, and to avoid carrying her
-on the journey the Wizard picked the mud out of her eyes and ears and
-Dorothy dampened her handkerchief and washed both the eyes and ears
-clean.
-
-As soon as she could speak the Glass Cat asked indignantly: “Aren’t you
-going to punish those monkeys for playing such a trick on me?”
-
-“No,” answered the Wizard. “You played a trick on them by pulling their
-tails, so this is only tit-for-tat, and I’m glad the monkeys had their
-revenge.”
-
-He wouldn’t allow the Glass Cat to go near the water, to wash herself,
-but made her follow them when they resumed their journey toward the
-Emerald City.
-
-“This is only part of your punishment,” said the Wizard, severely. “Ozma
-will laugh at you, when we get to her palace, and so will the Scarecrow,
-and the Tin Woodman, and Tik-Tok, and the Shaggy Man, and Button-Bright,
-and the Patchwork Girl, and—”
-
-“And the Pink Kitten,” added Dorothy.
-
-That suggestion hurt the Glass Cat more than anything else. The Pink
-Kitten always quarreled with the Glass Cat and insisted that flesh was
-superior to glass, while the Glass Cat would jeer at the Pink Kitten,
-because it had no pink brains. But the pink brains were all daubed with
-blue mud, just now, and if the Pink Kitten should see the Glass Cat in
-such a condition, it would be dreadfully humiliating.
-
-For several hours the Glass Cat walked along very meekly, but toward
-noon it seized an opportunity when no one was looking and darted away
-through the long grass. It remembered that there was a tiny lake of pure
-water near by, and to this lake the Cat sped as fast as it could go.
-
-The others never missed her until they stopped for lunch, and then it
-was too late to hunt for her.
-
-“I s’pect she’s gone somewhere to clean herself,” said Dorothy.
-
-“Never mind,” replied the Wizard. “Perhaps this glass creature has been
-punished enough, and we must not forget she saved both Trot and Cap’n
-Bill.”
-
-“After first leading ’em onto an enchanted island,” added Dorothy. “But
-I think, as you do, that the Glass Cat is punished enough, and p’raps
-she won’t try to pull the monkeys’ tails again.”
-
-The Glass Cat did not rejoin the party of travelers. She was still
-resentful, and they moved too slowly to suit her, besides. When they
-arrived at the Royal Palace, one of the first things they saw was the
-Glass Cat curled up on a bench as bright and clean and transparent as
-ever. But she pretended not to notice them, and they passed her by
-without remark.
-
-
-
-
-                      The College of Athletic Arts
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 21
-
-Dorothy and her friends arrived at the Royal Palace at an opportune
-time, for Ozma was holding high court in her Throne Room, where
-Professor H. M. Wogglebug, T.E., was appealing to her to punish some of
-the students of the Royal Athletic College, of which he was the
-Principal.
-
-This College is located in the Munchkin Country, but not far from the
-Emerald City. To enable the students to devote their entire time to
-athletic exercises, such as boating, foot-ball, and the like, Professor
-Wogglebug had invented an assortment of Tablets of Learning. One of
-these tablets, eaten by a scholar after breakfast, would instantly
-enable him to understand arithmetic or algebra or any other branch of
-mathematics. Another tablet eaten after lunch gave a student a complete
-knowledge of geography. Another tablet made it possible for the eater to
-spell the most difficult words, and still another enabled him to write a
-beautiful hand. There were tablets for history, mechanics, home cooking
-and agriculture, and it mattered not whether a boy or a girl was stupid
-or bright, for the tablets taught them everything in the twinkling of an
-eye.
-
-This method, which is patented in the Land of Oz by Professor Wogglebug,
-saves paper and books, as well as the tedious hours devoted to study in
-some of our less favored schools, and it also allows the students to
-devote all their time to racing, base-ball, tennis and other manly and
-womanly sports, which are greatly interfered with by study in those
-Temples of Learning where Tablets of Learning are unknown.
-
-But it so happened that Professor Wogglebug (who had invented so much
-that he had acquired the habit) carelessly invented a Square-Meal
-Tablet, which was no bigger than your little finger-nail but contained,
-in condensed form, the equal of a bowl of soup, a portion of fried fish,
-a roast, a salad and a dessert, all of which gave the same nourishment
-as a square meal.
-
-The Professor was so proud of these Square-Meal Tablets that he began to
-feed them to the students at his college, instead of other food, but the
-boys and girls objected because they wanted food that they could enjoy
-the taste of. It was no fun at all to swallow a tablet, with a glass of
-water, and call it a dinner; so they refused to eat the Square-Meal
-Tablets. Professor Wogglebug insisted, and the result was that the
-Senior Class seized the learned Professor one day and threw him into the
-river—clothes and all. Everyone knows that a wogglebug cannot swim, and
-so the inventor of the wonderful Square-Meal Tablets lay helpless on the
-bottom of the river for three days before a fisherman caught one of his
-legs on a fishhook and dragged him out upon the bank.
-
-The learned Professor was naturally indignant at such treatment, and so
-he brought the entire senior class to the Emerald City and appealed to
-Ozma of Oz to punish them for their rebellion.
-
-I do not suppose the girl Ruler was very severe with the rebellious boys
-and girls, because she had herself refused to eat the Square-Meal
-Tablets in place of food, but while she was listening to the interesting
-case in her Throne Room, Cap’n Bill managed to carry the golden
-flower-pot containing the Magic Flower up to Trot’s room without it
-being seen by anyone except Jellia Jamb, Ozma’s chief Maid of Honor, and
-Jellia promised not to tell.
-
-Also the Wizard was able to carry the cage of monkeys up to one of the
-top towers of the palace, where he had a room of his own, to which no
-one came unless invited. So Trot and Dorothy and Cap’n Bill and the
-Wizard were all delighted at the successful end of their adventure. The
-Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger went to the marble stables behind the
-Royal Palace, where they lived while at home, and they too kept the
-secret, even refusing to tell the Wooden Sawhorse, and Hank the Mule,
-and the Yellow Hen, and the Pink Kitten where they had been.
-
-Trot watered the Magic Flower every day and allowed no one in her room
-to see the beautiful blossoms except her friends, Betsy Bobbin and
-Dorothy. The wonderful plant did not seem to lose any of its magic by
-being removed from its island, and Trot was sure that Ozma would prize
-it as one of her most delightful treasures.
-
-Up in his tower the little Wizard of Oz began training his twelve tiny
-monkeys, and the little creatures were so intelligent that they learned
-every trick the Wizard tried to teach them. The Wizard treated them with
-great kindness and gentleness and gave them the food that monkeys love
-best, so they promised to do their best on the great occasion of Ozma’s
-birthday.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                         Ozma’s Birthday Party
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 22
-
-It seems odd that a fairy should have a birthday, for fairies, they say,
-were born at the beginning of time and live forever. Yet, on the other
-hand, it would be a shame to deprive a fairy, who has so many other good
-things, of the delights of a birthday. So we need not wonder that the
-fairies keep their birthdays just as other folks do, and consider them
-occasions for feasting and rejoicing.
-
-Ozma, the beautiful girl Ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was a real fairy,
-and so sweet and gentle in caring for her people that she was greatly
-beloved by them all. She lived in the most magnificent palace in the
-most magnificent city in the world, but that did not prevent her from
-being the friend of the most humble person in her dominions. She would
-mount her wooden Sawhorse, and ride out to a farm house and sit in the
-kitchen to talk with the good wife of the farmer while she did her
-family baking; or she would play with the children and give them rides
-on her famous wooden steed; or she would stop in a forest to speak to a
-charcoal burner and ask if he was happy or desired anything to make him
-more content; or she would teach young girls how to sew and plan pretty
-dresses, or enter the shops where the jewelers and craftsmen were busy
-and watch them at their work, giving to each and all a cheering word or
-sunny smile.
-
-And then Ozma would sit in her jeweled throne, with her chosen courtiers
-all about her, and listen patiently to any complaint brought to her by
-her subjects, striving to accord equal justice to all. Knowing she was
-fair in her decisions, the Oz people never murmured at her judgments,
-but agreed, if Ozma decided against them, she was right and they wrong.
-
-When Dorothy and Trot and Betsy Bobbin and Ozma were together, one would
-think they were all about of an age, and the fairy Ruler no older and no
-more “grown up” than the other three. She would laugh and romp with them
-in regular girlish fashion, yet there was an air of quiet dignity about
-Ozma, even in her merriest moods, that, in a manner, distinguished her
-from the others. The three girls loved her devotedly, but they were
-never able to quite forget that Ozma was the Royal Ruler of the
-wonderful fairyland of Oz, and by birth belonged to a powerful race.
-
-Ozma’s palace stood in the center of a delightful and extensive garden,
-where splendid trees and flowering shrubs and statuary and fountains
-abounded. One could walk for hours in this fascinating park and see
-something interesting at every step. In one place was an aquarium, where
-strange and beautiful fish swam; at another spot all the birds of the
-air gathered daily to a great feast which Ozma’s servants provided for
-them, and were so fearless of harm that they would alight upon one’s
-shoulders and eat from one’s hand. There was also the Fountain of the
-Water of Oblivion, but it was dangerous to drink of this water, because
-it made one forget everything he had ever before known, even to his own
-name, and therefore Ozma had placed a sign of warning upon the fountain.
-But there were also fountains that were delightfully perfumed, and
-fountains of delicious nectar, cool and richly flavored, where all were
-welcome to refresh themselves.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Around the palace grounds was a great wall, thickly encrusted with
-glittering emeralds, but the gates stood open and no one was forbidden
-entrance. On holidays the people of the Emerald City often took their
-children to see the wonders of Ozma’s gardens, and even entered the
-Royal Palace, if they felt so inclined, for they knew that they and
-their Ruler were friends, and that Ozma delighted to give them pleasure.
-
-When all this is considered, you will not be surprised that the people
-throughout the Land of Oz, as well as Ozma’s most intimate friends and
-her royal courtiers, were eager to celebrate her birthday, and made
-preparations for the festival weeks in advance. All the brass bands
-practiced their nicest tunes, for they were to march in the numerous
-processions to be made in the Winkie Country, the Gillikin Country, the
-Munchkin Country and the Quadling Country, as well as in the Emerald
-City. Not all the people could go to congratulate their Ruler, but all
-could celebrate her birthday, in one way or another, however far distant
-from her palace they might be. Every home and building throughout the
-Land of Oz was to be decorated with banners and bunting, and there were
-to be games, and plays, and a general good time for every one.
-
-It was Ozma’s custom on her birthday to give a grand feast at the
-palace, to which all her closest friends were invited. It was a queerly
-assorted company, indeed, for there are more quaint and unusual
-characters in Oz than in all the rest of the world, and Ozma was more
-interested in unusual people than in ordinary ones—just as you and I
-are.
-
-On this especial birthday of the lovely girl Ruler, a long table was set
-in the royal Banquet Hall of the palace, at which were place-cards for
-the invited guests, and at one end of the great room was a smaller
-table, not so high, for Ozma’s animal friends, whom she never forgot,
-and at the other end was a big table where all of the birthday gifts
-were to be arranged.
-
-When the guests arrived, they placed their gifts on this table and then
-found their places at the banquet table. And, after the guests were all
-placed, the animals entered in a solemn procession and were placed at
-their table by Jellia Jamb. Then, while an orchestra hidden by a bank of
-roses and ferns played a march composed for the occasion, the Royal Ozma
-entered the Banquet Hall, attended by her Maids of Honor, and took her
-seat at the head of the table.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-She was greeted by a cheer from all the assembled company, the animals
-adding their roars and growls and barks and mewing and cackling to swell
-the glad tumult, and then all seated themselves at their tables.
-
-At Ozma’s right sat the famous Scarecrow of Oz, whose straw-stuffed body
-was not beautiful, but whose happy nature and shrewd wit had made him a
-general favorite. On the left of the Ruler was placed the Tin Woodman,
-whose metal body had been brightly polished for this event. The Tin
-Woodman was the Emperor of the Winkie Country and one of the most
-important persons in Oz.
-
-Next to the Scarecrow, Dorothy was seated, and next to her was Tik-Tok,
-the Clockwork Man, who had been wound up as tightly as his clockwork
-would permit, so he wouldn’t interrupt the festivities by running down.
-Then came Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy’s own relations, two kindly
-old people who had a cozy home in the Emerald City and were very happy
-and contented there. Then Betsy Bobbin was seated, and next to her the
-droll and delightful Shaggy Man, who was a favorite wherever he went.
-
-On the other side of the table, opposite the Tin Woodman was placed
-Trot, and next to her, Cap’n Bill. Then was seated Button Bright and Ojo
-the Lucky, and Dr. Pipt and his good wife Margalot, and the astonishing
-Frogman, who had come from the Yip country to be present at Ozma’s
-birthday feast.
-
-At the foot of the table, facing Ozma, was seated the queenly Glinda,
-the good Sorceress of Oz, for this was really the place of honor next to
-the head of the table where Ozma herself sat. On Glinda’s right was the
-Little Wizard of Oz, who owed to Glinda all of the magical arts he knew.
-Then came Jinjur, a pretty girl farmer of whom Ozma and Dorothy were
-quite fond. The adjoining seat was occupied by the Tin Soldier, and next
-to him was Professor H. M. Wogglebug, T.E., of the Royal Athletic
-College.
-
-On Glinda’s left was placed the jolly Patchwork Girl, who was a little
-afraid of the Sorceress and so was likely to behave herself pretty well.
-The Shaggy Man’s brother was beside the Patchwork Girl, and then came
-that interesting personage, Jack Pumpkinhead, who had grown a splendid
-big pumpkin for a new head to be worn on Ozma’s birthday, and had carved
-a face on it that was even jollier in expression than the one he had
-last worn. New heads were not unusual with Jack, for the pumpkins did
-not keep long, and when the seeds—which served him as brains—began to
-get soft and mushy, he realized his head would soon spoil, and so he
-procured a new one from his great field of pumpkins—grown by him so that
-he need never lack a head.
-
-You will have noticed that the company at Ozma’s banquet table was
-somewhat mixed, but every one invited was a tried and trusted friend of
-the girl Ruler, and their presence made her quite happy.
-
-No sooner had Ozma seated herself, with her back to the birthday table,
-than she noticed that all present were eyeing with curiosity and
-pleasure something behind her, for the gorgeous Magic Flower was
-blooming gloriously and the mammoth blossoms that quickly succeeded one
-another on the plant were beautiful to view and filled the entire room
-with their delicate fragrance. Ozma wanted to look, too, to see what all
-were staring at, but she controlled her curiosity because it was not
-proper that she should yet view her birthday gifts.
-
-So the sweet and lovely Ruler devoted herself to her guests, several of
-whom, as the Sorcerer, the Tin Woodman, the Patchwork Girl, Tik-Tok,
-Jack Pumpkinhead and the Tin Soldier, never ate anything but sat very
-politely in their places and tried to entertain those of the guests who
-did eat.
-
-And, at the animal table, there was another interesting group,
-consisting of the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, Toto—Dorothy’s little
-shaggy black dog—Hank the Mule, the Pink Kitten, the Wooden Sawhorse,
-the Yellow Hen, and the Glass Cat. All of these had good appetites
-except the Sawhorse and the Glass Cat, and each was given a plentiful
-supply of the food it liked best.
-
-Finally, when the banquet was nearly over and the ice-cream was to be
-served, four servants entered bearing a huge cake, all frosted and
-decorated with candy flowers. Around the edge of the cake was a row of
-lighted candles, and in the center were raised candy letters that
-spelled the words:
-
-                                 OZMA’S
-                             Birthday Cake
-                                  from
-                         Dorothy and the Wizard
-
-“Oh, how beautiful!” cried Ozma, greatly delighted, and Dorothy said
-eagerly: “Now you must cut the cake, Ozma, and each of us will eat a
-piece with our ice-cream.”
-
-Jellia Jamb brought a large golden knife with a jeweled handle, and Ozma
-stood up in her place and attempted to cut the cake. But as soon as the
-frosting in the center broke under the pressure of the knife there
-leaped from the cake a tiny monkey three inches high, and he was
-followed by another and another, until twelve monkeys stood on the
-tablecloth and bowed low to Ozma.
-
-“Congratulations to our gracious Ruler!” they exclaimed in a chorus, and
-then they began a dance, so droll and amusing that all the company
-roared with laughter and even Ozma joined in the merriment. But after
-the dance the monkeys performed some wonderful acrobatic feats, and then
-they ran to the hollow of the cake and took out some band instruments of
-burnished gold—cornets, horns, drums, and the like—and forming into a
-procession the monkeys marched up and down the table playing a jolly
-tune with the ease of skilled musicians.
-
-Dorothy was delighted with the success of her “Surprise Cake,” and after
-the monkeys had finished their performance, the banquet came to an end.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Now was the time for Ozma to see her other presents, so Glinda the Good
-rose and, taking the girl Ruler by her hand, led her to the table where
-all her gifts were placed in magnificent array. The Magic Flower of
-course attracted her attention first, and Trot had to tell her the whole
-story of their adventures in getting it. The little girl did not forget
-to give due credit to the Glass Cat and the little Wizard, but it was
-really Cap’n Bill who bravely carried the golden flowerpot away from the
-enchanted Isle.
-
-Ozma thanked them all, and said she would place the Magic Flower in her
-boudoir where she might enjoy its beauty and fragrance continually. But
-now she discovered the marvelous gown woven by Glinda and her maidens
-from strands drawn from pure emeralds, and being a girl who loved pretty
-clothes, Ozma’s ecstasy at being presented with this exquisite gown may
-well be imagined. She could hardly wait to put it on, but the table was
-loaded with other pretty gifts and the night was far spent before the
-happy girl Ruler had examined all her presents and thanked those who had
-lovingly donated them.
-
-
-
-
-                        The Fountain of Oblivion
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 23
-
-The morning after the birthday fete, as the Wizard and Dorothy were
-walking in the grounds of the palace, Ozma came out and joined them,
-saying:
-
-“I want to hear more of your adventures in the Forest of Gugu, and how
-you were able to get those dear little monkeys to use in Dorothy’s
-Surprise Cake.”
-
-So they sat down on a marble bench near to the fountain of the Water of
-Oblivion, and between them Dorothy and the Wizard related their
-adventures.
-
-“I was dreadfully fussy while I was a woolly lamb,” said Dorothy, “for
-it didn’t feel good, a bit. And I wasn’t quite sure, you know, that I’d
-ever get to be a girl again.”
-
-“You might have been a woolly lamb yet, if I hadn’t happened to have
-discovered that Magic Transformation Word,” declared the Wizard.
-
-“But what became of the walnut and the hickory-nut into which you
-transformed those dreadful beast magicians?” inquired Ozma.
-
-“Why, I’d almost forgotten them,” was the reply; “but I believe they are
-still here in my pocket.”
-
-Then he searched in his pockets and brought out the two nuts and showed
-them to her.
-
-Ozma regarded them thoughtfully.
-
-“It isn’t right to leave any living creatures in such helpless forms,”
-said she. “I think, Wizard, you ought to transform them into their
-natural shapes again.”
-
-“But I don’t know what their natural shapes are,” he objected, “for of
-course the forms of mixed animals which they had assumed were not
-natural to them. And you must not forget, Ozma, that their natures were
-cruel and mischievous, so if I bring them back to life they might cause
-us a great deal of trouble.”
-
-“Nevertheless,” said the Ruler of Oz, “we must free them from their
-present enchantments. When you restore them to their natural forms we
-will discover who they really are, and surely we need not fear any two
-people, even though they prove to be magicians and our enemies.”
-
-“I am not so sure of that,” protested the Wizard, with a shake of his
-bald head. “The one bit of magic I robbed them of—which was the word of
-transformation—is so simple, yet so powerful, that neither Glinda nor I
-can equal it. It isn’t all in the word, you know, it’s the way the word
-is pronounced. So if the two strange magicians have other magic of the
-same sort, they might prove very dangerous to us, if we liberated them.”
-
-“I’ve an idea!” exclaimed Dorothy. “I’m no wizard, and no fairy, but if
-you do as I say, we needn’t fear these people at all.”
-
-“What is your thought, my dear?” asked Ozma.
-
-“Well,” replied the girl, “here is this fountain of the Water of
-Oblivion, and that’s what put the notion into my head. When the Wizard
-speaks that ter’ble word that will change ’em back to their real forms,
-he can make ’em dreadful thirsty, too, and we’ll put a cup right here by
-the fountain, so it’ll be handy. Then they’ll drink the water and forget
-all the magic they ever knew—and everything else, too.”
-
-“That’s not a bad idea,” said the Wizard, looking at Dorothy
-approvingly.
-
-“It’s a very _good_ idea,” declared Ozma. “Run for a cup, Dorothy.”
-
-So Dorothy ran to get a cup, and while she was gone the Wizard said:
-
-“I don’t know whether the real forms of these magicians are those of men
-or beasts. If they’re beasts, they would not drink from a cup but might
-attack us at once and drink afterward. So it might be safer for us to
-have the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger here to protect us if
-necessary.”
-
-Ozma drew out a silver whistle which was attached to a slender gold
-chain and blew upon the whistle two shrill blasts. The sound, though not
-harsh, was very penetrating, and as soon as it reached the ears of the
-Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the two huge beasts quickly came
-bounding toward them. Ozma explained to them what the Wizard was about
-to do, and told them to keep quiet unless danger threatened. So the two
-powerful guardians of the Ruler of Oz crouched beside the fountain and
-waited.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy returned and set the cup on the edge of the fountain. Then the
-Wizard placed the hickory-nut beside the fountain and said in a solemn
-voice:
-
-“I want you to resume your natural form, and to be very
-thirsty—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-In an instant there appeared, in the place of the hickory-nut, the form
-of Kiki Aru, the Hyup boy. He seemed bewildered, at first, as if trying
-to remember what had happened to him and why he was in this strange
-place. But he was facing the fountain, and the bubbling water reminded
-him that he was thirsty. Without noticing Ozma, the Wizard and Dorothy,
-who were behind him, he picked up the cup, filled it with the Water of
-Oblivion, and drank it to the last drop.
-
-He was now no longer thirsty, but he felt more bewildered than ever, for
-now he could remember nothing at all—not even his name or where he came
-from. He looked around the beautiful garden with a pleased expression,
-and then, turning, he beheld Ozma and the Wizard and Dorothy regarding
-him curiously and the two great beasts crouching behind them.
-
-Kiki Aru did not know who they were, but he thought Ozma very lovely and
-Dorothy very pleasant. So he smiled at them—the same innocent, happy
-smile that a baby might have indulged in, and that pleased Dorothy, who
-seized his hand and led him to a seat beside her on the bench.
-
-“Why, I thought you were a dreadful magician,” she exclaimed, “and
-you’re only a boy!”
-
-“What is a magician?” he asked, “and what is a boy?”
-
-“Don’t you know?” inquired the girl.
-
-Kiki shook his head. Then he laughed.
-
-“I do not seem to know anything,” he replied.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“It’s very curious,” remarked the Wizard. “He wears the dress of the
-Munchkins, so he must have lived at one time in the Munchkin Country. Of
-course the boy can tell us nothing of his history or his family, for he
-has forgotten all that he ever knew.”
-
-“He seems a nice boy, now that all the wickedness has gone from him,”
-said Ozma. “So we will keep him here with us and teach him our ways—to
-be true and considerate of others.”
-
-“Why, in that case, it’s lucky for him he drank the Water of Oblivion,”
-said Dorothy.
-
-“It is indeed,” agreed the Wizard. “But the remarkable thing, to me, is
-how such a young boy ever learned the secret of the Magic Word of
-Transformation. Perhaps his companion, who is at present this walnut,
-was the real magician, although I seem to remember that it was this boy
-in the beast’s form who whispered the Magic Word into the hollow tree,
-where I overheard it.”
-
-“Well, we will soon know who the other is,” suggested Ozma. “He may
-prove to be another Munchkin boy.”
-
-The Wizard placed the walnut near the fountain and said, as slowly and
-solemnly as before:
-
-“I want you to resume your natural form, and to be very
-thirsty—Pyrzqxgl!”
-
-Then the walnut disappeared and Ruggedo the Nome stood in its place. He
-also was facing the fountain, and he reached for the cup, filled it, and
-was about to drink when Dorothy exclaimed:
-
-“Why, it’s the old Nome King!”
-
-Ruggedo swung around and faced them, the cup still in his hand.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“Yes,” he said in an angry voice, “it’s the old Nome King, and I’m going
-to conquer all Oz and be revenged on you for kicking me out of my
-throne.” He looked around a moment, and then continued: “There isn’t an
-egg in sight, and I’m stronger than all of you people put together! I
-don’t know how I came here, but I’m going to fight the fight of my
-life—and I’ll win!”
-
-His long white hair and beard waved in the breeze; his eyes flashed hate
-and vengeance, and so astonished and shocked were they by the sudden
-appearance of this old enemy of the Oz people that they could only stare
-at him in silence and shrink away from his wild glare.
-
-Ruggedo laughed. He drank the water, threw the cup on the ground and
-said fiercely:
-
-“And now—and now—and—”
-
-His voice grew gentle. He rubbed his forehead with a puzzled air and
-stroked his long beard.
-
-“What was I going to say?” he asked, pleadingly.
-
-“Don’t you remember?” said the Wizard.
-
-“No; I’ve forgotten.”
-
-“Who _are_ you?” asked Dorothy.
-
-He tried to think. “I—I’m sure I don’t know,” he stammered.
-
-“Don’t you know who _we_ are, either?” questioned the girl.
-
-“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Nome.
-
-“Tell us who this Munchkin boy is,” suggested Ozma.
-
-Ruggedo looked at the boy and shook his head.
-
-“He’s a stranger to me. You are all strangers. I—I’m a stranger to
-myself,” he said.
-
-Then he patted the Lion’s head and murmured, “Good doggie!” and the Lion
-growled indignantly.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-“What shall we do with him?” asked the Wizard, perplexed.
-
-“Once before the wicked old Nome came here to conquer us, and then, as
-now, he drank of the Water of Oblivion and became harmless. But we sent
-him back to the Nome Kingdom, where he soon learned the old evil ways
-again.”
-
-“For that reason,” said Ozma, “we must find a place for him in the Land
-of Oz, and keep him here. For here he can learn no evil and will always
-be as innocent of guile as our own people.”
-
-And so the wandering ex-King of the Nomes found a new home, a peaceful
-and happy home, where he was quite content and passed his days in
-innocent enjoyment.
-
-                        [Illustration: THE END]
-
-
-
-
-                             _The Oz Books_
-                                   BY
-                             L. FRANK BAUM
-                        “Royal Historian of Oz”
-
-
-                           _The Wizard of Oz_
-         [Originally published as _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_]
-
-It is in this book that Oz is “discovered.” A little Kansas girl—Dorothy
-Gale—is carried in her house to Oz when a cyclone whisks it through the
-sky. As the house lands in the Munchkin Country (one of the four great
-countries of Oz) it destroys a wicked witch and sends Dorothy off on her
-first adventure in Oz. She finds the Scarecrow, meets the Tin Woodman
-and the Cowardly Lion, melts a second wicked witch with a pail of water
-and finds her way home. Since this book appeared a half-century ago, we
-have learned many marvelous things about the Land of Oz.
-
-
-                            _The Land of Oz_
-          [Originally published as _The Marvelous Land of Oz_]
-
-This sequel to _The Wizard of Oz_ deals entirely with the early history
-of Oz. No one from the United States or any other part of the “great
-outside world” appears in it. It takes its readers on a series of
-incredible adventures with Tip, a small boy who runs away from old
-Mombi, the witch, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden
-Saw-Horse. The Scarecrow is King of the Emerald City until he, Tip,
-Jack, and the Tin Woodman are forced to flee the royal palace when it is
-invaded by General Jinjur and her army of rebelling girls. _The Land of
-Oz_ ends with an amazing surprise, and from that moment on Ozma is
-princess of all Oz.
-
-
-                              _Ozma of Oz_
-
-Few of the Oz books are as crowded with exciting Oz happenings as this
-one. Not only does it bring Dorothy back to Oz on her second visit, but
-it introduces Dorothy to Ozma, relates Ozma’s first important adventure,
-and introduces for the first time such famous Oz characters as Tik-Tok,
-the mechanical man, Billina the hen, the Hungry Tiger, and—_the Nome
-King_! Most of the adventures in this book take place outside Oz, in the
-Land of Ev and the Nome Kingdom. Scarcely a page fails to quiver with
-excitement, magic and adventure.
-
-
-                     _Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz_
-
-Of course, everyone always predicted it would happen! And in this book
-it does—the Wizard comes back to Oz to stay. Best of all, he comes with
-Dorothy, who is having adventure number three that leads her to Oz, this
-time via a California earthquake. In this book we meet Dorothy’s pink
-kitten, Eureka, whose manners need adjusting badly, and two good friends
-who we are sorry did not remain in Oz—Jim the cabhorse, and Zeb,
-Dorothy’s young cousin, who works on a ranch as a hired boy.
-
-
-                            _The Road to Oz_
-
-We like to think of this volume as “The Party Book of Oz.” Almost
-everyone loves a party, and when Ozma has a birthday party with notables
-from every part of fairyland attending—well! It is just like attending
-Ozma’s party in person. You meet the famous of Oz, and lots of others,
-such as Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough, Chick the Cherub, the Queen of
-Merryland, Para Bruin the rubber bear and—best of all—Santa Claus
-himself! Of course there are lots of adventures on that famous road to
-Oz before the party, during which Dorothy, on her way to Oz for the
-fourth time, meets such heart-warming characters as the Shaggy Man,
-Button-Bright, and lovely Polychrome, daughter of the rainbow.
-
-
-                        _The Emerald City of Oz_
-
-Here is a “double” story of Oz. While Dorothy, her Aunt Em and Uncle
-Henry experience the events that lead to their going to Oz to make their
-home in the Emerald City, the wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer Oz
-and enslave its people. Later we go with Dorothy and her friends in the
-Red Wagon on a grand tour of Oz that is simply packed with excitement
-and events. While this transpires, we learn also of the Nome King’s
-elaborate preparations to conquer Oz. As Dorothy and her friends return
-to the Emerald City, the Nome King and his hordes of warriors are about
-to invade it. How Oz is saved is an ending that will amaze and delight
-you.
-
-
-                       _The Patchwork Girl of Oz_
-
-Here, the Patchwork Girl is brought to life by Dr. Pipt’s magic Powder
-of Life. From that moment on the action never slows down in this
-exciting book. It tells of Ojo’s quest for the strange ingredients
-necessary to brew a magic liquid that will release his Unk Nunkie from a
-spell—the spell cast by the Liquid of Petrefaction, which has turned him
-into a marble statue. In addition to the Patchwork Girl, Ojo and Unk
-Nunkie, this book introduces those famous Oz creatures, the Woozy, and
-Bungle the glass cat. Oz certainly has become a merrier, happier land
-since the Patchwork Girl came to life, and this is the book that tells
-how Scraps came to be made, how she was brought to life, and all about
-her early adventures.
-
-
-                            _Tik-Tok of Oz_
-
-For the second time a little girl from the United States comes to Oz.
-Betsy Bobbin is shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean with her friend Hank
-the mule. The two drift to shore in the Rose Kingdom on a fragment of
-wreckage. Betsy meets the Shaggy Man and accompanies him to the Nome
-Kingdom, where Shaggy hopes to release his brother, a prisoner of the
-Nome King. On their way to the Nome Kingdom, one fascinating adventure
-follows another. They meet Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo and her army,
-and lovely Polychrome, who had lost her rainbow again; they rescue
-Tik-Tok from a well; and are dropped through a Hollow Tube to the other
-side of the world where they meet Quox, the dragon. You’ll find it one
-of the most exciting of all the Oz books.
-
-
-                         _The Scarecrow of Oz_
-
-This is the Oz book which L. Frank Baum considered his best. It starts
-quietly enough with Trot and Cap’n Bill rowing along a shore of the
-Pacific Ocean to visit one of the many caves near their home on the
-California coast. Suddenly, a mighty whirlpool engulfs them. The old
-sailorman and the little girl are miraculously saved and regain
-consciousness to find themselves in a sea cavern. (To this day, Trot
-asserts she felt mermaid arms about her during those terrible moments
-under water.) From here on, one perilous adventure crowds in upon
-another. In Jinxland they meet the Scarecrow who takes charge of things
-once Cap’n Bill is transformed into a tiny grasshopper with a wooden
-leg. An exciting royal reception greets the adventurers upon their
-return to the Emerald City.
-
-
-                           _Rinkitink in Oz_
-
-Prince Inga of Pingaree is the boy hero of this fine story of
-peril-filled adventure in the islands of the Nonestic Ocean. King
-Rinkitink provides comic relief, and by the time you reach the final
-page you will love this fat, jolly little king. Bilbil the goat, with
-his surly disposition, provides a fine contrast to Rinkitink’s merriment
-and Prince Inga’s bravery and courage in the face of danger. Some may
-say that the three magic pearls are the real heroes of this story, but
-the pearls would have been of little use to King Kitticut and Queen
-Garee if Prince Inga hadn’t used them wisely and courageously.
-
-
-                       _The Lost Princess of Oz_
-
-Talk about _Button-Bright_ getting lost—_Ozma_ is almost as bad! This is
-actually the second time Ozma has been lost. As you know, once she was
-“lost” for many years. But in this book she is lost for only a short
-time. As soon as it is discovered that the ruler of Oz is lost—and with
-her all the important magical instruments in Oz—search parties, one for
-each of the four countries of Oz, set out to find her. We follow the
-adventures of the party headed by Dorothy and the Wizard, who explore
-unknown parts of the Winkie Country in search of Ozma. How Ozma is
-found, and where she has been, will surprise you. Frogman, a new
-character, is introduced in this book.
-
-
-                        _The Tin Woodman of Oz_
-
-Woot the Wanderer causes this chapter of Oz history to transpire. When
-Woot wanders into the splendid tin castle of Nick Chopper, the Tin
-Woodman and Emperor of the Winkies, he meets the Scarecrow, who is
-visiting his old friend. The Tin Woodman tells Woot the story of how he
-had once been a flesh-and-blood woodman in love with a maiden named
-Nimmie Aimee. Woot suggests that since the Tin Woodman now has a kind
-and loving heart, it is his duty to find Nimmie Aimee and make her
-Empress of the Winkies. The Scarecrow agrees, so the three set off to
-search for the girl. No less surprising than the adventures encountered
-on the journey is Nimmie Aimee’s reception of her former suitor.
-
-
-                           _The Magic of Oz_
-
-Old Ruggedo, the former Nome King, comes to Oz for the second time, and
-makes more trouble than he did on his first visit. Ruggedo never gives
-up the idea of conquering Oz, and this time he has the advantage of
-being in the country without Ozma’s knowledge. Also, he has the magic
-and somewhat grudging help of Kiki Aru, the Munchkin boy who is
-illegally practicing the art. If you like magic, then this is a book for
-you. There’s magic on every page, and everyone in the story eventually
-is transformed into something else, or bewitched in one way or another.
-Even the wild animals in the great Forest of Gugu do not escape.
-
-
-                             _Glinda of Oz_
-
-This is the last Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. It is one of the best
-in the series, with Dorothy, Ozma, and Glinda in an adventure that takes
-them to an amazing crystal-domed city on an enchanted island. This
-island is situated in a lake in the Gillikin Country. Ozma and Glinda
-are confronted by powerful magic and determined enemies. For a time
-Dorothy and Ozma are prisoners in the crystal-domed city which is able
-to submerge below the surface of the lake. Few of the Oz books equal
-this one in suspense and mystery—a story that is truly “out of this
-world.”
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                       [Illustration: Back Cover]
-
-
-
-
-                          Transcriber’s Notes
-
-
---Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public
-  domain in the country of publication.
-
---Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and
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-<div class="img">
-<img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="The Magic of Oz" width="500" height="719" />
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i001.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="316" />
-</div>
-<h2>The Famous Oz Books</h2>
-<p>Since 1900, when L. Frank Baum introduced to the children of
-America THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and all the other
-exciting characters who inhabit the land of Oz, these delightful fairy
-tales have stimulated the imagination of millions of young readers.</p>
-<p>These are stories which are genuine fantasy&mdash;creative, funny,
-tender, exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most
-absurd creatures, each of the 40 volumes which now comprise the
-series, has been eagerly sought out by generation after generation
-until today they are known to all except the very young or those
-who were never young at all.</p>
-<p>When, in a recent survey, The New York Times polled a group of
-teen agers on the books they liked best when they were young, the
-Oz books topped the list.</p>
-<h3><i>THE FAMOUS OZ BOOKS</i></h3>
-<dl class="int"><dt class="center">By L. Frank Baum:</dt>
-<dt>THE WIZARD OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE LAND OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>OZMA OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE ROAD TO OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>TIK-TOK OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE SCARECROW OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>RINKITINK IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE MAGIC OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>GLINDA OF OZ</dt></dl>
-<dl class="int"><dt class="center">By Ruth Plumly Thompson:</dt>
-<dt>THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>KABUMPO IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>GRAMPA IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE LOST KING OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE HUNGRY TIGER OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE GNOME KING OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE GIANT HORSE OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>PIRATES IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE PURPLE PRINCE OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>OJO IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>SPEEDY IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE WISHING HORSE OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>CAPTAIN SALT IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>HANDY MANDY IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>OZOPLANING WITH THE WIZARD OF OZ</dt></dl>
-<dl class="int"><dt class="center">By John R. Neill:</dt>
-<dt>THE WONDER CITY OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>SCALAWAGONS OF OZ</dt>
-<dt>LUCKY BUCKY IN OZ</dt></dl>
-<dl class="int"><dt class="center">By Jack Snow:</dt>
-<dt>THE MAGICAL MIMICS IN OZ</dt>
-<dt>THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ</dt></dl>
-<dl class="int"><dt class="center">By Rachel R. Cosgrove:</dt>
-<dt>THE HIDDEN VALLEY OF OZ</dt></dl>
-<dl class="int"><dt class="center">By Eloise Jarvis McGraw &amp; Lauren McGraw Wagner:</dt>
-<dt>MERRY GO ROUND IN OZ</dt></dl>
-<p class="tbcenter"><span class="sc">Chicago</span> <span class="hst">THE REILLY &amp; LEE CO.</span><span class="hst"> <i>Publishers</i></span></p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i003.jpg" alt="This Book Belongs To" width="500" height="437" />
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i004.jpg" alt="The Magic of Oz" width="500" height="293" />
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i006.jpg" alt="Dorothy and the Wizard" width="500" height="686" />
-</div>
-<div class="box">
-<h1>THE MAGIC OF OZ</h1>
-<p class="center">A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy
-and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the
-Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill, in their successful search for a Magical
-and Beautiful Birthday Present for
-Princess Ozma of Oz</p>
-<p class="tbcenter"><span class="small">BY</span>
-<br /><span class="large">L. FRANK BAUM</span>
-<br /><span class="small">&ldquo;Royal Historian of Oz&rdquo;</span></p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i007.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="234" />
-</div>
-<p class="center"><span class="smaller">ILLUSTRATED BY</span>
-<br />JOHN R. NEILL</p>
-<p class="tbcenter"><span class="large">The Reilly &amp; Lee Co.</span>
-<br />Chicago</p>
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i008.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="601" />
-</div>
-<p class="center"><span class="large">Copyright 1919 By
-<br />L Frank Baum</span>
-<br /><span class="small"><span class="sc">All</span> Rights Reserved</span>
-<br /><span class="smaller">MADE IN U.S.A.</span></p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i009.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="412" />
-</div>
-<p>I Dedicate this Book to the
-Children of our Soldiers, the
-Americans and their Allies,
-with unmeasured Pride and
-Affection.
-<span class="jr">L. F. B.</span></p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i010.jpg" alt="THE HUNGRY TIGER AND THE COWARDLY LION" width="500" height="680" />
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i011.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="173" />
-</div>
-<h3>TO MY READERS</h3>
-<p>Curiously enough, in the events which have taken
-place in the last few years in our &ldquo;great outside
-world,&rdquo; we may find incidents so marvelous and inspiring
-that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of
-The Land of Oz.</p>
-<p>However, &ldquo;The Magic of Oz&rdquo; is really more strange
-and unusual than anything I have read or heard about
-on our side of The Great Sandy Desert which shuts
-us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past
-exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of
-novelty.</p>
-<p>A long and confining illness has prevented my
-answering all the good letters sent me&mdash;unless stamps
-were enclosed&mdash;but from now on I hope to be able
-to give prompt attention to each and every letter with
-which my readers favor me.</p>
-<p>Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered
-and hoping the Oz Books will continue to give
-you pleasure as long as I am able to write them, I am
-<span class="center">Yours affectionately,</span>
-<span class="jr">L. FRANK BAUM,</span>
-<span class="jr">&ldquo;Royal Historian of Oz.&rdquo;</span></p>
-<div class="verse">
-<p class="t2">&ldquo;OZCOT&rdquo;</p>
-<p class="t0">at HOLLYWOOD</p>
-<p class="t0">in CALIFORNIA</p>
-<p class="t3">1919</p>
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i013.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="153" />
-</div>
-<h2>LIST OF CHAPTERS</h2>
-<dl class="toc">
-<dt><span class="cn">1 </span><a href="#c1">Mount Munch</a> 17</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">2 </span><a href="#c2">The Hawk</a> 27</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">3 </span><a href="#c3">Two Bad Ones</a> 34</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">4 </span><a href="#c4">Conspirators</a> 48</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">5 </span><a href="#c5">A Happy Corner of Oz</a> 53</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">6 </span><a href="#c6">Ozma&rsquo;s Birthday Presents</a> 65</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">7 </span><a href="#c7">The Forest of Gugu</a> 81</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">8 </span><a href="#c8">The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble</a> 87</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">9 </span><a href="#c9">The Isle of the Magic Flower</a> 99</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">10 </span><a href="#c10">Stuck Fast</a> 112</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">11 </span><a href="#c11">The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu</a> 121</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">12 </span><a href="#c12">Kiki Uses His Magic</a> 131</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">13 </span><a href="#c13">The Loss of the Black Bag</a> 144</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">14 </span><a href="#c14">The Wizard Learns the Magic Word</a> 157</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">15 </span><a href="#c15">The Lonesome Duck</a> 169</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">16 </span><a href="#c16">The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag</a> 183</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">17 </span><a href="#c17">A Remarkable Journey</a> 197</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">18 </span><a href="#c18">The Magic of the Wizard</a> 209</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">19 </span><a href="#c19">Dorothy and the Bumble Bees</a> 217</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">20 </span><a href="#c20">The Monkeys Have Trouble</a> 226</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">21 </span><a href="#c21">The College of Athletic Arts</a> 235</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">22 </span><a href="#c22">Ozma&rsquo;s Birthday Party</a> 240</dt>
-<dt><span class="cn">23 </span><a href="#c23">The Fountain of Oblivion</a> 255</dt>
-</dl>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i014.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="694" />
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i015.jpg" alt="The Magic of Oz" width="500" height="564" />
-</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i016.jpg" alt="Mt. Munch" width="500" height="610" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_17">17</div>
-<h2 id="c1">Mount Munch</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i017.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="680" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 1</p>
-<p>On the east edge of the Land
-of Oz, in the Munchkin Country,
-is a big, tall hill called
-Mount Munch. On one side,
-the bottom of this hill just
-touches the Deadly Sandy
-Desert that separates the
-Fairyland of Oz from all the
-rest of the world, but on the
-other side, the hill touches
-the beautiful, fertile Country
-of the Munchkins.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_18">18</div>
-<p>The Munchkin folks, however,
-merely stand off and look at Mount Munch and
-know very little about it; for, about a third of the
-way up, its sides become too steep to climb, and if
-any people live upon the top of that great towering
-peak that seems to reach nearly to the skies, the
-Munchkins are not aware of the fact.</p>
-<p>But people <i>do</i> live there, just the same. The top
-of Mount Munch is shaped like a saucer, broad and
-deep, and in the saucer are fields where grains and
-vegetables grow, and flocks are fed, and brooks flow
-and trees bear all sorts of things. There are houses
-scattered here and there, each having its family of
-Hyups, as the people call themselves. The Hyups
-seldom go down the mountain, for the same reason
-that the Munchkins never climb up: the sides are too
-steep.</p>
-<p>In one of the houses lived a wise old Hyup named
-Bini Aru, who used to be a clever Sorcerer. But
-Ozma of Oz, who rules everyone in the Land of Oz,
-had made a decree that no one should practice magic
-in her dominions except Glinda the Good and the
-Wizard of Oz, and when Glinda sent this royal command
-to the Hyups by means of a strong-winged
-Eagle, old Bini Aru at once stopped performing
-magical arts. He destroyed many of his magic powders
-and tools of magic, and afterward honestly
-obeyed the law. He had never seen Ozma, but he
-knew she was his Ruler and must be obeyed.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_19">19</div>
-<p>There was only one thing that grieved him. He
-had discovered a new and secret method of transformations
-that was unknown to any other Sorcerer.
-Glinda the Good did not know it, nor did the little
-Wizard of Oz, nor Dr. Pipt nor old Mombi, nor anyone
-else who dealt in magic arts. It was Bini Aru&rsquo;s
-own secret. By its means, it was the simplest thing
-in the world to transform anyone into beast, bird or
-fish, or anything else, and back again, once you knew
-how to pronounce the mystical word: &ldquo;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Bini Aru had used this secret many times, but not
-to cause evil or suffering to others. When he had
-wandered far from home and was hungry, he would
-say: &ldquo;I want to become a cow&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo; In
-an instant he would be a cow, and then he would eat
-grass and satisfy his hunger. All beasts and birds
-can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no
-longer hungry, it would say: &ldquo;I want to be Bini
-Aru again: <span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo; and the magic word,
-properly pronounced, would instantly restore him to
-his proper form.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_20">20</div>
-<p>Now, of course, I would not dare to write down
-this magic word so plainly if I thought my readers
-would pronounce it properly and so be able to transform
-themselves and others, but it is a fact that no
-one in all the world except Bini Aru, had ever (up
-to the time this story begins) been able to pronounce
-&ldquo;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>&rdquo; the right way, so I think it is safe
-to give it to you. It might be well, however, in reading
-this story aloud, to be careful not to pronounce
-<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span> the proper way, and thus avoid all danger
-of the secret being able to work mischief.</p>
-<p>Bini Aru, having discovered the secret of instant
-transformation, which required no tools or powders
-or other chemicals or herbs and always worked perfectly,
-was reluctant to have such a wonderful discovery
-entirely unknown or lost to all human knowledge.
-He decided not to use it again, since Ozma
-had forbidden him to do so, but he reflected that
-Ozma was a girl and some time might change her
-mind and allow her subjects to practice magic, in
-which case Bini Aru could again transform himself
-and others at will,&mdash;unless, of course, he forgot how
-to pronounce <span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span> in the meantime.</p>
-<p>After giving the matter careful thought, he decided
-to write the word, and how it should be pronounced,
-in some secret place, so that he could find it after
-many years, but where no one else could ever find it.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_21">21</div>
-<p>That was a clever idea, but what bothered the old
-Sorcerer was to find a secret place. He wandered
-all over the Saucer at the top of Mount Munch, but
-found no place in which to write the secret word
-where others might not be likely to stumble upon it.
-So finally he decided it must be written somewhere
-in his own house.</p>
-<p>Bini Aru had a wife named Mopsi Aru who was
-famous for making fine huckleberry pies, and he
-had a son named Kiki Aru who was not famous at
-all. He was noted as being cross and disagreeable
-because he was not happy, and he was not happy
-because he wanted to go down the mountain and
-visit the big world below and his father would not
-let him. No one paid any attention to Kiki Aru,
-because he didn&rsquo;t amount to anything, anyway.</p>
-<p>Once a year there was a festival on Mount Munch
-which all the Hyups attended. It was held in the
-center of the saucer-shaped country, and the day was
-given over to feasting and merry-making. The young
-folks danced and sang songs; the women spread the
-tables with good things to eat, and the men played
-on musical instruments and told fairy tales.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_22">22</div>
-<p>Kiki Aru usually went to these festivals with his
-parents, and then sat sullenly outside the circle and
-would not dance or sing or even talk to the other
-young people. So the festival did not make him
-any happier than other days, and this time he told
-Bini Aru and Mopsi Aru that he would not go. He
-would rather stay at home and be unhappy all by
-himself, he said, and so they gladly let him stay.</p>
-<p>But after he was left alone Kiki decided to enter
-his father&rsquo;s private room, where he was forbidden
-to go, and see if he could find any of the magic tools
-Bini Aru used to work with when he practiced sorcery.
-As he went in Kiki stubbed his toe on one of the floor
-boards. He searched everywhere but found no trace
-of his father&rsquo;s magic. All had been destroyed.</p>
-<p>Much disappointed, he started to go out again
-when he stubbed his toe on the same floor board.
-That set him thinking. Examining the board more
-closely, Kiki found it had been pried up and then
-nailed down again in such a manner that it was a
-little higher than the other boards. But why had
-his father taken up the board? Had he hidden some
-of his magic tools underneath the floor?</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_23">23</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i023.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="689" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_24">24</div>
-<p>Kiki got a chisel and pried up the board, but found
-nothing under it. He was just about to replace the
-board when it slipped from his hand and turned over,
-and he saw something written on the underside of it.
-The light was rather dim, so he took the board to the
-window and examined it, and found that the writing
-described exactly how to pronounce the magic word
-<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>, which would transform anyone into
-anything instantly, and back again when the word
-was repeated.</p>
-<p>Now, at first, Kiki Aru didn&rsquo;t realize what a wonderful
-secret he had discovered; but he thought it
-might be of use to him and so he took a piece of
-paper and made on it an exact copy of the instructions
-for pronouncing <span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>. Then he folded
-the paper and put it in his pocket, and replaced the
-board in the floor so that no one would suspect it
-had been removed.</p>
-<p>After this Kiki went into the garden and sitting
-beneath a tree made a careful study of the paper. He
-had always wanted to get away from Mount Munch
-and visit the big world&mdash;especially the Land of Oz&mdash;and
-the idea now came to him that if he could transform
-himself into a bird, he could fly to any place he
-wished to go and fly back again whenever he cared to.
-It was necessary, however, to learn by heart the way
-to pronounce the magic word, because a bird would
-have no way to carry a paper with it, and Kiki
-would be unable to resume his proper shape if he
-forgot the word or its pronunciation.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_25">25</div>
-<p>So he studied it a long time, repeating it a hundred
-times in his mind until he was sure he would
-not forget it. But to make safety doubly sure he
-placed the paper in a tin box in a neglected part of
-the garden and covered the box with small stones.</p>
-<p>By this time it was getting late in the day and
-Kiki wished to attempt his first transformation before
-his parents returned from the festival. So he stood
-on the front porch of his home and said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want to become a big, strong bird, like a hawk&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;
-He pronounced it the right way,
-so in a flash he felt that he was completely changed
-in form. He flapped his wings, hopped to the porch
-railing and said: &ldquo;Caw-oo! Caw-oo!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Then he laughed and said half aloud: &ldquo;I suppose
-that&rsquo;s the funny sound this sort of a bird makes. But
-now let me try my wings and see if I&rsquo;m strong enough
-to fly across the desert.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_26">26</div>
-<p>For he had decided to make his first trip to the
-country outside the Land of Oz. He had stolen this
-secret of transformation and he knew he had disobeyed
-the law of Oz by working magic. Perhaps
-Glinda or the Wizard of Oz would discover him and
-punish him, so it would be good policy to keep away
-from Oz altogether.</p>
-<p>Slowly Kiki rose into the air, and resting on his
-broad wings, floated in graceful circles above the
-saucer-shaped mountain-top. From his height, he
-could see, far across the burning sands of the Deadly
-Desert, another country that might be pleasant to
-explore, so he headed that way, and with strong,
-steady strokes of his wings, began the long flight.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i026.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="342" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_27">27</div>
-<h2 id="c2">THE HAWK</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i027.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="682" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 2</p>
-<p>Even a hawk has to fly high
-in order to cross the Deadly
-Desert, from which poisonous
-fumes are constantly rising.
-Kiki Aru felt sick and faint
-by the time he reached good
-land again, for he could not
-quite escape the effects of the
-poisons. But the fresh air
-soon restored him and he
-alighted in a broad table-land
-which is called Hiland. Just
-beyond it is a valley known
-as Loland, and these two countries are ruled by the
-Gingerbread Man, John Dough, with Chick the Cherub
-as his Prime Minister. The Hawk merely stopped
-here long enough to rest, and then he flew north and
-passed over a fine country called Merryland, which
-is ruled by a lovely Wax Doll. Then, following the
-curve of the Desert, he turned north and settled on
-a tree-top in the Kingdom of Noland.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_28">28</div>
-<p>Kiki was tired by this time, and the sun was now
-setting, so he decided to remain here till morning.
-From his tree-top he could see a house near by, which
-looked very comfortable. A man was milking a cow
-in the yard and a pleasant-faced woman came to the
-door and called him to supper.</p>
-<p>That made Kiki wonder what sort of food hawks
-ate. He felt hungry, but didn&rsquo;t know what to eat
-or where to get it. Also he thought a bed would be
-more comfortable than a tree-top for sleeping, so
-he hopped to the ground and said: &ldquo;I want to become
-Kiki Aru again&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl!</span>&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Instantly he had resumed his natural shape, and
-going to the house, he knocked upon the door and
-asked for some supper.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; asked the man of the house.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;A stranger from the Land of Oz,&rdquo; replied Kiki Aru.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_29">29</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Then you are welcome,&rdquo; said the man.</p>
-<p>Kiki was given a good supper and a good bed, and
-he behaved very well, although he refused to answer
-all the questions the good people of Noland asked
-him. Having escaped from his home and found a
-way to see the world, the young man was no longer
-unhappy, and so he was no longer cross and disagreeable.
-The people thought him a very respectable
-person and gave him breakfast next morning, after
-which he started on his way feeling quite contented.</p>
-<p>Having walked for an hour or two through the
-pretty country that is ruled by King Bud, Kiki Aru
-decided he could travel faster and see more as a bird,
-so he transformed himself into a white dove and
-visited the great city of Nole and saw the King&rsquo;s
-palace and gardens and many other places of interest.
-Then he flew westward into the Kingdom of Ix, and
-after a day in Queen Zixi&rsquo;s country went on westward
-into the Land of Ev. Every place he visited he
-thought was much more pleasant than the saucer-country
-of the Hyups, and he decided that when he
-reached the finest country of all he would settle there
-and enjoy his future life to the utmost.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_30">30</div>
-<p>In the Land of Ev he resumed his own shape again,
-for the cities and villages were close together and he
-could easily go on foot from one to another of them.</p>
-<p>Toward evening he came to a good Inn and asked
-the inn-keeper if he could have food and lodging.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You can if you have the money to pay,&rdquo; said the
-man, &ldquo;otherwise you must go elsewhere.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>This surprised Kiki, for in the Land of Oz they do
-not use money at all, everyone being allowed to take
-what he wishes without price. He had no money,
-therefore, and so he turned away to seek hospitality
-elsewhere. Looking through an open window into
-one of the rooms of the Inn, as he passed along, he
-saw an old man counting on a table a big heap of gold
-pieces, which Kiki thought to be money. One of these
-would buy him supper and a bed, he reflected, so he
-transformed himself into a magpie and, flying through
-the open window, caught up one of the gold pieces
-in his beak and flew out again before the old man
-could interfere. Indeed, the old man who was robbed
-was quite helpless, for he dared not leave his pile of
-gold to chase the magpie, and before he could place
-the gold in a sack and the sack in his pocket the
-robber bird was out of sight and to seek it would be
-folly.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_31">31</div>
-<p>Kiki Aru flew to a group of trees and, dropping
-the gold piece to the ground, resumed his proper
-shape, and then picked up the money and put it in
-his pocket.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll be sorry for this!&rdquo; exclaimed a small voice
-just over his head.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i031.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="339" />
-</div>
-<p>Kiki looked up and saw that a sparrow, perched
-upon a branch, was watching him.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Sorry for what?&rdquo; he demanded.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_32">32</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, I saw the whole thing,&rdquo; asserted the sparrow.
-&ldquo;I saw you look in the window at the gold, and then
-make yourself into a magpie and rob the poor man,
-and then I saw you fly here and make the bird into
-your former shape. That&rsquo;s magic, and magic is wicked
-and unlawful; and you stole money, and that&rsquo;s a still
-greater crime. You&rsquo;ll be sorry, some day.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i032.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="321" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care,&rdquo; replied Kiki Aru, scowling.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t you afraid to be wicked?&rdquo; asked the
-sparrow.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_33">33</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No, I didn&rsquo;t know I was being wicked,&rdquo; said Kiki,
-&ldquo;but if I was, I&rsquo;m glad of it. I hate good people.
-I&rsquo;ve always wanted to be wicked, but I didn&rsquo;t know
-how.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Haw, haw, haw!&rdquo; laughed someone behind him,
-in a big voice; &ldquo;that&rsquo;s the proper spirit, my lad! I&rsquo;m
-glad I&rsquo;ve met you; shake hands.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The sparrow gave a frightened squeak and flew
-away.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i033.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="244" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_34">34</div>
-<h2 id="c3">Two Bad Ones</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i034.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="680" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 3</p>
-<p>Kiki turned around and saw
-a queer old man standing
-near. He didn&rsquo;t stand
-straight, for he was crooked.
-He had a fat body and thin
-legs and arms. He had a big,
-round face with bushy, white
-whiskers that came to a point
-below his waist, and white
-hair that came to a point on
-top of his head. He wore
-dull-gray clothes that were
-tight fitting, and his pockets
-were all bunched out as if stuffed full of something.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_35">35</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know you were here,&rdquo; said Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t come until after you did,&rdquo; said the queer
-old man.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; asked Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;My name&rsquo;s Ruggedo. I used to be the Nome
-King; but I got kicked out of my country, and now
-I&rsquo;m a wanderer.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What made them kick you out?&rdquo; inquired the
-Hyup boy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, it&rsquo;s the fashion to kick kings nowadays. I
-was a pretty good King&mdash;to myself&mdash;but those
-dreadful Oz people wouldn&rsquo;t let me alone. So I had
-to abdicate.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What does that mean?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It means to be kicked out. But let&rsquo;s talk about
-something pleasant. Who are you and where did
-you come from?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m called Kiki Aru. I used to live on Mount
-Munch in the Land of Oz, but now I&rsquo;m a wanderer
-like yourself.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Nome King gave him a shrewd look.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I heard that bird say that you transformed yourself
-into a magpie and back again. Is that true?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_36">36</div>
-<p>Kiki hesitated, but saw no reason to deny it. He
-felt that it would make him appear more important.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well&mdash;yes,&rdquo; he said.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then you&rsquo;re a wizard?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; I only understand transformations,&rdquo; he
-admitted.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s pretty good magic, anyhow,&rdquo; declared
-old Ruggedo. &ldquo;I used to have some very fine magic,
-myself, but my enemies took it all away from me.
-Where are you going now?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going into the inn, to get some supper and
-a bed,&rdquo; said Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Have you the money to pay for it?&rdquo; asked the
-Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I have one gold piece.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Which you stole. Very good. And you&rsquo;re glad
-that you&rsquo;re wicked. Better yet. I like you, young
-man, and I&rsquo;ll go to the inn with you if you&rsquo;ll promise
-not to eat eggs for supper.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you like eggs?&rdquo; asked Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m afraid of &rsquo;em; they&rsquo;re dangerous!&rdquo; said Ruggedo,
-with a shudder.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;All right,&rdquo; agreed Kiki; &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t ask for eggs.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then come along,&rdquo; said the Nome.</p>
-<p>When they entered the inn, the landlord scowled
-at Kiki and said:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_37">37</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I told you I would not feed you unless you had
-money.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Kiki showed him the gold piece.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And how about you?&rdquo; asked the landlord, turning
-to Ruggedo. &ldquo;Have you money?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve something better,&rdquo; answered the old Nome,
-and taking a bag from one of his pockets he poured
-from it upon the table a mass of glittering gems&mdash;diamonds,
-rubies and emeralds.</p>
-<p>The landlord was very polite to the strangers after
-that. He served them an excellent supper, and while
-they ate it, the Hyup boy asked his companion:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where did you get so many jewels?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;ll tell you,&rdquo; answered the Nome. &ldquo;When
-those Oz people took my kingdom away from me&mdash;just
-because it was my kingdom and I wanted to run
-it to suit myself&mdash;they said I could take as many
-precious stones as I could carry. So I had a lot of
-pockets made in my clothes and loaded them all up.
-Jewels are fine things to have with you when you
-travel; you can trade them for anything.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Are they better than gold pieces?&rdquo; asked Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The smallest of these jewels is worth a hundred
-gold pieces such as you stole from the old
-man.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_38">38</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t talk so loud,&rdquo; begged Kiki, uneasily. &ldquo;Some
-one else might hear what you are saying.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>After supper they took a walk together, and the
-former Nome King said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do you know the Shaggy Man, and the Scarecrow,
-and the Tin Woodman, and Dorothy, and Ozma and
-all the other Oz people?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; replied the boy, &ldquo;I have never been away
-from Mount Munch until I flew over the Deadly
-Desert the other day in the shape of a hawk.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then you&rsquo;ve never seen the Emerald City of Oz?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Never.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the Nome, &ldquo;I knew all the Oz people,
-and you can guess I do not love them. All during my
-wanderings I have brooded on how I can be revenged
-on them. Now that I&rsquo;ve met you I can see a way to
-conquer the Land of Oz and be King there myself,
-which is better than being King of the Nomes.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How can you do that?&rdquo; inquired Kiki Aru, wonderingly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Never mind how. In the first place, I&rsquo;ll make a
-bargain with you. Tell me the secret of how to perform
-transformations and I will give you a pocketful
-of jewels, the biggest and finest that I possess.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_39">39</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said Kiki, who realized that to share his
-power with another would be dangerous to himself.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give you <i>two</i> pocketsful of jewels,&rdquo; said the
-Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No;&rdquo; answered Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give you every jewel I possess.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No, no, no!&rdquo; said Kiki, who was beginning to be
-frightened.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then,&rdquo; said the Nome, with a wicked look at the
-boy, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell the inn-keeper that you stole that gold
-piece and he will have you put in prison.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Kiki laughed at the threat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Before he can do that,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;I will transform
-myself into a lion and tear him to pieces, or into a
-bear and eat him up, or into a fly and fly away where
-he could not find me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Can you really do such wonderful transformations?&rdquo;
-asked the old Nome, looking at him curiously.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; declared Kiki. &ldquo;I can transform you
-into a stick of wood, in a flash, or into a stone, and
-leave you here by the roadside.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The wicked Nome shivered a little when he heard
-that, but it made him long more than ever to possess
-the great secret. After a while he said:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_40">40</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you what I&rsquo;ll do. If you will help me to
-conquer Oz and to transform the Oz people, who are
-my enemies, into sticks or stones, by telling me your
-secret, I&rsquo;ll agree to make <i>you</i> the Ruler of all Oz,
-and I will be your Prime Minister and see that your
-orders are obeyed.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll help do that,&rdquo; said Kiki, &ldquo;but I won&rsquo;t tell
-you my secret.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Nome was so furious at this refusal that he
-jumped up and down with rage and spluttered and
-choked for a long time before he could control his
-passion. But the boy was not at all frightened. He
-laughed at the wicked old Nome, which made him
-more furious than ever.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s give up the idea,&rdquo; he proposed, when Ruggedo
-had quieted somewhat. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know the Oz
-people you mention and so they are not my enemies.
-If they&rsquo;ve kicked you out of your kingdom, that&rsquo;s
-your affair&mdash;not mine.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Wouldn&rsquo;t you like to be king of that splendid
-fairyland?&rdquo; asked Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes, I would,&rdquo; replied Kiki Aru; &ldquo;but you want
-to be king yourself, and we would quarrel over it.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_41">41</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said the Nome, trying to deceive him. &ldquo;I
-don&rsquo;t care to be king of Oz, come to think it over. I
-don&rsquo;t even care to live in that country. What I want
-first is revenge. If we can conquer Oz, I&rsquo;ll get enough
-magic then to conquer my own kingdom of the Nomes,
-and I&rsquo;ll go back and live in my underground caverns,
-which are more home-like than the top of the earth.
-So here&rsquo;s my proposition: Help me conquer Oz and
-get revenge, and help me get the magic away from
-Glinda and the Wizard, and I&rsquo;ll let you be King of
-Oz forever afterward.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i041.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="345" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll think it over,&rdquo; answered Kiki, and that is all
-he would say that evening.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_42">42</div>
-<p>In the night when all in the Inn were asleep but
-himself, old Ruggedo the Nome, rose softly from his
-couch and went into the room of Kiki Aru the Hyup,
-and searched everywhere for the magic tool that
-performed his transformations. Of course, there was
-no such tool, and although Ruggedo searched in all
-the boy&rsquo;s pockets, he found nothing magical whatever.
-So he went back to his bed and began to doubt
-that Kiki could perform transformations.</p>
-<p>Next morning he said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Which way do you travel to-day?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think I shall visit the Rose Kingdom,&rdquo; answered
-the boy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That is a long journey,&rdquo; declared the Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I shall transform myself into a bird,&rdquo; said Kiki,
-&ldquo;and so fly to the Rose Kingdom in an hour.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then transform me, also, into a bird, and I will
-go with you,&rdquo; suggested Ruggedo. &ldquo;But, in that
-case, let us fly together to the Land of Oz, and see
-what it looks like.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Kiki thought this over. Pleasant as were the countries
-he had visited, he heard everywhere that the
-Land of Oz was more beautiful and delightful. The
-Land of Oz was his own country, too, and if there
-was any possibility of his becoming its King, he must
-know something about it.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_43">43</div>
-<p>While Kiki the Hyup thought, Ruggedo the Nome
-was also thinking. This boy possessed a marvelous
-power, and although very simple in some ways, he
-was determined not to part with his secret. However,
-if Ruggedo could get him to transport the wily
-old Nome to Oz, which he could reach in no other
-way, he might then induce the boy to follow his advice
-and enter into the plot for revenge, which he had
-already planned in his wicked heart.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There are wizards and magicians in Oz,&rdquo; remarked
-Kiki, after a time. &ldquo;They might discover us, in spite
-of our transformations.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Not if we are careful,&rdquo; Ruggedo assured him.
-&ldquo;Ozma has a Magic Picture, in which she can see
-whatever she wishes to see; but Ozma will know
-nothing of our going to Oz, and so she will not command
-her Magic Picture to show where we are or
-what we are doing. Glinda the Good has a Great
-Book called the Book of Records, in which is magically
-written everything that people do in the Land of Oz,
-just the instant they do it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then,&rdquo; said Kiki, &ldquo;there is no use our attempting
-to conquer the country, for Glinda would read in her
-book all that we do, and as her magic is greater than
-mine, she would soon put a stop to our plans.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_44">44</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I said &lsquo;people,&rsquo; didn&rsquo;t I?&rdquo; retorted the Nome.
-&ldquo;The book doesn&rsquo;t make a record of what birds do,
-or beasts. It only tells the doings of people. So, if
-we fly into the country as birds, Glinda won&rsquo;t know
-anything about it.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i044.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="323" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Two birds couldn&rsquo;t conquer the Land of Oz,&rdquo;
-asserted the boy, scornfully.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; that&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; admitted Ruggedo, and then he
-rubbed his forehead and stroked his long pointed
-beard and thought some more.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_45">45</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Ah, now I have the idea!&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;I suppose
-you can transform us into beasts as well as
-birds?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And can you make a bird a beast, and a beast a
-bird again, without taking a human form in between?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Certainly,&rdquo; said Kiki. &ldquo;I can transform myself
-or others into anything that can talk. There&rsquo;s a magic
-word that must be spoken in connection with the
-transformations, and as beasts and birds and dragons
-and fishes can talk in Oz, we may become any of these
-we desire to. However, if I transformed myself into
-a tree, I would always remain a tree, because then
-I could not utter the magic word to change the
-transformation.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I see; I see,&rdquo; said Ruggedo, nodding his bushy,
-white head until the point of his hair waved back
-and forth like a pendulum. &ldquo;That fits in with my
-idea, exactly. Now, listen, and I&rsquo;ll explain to you
-my plan. We&rsquo;ll fly to Oz as birds and settle in one
-of the thick forests in the Gillikin Country. There
-you will transform us into powerful beasts, and as
-Glinda doesn&rsquo;t keep any track of the doings of beasts
-we can act without being discovered.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But how can two beasts raise an army to conquer
-the powerful people of Oz?&rdquo; inquired Kiki.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_46">46</div>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s easy. But not an army of <i>people</i>, mind
-you. That would be quickly discovered. And while
-we are in Oz you and I will never resume our human
-forms until we&rsquo;ve conquered the country and destroyed
-Glinda, and Ozma, and the Wizard, and Dorothy, and
-all the rest, and so have nothing more to fear from
-them.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It is impossible to kill anyone in the Land of Oz,&rdquo;
-declared Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t necessary to kill the Oz people,&rdquo; rejoined
-Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m afraid I don&rsquo;t understand you,&rdquo; objected the
-boy. &ldquo;What will happen to the Oz people, and what
-sort of an army could we get together, except of
-people?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you. The forests of Oz are full of beasts.
-Some of them, in the far-away places, are savage and
-cruel, and would gladly follow a leader as savage as
-themselves. They have never troubled the Oz people
-much, because they had no leader to urge them on,
-but we will tell them to help us conquer Oz and as
-a reward we will transform all the beasts into men
-and women, and let them live in the houses and enjoy
-all the good things; and we will transform all the
-people of Oz into beasts of various sorts, and send
-them to live in the forests and the jungles. That is
-a splendid idea, you must admit, and it&rsquo;s so easy that
-we won&rsquo;t have any trouble at all to carry it through
-to success.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_47">47</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Will the beasts consent, do you think?&rdquo; asked
-the boy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;To be sure they will. We can get every beast in
-Oz on our side&mdash;except a few who live in Ozma&rsquo;s
-palace, and they won&rsquo;t count.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i047.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="359" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_48">48</div>
-<h2 id="c4">Conspirators</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i048.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="678" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 4</p>
-<p>Kiki Aru didn&rsquo;t know much
-about Oz and didn&rsquo;t know
-much about the beasts who
-lived there, but the old Nome&rsquo;s
-plan seemed to him to be
-quite reasonable. He had a
-faint suspicion that Ruggedo
-meant to get the best of him
-in some way, and he resolved
-to keep a close watch on his
-fellow-conspirator. As long
-as he kept to himself the
-secret word of the transformations,
-Ruggedo would not dare to harm him, and
-he promised himself that as soon as they had conquered
-Oz, he would transform the old Nome into a
-marble statue and keep him in that form forever.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_49">49</div>
-<p>Ruggedo, on his part, decided that he could, by
-careful watching and listening, surprise the boy&rsquo;s
-secret, and when he had learned the magic word he
-would transform Kiki Aru into a bundle of faggots
-and burn him up and so be rid of him.</p>
-<p>This is always the way with wicked people. They
-cannot be trusted even by one another. Ruggedo
-thought he was fooling Kiki, and Kiki thought he was
-fooling Ruggedo; so both were pleased.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a long way across the Desert,&rdquo; remarked the
-boy, &ldquo;and the sands are hot and send up poisonous
-vapors. Let us wait until evening and then fly across
-in the night when it will be cooler.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The former Nome King agreed to this, and the two
-spent the rest of that day in talking over their plans.
-When evening came they paid the inn-keeper and
-walked out to a little grove of trees that stood near by.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_50">50</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Remain here for a few minutes and I&rsquo;ll soon be
-back,&rdquo; said Kiki, and walking swiftly away, he left
-the Nome standing in the grove. Ruggedo wondered
-where he had gone, but stood quietly in his place until,
-all of a sudden, his form changed to that of a great
-eagle, and he uttered a piercing cry of astonishment
-and flapped his wings in a sort of panic. At once his
-eagle cry was answered from beyond the grove, and
-another eagle, even larger and more powerful than
-the transformed Ruggedo, came sailing through the
-trees and alighted beside him.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Now we are ready for the start,&rdquo; said the voice
-of Kiki, coming from the eagle.</p>
-<p>Ruggedo realized that this time he had been outwitted.
-He had thought Kiki would utter the magic
-word in his presence, and so he would learn what it
-was, but the boy had been too shrewd for that.</p>
-<p>As the two eagles mounted high into the air and
-began their flight across the great Desert that separates
-the Land of Oz from all the rest of the world,
-the Nome said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;When I was king of the Nomes I had a magic way
-of working transformations that I thought was good,
-but it could not compare with your secret word. I
-had to have certain tools and make passes and say a
-lot of mystic words before I could transform anybody.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What became of your magic tools?&rdquo; inquired Kiki.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_51">51</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i051.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="689" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_52">52</div>
-<p>&ldquo;The Oz people took them all away from me&mdash;that
-horrid girl, Dorothy, and that terrible fairy, Ozma,
-the Ruler of Oz&mdash;at the time they took away my
-underground kingdom and kicked me upstairs into
-the cold, heartless world.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why did you let them do that?&rdquo; asked the boy.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i052.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="358" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Ruggedo, &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t help it. They
-rolled eggs at me&mdash;<i>eggs</i>&mdash;dreadful eggs!&mdash;and if
-an egg even touches a Nome, he is ruined for life.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Is any kind of an egg dangerous to a Nome?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Any kind and every kind. An egg is the only
-thing I&rsquo;m afraid of.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_53">53</div>
-<h2 id="c5">A Happy Corner of Oz</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i053.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="679" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 5</p>
-<p>There is no other country so
-beautiful as the Land of Oz.
-There are no other people so
-happy and contented and
-prosperous as the Oz people.
-They have all they desire;
-they love and admire their
-beautiful girl Ruler, Ozma
-of Oz, and they mix work
-and play so justly that both
-are delightful and satisfying
-and no one has any reason to
-complain. Once in a while
-something happens in Oz to disturb the people&rsquo;s happiness
-for a brief time, for so rich and attractive a
-fairyland is sure to make a few selfish and greedy
-outsiders envious, and therefore certain evil-doers
-have treacherously plotted to conquer Oz and enslave
-its people and destroy its girl Ruler, and so gain the
-wealth of Oz for themselves. But up to the time when
-the cruel and crafty Nome, Ruggedo, conspired with
-Kiki Aru, the Hyup, all such attempts had failed.
-The Oz people suspected no danger. Life in the
-world&rsquo;s nicest fairyland was one round of joyous,
-happy days.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_54">54</div>
-<p>In the center of the Emerald City of Oz, the capital
-city of Ozma&rsquo;s dominions, is a vast and beautiful garden,
-surrounded by a wall inlaid with shining emeralds,
-and in the center of this garden stands Ozma&rsquo;s
-Royal Palace, the most splendid building ever constructed.
-From a hundred towers and domes floated
-the banners of Oz, which included the Ozmies, the
-Munchkins, the Gillikins, the Winkies and the Quadlings.
-The banner of the Munchkins is blue, that of
-the Winkies yellow; the Gillikin banner is purple,
-and the Quadling&rsquo;s banner is red. The colors of the
-Emerald City are of course green. Ozma&rsquo;s own banner
-has a green center, and is divided into four quarters.
-These quarters are colored blue, purple, yellow
-and red, indicating that she rules over all the countries
-of the Land of Oz.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_55">55</div>
-<p>This fairyland is so big, however, that all of it is
-not yet known to its girl Ruler, and it is said that in
-some far parts of the country, in forests and mountain
-fastnesses, in hidden valleys and thick jungles,
-are people and beasts that know as little about Ozma
-as she knows of them. Still, these unknown subjects
-are not nearly so numerous as the known inhabitants
-of Oz, who occupy all the countries near to the Emerald
-City. Indeed, I&rsquo;m sure it will not be long until
-all parts of the fairyland of Oz are explored and their
-peoples made acquainted with their Ruler, for in
-Ozma&rsquo;s palace are several of her friends who are so
-curious that they are constantly discovering new and
-extraordinary places and inhabitants.</p>
-<p>One of the most frequent discoverers of these hidden
-places in Oz is a little Kansas girl named Dorothy,
-who is Ozma&rsquo;s dearest friend and lives in luxurious
-rooms in the Royal Palace. Dorothy is, indeed, a
-Princess of Oz, but she does not like to be called a
-princess, and because she is simple and sweet and does
-not pretend to be anything but an ordinary little girl,
-she is called just &ldquo;Dorothy&rdquo; by everybody and is the
-most popular person, next to Ozma, in all the Land
-of Oz.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_56">56</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i056.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="405" />
-</div>
-<p>One morning Dorothy crossed the hall of the palace
-and knocked on the door of another girl named Trot,
-also a guest and friend of Ozma. When told to enter,
-Dorothy found that Trot had company, an old sailor-man
-with one wooden leg and one meat leg, who was
-sitting by the open window puffing smoke from a
-corn-cob pipe. This sailor-man was named Cap&rsquo;n Bill,
-and he had accompanied Trot to the Land of Oz and
-was her oldest and most faithful comrade and friend.
-Dorothy liked Cap&rsquo;n Bill, too, and after she had greeted
-him, she said to Trot:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_57">57</div>
-<p>&ldquo;You know, Ozma&rsquo;s birthday is next month, and
-I&rsquo;ve been wondering what I can give her as a birthday
-present. She&rsquo;s so good to us all that we certainly
-ought to remember her birthday.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; agreed Trot. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been wondering,
-too, what I could give Ozma. It&rsquo;s pretty hard to
-decide, &rsquo;cause she&rsquo;s got already all she wants, and as
-she&rsquo;s a fairy and knows a lot about magic, she could
-satisfy any wish.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I know,&rdquo; returned Dorothy, &ldquo;but that isn&rsquo;t the
-point. It isn&rsquo;t that Ozma <i>needs</i> anything, but that
-it will please her to know we&rsquo;ve remembered her birthday.
-But what shall we give her?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Trot shook her head in despair.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve tried to think and I can&rsquo;t,&rdquo; she declared.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same way with me,&rdquo; said Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I know one thing that &rsquo;ud please her,&rdquo; remarked
-Cap&rsquo;n Bill, turning his round face with its fringe of
-whiskers toward the two girls and staring at them
-with his big, light-blue eyes wide open.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What is it, Cap&rsquo;n Bill?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_58">58</div>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an Enchanted Flower,&rdquo; said he. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pretty
-plant that stands in a golden flower-pot an&rsquo; grows all
-sorts o&rsquo; flowers, one after another. One minute a fine
-rose buds an&rsquo; blooms, an&rsquo; then a tulip, an&rsquo; next a
-chrys&mdash;chrys&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;&mdash;anthemum,&rdquo; said Dorothy, helping him.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s it; and next a dahlia, an&rsquo; then a daffydil,
-an&rsquo; on all through the range o&rsquo; posies. Jus&rsquo; as soon
-as one fades away, another comes, of a different sort,
-an&rsquo; the perfume from &rsquo;em is mighty snifty, an&rsquo; they
-keeps bloomin&rsquo; night and day, year in an&rsquo; year out.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s wonderful!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy. &ldquo;I think
-Ozma would like it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But where is the Magic Flower, and how can we
-get it?&rdquo; asked Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Dun&rsquo;no, zac&rsquo;ly,&rdquo; slowly replied Cap&rsquo;n Bill. &ldquo;The
-Glass Cat tol&rsquo; me about it only yesterday, an&rsquo; said it
-was in some lonely place up at the nor&rsquo;east o&rsquo; here.
-The Glass Cat goes travelin&rsquo; all around Oz, you know,
-an&rsquo; the little critter sees a lot o&rsquo; things no one else
-does.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; said Dorothy, thoughtfully. &ldquo;Northeast
-of here must be in the Munchkin Country, and
-perhaps a good way off, so let&rsquo;s ask the Glass Cat to
-tell us how to get to the Magic Flower.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_59">59</div>
-<p>So the two girls, with Cap&rsquo;n Bill stumping along on
-his wooden leg after them, went out into the garden,
-and after some time spent in searching, they found
-the Glass Cat curled up in the sunshine beside a bush,
-fast asleep.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i059.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" />
-</div>
-<p>The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures
-in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named
-Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her subjects to
-work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat to
-catch mice, but the Cat refused to catch mice and was
-considered more curious than useful.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_60">60</div>
-<p>This astonishing cat was made all of glass and was
-so clear and transparent that you could see through
-it as easily as through a window. In the top of its
-head, however, was a mass of delicate pink balls which
-looked like jewels but were intended for brains. It
-had a heart made of a blood-red ruby. The eyes were
-two large emeralds. But, aside from these colors, all
-the rest of the animal was of clear glass, and it had
-a spun-glass tail that was really beautiful.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Here, wake up,&rdquo; said Cap&rsquo;n Bill. &ldquo;We want to
-talk to you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Slowly the Glass Cat got upon its feet, yawned and
-then looked at the three who stood before it.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How dare you disturb me?&rdquo; it asked in a peevish
-voice. &ldquo;You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Never mind that,&rdquo; returned the Sailor. &ldquo;Do you
-remember tellin&rsquo; me yesterday &rsquo;bout a Magic Flower
-in a Gold Pot?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do you think I&rsquo;m a fool? Look at my brains&mdash;you
-can see &rsquo;em work. Of course I remember!&rdquo; said
-the cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, where can we find it?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t. It&rsquo;s none of your business, anyhow.
-Go away and let me sleep,&rdquo; advised the Glass Cat.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_61">61</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Now, see here,&rdquo; said Dorothy; &ldquo;we want the Magic
-Flower to give to Ozma on her birthday. You&rsquo;d be
-glad to please Ozma, wouldn&rsquo;t you?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure,&rdquo; replied the creature. &ldquo;Why should
-I want to please anybody?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i061.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="345" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got a heart, &rsquo;cause I can see it inside of
-you,&rdquo; said Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes; it&rsquo;s a pretty heart, and I&rsquo;m fond of it,&rdquo; said
-the cat, twisting around to view its own body. &ldquo;But
-it&rsquo;s made from a ruby, and it&rsquo;s hard as nails.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t you good for <i>any</i>thing?&rdquo; asked Trot.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_62">62</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes, I&rsquo;m pretty to look at, and that&rsquo;s more than
-can be said of you,&rdquo; retorted the creature.</p>
-<p>Trot laughed at this, and Dorothy, who understood
-the Glass Cat pretty well, said soothingly:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You are indeed beautiful, and if you can tell Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill where to find the Magic Flower, all the people in
-Oz will praise your cleverness. The Flower will belong
-to Ozma, but everyone will know the Glass Cat discovered
-it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>This was the kind of praise the crystal creature
-liked.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; it said, while the pink brains rolled around,
-&ldquo;I found the Magic Flower way up in the north of
-the Munchkin Country where few people live or ever
-go. There&rsquo;s a river there that flows through a forest,
-and in the middle of the river in the middle of the
-forest there is a small island on which stands the gold
-pot in which grows the Magic Flower.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How did you get to the island?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.
-&ldquo;Glass cats can&rsquo;t swim.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No, but I&rsquo;m not afraid of water,&rdquo; was the reply.
-&ldquo;I just walked across the river on the bottom.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Under the water?&rdquo; exclaimed Trot.</p>
-<p>The cat gave her a scornful look.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_63">63</div>
-<p>&ldquo;How could I walk <i>over</i> the water on the <i>bottom</i>
-of the river? If you were transparent, anyone could
-see <i>your</i> brains were not working. But I&rsquo;m sure you
-could never find the place alone. It has always been
-hidden from the Oz people.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i063.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="337" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;But you, with your fine pink brains, could find it
-again, I s&rsquo;pose,&rdquo; remarked Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes; and if you want that Magic Flower for Ozma,
-I&rsquo;ll go with you and show you the way.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_64">64</div>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s lovely of you!&rdquo; declared Dorothy. &ldquo;Trot
-and Cap&rsquo;n Bill will go with you, for this is to be their
-birthday present to Ozma. While you&rsquo;re gone I&rsquo;ll have
-to find something else to give her.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;All right. Come on, then, Cap&rsquo;n,&rdquo; said the Glass
-Cat, starting to move away.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Wait a minute,&rdquo; begged Trot. &ldquo;How long will
-we be gone?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, about a week.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then I&rsquo;ll put some things in a basket to take with
-us,&rdquo; said the girl, and ran into the palace to make her
-preparations for the journey.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i064.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="488" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_65">65</div>
-<h2 id="c6">Ozma&rsquo;s Birthday Presents</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i065.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="679" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 6</p>
-<p>When Cap&rsquo;n Bill and Trot
-and the Glass Cat had started
-for the hidden island in the
-far-off river to get the Magic
-Flower, Dorothy wondered
-again what she could give
-Ozma on her birthday. She
-met the Patchwork Girl and
-said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you going to
-give Ozma for a birthday
-present?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_66">66</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve written a song for
-her,&rdquo; answered the strange Patchwork Girl, who went
-by the name of &ldquo;Scraps,&rdquo; and who, though stuffed
-with cotton, had a fair assortment of mixed brains.
-&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a splendid song and the chorus runs this way:</p>
-<div class="verse">
-<p class="t3">&ldquo;I am crazy;</p>
-<p class="t3">You&rsquo;re a daisy,</p>
-<p class="t4">Ozma dear;</p>
-<p class="t3">I&rsquo;m demented;</p>
-<p class="t3">You&rsquo;re contented,</p>
-<p class="t4">Ozma dear;</p>
-<p class="t0">I am patched and gay and glary;</p>
-<p class="t0">You&rsquo;re a sweet and lovely fairy;</p>
-<p class="t0">May your birthdays all be happy,</p>
-<p class="t4">Ozma dear!&rdquo;</p>
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;How do you like it, Dorothy?&rdquo; inquired the Patchwork
-Girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Is it good poetry, Scraps?&rdquo; asked Dorothy, doubtfully.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s as good as any ordinary song,&rdquo; was the reply.
-&ldquo;I have given it a dandy title, too. I shall call the
-song: &lsquo;When Ozma Has a Birthday, Everybody&rsquo;s Sure
-to Be Gay, for She Cannot Help the Fact That She
-Was Born.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_67">67</div>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a pretty long title, Scraps,&rdquo; said Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That makes it stylish,&rdquo; replied the Patchwork
-Girl, turning a somersault and alighting on one stuffed
-foot. &ldquo;Now-a-days the titles are sometimes longer
-than the songs.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i067.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="336" />
-</div>
-<p>Dorothy left her and walked slowly toward the palace,
-where she met the Tin Woodman just going up
-the front steps.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you going to give Ozma on her birthday?&rdquo;
-she asked.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_68">68</div>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a secret, but I&rsquo;ll tell you,&rdquo; replied the Tin
-Woodman, who was Emperor of the Winkies. &ldquo;I am
-having my people make Ozma a lovely girdle set with
-beautiful tin nuggets. Each tin nugget will be surrounded
-by a circle of emeralds, just to set it off to
-good advantage. The clasp of the girdle will be pure
-tin! Won&rsquo;t that be fine?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure she&rsquo;ll like it,&rdquo; said Dorothy. &ldquo;Do you
-know what <i>I</i> can give her?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t the slightest idea, Dorothy. It took me
-three months to think of my own present for Ozma.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The girl walked thoughtfully around to the back
-of the palace, and presently came upon the famous
-Scarecrow of Oz, who was having two of the palace
-servants stuff his legs with fresh straw.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you going to give Ozma on her birthday?&rdquo;
-asked Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want to surprise her,&rdquo; answered the Scarecrow.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t tell,&rdquo; promised Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;m having some straw slippers made for
-her&mdash;all straw, mind you, and braided very artistically.
-Ozma has always admired my straw filling,
-so I&rsquo;m sure she&rsquo;ll be pleased with these lovely straw
-slippers.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_69">69</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Ozma will be pleased with anything her loving
-friends give her,&rdquo; said the girl. &ldquo;What <i>I&rsquo;m</i> worried
-about, Scarecrow, is what to give Ozma that she hasn&rsquo;t
-got already.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what worried me, until I thought of the
-slippers,&rdquo; said the Scarecrow. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll have to <i>think</i>,
-Dorothy; that&rsquo;s the only way to get a good idea. If
-I hadn&rsquo;t such wonderful brains, I&rsquo;d never have thought
-of those straw foot-decorations.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i069.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="335" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_70">70</div>
-<p>Dorothy left him and went to her room, where she
-sat down and tried to think hard. A Pink Kitten was
-curled up on the window-sill and Dorothy asked her:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What can I give Ozma for her birthday present?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, give her some milk,&rdquo; replied the Pink Kitten;
-&ldquo;that&rsquo;s the nicest thing I know of.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>A fuzzy little black dog had squatted down at Dorothy&rsquo;s
-feet and now looked up at her with intelligent
-eyes.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Tell me, Toto,&rdquo; said the girl; &ldquo;what would Ozma
-like best for a birthday present?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The little black dog wagged his tail.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Your love,&rdquo; said he. &ldquo;Ozma wants to be loved
-more than anything else.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But I already love her, Toto!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then tell her you love her twice as much as you
-ever did before.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That wouldn&rsquo;t be true,&rdquo; objected Dorothy, &ldquo;for
-I&rsquo;ve always loved her as much as I could, and, really,
-Toto, I want to give Ozma some <i>present</i>, &rsquo;cause everyone
-else will give her a present.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Let me see,&rdquo; said Toto. &ldquo;How would it be to give
-her that useless Pink Kitten?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No, Toto; that wouldn&rsquo;t do.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then six kisses.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; that&rsquo;s no present.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_71">71</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I guess you&rsquo;ll have to figure it out for yourself,
-Dorothy,&rdquo; said the little dog. &ldquo;To <i>my</i> notion
-you&rsquo;re more particular than Ozma will be.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Dorothy decided that if anyone could help her it
-would be Glinda the Good, the wonderful Sorceress
-of Oz who was Ozma&rsquo;s faithful subject and friend. But
-Glinda&rsquo;s castle was in the Quadling Country and quite
-a journey from the Emerald City.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i071.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="337" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_72">72</div>
-<p>So the little girl went to Ozma and asked permission
-to use the Wooden Sawhorse and the royal Red Wagon
-to pay a visit to Glinda, and the girl Ruler kissed Princess
-Dorothy and graciously granted permission.</p>
-<p>The Wooden Sawhorse was one of the most remarkable
-creatures in Oz. Its body was a small log and its
-legs were limbs of trees stuck in the body. Its eyes
-were knots, its mouth was sawed in the end of the log
-and its ears were two chips. A small branch had been
-left at the rear end of the log to serve as a tail.</p>
-<p>Ozma herself, during one of her early adventures,
-had brought this wooden horse to life, and so she was
-much attached to the queer animal and had shod the
-bottoms of its wooden legs with plates of gold so they
-would not wear out. The sawhorse was a swift and
-willing traveler, and though it could talk if need arose,
-it seldom said anything unless spoken to. When the
-Sawhorse was harnessed to the Red Wagon there were
-no reins to guide him because all that was needed was
-to tell him where to go.</p>
-<p>Dorothy now told him to go to Glinda&rsquo;s Castle and
-the Sawhorse carried her there with marvelous speed.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Glinda,&rdquo; said Dorothy, when she had been greeted
-by the Sorceress, who was tall and stately, with handsome
-and dignified features and dressed in a splendid
-and becoming gown, &ldquo;what are you going to give
-Ozma for a birthday present?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_73">73</div>
-<p>The Sorceress smiled and answered:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Come into my patio and I will show you.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i073.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="341" />
-</div>
-<p>So they entered a place that was surrounded by the
-wings of the great castle but had no roof, and was
-filled with flowers and fountains and exquisite statuary
-and many settees and chairs of polished marble
-or filigree gold. Here there were gathered fifty beautiful
-young girls, Glinda&rsquo;s handmaids, who had been
-selected from all parts of the Land of Oz on account
-of their wit and beauty and sweet dispositions. It
-was a great honor to be made one of Glinda&rsquo;s handmaidens.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_74">74</div>
-<p>When Dorothy followed the Sorceress into this
-delightful patio all the fifty girls were busily weaving,
-and their shuttles were filled with a sparkling green
-spun glass such as the little girl had never seen before.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What is it, Glinda?&rdquo; she asked.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;One of my recent discoveries,&rdquo; explained the Sorceress.
-&ldquo;I have found a way to make threads from
-emeralds, by softening the stones and then spinning
-them into long, silken strands. With these emerald
-threads we are weaving cloth to make Ozma a splendid
-court gown for her birthday. You will notice that
-the threads have all the beautiful glitter and luster of
-the emeralds from which they are made, and so Ozma&rsquo;s
-new dress will be the most magnificent the world has
-ever seen, and quite fitting for our lovely Ruler of the
-Fairyland of Oz.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Dorothy&rsquo;s eyes were fairly dazed by the brilliance
-of the emerald cloth, some of which the girls had
-already woven.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen <i>any</i>thing so beautiful!&rdquo; she said,
-with a sigh. &ldquo;But tell me, Glinda, what can <i>I</i> give
-our lovely Ozma on her birthday?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_75">75</div>
-<p>The good Sorceress considered this question for a
-long time before she replied. Finally she said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course there will be a grand feast at the Royal
-Palace on Ozma&rsquo;s birthday, and all our friends will
-be present. So I suggest that you make a fine
-big birthday cake for Ozma, and surround it with
-candles.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, just a <i>cake</i>!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy, in disappointment.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Nothing is nicer for a birthday,&rdquo; said the Sorceress.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How many candles should there be on the cake?&rdquo;
-asked the girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Just a row of them,&rdquo; replied Glinda, &ldquo;for no one
-knows how old Ozma is, although she appears to us
-to be just a young girl&mdash;as fresh and fair as if she
-had lived but a few years.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;A cake doesn&rsquo;t seem like much of a present,&rdquo; Dorothy
-asserted.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Make it a surprise cake,&rdquo; suggested the Sorceress.
-&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you remember the four and twenty blackbirds
-that were baked in a pie? Well, you need not use live
-blackbirds in your cake, but you could have some surprise
-of a different sort.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Like what?&rdquo; questioned Dorothy, eagerly.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_76">76</div>
-<p>&ldquo;If I told you, it wouldn&rsquo;t be <i>your</i> present to Ozma,
-but <i>mine</i>,&rdquo; answered the Sorceress, with a smile.
-&ldquo;Think it over, my dear, and I am sure you can originate
-a surprise that will add greatly to the joy and
-merriment of Ozma&rsquo;s birthday banquet.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Dorothy thanked her friend and entered the Red
-Wagon and told the Sawhorse to take her back home
-to the palace in the Emerald City.</p>
-<p>On the way she thought the matter over seriously
-of making a surprise birthday cake and finally decided
-what to do.</p>
-<p>As soon as she reached home, she went to the Wizard
-of Oz, who had a room fitted up in one of the high
-towers of the palace, where he studied magic so as to
-be able to perform such wizardry as Ozma commanded
-him to do for the welfare of her subjects.</p>
-<p>The Wizard and Dorothy were firm friends and had
-enjoyed many strange adventures together. He was
-a little man with a bald head and sharp eyes and a
-round, jolly face, and because he was neither haughty
-nor proud he had become a great favorite with the Oz
-people.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Wizard,&rdquo; said Dorothy, &ldquo;I want you to help me
-fix up a present for Ozma&rsquo;s birthday.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be glad to do anything for you and for Ozma,&rdquo;
-he answered. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s on your mind, Dorothy?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_77">77</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to make a great cake, with frosting and
-candles, and all that, you know.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; said the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;In the center of this cake I&rsquo;m going to leave a
-hollow place, with just a roof of the frosting over it,&rdquo;
-continued the girl.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i077.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; repeated the Wizard, nodding his
-bald head.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_78">78</div>
-<p>&ldquo;In that hollow place,&rdquo; said Dorothy, &ldquo;I want to
-hide a lot of monkeys about three inches high, and
-after the cake is placed on the banquet table, I want
-the monkeys to break through the frosting and dance
-around on the table-cloth. Then, I want each monkey
-to cut out a piece of cake and hand it to a guest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Mercy me!&rdquo; cried the little Wizard, as he chuckled
-with laughter. &ldquo;Is that <i>all</i> you want, Dorothy?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Almost,&rdquo; said she. &ldquo;Can you think of anything
-more the little monkeys can do, Wizard?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Not just now,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;But where will you
-get such tiny monkeys?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s where you&rsquo;re to help me,&rdquo; said Dorothy.
-&ldquo;In some of those wild forests in the Gillikin Country
-are lots of monkeys.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Big ones,&rdquo; said the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, you and I will go there, and we&rsquo;ll get some
-of the big monkeys, and you will make them small&mdash;just
-three inches high&mdash;by means of your magic, and
-we&rsquo;ll put the little monkeys all in a basket and bring
-them home with us. Then you&rsquo;ll train them to dance&mdash;up
-here in your room, where no one can see them&mdash;and
-on Ozma&rsquo;s birthday we&rsquo;ll put &rsquo;em into the cake
-and they&rsquo;ll know by that time just what to do.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard looked at Dorothy with admiring
-approval, and chuckled again.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_79">79</div>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s really clever, my dear,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I see
-no reason why we can&rsquo;t do it, just the way you say, if
-only we can get the wild monkeys to agree to it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do you think they&rsquo;ll object?&rdquo; asked the girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes; but perhaps we can argue them into it. Anyhow,
-it&rsquo;s worth trying, and I&rsquo;ll help you if you&rsquo;ll agree
-to let this Surprise Cake be a present to Ozma from
-you and me together. I&rsquo;ve been wondering what <i>I</i>
-could give Ozma, and as I&rsquo;ve got to train the monkeys
-as well as make them small, I think you ought to make
-me your partner.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; said Dorothy; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be glad to do so.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then, it&rsquo;s a bargain,&rdquo; declared the Wizard. &ldquo;We
-must go to seek those monkeys at once, however, for
-it will take time to train them and we&rsquo;ll have to travel
-a good way to the Gillikin forests where they live.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m ready to go any time,&rdquo; agreed Dorothy. &ldquo;Shall
-we ask Ozma to let us take the Sawhorse?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard did not answer that at once. He took
-time to think of the suggestion.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; he answered at length, &ldquo;the Red Wagon
-couldn&rsquo;t get through the thick forests and there&rsquo;s some
-danger to us in going into the wild places to search
-for monkeys. So I propose we take the Cowardly Lion
-and the Hungry Tiger. We can ride on their backs
-as well as in the Red Wagon, and if there is danger
-to us from other beasts, these two friendly champions
-will protect us from all harm.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_80">80</div>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a splendid idea!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy.
-&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s go now and ask the Hungry Tiger and the
-Cowardly Lion if they will help us. Shall we ask
-Ozma if we can go?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think not,&rdquo; said the Wizard, getting his hat and
-his black bag of magic tools. &ldquo;This is to be a surprise
-for her birthday, and so she mustn&rsquo;t know where
-we&rsquo;re going. We&rsquo;ll just leave word, in case Ozma
-inquires for us, that we&rsquo;ll be back in a few days.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i080.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="308" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_81">81</div>
-<h2 id="c7">The Forest of Gugu</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i081.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="677" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 7</p>
-<p>In the central western part
-of the Gillikin Country is a
-great tangle of trees called
-Gugu Forest. It is the biggest
-forest in all Oz and
-stretches miles and miles in
-every direction&mdash;north,
-south, east and west. Adjoining
-it on the east side is a
-range of rugged mountains
-covered with underbrush and
-small twisted trees. You can
-find this place by looking at the Map of the Land of Oz.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_82">82</div>
-<p>Gugu Forest is the home of most of the wild beasts
-that inhabit Oz. These are seldom disturbed in their
-leafy haunts because there is no reason why Oz people
-should go there, except on rare occasions, and most
-parts of the forest have never been seen by any eyes
-but the eyes of the beasts who make their home there.
-The biggest beasts inhabit the great forest, while the
-smaller ones live mostly in the mountain underbrush
-at the east.</p>
-<p>Now, you must know that there are laws in the
-forests, as well as in every other place, and these laws
-are made by the beasts themselves, and are necessary
-to keep them from fighting and tearing one another
-to pieces. In Gugu Forest there is a King&mdash;an enormous
-yellow leopard called &ldquo;Gugu&rdquo;&mdash;after whom
-the forest is named. And this King has three other
-beasts to advise him in keeping the laws and maintaining
-order&mdash;Bru the Bear, Loo the Unicorn and
-Rango the Gray Ape&mdash;who are known as the King&rsquo;s
-Counselors. All these are fierce and ferocious beasts,
-and hold their high offices because they are more intelligent
-and more feared than their fellows.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_83">83</div>
-<p>Since Oz became a fairyland, no man, woman or
-child ever dies in that land nor is anyone ever sick.
-Likewise the beasts of the forests never die, so that
-long years add to their cunning and wisdom, as well
-as to their size and strength. It is possible for beasts&mdash;or
-even people&mdash;to be destroyed, but the task is
-so difficult that it is seldom attempted. Because it is
-free from sickness and death is one reason why Oz
-is a fairyland, but it is doubtful whether those who
-come to Oz from the outside world, as Dorothy and
-Button-Bright and Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill and the Wizard
-did, will live forever or cannot be injured. Even
-Ozma is not sure about this, and so the guests of
-Ozma from other lands are always carefully protected
-from any danger, so as to be on the safe side.</p>
-<p>In spite of the laws of the forests there are often
-fights among the beasts; some of them have lost an
-eye or an ear or even had a leg torn off. The King
-and the King&rsquo;s Counselors always punish those who
-start a fight, but so fierce is the nature of some beasts
-that they will at times fight in spite of laws and
-punishment.</p>
-<p>Over this vast, wild Forest of Gugu flew two eagles,
-one morning, and near the center of the jungle the
-eagles alighted on a branch of a tall tree.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Here is the place for us to begin our work,&rdquo; said
-one, who was Ruggedo, the Nome.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_84">84</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Do many beasts live here?&rdquo; asked Kiki Aru,
-the other eagle.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The forest is full of them,&rdquo; said the Nome. &ldquo;There
-are enough beasts right here to enable us to conquer
-the people of Oz, if we can get them to consent
-to join us. To do that, we must go among them and
-tell them our plans, so we must now decide on what
-shapes we had better assume while in the forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I suppose we must take the shapes of beasts?&rdquo;
-said Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course. But that requires some thought. All
-kinds of beasts live here, and a yellow leopard is
-King. If we become leopards, the King will be
-jealous of us. If we take the forms of some of the
-other beasts, we shall not command proper respect.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I wonder if the beasts will attack us?&rdquo; asked
-Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a Nome, and immortal, so nothing can hurt
-me,&rdquo; replied Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I was born in the Land of Oz, so nothing can
-hurt me,&rdquo; said Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But, in order to carry out our plans, we must
-win the favor of all the animals of the forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then what shall we do?&rdquo; asked Kiki.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_85">85</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Let us mix the shapes of several beasts, so we
-will not look like any one of them,&rdquo; proposed the
-wily old Nome. &ldquo;Let us have the heads of lions,
-the bodies of monkeys, the wings of eagles and the
-tails of wild asses, with knobs of gold on the end
-of them instead of bunches of hair.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Won&rsquo;t that make a queer combination?&rdquo; inquired
-Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The queerer the better,&rdquo; declared Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;All right,&rdquo; said Kiki. &ldquo;You stay here, and I&rsquo;ll
-fly away to another tree and transform us both, and
-then we&rsquo;ll climb down our trees and meet in the
-forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said the Nome, &ldquo;we mustn&rsquo;t separate. You
-must transform us while we are together.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t do that,&rdquo; asserted Kiki, firmly. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re
-trying to get my secret, and I won&rsquo;t let you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The eyes of the other eagle flashed angrily, but
-Ruggedo did not dare insist. If he offended this
-boy, he might have to remain an eagle always and
-he wouldn&rsquo;t like that. Some day he hoped to be
-able to learn the secret word of the magical transformations,
-but just now he must let Kiki have his
-own way.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;All right,&rdquo; he said gruffly; &ldquo;do as you please.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_86">86</div>
-<p>So Kiki flew to a tree that was far enough distant
-so that Ruggedo could not overhear him and said:
-&ldquo;I want Ruggedo, the Nome, and myself to have
-the heads of lions, the bodies of monkeys, the wings
-of eagles and the tails of wild asses, with knobs of
-gold on the ends of them instead of bunches of hair&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl!</span>&rdquo;</p>
-<p>He pronounced the magic word in the proper manner
-and at once his form changed to the one he had
-described. He spread his eagle&rsquo;s wings and finding
-they were strong enough to support his monkey body
-and lion head he flew swiftly to the tree where he
-had left Ruggedo. The Nome was also transformed
-and was climbing down the tree because the branches
-all around him were so thickly entwined that there
-was no room between them to fly.</p>
-<p>Kiki quickly joined his comrade and it did not take
-them long to reach the ground.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_87">87</div>
-<h2 id="c8">The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i087.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="679" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 8</p>
-<p>There had been trouble in the
-Forest of Gugu that morning.
-Chipo the Wild Boar had bitten
-the tail off Arx the Giraffe
-while the latter had his head
-among the leaves of a tree,
-eating his breakfast. Arx
-kicked with his heels and
-struck Tirrip, the great Kangaroo,
-who had a new baby
-in her pouch. Tirrip knew
-it was the Wild Boar&rsquo;s fault,
-so she knocked him over with one powerful blow and
-then ran away to escape Chipo&rsquo;s sharp tusks. In
-the chase that followed a giant porcupine stuck fifty
-sharp quills into the Boar and a chimpanzee in a tree
-threw a cocoanut at the porcupine that jammed its
-head into its body.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_88">88</div>
-<p>All this was against the Laws of the Forest, and
-when the excitement was over, Gugu the Leopard
-King called his royal Counselors together to decide
-how best to punish the offenders.</p>
-<p>The four lords of the forest were holding solemn
-council in a small clearing when they saw two strange
-beasts approaching them&mdash;beasts the like of which
-they had never seen before.</p>
-<p>Not one of the four, however, relaxed his dignity
-or showed by a movement that he was startled. The
-great Leopard crouched at full length upon a fallen
-tree-trunk. Bru the Bear sat on his haunches before
-the King; Rango the Gray Ape stood with his muscular
-arms folded, and Loo the Unicorn reclined,
-much as a horse does, between his fellow-councillors.
-With one consent they remained silent, eyeing with
-steadfast looks the intruders, who were making their
-way into their forest domain.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_89">89</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well met, Brothers!&rdquo; said one of the strange
-beasts, coming to a halt beside the group, while his
-comrade with hesitation lagged behind.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We are not brothers,&rdquo; returned the Gray Ape,
-sternly. &ldquo;Who are you, and how came you in the
-forest of Gugu?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i089.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="331" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;We are two Li-Mon-Eags,&rdquo; said Ruggedo, inventing
-the name. &ldquo;Our home is in Sky Island, and we
-have come to earth to warn the forest beasts that the
-people of Oz are about to make war upon them and
-enslave them, so that they will become beasts of burden
-forever after and obey only the will of their two-legged
-masters.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_90">90</div>
-<p>A low roar of anger arose from the Council of
-Beasts.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;<i>Who&rsquo;s</i> going to do that?&rdquo; asked Loo the Unicorn,
-in a high, squeaky voice, at the same time rising to
-his feet.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The people of Oz,&rdquo; said Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But what will <i>we</i> be doing?&rdquo; inquired the Unicorn.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve come to talk to you about.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You needn&rsquo;t talk! We&rsquo;ll fight the Oz people!&rdquo;
-screamed the Unicorn. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll smash &rsquo;em; we&rsquo;ll trample
-&rsquo;em; we&rsquo;ll gore &rsquo;em; we&rsquo;ll&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Silence!&rdquo; growled Gugu the King, and Loo
-obeyed, although still trembling with wrath. The
-cold, steady gaze of the Leopard wandered over the
-two strange beasts. &ldquo;The people of Oz,&rdquo; said he,
-&ldquo;have not been our friends; they have not been our
-enemies. They have let us alone, and we have let
-them alone. There is no reason for war between us.
-They have no slaves. They could not use us as slaves
-if they should conquer us. I think you are telling us
-lies, you strange Li-Mon-Eag&mdash;you mixed-up beast
-who are neither one thing nor another.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_91">91</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, on my word, it&rsquo;s the truth!&rdquo; protested the
-Nome in the beast&rsquo;s shape. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t lie for the
-world; I&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Silence!&rdquo; again growled Gugu the King; and,
-somehow, even Ruggedo was abashed and obeyed the
-edict.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What do you say, Bru?&rdquo; asked the king, turning
-to the great Bear, who had until now said nothing.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How does the Mixed Beast know that what he
-says is true?&rdquo; asked the Bear.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, I can fly, you know, having the wings of an
-Eagle,&rdquo; explained the Nome. &ldquo;I and my comrade
-yonder,&rdquo; turning to Kiki, &ldquo;flew to a grove in Oz, and
-there we heard the people telling how they will make
-many ropes to snare you beasts, and then they will
-surround this forest, and all other forests, and make
-you prisoners. So we came here to warn you, for
-being beasts ourselves, although we live in the sky,
-we are your friends.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Leopard&rsquo;s lip curled and showed his enormous
-teeth, sharp as needles. He turned to the Gray Ape.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What do <i>you</i> think, Rango?&rdquo; he asked.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Send these mixed beasts away, your Majesty,&rdquo;
-replied the Gray Ape. &ldquo;They are mischief-makers.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_92">92</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t do that&mdash;don&rsquo;t do that!&rdquo; cried the Unicorn,
-nervously. &ldquo;The stranger said he would tell us what
-to do. Let him tell us, then. Are we fools, not to
-heed a warning?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Gugu the King turned to Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Speak, Stranger,&rdquo; he commanded.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the Nome, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s this way: The Land
-of Oz is a fine country. The people of Oz have many
-good things&mdash;houses with soft beds, all sorts of nice-tasting
-food, pretty clothes, lovely jewels, and many
-other things that beasts know nothing of. Here in
-the dark forests the poor beasts have hard work to
-get enough to eat and to find a bed to rest in. But
-the beasts are better than the people, and why should
-they not have all the good things the people have?
-So I propose that before the Oz people have the time
-to make all those ropes to snare you with, that all
-we beasts get together and march against the Oz
-people and capture them. Then the beasts will
-become the masters and the people their slaves.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What good would that do us?&rdquo; asked Bru the Bear.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It would save you from slavery, for one thing,
-and you could enjoy all the fine things the Oz people
-have.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Beasts wouldn&rsquo;t know what to do with the things
-people use,&rdquo; said the Gray Ape.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_93">93</div>
-<p>&ldquo;But this is only part of my plan,&rdquo; insisted the
-Nome. &ldquo;Listen to the rest of it. We two Li-Mon-Eags
-are powerful magicians. When you have conquered
-the Oz people we will transform them all into beasts,
-and send them to the forests to live, and we will transform
-all the beasts into people, so they can enjoy all
-the wonderful delights of the Emerald City.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>For a moment no beast spoke. Then the King said:
-&ldquo;Prove it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Prove what?&rdquo; asked Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Prove that you can transform us. If you are a
-magician transform the Unicorn into a man. Then
-we will believe you. If you fail, we will destroy you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;All right,&rdquo; said the Nome. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m tired, so
-I&rsquo;ll let my comrade make the transformation.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Kiki Aru had stood back from the circle, but he
-had heard all that was said. He now realized that he
-must make good Ruggedo&rsquo;s boast, so he retreated to
-the edge of the clearing and whispered the magic
-word.</p>
-<p>Instantly the Unicorn became a fat, chubby little
-man, dressed in the purple Gillikin costume, and it
-was hard to tell which was the more astonished, the
-King, the Bear, the Ape or the former Unicorn.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true!&rdquo; shouted the man-beast. &ldquo;Good gracious,
-look what I am! It&rsquo;s wonderful!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_94">94</div>
-<p>The King of the Beasts now addressed Ruggedo in
-a more friendly tone.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We must believe your story, since you have given
-us proof of your power,&rdquo; said he. &ldquo;But why, if you
-are so great a magician, cannot you conquer the
-Oz people without our help, and so save us the
-trouble?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Alas!&rdquo; replied the crafty old Nome, &ldquo;no magician
-is able to do everything. The transformations are
-easy to us because we are Li-Mon-Eags, but we cannot
-fight, or conquer even such weak creatures as the
-Oz people. But we will stay with you and advise and
-help you, and we will transform all the Oz people into
-beasts, when the time comes, and all the beasts into
-people.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Gugu the King turned to his Counselors.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How shall we answer this friendly stranger?&rdquo; he
-asked.</p>
-<p>Loo the former Unicorn was dancing around and
-cutting capers like a clown.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;On my word, your Majesty,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;this being
-a man is more fun than being a Unicorn.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You look like a fool,&rdquo; said the Gray Ape.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I <i>feel</i> fine!&rdquo; declared the man-beast.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_95">95</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i095.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="698" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_96">96</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I think I prefer to be a Bear,&rdquo; said Big Bru. &ldquo;I
-was born a Bear, and I know a Bear&rsquo;s ways. So I am
-satisfied to live as a Bear lives.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That,&rdquo; said the old Nome, &ldquo;is because you know
-nothing better. When we have conquered the Oz
-people, and you become a man, you&rsquo;ll be glad of it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The immense Leopard rested his chin on the log
-and seemed thoughtful.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The beasts of the forest must decide this matter
-for themselves,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Go you, Rango the Gray
-Ape, and tell your monkey tribe to order all the forest
-beasts to assemble in the Great Clearing at sunrise
-to-morrow. When all are gathered together, this
-mixed-up Beast who is a magician shall talk to them
-and tell them what he has told us. Then, if they
-decide to fight the Oz people, who have declared war
-on us, I will lead the beasts to battle.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Rango the Gray Ape turned at once and glided
-swiftly through the forest on his mission. The Bear
-gave a grunt and walked away. Gugu the King rose
-and stretched himself. Then he said to Ruggedo:
-&ldquo;Meet us at sunrise to-morrow,&rdquo; and with stately
-stride vanished among the trees.</p>
-<p>The man-unicorn, left alone with the strangers,
-suddenly stopped his foolish prancing.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_97">97</div>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;d better make me a Unicorn again,&rdquo; he said.
-&ldquo;I like being a man, but the forest beasts won&rsquo;t know
-I&rsquo;m their friend, Loo, and they might tear me in
-pieces before morning.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So Kiki changed him back to his former shape, and
-the Unicorn departed to join his people.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i097.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="347" />
-</div>
-<p>Ruggedo the Nome was much pleased with his
-success.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_98">98</div>
-<p>&ldquo;To-morrow,&rdquo; he said to Kiki Aru, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ll win over
-these beasts and set them to fight and conquer the Oz
-people. Then I will have my revenge on Ozma and
-Dorothy and all the rest of my enemies.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But I am doing all the work,&rdquo; said Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Never mind; you&rsquo;re going to be King of Oz,&rdquo;
-promised Ruggedo.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Will the big Leopard let me be King?&rdquo; asked
-the boy anxiously.</p>
-<p>The Nome came close to him and whispered:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If Gugu the Leopard opposes us, you will transform
-him into a tree, and then he will be helpless.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; agreed Kiki, and he said to himself:
-&ldquo;I shall also transform this deceitful Nome into a
-tree, for he lies and I cannot trust him.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i098.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_99">99</div>
-<h2 id="c9">The Isle of the Magic Flower</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i099.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="684" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 9</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat was a good
-guide and led Trot and Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill by straight and easy
-paths through all the settled
-part of the Munchkin Country,
-and then into the north
-section where there were few
-houses, and finally through a
-wild country where there
-were no houses or paths at
-all. But the walking was
-not difficult and at last they
-came to the edge of a forest
-and stopped there to make camp and sleep until
-morning.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_100">100</div>
-<p>From branches of trees Cap&rsquo;n Bill made a tiny house
-that was just big enough for the little girl to crawl
-into and lie down. But first they ate some of the
-food Trot had carried in the basket.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you want some, too?&rdquo; she asked the Glass
-Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; answered the creature.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I suppose you&rsquo;ll hunt around an&rsquo; catch a mouse,&rdquo;
-remarked Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Me? Catch a mouse! Why should I do that?&rdquo;
-inquired the Glass Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, then you could eat it,&rdquo; said the sailor-man.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I beg to inform you,&rdquo; returned the crystal tabby,
-&ldquo;that I do not eat mice. Being transparent, so anyone
-can see through me, I&rsquo;d look nice, wouldn&rsquo;t I,
-with a common mouse inside me? But the fact is
-that I haven&rsquo;t any stomach or other machinery that
-would permit me to eat things. The careless magician
-who made me didn&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d need to eat, I
-suppose.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you ever get hungry or thirsty?&rdquo; asked
-Trot.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_101">101</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Never. I don&rsquo;t complain, you know, at the way
-I&rsquo;m made, for I&rsquo;ve never yet seen any living thing
-as beautiful as I am. I have the handsomest brains
-in the world. They&rsquo;re pink, and you can see &rsquo;em
-work.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i101.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="339" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I wonder,&rdquo; said Trot thoughtfully, as she ate her
-bread and jam, &ldquo;if <i>my</i> brains whirl around in the
-same way yours do.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_102">102</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No; not the same way, surely,&rdquo; returned the Glass
-Cat; &ldquo;for, in that case, they&rsquo;d be as good as <i>my</i> brains,
-except that they&rsquo;re hidden under a thick, boney skull.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Brains,&rdquo; remarked Cap&rsquo;n Bill, &ldquo;is of all kinds and
-work different ways. But I&rsquo;ve noticed that them as
-thinks that their brains is best is often mistook.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Trot was a little disturbed by sounds from the forest,
-that night, for many beasts seemed prowling
-among the trees, but she was confident Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-would protect her from harm. And in fact, no beast
-ventured from the forest to attack them.</p>
-<p>At daybreak they were up again, and after a simple
-breakfast Cap&rsquo;n Bill said to the Glass Cat:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Up anchor, Mate, and let&rsquo;s forge ahead. I don&rsquo;t
-suppose we&rsquo;re far from that Magic Flower, are we?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Not far,&rdquo; answered the transparent one, as it led
-the way into the forest, &ldquo;but it may take you some
-time to get to it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Before long they reached the bank of a river. It
-was not very wide, at this place, but as they followed
-the banks in a northerly direction it gradually
-broadened.</p>
-<p>Suddenly the blue-green leaves of the trees changed
-to a purple hue, and Trot noticed this and said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I wonder what made the colors change like that?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_103">103</div>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s because we have left the Munchkin Country
-and entered the Gillikin Country,&rdquo; explained the Glass
-Cat. &ldquo;Also it&rsquo;s a sign our journey is nearly ended.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The river made a sudden turn, and after the travelers
-had passed around the bend, they saw that the
-stream had now become as broad as a small lake, and
-in the center of the Lake they beheld a little island,
-not more than fifty feet in extent, either way. Something
-glittered in the middle of this tiny island, and
-the Glass Cat paused on the bank and said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There is the gold flower-pot containing the Magic
-Flower, which is very curious and beautiful. If you
-can get to the island, your task is ended&mdash;except to
-carry the thing home with you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Cap&rsquo;n Bill looked at the broad expanse of water
-and began to whistle a low, quavering tune. Trot
-knew that the whistle meant that Cap&rsquo;n Bill was
-thinking, and the old sailor didn&rsquo;t look at the island
-as much as he looked at the trees upon the bank where
-they stood. Presently he took from the big pocket
-of his coat an axe-blade, wound in an old cloth to
-keep the sharp edge from cutting his clothing. Then,
-with a large pocket knife, he cut a small limb from
-a tree and whittled it into a handle for his axe.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Sit down, Trot,&rdquo; he advised the girl, as he worked.
-&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got quite a job ahead of me now, for I&rsquo;ve got
-to build us a raft.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_104">104</div>
-<p>&ldquo;What do we need a raft for, Cap&rsquo;n?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, to take us to the island. We can&rsquo;t walk
-under water, in the river bed, as the Glass Cat did,
-so we must float atop the water.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Can you make a raft, Cap&rsquo;n Bill?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;O&rsquo; course, Trot, if you give me time.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The little girl sat down on a log and gazed at the
-Island of the Magic Flower. Nothing else seemed to
-grow on the tiny isle. There was no tree, no shrub, no
-grass, even, as far as she could make out from that
-distance. But the gold pot glittered in the rays of
-the sun, and Trot could catch glimpses of glowing
-colors above it, as the Magic Flower changed from
-one sort to another.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;When I was here before,&rdquo; remarked the Glass
-Cat, lazily reclining at the girl&rsquo;s feet, &ldquo;I saw two
-Kalidahs on this very bank, where they had come
-to drink.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are Kalidahs?&rdquo; asked the girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The most powerful and ferocious beasts in all Oz.
-This forest is their especial home, and so there are
-few other beasts to be found except monkeys. The
-monkeys are spry enough to keep out of the way of
-the fierce Kalidahs, which attack all other animals
-and often fight among themselves.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_105">105</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i105.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="687" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_106">106</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Did they try to fight you when you saw &rsquo;em?&rdquo;
-asked Trot, getting very much excited.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes. They sprang upon me in an instant; but I
-lay flat on the ground, so I wouldn&rsquo;t get my legs
-broken by the great weight of the beasts, and when
-they tried to bite me I laughed at them and jeered
-them until they were frantic with rage, for they nearly
-broke their teeth on my hard glass. So, after a time,
-they discovered they could not hurt me, and went
-away. It was great fun.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I hope they don&rsquo;t come here again to drink,&mdash;not
-while we&rsquo;re here, anyhow,&rdquo; returned the girl, &ldquo;for
-I&rsquo;m not made of glass, nor is Cap&rsquo;n Bill, and if those
-bad beasts bit us, we&rsquo;d get hurt.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Cap&rsquo;n Bill was cutting from the trees some long
-stakes, making them sharp at one end and leaving a
-crotch at the other end. These were to bind the logs
-of his raft together. He had fashioned several and
-was just finishing another when the Glass Cat cried:
-&ldquo;Look out! There&rsquo;s a Kalidah coming toward us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Trot jumped up, greatly frightened, and looked at
-the terrible animal as if fascinated by its fierce eyes,
-for the Kalidah was looking at her, too, and its look
-wasn&rsquo;t at all friendly. But Cap&rsquo;n Bill called to her:
-&ldquo;Wade into the river, Trot, up to your knees&mdash;an&rsquo;
-stay there!&rdquo; and she obeyed him at once. The sailor-man
-hobbled forward, the stake in one hand and his
-axe in the other, and got between the girl and the
-beast, which sprang upon him with a growl of defiance.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_107">107</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i107.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="690" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_108">108</div>
-<p>Cap&rsquo;n Bill moved pretty slowly, sometimes, but now
-he was quick as could be. As the Kalidah sprang
-toward him he stuck out his wooden leg and the point
-of it struck the beast between its eyes and sent it
-rolling upon the ground. Before it could get upon
-its feet again the sailor pushed the sharp stake right
-through its body and then with the flat side of the
-axe he hammered the stake as far into the ground as
-it would go. By this means he captured the great
-beast and made it harmless, for try as it would, it
-could not get away from the stake that held it.</p>
-<p>Cap&rsquo;n Bill knew he could not kill the Kalidah, for
-no living thing in Oz can be killed, so he stood back
-and watched the beast wriggle and growl and paw
-the earth with its sharp claws, and then, satisfied it
-could not escape, he told Trot to come out of the water
-again and dry her wet shoes and stockings in the
-sun.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Are you sure he can&rsquo;t get away?&rdquo; she asked.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_109">109</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d bet a cookie on it,&rdquo; said Cap&rsquo;n Bill, so Trot
-came ashore and took off her shoes and stockings and
-laid them on the log to dry, while the sailor-man
-resumed his work on the raft.</p>
-<p>The Kalidah, realizing after many struggles that
-it could not escape, now became quiet, but it said in
-a harsh, snarling voice:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I suppose you think you&rsquo;re clever, to pin me to
-the ground in this manner. But when my friends,
-the other Kalidahs, come here, they&rsquo;ll tear you to
-pieces for treating me this way.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;P&rsquo;raps,&rdquo; remarked Cap&rsquo;n Bill, coolly, as he chopped
-at the logs, &ldquo;an&rsquo; p&rsquo;raps not. When are your folks
-comin&rsquo; here?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; admitted the Kalidah. &ldquo;But when
-they <i>do</i> come, you can&rsquo;t escape them.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If they hold off long enough, I&rsquo;ll have my raft
-ready,&rdquo; said Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you going to do with a raft?&rdquo; inquired
-the beast.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re goin&rsquo; over to that island, to get the Magic
-Flower.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The huge beast looked at him in surprise a moment,
-and then it began to laugh. The laugh was a good
-deal like a roar, and it had a cruel and derisive sound,
-but it was a laugh nevertheless.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_110">110</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Good!&rdquo; said the Kalidah. &ldquo;Good! Very good!
-I&rsquo;m glad you&rsquo;re going to get the Magic Flower. But
-what will you do with it?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to take it to Ozma, as a present on
-her birthday.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Kalidah laughed again; then it became sober.
-&ldquo;If you get to the land on your raft before my people
-can catch you,&rdquo; it said, &ldquo;you will be safe from us.
-We can swim like ducks, so the girl couldn&rsquo;t have
-escaped me by getting into the water; but Kalidahs
-don&rsquo;t go to that island over there.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why not?&rdquo; asked Trot.</p>
-<p>The beast was silent.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Tell us the reason,&rdquo; urged Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, it&rsquo;s the Isle of the Magic Flower,&rdquo; answered
-the Kalidah, &ldquo;and we don&rsquo;t care much for magic. If
-you hadn&rsquo;t had a magic leg, instead of a meat one, you
-couldn&rsquo;t have knocked me over so easily and stuck
-this wooden pin through me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been to the Magic Isle,&rdquo; said the Glass Cat,
-&ldquo;and I&rsquo;ve watched the Magic Flower bloom, and I&rsquo;m
-sure it&rsquo;s too pretty to be left in that lonely place where
-only beasts prowl around it and no one else sees it.
-So we&rsquo;re going to take it away to the Emerald City.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_111">111</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care,&rdquo; the beast replied in a surly tone.
-&ldquo;We Kalidahs would be just as contented if there
-wasn&rsquo;t a flower in our forest. What good are the
-things anyhow?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you like pretty things?&rdquo; asked Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You ought to admire my pink brains, anyhow,&rdquo;
-declared the Glass Cat. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re beautiful and you
-can see &rsquo;em work.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i111.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="292" />
-</div>
-<p>The beast only growled in reply, and Cap&rsquo;n Bill,
-having now cut all his logs to a proper size, began
-to roll them to the water&rsquo;s edge and fasten them
-together.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_112">112</div>
-<h2 id="c10">Stuck Fast</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i112.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="681" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 10</p>
-<p>The day was nearly gone
-when, at last, the raft was
-ready.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It ain&rsquo;t so very big,&rdquo; said
-the old sailor, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t
-weigh much, an&rsquo; you, Trot,
-don&rsquo;t weigh half as much as I
-do, an&rsquo; the glass pussy don&rsquo;t
-count.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But it&rsquo;s safe, isn&rsquo;t it?&rdquo;
-inquired the girl.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_113">113</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes; it&rsquo;s good enough to
-carry us to the island an&rsquo;
-back again, an&rsquo; that&rsquo;s about all we can expect of it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Saying this, Cap&rsquo;n Bill pushed the raft into the
-water, and when it was afloat, stepped upon it and
-held out his hand to Trot, who quickly followed him.
-The Glass Cat boarded the raft last of all.</p>
-<p>The sailor had cut a long pole, and had also whittled
-a flat paddle, and with these he easily propelled the
-raft across the river. As they approached the island,
-the Wonderful Flower became more plainly visible,
-and they quickly decided that the Glass Cat had not
-praised it too highly. The colors of the flowers that
-bloomed in quick succession were strikingly bright
-and beautiful, and the shapes of the blossoms were
-varied and curious. Indeed, they did not resemble
-ordinary flowers at all.</p>
-<p>So intently did Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill gaze upon the
-Golden Flower pot that held the Magic Flower that
-they scarcely noticed the island itself until the raft
-beached upon its sands. But then the girl exclaimed:
-&ldquo;How funny it is, Cap&rsquo;n Bill, that nothing else grows
-here excep&rsquo; the Magic Flower.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_114">114</div>
-<p>Then the sailor glanced at the island and saw that
-it was all bare ground, without a weed, a stone or a
-blade of grass. Trot, eager to examine the Flower
-closer, sprang from the raft and ran up the bank until
-she reached the Golden Flowerpot. Then she stood
-beside it motionless and filled with wonder. Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill joined her, coming more leisurely, and he, too,
-stood in silent admiration for a time.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Ozma will like this,&rdquo; remarked the Glass Cat,
-sitting down to watch the shifting hues of the flowers.
-&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure she won&rsquo;t have as fine a birthday present
-from anyone else.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do you s&rsquo;pose it&rsquo;s very heavy, Cap&rsquo;n? And can
-we get it home without breaking it?&rdquo; asked Trot
-anxiously.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;ve lifted many bigger things than that,&rdquo;
-he replied; &ldquo;but let&rsquo;s see what it weighs.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>He tried to take a step forward, but could not
-lift his meat foot from the ground. His wooden
-leg seemed free enough, but the other would not
-budge.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I seem stuck, Trot,&rdquo; he said, with a perplexed
-look at his foot. &ldquo;It ain&rsquo;t mud, an&rsquo; it ain&rsquo;t glue, but
-somethin&rsquo;s holdin&rsquo; me down.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The girl attempted to lift her own feet, to go nearer
-to her friend, but the ground held them as fast as it
-held Cap&rsquo;n Bill&rsquo;s foot. She tried to slide them, or to
-twist them around, but it was no use; she could not
-move either foot a hair&rsquo;s breadth.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_115">115</div>
-<p>&ldquo;This is funny!&rdquo; she exclaimed. &ldquo;What do you
-&rsquo;spose has happened to us, Cap&rsquo;n Bill?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m tryin&rsquo; to make out,&rdquo; he answered. &ldquo;Take off
-your shoes, Trot. P&rsquo;raps it&rsquo;s the leather soles that&rsquo;s
-stuck to the ground.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i115.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="320" />
-</div>
-<p>She leaned down and unlaced her shoes, but found
-she could not pull her feet out of them. The Glass
-Cat, which was walking around as naturally as ever,
-now said:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_116">116</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Your foot has got roots to it, Cap&rsquo;n, and I can see
-the roots going into the ground, where they spread
-out in all directions. It&rsquo;s the same way with Trot.
-That&rsquo;s why you can&rsquo;t move. The roots hold you fast.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Cap&rsquo;n Bill was rather fat and couldn&rsquo;t see his own
-feet very well, but he squatted down and examined
-Trot&rsquo;s feet and decided that the Glass Cat was right.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;This is hard luck,&rdquo; he declared, in a voice that
-showed he was uneasy at the discovery. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re
-pris&rsquo;ners, Trot, on this funny island, an&rsquo; I&rsquo;d like to
-know how we&rsquo;re ever goin&rsquo; to get loose, so&rsquo;s we can
-get home again.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Now I know why the Kalidah laughed at us,&rdquo; said
-the girl, &ldquo;and why he said none of the beasts ever came
-to this island. The horrid creature knew we&rsquo;d be
-caught, and wouldn&rsquo;t warn us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>In the meantime, the Kalidah, although pinned fast
-to the earth by Cap&rsquo;n Bill&rsquo;s stake, was facing the
-island, and now the ugly expression which passed
-over its face when it defied and sneered at Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-and Trot, had changed to one of amusement and curiosity.
-When it saw the adventurers had actually
-reached the island and were standing beside the Magic
-Flower, it heaved a breath of satisfaction&mdash;a long,
-deep breath that swelled the deep chest until the
-beast could feel the stake that held him move a little,
-as if withdrawing itself from the ground.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_117">117</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Ah ha!&rdquo; murmured the Kalidah, &ldquo;a little more
-of this will set me free and allow me to escape!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So he began breathing as hard as he could, puffing
-out his chest as much as possible with each indrawing
-breath, and by doing this he managed to raise the
-stake with each powerful breath, until at last the
-Kalidah&mdash;using the muscles of his four legs as well
-as his deep breaths&mdash;found itself free of the sandy
-soil. The stake was sticking right through him, however,
-so he found a rock deeply set in the bank and
-pressed the sharp point of the stake upon the surface
-of this rock until he had driven it clear through his
-body. Then, by getting the stake tangled among some
-thorny bushes, and wiggling his body, he managed
-to draw it out altogether.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There!&rdquo; he exclaimed, &ldquo;except for those two holes
-in me, I&rsquo;m as good as ever; but I must admit that
-that old wooden-legged fellow saved both himself and
-the girl by making me a prisoner.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_118">118</div>
-<p>Now the Kalidahs, although the most disagreeable
-creatures in the Land of Oz, were nevertheless magical
-inhabitants of a magical Fairyland, and in their
-natures a certain amount of good was mingled with
-the evil. This one was not very revengeful, and now
-that his late foes were in danger of perishing, his
-anger against them faded away.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Our own Kalidah King,&rdquo; he reflected, &ldquo;has certain
-magical powers of his own. Perhaps he knows
-how to fill up these two holes in my body.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So without paying any more attention to Trot and
-Cap&rsquo;n Bill than they were paying to him, he entered
-the forest and trotted along a secret path that led
-to the hidden lair of all the Kalidahs.</p>
-<p>While the Kalidah was making good its escape
-Cap&rsquo;n Bill took his pipe from his pocket and filled it
-with tobacco and lighted it. Then, as he puffed out
-the smoke, he tried to think what could be done.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The Glass Cat seems all right,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;an&rsquo; my
-wooden leg didn&rsquo;t take roots and grow, either. So
-it&rsquo;s only flesh that gets caught.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s magic that does it, Cap&rsquo;n!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I know, Trot, and that&rsquo;s what sticks me. We&rsquo;re
-livin&rsquo; in a magic country, but neither of us knows
-any magic an&rsquo; so we can&rsquo;t help ourselves.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Couldn&rsquo;t the Wizard of Oz help us&mdash;or Glinda
-the Good?&rdquo; asked the little girl.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_119">119</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Ah, now we&rsquo;re beginnin&rsquo; to reason,&rdquo; he answered.
-&ldquo;I&rsquo;d probably thought o&rsquo; that, myself, in a minute
-more. By good luck the Glass Cat is free, an&rsquo; so it
-can run back to the Emerald City an&rsquo; tell the Wizard
-about our fix, an&rsquo; ask him to come an&rsquo; help us get
-loose.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Will you go?&rdquo; Trot asked the cat, speaking very
-earnestly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m no messenger, to be sent here and there,&rdquo;
-asserted the curious animal in a sulky tone of voice.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Cap&rsquo;n Bill, &ldquo;you&rsquo;ve got to go home,
-anyhow, &rsquo;cause you don&rsquo;t want to stay here, I take it.
-And, when you get home, it wouldn&rsquo;t worry you much
-to tell the Wizard what&rsquo;s happened to us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; said the cat, sitting on its haunches
-and lazily washing its face with one glass paw. &ldquo;I
-don&rsquo;t mind telling the Wizard&mdash;when I get home.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Won&rsquo;t you go now?&rdquo; pleaded Trot. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t
-want to stay here any longer than we can help, and
-everybody in Oz will be interested in you, and call
-you a hero, and say nice things about you because
-you helped your friends out of trouble.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>That was the best way to manage the Glass Cat,
-which was so vain that it loved to be praised.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going home right away,&rdquo; said the creature,
-&ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll tell the Wizard to come and help you.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_120">120</div>
-<p>Saying this, it walked down to the water and disappeared
-under the surface. Not being able to manage
-the raft alone, the Glass Cat walked on the bottom
-of the river as it had done when it visited the island
-before, and soon they saw it appear on the farther
-bank and trot into the forest, where it was quickly
-lost to sight among the trees.</p>
-<p>Then Trot heaved a deep sigh.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Cap&rsquo;n,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re in a bad fix. There&rsquo;s
-nothing here to eat, and we can&rsquo;t even lie down to sleep.
-Unless the Glass Cat hurries, and the Wizard hurries,
-I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s going to become of us!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i120.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="262" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_121">121</div>
-<h2 id="c11">The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i121.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="675" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 11</p>
-<p>That was a wonderful gathering
-of wild animals in the
-Forest of Gugu next sunrise.
-Rango, the Gray Ape, had
-even called his monkey sentinels
-away from the forest
-edge, and every beast, little
-and big, was in the great
-clearing where meetings were
-held on occasions of great
-importance.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_122">122</div>
-<p>In the center of the clearing
-stood a great shelving rock,
-having a flat, inclined surface, and on this sat the
-stately Leopard Gugu, who was King of the Forest.
-On the ground beneath him squatted Bru the Bear,
-Loo the Unicorn, and Rango the Gray Ape, the King&rsquo;s
-three Counsellors, and in front of them stood the two
-strange beasts who had called themselves Li-Mon-Eags,
-but were really the transformations of Ruggedo
-the Nome, and Kiki Aru the Hyup.</p>
-<p>Then came the beasts&mdash;rows and rows and rows
-of them! The smallest beasts were nearest the King&rsquo;s
-rock throne; then there were wolves and foxes, lynxes
-and hyenas, and the like; behind them were gathered
-the monkey tribes, who were hard to keep in
-order because they teased the other animals and were
-full of mischievous tricks. Back of the monkeys were
-the pumas, jaguars, tigers and lions, and their kind;
-next the bears, all sizes and colors; after them bisons,
-wild asses, zebras and unicorns; farther on the rhinoceri
-and hippopotami, and at the far edge of the
-forest, close to the trees that shut in the clearing, was
-a row of thick-skinned elephants, still as statues but
-with eyes bright and intelligent.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_123">123</div>
-<p>Many other kinds of beasts, too numerous to mention,
-were there, and some were unlike any beasts we
-see in the menageries and zoos in our country. Some
-were from the mountains west of the forest, and some
-from the plains at the east, and some from the river;
-but all present acknowledged the leadership of Gugu,
-who for many years had ruled them wisely and forced
-all to obey the laws.</p>
-<p>When the beasts had taken their places in the
-clearing and the rising sun was shooting its first
-bright rays over the treetops, King Gugu rose on his
-throne. The Leopard&rsquo;s giant form, towering above
-all the others, caused a sudden hush to fall on the
-assemblage.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Brothers,&rdquo; he said in his deep voice, &ldquo;a stranger
-has come among us, a beast of curious form who is a
-great magician and is able to change the shapes of
-men or beasts at his will. This stranger has come to
-us, with another of his kind, from out of the sky,
-to warn us of a danger which threatens us all, and to
-offer us a way to escape from that danger. He says
-he is our friend, and he has proved to me and to my
-counsellors his magic powers. Will you listen to what
-he has to say to you&mdash;to the message he has brought
-from the sky?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Let him speak!&rdquo; came in a great roar from the
-great company of assembled beasts.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_124">124</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i124.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="693" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_125">125</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i125.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="686" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_126">126</div>
-<p>So Ruggedo the Nome sprang upon the flat rock
-beside Gugu the King, and another roar, gentle this
-time, showed how astonished the beasts were at the
-sight of his curious form. His lion&rsquo;s face was surrounded
-by a mane of pure white hair; his eagle&rsquo;s
-wings were attached to the shoulders of his monkey
-body and were so long that they nearly touched the
-ground; he had powerful arms and legs in addition
-to the wings, and at the end of his long, strong tail
-was a golden ball. Never had any beast beheld such
-a curious creature before, and so the very sight of
-the stranger, who was said to be a great magician,
-filled all present with awe and wonder.</p>
-<p>Kiki stayed down below and, half hidden by the
-shelf of rock, was scarcely noticed. The boy realized
-that the old Nome was helpless without his magic
-power, but he also realized that Ruggedo was the
-best talker. So he was willing the Nome should take
-the lead.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_127">127</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Beasts of the Forest of Gugu,&rdquo; began Ruggedo
-the Nome, &ldquo;my comrade and I are your friends. We
-are magicians, and from our home in the sky we can
-look down into the Land of Oz and see everything
-that is going on. Also we can hear what the people
-below us are saying. That is how we heard Ozma,
-who rules the Land of Oz, say to her people: &lsquo;The
-beasts in the Forest of Gugu are lazy and are of no
-use to us. Let us go to their forest and make them
-all our prisoners. Let us tie them with ropes, and
-beat them with sticks, until they work for us and
-become our willing slaves.&rsquo; And when the people
-heard Ozma of Oz say this, they were glad and raised
-a great shout and said: &lsquo;We will do it! We will
-make the beasts of the Forest of Gugu our slaves!&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The wicked old Nome could say no more, just then,
-for such a fierce roar of anger rose from the multitude
-of beasts that his voice was drowned by the
-clamor. Finally the roar died away, like distant
-thunder, and Ruggedo the Nome went on with his
-speech.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Having heard the Oz people plot against your
-liberty, we watched to see what they would do, and
-saw them all begin making ropes&mdash;ropes long and
-short&mdash;with which to snare our friends the beasts.
-You are angry, but we also were angry, for when the
-Oz people became the enemies of the beasts they also
-became our enemies; for we, too, are beasts, although
-we live in the sky. And my comrade and I said: &lsquo;We
-will save our friends and have revenge on the Oz
-people,&rsquo; and so we came here to tell you of your
-danger and of our plan to save you.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_128">128</div>
-<p>&ldquo;We can save ourselves,&rdquo; cried an old elephant.
-&ldquo;We can fight.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The Oz people are fairies, and you can&rsquo;t fight
-against magic unless you also have magic,&rdquo; answered
-the Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Tell us your plan!&rdquo; shouted the huge Tiger, and
-the other beasts echoed his words, crying: &ldquo;Tell us
-your plan.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;My plan is simple,&rdquo; replied Ruggedo. &ldquo;By our
-magic we will transform all you animals into men
-and women&mdash;like the Oz people&mdash;and we will transform
-all the Oz people into beasts. You can then live
-in the fine houses of the Land of Oz, and eat the fine
-food of the Oz people, and wear their fine clothes,
-and sing and dance and be happy. And the Oz people,
-having become beasts, will have to live here in the
-forest and hunt and fight for food, and often go hungry,
-as you now do, and have no place to sleep but
-a bed of leaves or a hole in the ground. Having become
-men and women, you beasts will have all the comforts
-you desire, and having become beasts, the Oz
-people will be very miserable. That is our plan, and
-if you agree to it, we will all march at once into the
-Land of Oz and quickly conquer our enemies.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_129">129</div>
-<p>When the stranger ceased speaking, a great silence
-fell on the assemblage, for the beasts were thinking
-of what he had said. Finally one of the walrus asked:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Can you really transform beasts into men, and
-men into beasts?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i129.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="340" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;He can&mdash;he can!&rdquo; cried Loo the Unicorn, prancing
-up and down in an excited manner. &ldquo;He transformed
-<i>me</i>, only last evening, and he can transform
-us all.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_130">130</div>
-<p>Gugu the King now stepped forward.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You have heard the stranger speak,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;and
-now you must answer him. It is for you to decide.
-Shall we agree to this plan, or not?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes!&rdquo; shouted some of the animals.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No!&rdquo; shouted others.</p>
-<p>And some were yet silent.</p>
-<p>Gugu looked around the great circle.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Take more time to think,&rdquo; he suggested. &ldquo;Your
-answer is very important. Up to this time we have
-had no trouble with the Oz people, but we are proud
-and free, and never will become slaves. Think carefully,
-and when you are ready to answer, I will hear
-you.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_131">131</div>
-<h2 id="c12">Kiki Uses His Magic</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i131.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="679" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 12</p>
-<p>Then arose a great confusion
-of sounds as all the animals
-began talking to their fellows.
-The monkeys chattered and
-the bears growled and the
-voices of the jaguars and lions
-rumbled, and the wolves
-yelped and the elephants had
-to trumpet loudly to make
-their voices heard. Such a
-hubbub had never been known
-in the forest before, and each
-beast argued with his neighbor
-until it seemed the noise would never cease.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_132">132</div>
-<p>Ruggedo the Nome waved his arms and fluttered
-his wings to try to make them listen to him again,
-but the beasts paid no attention. Some wanted to
-fight the Oz people, some wanted to be transformed,
-and some wanted to do nothing at all.</p>
-<p>The growling and confusion had grown greater than
-ever when in a flash silence fell on all the beasts present,
-the arguments were hushed, and all gazed in
-astonishment at a strange sight.</p>
-<p>For into the circle strode a great Lion&mdash;bigger and
-more powerful than any other lion there&mdash;and on
-his back rode a little girl who smiled fearlessly at the
-multitude of beasts. And behind the lion and the
-little girl came another beast&mdash;a monstrous Tiger,
-who bore upon his back a funny little man carrying
-a black bag. Right past the rows of wondering beasts
-the strange animals walked, advancing until they
-stood just before the rock throne of Gugu.</p>
-<p>Then the little girl and the funny little man dismounted,
-and the great Lion demanded in a loud voice:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Who is King in this forest?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I am!&rdquo; answered Gugu, looking steadily at the
-other. &ldquo;I am Gugu the Leopard, and I am King of
-this forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_133">133</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Then I greet Your Majesty with great respect,&rdquo;
-said the Lion. &ldquo;Perhaps you have heard of me, Gugu.
-I am called the &lsquo;Cowardly Lion,&rsquo; and I am King of
-all Beasts, the world over.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Gugu&rsquo;s eyes flashed angrily.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;I have heard of you. You have
-long claimed to be King of Beasts, but no beast who
-is a coward can be King over me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;He isn&rsquo;t a coward, Your Majesty,&rdquo; asserted the
-little girl, &ldquo;he&rsquo;s just cowardly, that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Gugu looked at her. All the other beasts were looking
-at her, too.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; asked the King.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Me? Oh, I&rsquo;m just Dorothy,&rdquo; she answered.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How dare you come here?&rdquo; demanded the King.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, I&rsquo;m not afraid to go anywhere, if the Cowardly
-Lion is with me,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I know him pretty
-well, and so I can trust him. He&rsquo;s always afraid,
-when we get into trouble, and that&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s cowardly;
-but he&rsquo;s a terrible fighter, and that&rsquo;s why he
-isn&rsquo;t a coward. He doesn&rsquo;t like to fight, you know,
-but when he <i>has</i> to, there isn&rsquo;t any beast living that
-can conquer him.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Gugu the King looked at the big, powerful form of
-the Cowardly Lion, and knew she spoke the truth.
-Also the other Lions of the forest now came forward
-and bowed low before the strange Lion.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_134">134</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i134.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="683" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_135">135</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i135.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="690" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_136">136</div>
-<p>&ldquo;We welcome Your Majesty,&rdquo; said one. &ldquo;We have
-known you many years ago, before you went to live
-at the Emerald City, and we have seen you fight the
-terrible Kalidahs and conquer them, so we know you
-are the King of all Beasts.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It is true,&rdquo; replied the Cowardly Lion; &ldquo;but I did
-not come here to rule the beasts of this forest. Gugu
-is King here, and I believe he is a good King and just
-and wise. I come, with my friends, to be the guest
-of Gugu, and I hope we are welcome.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>That pleased the great Leopard, who said very
-quickly:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes; you, at least, are welcome to my forest. But
-who are these strangers with you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Dorothy has introduced herself,&rdquo; replied the Lion,
-&ldquo;and you are sure to like her when you know her
-better. This man is the Wizard of Oz, a friend of
-mine who can do wonderful tricks of magic. And
-here is my true and tried friend, the Hungry Tiger,
-who lives with me in the Emerald City.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Is he <i>always</i> hungry?&rdquo; asked Loo the Unicorn.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I am,&rdquo; replied the Tiger, answering the question
-himself. &ldquo;I am always hungry for fat babies.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_137">137</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Can&rsquo;t you find any fat babies in Oz to eat?&rdquo;
-inquired Loo, the Unicorn.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There are plenty of them, of course,&rdquo; said the
-Tiger, &ldquo;but unfortunately I have such a tender conscience
-that it won&rsquo;t allow me to eat babies. So I&rsquo;m
-always hungry for &rsquo;em and never can eat &rsquo;em, because
-my conscience won&rsquo;t let me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Now of all the surprised beasts in that clearing,
-not one was so much surprised at the sudden appearance
-of these four strangers as Ruggedo the Nome.
-He was frightened, too, for he recognized them as his
-most powerful enemies; but he also realized that they
-could not know he was the former King of the Nomes,
-because of the beast&rsquo;s form he wore, which disguised
-him so effectually. So he took courage and resolved
-that the Wizard and Dorothy should not defeat his
-plans.</p>
-<p>It was hard to tell, just yet, what the vast assemblage
-of beasts thought of the new arrivals. Some
-glared angrily at them, but more of them seemed to
-be curious and wondering. All were interested, however,
-and they kept very quiet and listened carefully
-to all that was said.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_138">138</div>
-<p>Kiki Aru, who had remained unnoticed in the
-shadow of the rock, was at first more alarmed by
-the coming of the strangers than even Ruggedo was,
-and the boy told himself that unless he acted quickly
-and without waiting to ask the advice of the old Nome,
-their conspiracy was likely to be discovered and all
-their plans to conquer and rule Oz be defeated. Kiki
-didn&rsquo;t like the way Ruggedo acted either, for the
-former King of the Nomes wanted to do everything
-his own way, and made the boy, who alone possessed
-the power of transformations, obey his orders as if
-he were a slave.</p>
-<p>Another thing that disturbed Kiki Aru was the fact
-that a real Wizard had arrived, who was said to possess
-many magical powers, and this Wizard carried
-his tools in a black bag, and was the friend of the Oz
-people, and so would probably try to prevent war
-between the beasts of the forest and the people
-of Oz.</p>
-<p>All these things passed through the mind of the
-Hyup boy while the Cowardly Lion and Gugu the
-King were talking together, and that was why he
-now began to do several strange things.</p>
-<p>He had found a place, near to the point where he
-stood, where there was a deep hollow in the rock, so
-he put his face into this hollow and whispered softly,
-so he would not be heard:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_139">139</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I want the Wizard of Oz to become a fox&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard, who had stood smilingly beside his
-friends, suddenly felt his form change to that of a
-fox, and his black bag fell to the ground. Kiki reached
-out an arm and seized the bag, and the Fox cried as
-loud as it could:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Treason! There&rsquo;s a traitor here with magic
-powers!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Everyone was startled at this cry, and Dorothy,
-seeing her old friend&rsquo;s plight, screamed and exclaimed:
-&ldquo;Mercy me!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But the next instant the little girl&rsquo;s form had
-changed to that of a lamb with fleecy white wool, and
-Dorothy was too bewildered to do anything but look
-around her in wonder.</p>
-<p>The Cowardly Lion&rsquo;s eyes now flashed fire; he
-crouched low and lashed the ground with his tail and
-gazed around to discover who the treacherous magician
-might be. But Kiki, who had kept his face in the
-hollow rock, again whispered the magic word, and the
-great lion disappeared and in his place stood a little
-boy dressed in Munchkin costume. The little Munchkin
-boy was as angry as the lion had been, but he was
-small and helpless.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_140">140</div>
-<p>Ruggedo the Nome saw what was happening and
-was afraid Kiki would spoil all his plans, so he leaned
-over the rock and shouted: &ldquo;Stop, Kiki&mdash;stop!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Kiki would not stop, however. Instead, he transformed
-the Nome into a goose, to Ruggedo&rsquo;s horror
-and dismay. But the Hungry Tiger had witnessed
-all these transformations, and he was watching to see
-which of those present was to blame for them. When
-Ruggedo spoke to Kiki, the Hungry Tiger knew that
-he was the magician, so he made a sudden spring and
-hurled his great body full upon the form of the
-Li-Mon-Eag crouching against the rock. Kiki didn&rsquo;t
-see the Tiger coming because his face was still in the
-hollow, and the heavy body of the tiger bore him to
-the earth just as he said &ldquo;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl!</span>&rdquo; for the fifth
-time.</p>
-<p>So now the tiger which was crushing him changed
-to a rabbit, and relieved of its weight, Kiki sprang
-up and, spreading his eagle&rsquo;s wings, flew into the
-branches of a tree, where no beast could easily reach
-him. He was not an instant too quick in doing this,
-for Gugu the King had crouched on the rock&rsquo;s edge
-and was about to spring on the boy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_141">141</div>
-<p>From his tree Kiki transformed Gugu into a fat
-Gillikin woman, and laughed aloud to see how the
-woman pranced with rage, and how astonished all the
-beasts were at their King&rsquo;s new shape.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i141.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" />
-</div>
-<p>The beasts were frightened, too, fearing they would
-share the fate of Gugu, so a stampede began when
-Rango the Gray Ape sprang into the forest, and Bru
-the Bear and Loo the Unicorn followed as quickly as
-they could. The elephants backed into the forest,
-and all the other animals, big and little, rushed after
-them, scattering through the jungles until the clearing
-was far behind. The monkeys scrambled into the
-trees and swung themselves from limb to limb, to
-avoid being trampled upon by the bigger beasts, and
-they were so quick that they distanced all the rest.
-A panic of fear seemed to have overtaken the forest
-people and they got as far away from the terrible
-Magician as they possibly could.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_142">142</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i142.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="326" />
-</div>
-<p>But the transformed ones stayed in the clearing,
-being so astonished and bewildered by their new
-shapes that they could only look at one another in a
-dazed and helpless fashion, although each one was
-greatly annoyed at the trick that had been played on
-him.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_143">143</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; the Munchkin boy asked the Rabbit;
-and &ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; the Fox asked the Lamb;
-and &ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; the Rabbit asked the fat Gillikin
-woman.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Dorothy,&rdquo; said the woolly Lamb.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the Wizard,&rdquo; said the Fox.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the Cowardly Lion,&rdquo; said the Munchkin Boy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the Hungry Tiger,&rdquo; said the Rabbit.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Gugu the King,&rdquo; said the fat Woman.</p>
-<p>But when they asked the Goose who he was, Ruggedo
-the Nome would not tell them.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just a Goose,&rdquo; he replied, &ldquo;and what I was
-before, I cannot remember.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_144">144</div>
-<h2 id="c13">The Loss of the Black Bag</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i144.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="679" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 13</p>
-<p>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&rsquo;s black bag, which
-he had carried away in his
-flight. He was curious to see
-what the Wizard&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_145">145</div>
-<p>They were all on top of the flat rock, talking together
-in tones so low that Kiki could not hear what they
-said.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;This is certainly a misfortune,&rdquo; remarked the
-Wizard in the Fox&rsquo;s form, &ldquo;but our transformations
-are a sort of enchantment which is very easy to break&mdash;when
-you know how and have the tools to do it
-with. The tools are in my Black Bag; but where is
-the Bag?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>No one knew that, for none had seen Kiki Aru fly
-away with it.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s look and see if we can find it,&rdquo; suggested
-Dorothy the Lamb.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_146">146</div>
-<p>So they left the rock, and all of them searched the
-clearing high and low without finding the Bag of
-Magic Tools. The Goose searched as earnestly as the
-others, for if he could discover it, he meant to hide
-it where the Wizard could never find it, because if
-the Wizard changed him back to his proper form,
-along with the others, he would then be recognized
-as Ruggedo the Nome, and they would send him out
-of the Land of Oz and so ruin all his hopes of
-conquest.</p>
-<p>Ruggedo was not really sorry, now that he thought
-about it, that Kiki had transformed all these Oz folks.
-The forest beasts, it was true, had been so frightened
-that they would now never consent to be transformed
-into men, but Kiki could transform them against their
-will, and once they were all in human forms, it would
-not be impossible to induce them to conquer the Oz
-people.</p>
-<p>So all was not lost, thought the old Nome, and the
-best thing for him to do was to rejoin the Hyup boy
-who had the secret of the transformations. So, having
-made sure the Wizard&rsquo;s black bag was not in the
-clearing, the Goose wandered away through the trees
-when the others were not looking, and when out of
-their hearing, he began calling, &ldquo;Kiki Aru! Kiki
-Aru! Quack&mdash;quack! Kiki Aru!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_147">147</div>
-<p>The Boy and the Woman, the Fox, the Lamb and
-the Rabbit, not being able to find the bag, went back
-to the rock, all feeling exceedingly strange.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the Goose?&rdquo; asked the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;He must have run away,&rdquo; replied Dorothy. &ldquo;I
-wonder who he was?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think,&rdquo; said Gugu the King, who was the fat
-Woman, &ldquo;that the Goose was the stranger who proposed
-that we make war upon the Oz people. If so,
-his transformation was merely a trick to deceive us,
-and he has now gone to join his comrade, that wicked
-Li-Mon-Eag who obeyed all his commands.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What shall we do now?&rdquo; asked Dorothy. &ldquo;Shall
-we go back to the Emerald City, as we are, and then
-visit Glinda the Good and ask her to break the
-enchantments?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think so,&rdquo; replied the Wizard Fox. &ldquo;And we
-can take Gugu the King with us, and have Glinda
-restore him to his natural shape. But I hate to leave
-my bag of Magic Tools behind me, for without it I
-shall lose much of my power as a Wizard. Also, if
-I go back to the Emerald City in the shape of a Fox,
-the Oz people will think I&rsquo;m a poor Wizard and will
-lose their respect for me.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_148">148</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Let us make still another search for your tools,&rdquo;
-suggested the Cowardly Lion, &ldquo;and then, if we fail
-to find the Black Bag anywhere in this forest, we must
-go back home as we are.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why did you come here, anyway?&rdquo; inquired Gugu.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We wanted to borrow a dozen monkeys, to use on
-Ozma&rsquo;s birthday,&rdquo; explained the Wizard. &ldquo;We were
-going to make them small, and train them to do tricks,
-and put them inside Ozma&rsquo;s birthday cake.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the Forest King, &ldquo;you would have to
-get the consent of Rango the Gray Ape, to do that.
-He commands all the tribes of monkeys.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m afraid it&rsquo;s too late, now,&rdquo; said Dorothy, regretfully.
-&ldquo;It was a splendid plan, but we&rsquo;ve got troubles
-of our own, and I don&rsquo;t like being a lamb at all.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re nice and fuzzy,&rdquo; said the Cowardly Lion.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s nothing,&rdquo; declared Dorothy. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never
-been &rsquo;specially proud of myself, but I&rsquo;d rather be the
-way I was born than anything else in the whole
-world.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i148.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="15" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_149">149</div>
-<p>The Glass Cat, although it had some disagreeable
-ways and manners, nevertheless realized that Trot
-and Cap&rsquo;n Bill were its friends and so was quite disturbed
-at the fix it had gotten them into by leading
-them to the Isle of the Magic Flower. The ruby heart
-of the Glass Cat was cold and hard, but still it was
-a heart, and to have a heart of any sort is to have some
-consideration for others. But the queer transparent
-creature didn&rsquo;t want Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill to know it
-was sorry for them, and therefore it moved very slowly
-until it had crossed the river and was out of sight
-among the trees of the forest. Then it headed straight
-toward the Emerald City, and trotted so fast that it
-was like a crystal streak crossing the valleys and
-plains. Being glass, the cat was tireless, and with
-no reason to delay its journey, it reached Ozma&rsquo;s
-palace in wonderfully quick time.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the Wizard?&rdquo; it asked the Pink Kitten,
-which was curled up in the sunshine on the lowest
-step of the palace entrance.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t bother me,&rdquo; lazily answered the Pink Kitten,
-whose name was Eureka.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I must find the Wizard at once!&rdquo; said the Glass
-Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then find him,&rdquo; advised Eureka, and went to sleep
-again.</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat darted up the stairway and came
-upon Toto, Dorothy&rsquo;s little black dog.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the Wizard?&rdquo; asked the Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Gone on a journey with Dorothy,&rdquo; replied Toto.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_150">150</div>
-<p>&ldquo;When did they go, and where have they gone?&rdquo;
-demanded the Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;They went yesterday, and I heard them say they
-would go to the Great Forest in the Munchkin
-Country.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Dear me,&rdquo; said the Glass Cat; &ldquo;that is a long
-journey.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But they rode on the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly
-Lion,&rdquo; explained Toto, &ldquo;and the Wizard carried
-his Black Bag of Magic Tools.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat knew the Great Forest of Gugu well,
-for it had traveled through this forest many times in
-its journeys through the Land of Oz. And it reflected
-that the Forest of Gugu was nearer to the Isle of the
-Magic Flower than the Emerald City was, and so, if it
-could manage to find the Wizard, it could lead him
-across the Gillikin country to where Trot and Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill were prisoned. It was a wild country and little
-traveled, but the Glass Cat knew every path. So very
-little time need be lost, after all.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_151">151</div>
-<p>Without stopping to ask any more questions the Cat
-darted out of the palace and away from the Emerald
-City, taking the most direct route to the Forest of
-Gugu. Again the creature flashed through the country
-like a streak of light, and it would surprise you to
-know how quickly it reached the edge of the Great
-Forest.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i151.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="291" />
-</div>
-<p>There were no monkey guards among the trees to
-cry out a warning, and this was so unusual that it
-astonished the Glass Cat. Going farther into the
-forest it presently came upon a wolf, which at first
-bounded away in terror. But then, seeing it was only
-a Glass Cat, the Wolf stopped, and the Cat could see
-it was trembling, as if from a terrible fright.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter?&rdquo; asked the Cat.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_152">152</div>
-<p>&ldquo;A dreadful Magician has come among us!&rdquo;
-exclaimed the Wolf, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;s changing the forms of
-all the beasts&mdash;quick as a wink&mdash;and making them
-all his slaves.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat smiled and said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, that&rsquo;s only the Wizard of Oz. He may be
-having some fun with you forest people, but the
-Wizard wouldn&rsquo;t hurt a beast for anything.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean the Wizard,&rdquo; explained the Wolf.
-&ldquo;And if the Wizard of Oz is that funny little man who
-rode a great Tiger into the clearing, he&rsquo;s been transformed
-himself by the terrible Magician.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The Wizard transformed? Why, that&rsquo;s impossible,&rdquo;
-declared the Glass Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; it isn&rsquo;t. I saw him with my own eyes, changed
-into the form of a Fox, and the girl who was with him
-was changed to a woolly Lamb.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat was indeed surprised.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;When did that happen?&rdquo; it asked.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Just a little while ago in the clearing. All the
-animals had met there, but they ran away when the
-Magician began his transformations, and I&rsquo;m thankful
-I escaped with my natural shape. But I&rsquo;m still afraid,
-and I&rsquo;m going somewhere to hide.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_153">153</div>
-<p>With this the Wolf ran on, and the Glass Cat, which
-knew where the big clearing was, went toward it. But
-now it walked more slowly, and its pink brains rolled
-and tumbled around at a great rate because it was
-thinking over the amazing news the Wolf had told it.</p>
-<p>When the Glass Cat reached the clearing, it saw a
-Fox, a Lamb, a Rabbit, a Munchkin boy and a fat
-Gillikin woman, all wandering around in an aimless
-sort of way, for they were again searching for the
-Black Bag of Magic Tools.</p>
-<p>The Cat watched them a moment and then it walked
-slowly into the open space. At once the Lamb ran
-toward it, crying:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, Wizard, here&rsquo;s the Glass Cat!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where, Dorothy?&rdquo; asked the Fox.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Here!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Boy and the Woman and the Rabbit now joined
-the Fox and the Lamb, and they all stood before the
-Glass Cat and speaking together, almost like a chorus,
-asked: &ldquo;Have you seen the Black Bag?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Often,&rdquo; replied the Glass Cat, &ldquo;but not lately.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s lost,&rdquo; said the Fox, &ldquo;and we must find it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Are you the Wizard?&rdquo; asked the Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And who are these others?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Dorothy,&rdquo; said the Lamb.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the Cowardly Lion,&rdquo; said the Munchkin boy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_154">154</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the Hungry Tiger,&rdquo; said the Rabbit.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Gugu, King of the Forest,&rdquo; said the fat Woman.</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat sat on its hind legs and began to
-laugh. &ldquo;My, what a funny lot!&rdquo; exclaimed the Creature.
-&ldquo;Who played this joke on you?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s no joke at all,&rdquo; declared the Wizard. &ldquo;It was
-a cruel, wicked transformation, and the Magician that
-did it has the head of a lion, the body of a monkey, the
-wings of an eagle and a round ball on the end of his
-tail.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat laughed again. &ldquo;That Magician must
-look funnier than you do,&rdquo; it said. &ldquo;Where is he
-now?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Somewhere in the forest,&rdquo; said the Cowardly Lion.
-&ldquo;He just jumped into that tall maple tree over there,
-for he can climb like a monkey and fly like an eagle,
-and then he disappeared in the forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And there was another Magician, just like him,
-who was his friend,&rdquo; added Dorothy, &ldquo;but they probably
-quarreled, for the wickedest one changed his
-friend into the form of a Goose.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What became of the Goose?&rdquo; asked the Cat, looking
-around.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_155">155</div>
-<p>&ldquo;He must have gone away to find his friend,&rdquo;
-answered Gugu the King. &ldquo;But a Goose can&rsquo;t travel
-very fast, so we could easily find him if we wanted to.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i155.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="331" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;The worst thing of all,&rdquo; said the Wizard, &ldquo;is that
-my Black Bag is lost. It disappeared when I was
-transformed. If I could find it I could easily break
-these enchantments by means of my magic, and we
-would resume our own forms again. Will you help
-us search for the Black Bag, Friend Cat?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_156">156</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; replied the Glass Cat. &ldquo;But I expect
-the strange Magician carried it away with him. If
-he&rsquo;s a magician, he knows you need that Bag, and
-perhaps he&rsquo;s afraid of your magic. So he&rsquo;s probably
-taken the Bag with him, and you won&rsquo;t see it again
-unless you find the Magician.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That sounds reasonable,&rdquo; remarked the Lamb,
-which was Dorothy. &ldquo;Those pink brains of yours
-seem to be working pretty well to-day.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If the Glass Cat is right,&rdquo; said the Wizard in a
-solemn voice, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s more trouble ahead of us. That
-Magician is dangerous, and if we go near him he may
-transform us into shapes not as nice as these.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see how we could be any <i>worse</i> off,&rdquo; growled
-Gugu, who was indignant because he was forced to
-appear in the form of a fat woman.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Anyway,&rdquo; said the Cowardly Lion, &ldquo;our best plan
-is to find the Magician and try to get the Black Bag
-from him. We may manage to steal it, or perhaps we
-can argue him into giving it to us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why not find the Goose, first?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.
-&ldquo;The Goose will be angry at the Magician, and he may
-be able to help us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That isn&rsquo;t a bad idea,&rdquo; returned the Wizard.
-&ldquo;Come on, Friends; let&rsquo;s find that Goose. We will
-separate and search in different directions, and the
-first to find the Goose must bring him here, where we
-will all meet again in an hour.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_157">157</div>
-<h2 id="c14">The Wizard Learns the Magic Word</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i157.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="678" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 14</p>
-<p>Now, the Goose was the
-transformation of old Ruggedo,
-who was at one time
-King of the Nomes, and he
-was even more angry at
-Kiki Aru than were the
-others whose shapes had been
-changed. The Nome detested
-anything in the way of a bird,
-because birds lay eggs and
-eggs are feared by all the
-Nomes more than anything
-else in the world. A goose is
-a foolish bird, too, and Ruggedo was dreadfully
-ashamed of the shape he was forced to wear. And it
-would make him shudder to reflect that the Goose
-might lay an egg!</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_158">158</div>
-<p>So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of
-everything around him. If an egg touched him he
-could then be destroyed, and almost any animal he
-met in the forest might easily conquer him. And that
-would be the end of old Ruggedo the Nome.</p>
-<p>Aside from these fears, however, he was filled with
-anger against Kiki, whom he had meant to trap by
-cleverly stealing from him the Magic Word. The boy
-must have been crazy to spoil everything the way he
-did, but Ruggedo knew that the arrival of the Wizard
-had scared Kiki, and he was not sorry the boy had
-transformed the Wizard and Dorothy and made them
-helpless. It was his own transformation that annoyed
-him and made him indignant, so he ran about the
-forest hunting for Kiki, so that he might get a better
-shape and coax the boy to follow his plans to conquer
-the Land of Oz.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_159">159</div>
-<p>Kiki Aru hadn&rsquo;t gone very far away, for he had
-surprised himself as well as the others by the quick
-transformations and was puzzled as to what to do next.
-Ruggedo the Nome was overbearing and tricky, and
-Kiki knew he was not to be depended on; but the Nome
-could plan and plot, which the Hyup boy was not wise
-enough to do, and so, when he looked down through
-the branches of a tree and saw a Goose waddling along
-below and heard it cry out, &ldquo;Kiki Aru! Quack&mdash;quack!
-Kiki Aru!&rdquo; the boy answered in a low voice,
-&ldquo;Here I am,&rdquo; and swung himself down to the lowest
-limb of the tree.</p>
-<p>The Goose looked up and saw him.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve bungled things in a dreadful way!&rdquo; exclaimed
-the Goose. &ldquo;Why did you do it?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Because I wanted to,&rdquo; answered Kiki. &ldquo;You
-acted as if I was your slave, and I wanted to show
-these forest people that I am more powerful than
-you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Goose hissed softly, but Kiki did not hear that.</p>
-<p>Old Ruggedo quickly recovered his wits and muttered
-to himself: &ldquo;This boy is the goose, although it
-is I who wear the goose&rsquo;s shape. I will be gentle with
-him now, and fierce with him when I have him in my
-power.&rdquo; Then he said aloud to Kiki:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, hereafter I will be content to acknowledge
-you the master. You bungled things, as I said, but we
-can still conquer Oz.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How?&rdquo; asked the boy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_160">160</div>
-<p>&ldquo;First give me back the shape of the Li-Mon-Eag,
-and then we can talk together more conveniently,&rdquo;
-suggested the Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Wait a moment, then,&rdquo; said Kiki, and climbed
-higher up the tree. There he whispered the Magic
-Word and the Goose became a Li-Mon-Eag, as he had
-been before.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Good!&rdquo; said the Nome, well pleased, as Kiki joined
-him by dropping down from the tree. &ldquo;Now let us
-find a quiet place where we can talk without being
-overheard by the beasts.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So the two started away and crossed the forest until
-they came to a place where the trees were not so tall
-nor so close together, and among these scattered trees
-was another clearing, not so large as the first one,
-where the meeting of the beasts had been held. Standing
-on the edge of this clearing and looking across it,
-they saw the trees on the farther side full of monkeys,
-who were chattering together at a great rate of the
-sights they had witnessed at the meeting.</p>
-<p>The old Nome whispered to Kiki not to enter the
-clearing or allow the monkeys to see them.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why not?&rdquo; asked the boy, drawing back.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_161">161</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Because those monkeys are to be our army&mdash;the
-army which will conquer Oz,&rdquo; said the Nome. &ldquo;Sit
-down here with me, Kiki, and keep quiet, and I will
-explain to you my plan.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Now, neither Kiki Aru nor Ruggedo had noticed
-that a sly Fox had followed them all the way from
-the tree where the Goose had been transformed to the
-Li-Mon-Eag. Indeed, this Fox, who was none other
-than the Wizard of Oz, had witnessed the transformation
-of the Goose and now decided he would keep
-watch of the conspirators and see what they would
-do next.</p>
-<p>A Fox can move through a forest very softly, without
-making any noise, and so the Wizard&rsquo;s enemies
-did not suspect his presence. But when they sat down
-by the edge of the clearing, to talk, with their backs
-toward him, the Wizard did not know whether to risk
-being seen, by creeping closer to hear what they said,
-or whether it would be better for him to hide himself
-until they moved on again.</p>
-<p>While he considered this question he discovered near
-him a great tree which had a hollow trunk, and there
-was a round hole in this tree, about three feet above
-the ground. The Wizard Fox decided it would be
-safer for him to hide inside the hollow tree, so he
-sprang into the hole and crouched down in the hollow,
-so that his eyes just came to the edge of the hole by
-which he had entered, and from here he watched the
-forms of the two Li-Mon-Eags.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_162">162</div>
-<p>&ldquo;This is my plan,&rdquo; said the Nome to Kiki, speaking
-so low that the Wizard could only hear the rumble of
-his voice. &ldquo;Since you can transform anything into
-any form you wish, we will transform these monkeys
-into an army, and with that army we will conquer the
-Oz people.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The monkeys won&rsquo;t make much of an army,&rdquo;
-objected Kiki.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We need a great army, but not a numerous one,&rdquo;
-responded the Nome. &ldquo;You will transform each
-monkey into a giant man, dressed in a fine uniform
-and armed with a sharp sword. There are fifty
-monkeys over there and fifty giants would make as
-big an army as we need.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What will they do with the swords?&rdquo; asked Kiki.
-&ldquo;Nothing can kill the Oz people.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;True,&rdquo; said Ruggedo. &ldquo;The Oz people cannot be
-killed, but they can be cut into small pieces, and while
-every piece will still be alive, we can scatter the pieces
-around so that they will be quite helpless. Therefore,
-the Oz people will be afraid of the swords of our army,
-and we will conquer them with ease.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_163">163</div>
-<p>&ldquo;That seems like a good idea,&rdquo; replied the boy,
-approvingly. &ldquo;And in such a case, we need not bother
-with the other beasts of the forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; you have frightened the beasts, and they would
-no longer consent to assist us in conquering Oz. But
-those monkeys are foolish creatures, and once they are
-transformed to Giants, they will do just as we say and
-obey our commands. Can you transform them all at
-once?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No, I must take one at a time,&rdquo; said Kiki. &ldquo;But
-the fifty transformations can be made in an hour or so.
-Stay here, Ruggedo, and I will change the first monkey&mdash;that
-one at the left, on the end of the limb&mdash;into a
-Giant with a sword.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where are you going?&rdquo; asked the Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I must not speak the Magic Word in the presence
-of another person,&rdquo; declared Kiki, who was determined
-not to allow his treacherous companion to learn his
-secret, &ldquo;so I will go where you cannot hear me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Ruggedo the Nome was disappointed, but he hoped
-still to catch the boy unawares and surprise the Magic
-Word. So he merely nodded his lion head, and Kiki
-got up and went back into the forest a short distance.
-Here he spied a hollow tree, and by chance it was the
-same hollow tree in which the Wizard of Oz, now in
-the form of a Fox, had hidden himself.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_164">164</div>
-<p>As Kiki ran up to the tree the Fox ducked its head,
-so that it was out of sight in the dark hollow beneath
-the hole, and then Kiki put his face into the hole and
-whispered: &ldquo;I want that monkey on the branch at
-the left to become a Giant man fifty feet tall, dressed
-in a uniform and with a sharp sword&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Then he ran back to Ruggedo, but the Wizard Fox
-had heard quite plainly every word that he had said.</p>
-<p>The monkey was instantly transformed into the
-Giant, and the Giant was so big that as he stood on the
-ground his head was higher than the trees of the forest.
-The monkeys raised a great chatter but did not seem
-to understand that the Giant was one of themselves.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Good!&rdquo; cried the Nome. &ldquo;Hurry, Kiki, and transform
-the others.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So Kiki rushed back to the tree and putting his face
-to the hollow, whispered:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want the next monkey to be just like the first&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Again the Wizard Fox heard the Magic Word, and
-just how it was pronounced. But he sat still in the
-hollow and waited to hear it again, so it would be
-impressed on his mind and he would not forget it.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_165">165</div>
-<p>Kiki kept running to the edge of the forest and back
-to the hollow tree again until he had whispered the
-Magic Word six times and six monkeys had been
-changed to six great giants. Then the Wizard
-decided he would make an experiment and use the
-Magic Word himself. So, while Kiki was running
-back to the Nome, the Fox stuck his head out of the
-hollow and said softly: &ldquo;I want that creature who is
-running to become a hickory-nut&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i165.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="345" />
-</div>
-<p>Instantly the Li-Mon-Eag form of Kiki Aru the
-Hyup disappeared and a small hickory-nut rolled upon
-the ground a moment and then lay still.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_166">166</div>
-<p>The Wizard was delighted, and leaped from the hollow
-just as Ruggedo looked around to see what had
-become of Kiki. The Nome saw the Fox but no Kiki,
-so he hastily rose to his feet. The Wizard did not
-know how powerful the queer beast might be, so he
-resolved to take no chances.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want this creature to become a walnut&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;
-he said aloud. But he did not pronounce
-the Magic Word in quite the right way, and
-Ruggedo&rsquo;s form did not change. But the Nome knew
-at once that &ldquo;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl!</span>&rdquo; was the Magic Word, so
-he rushed at the Fox and cried:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want you to become a Goose&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But the Nome did not pronounce the word aright,
-either, having never heard it spoken but once before,
-and then with a wrong accent. So the Fox was not
-transformed, but it had to run away to escape being
-caught by the angry Nome.</p>
-<p>Ruggedo now began pronouncing the Magic Word
-in every way he could think of, hoping to hit the right
-one, and the Fox, hiding in a bush, was somewhat
-troubled by the fear that he might succeed. However,
-the Wizard, who was used to magic arts, remained
-calm and soon remembered exactly how Kiki Aru had
-pronounced the word. So he repeated the sentence
-he had before uttered and Ruggedo the Nome became
-an ordinary walnut.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_167">167</div>
-<p>The Wizard now crept out from the bush and said:
-&ldquo;I want my own form again&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i167.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="295" />
-</div>
-<p>Instantly he was the Wizard of Oz, and after picking
-up the hickory-nut and the walnut, and carefully placing
-them in his pocket, he ran back to the big clearing.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_168">168</div>
-<p>Dorothy the Lamb uttered a bleat of delight when
-she saw her old friend restored to his natural shape.
-The others were all there, not having found the Goose.
-The fat Gillikin woman, the Munchkin boy, the Rabbit
-and the Glass Cat crowded around the Wizard and
-asked what had happened.</p>
-<p>Before he explained anything of his adventure, he
-transformed them all&mdash;except, of course, the Glass
-Cat&mdash;into their natural shapes, and when their joy
-permitted them to quiet somewhat, he told how he had
-by chance surprised the Magician&rsquo;s secret and been
-able to change the two Li-Mon-Eags into shapes that
-could not speak, and therefore would be unable to help
-themselves. And the little Wizard showed his astonished
-friends the hickory-nut and the walnut to prove
-that he had spoken the truth.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But&mdash;see here!&rdquo;&mdash;exclaimed Dorothy, &ldquo;What
-has become of those Giant Soldiers who used to be
-monkeys?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I forgot all about them!&rdquo; admitted the Wizard;
-&ldquo;but I suppose they are still standing there in the
-forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_169">169</div>
-<h2 id="c15">The Lonesome Duck</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i169.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="677" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 15</p>
-<p>Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill stood
-before the Magic Flower, actually
-rooted to the spot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t you hungry,
-Cap&rsquo;n?&rdquo; asked the little girl,
-with a long sigh, for she had
-been standing there for hours
-and hours.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; replied the sailor-man,
-&ldquo;I ain&rsquo;t sayin&rsquo; as I
-couldn&rsquo;t <i>eat</i>, Trot&mdash;if a dinner
-was handy&mdash;but I guess
-old folks don&rsquo;t get as hungry as young folks do.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_170">170</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure &rsquo;bout that, Cap&rsquo;n Bill,&rdquo; she said
-thoughtfully. &ldquo;Age <i>might</i> make a difference, but
-seems to me <i>size</i> would make a bigger difference. Seeing
-you&rsquo;re twice as big as me, you ought to be twice
-as hungry.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I hope I am,&rdquo; he rejoined, &ldquo;for I can stand it a
-while longer. I do hope the Glass Cat will hurry, and
-I hope the Wizard won&rsquo;t waste time a-comin&rsquo; to us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Trot sighed again and watched the wonderful Magic
-Flower, because there was nothing else to do. Just
-now a lovely group of pink peonies budded and
-bloomed, but soon they faded away, and a mass of deep
-blue lilies took their place. Then some yellow chrysanthemums
-blossomed on the plant, and when they
-had opened all their petals and reached perfection,
-they gave way to a lot of white floral balls spotted
-with crimson&mdash;a flower Trot had never seen before.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But I get awful tired watchin&rsquo; flowers an&rsquo; flowers
-an&rsquo; flowers,&rdquo; she said impatiently.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re mighty pretty,&rdquo; observed Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_171">171</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I know; and if a person could come and look at the
-Magic Flower just when she felt like it, it would be a
-fine thing, but to <i>have to</i> stand and watch it, whether
-you want to or not, isn&rsquo;t so much fun. I wish, Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill, the thing would grow fruit for a while instead of
-flowers.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Scarcely had she spoken when the white balls with
-crimson spots faded away and a lot of beautiful ripe
-peaches took their place. With a cry of mingled
-surprise and delight Trot reached out and plucked a
-peach from the bush and began to eat it, finding it
-delicious. Cap&rsquo;n Bill was somewhat dazed at the
-girl&rsquo;s wish being granted so quickly, so before he
-could pick a peach they had faded away and bananas
-took their place. &ldquo;Grab one, Cap&rsquo;n!&rdquo; exclaimed Trot,
-and even while eating the peach she seized a banana
-with her other hand and tore it from the bush.</p>
-<p>The old sailor was still bewildered. He put out a
-hand indeed, but he was too late, for now the bananas
-disappeared and lemons took their place.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Pshaw!&rdquo; cried Trot. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t eat those things;
-but watch out, Cap&rsquo;n, for something else.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Cocoanuts next appeared, but Cap&rsquo;n Bill shook his
-head.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Ca&rsquo;n&rsquo;t crack &rsquo;em,&rdquo; he remarked, &ldquo;&rsquo;cause we haven&rsquo;t
-anything handy to smash &rsquo;em with.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_172">172</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, take one, anyhow,&rdquo; advised Trot; but the
-cocoanuts were gone now, and a deep, purple, pear-shaped
-fruit which was unknown to them took their
-place. Again Cap&rsquo;n Bill hesitated, and Trot said to
-him:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You ought to have captured a peach and a banana,
-as I did. If you&rsquo;re not careful, Cap&rsquo;n, you&rsquo;ll miss all
-your chances. Here, I&rsquo;ll divide my banana with you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Even as she spoke, the Magic Plant was covered
-with big red apples, growing on every branch, and
-Cap&rsquo;n Bill hesitated no longer. He grabbed with both
-hands and picked two apples, while Trot had only time
-to secure one before they were gone.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s curious,&rdquo; remarked the sailor, munching his
-apple, &ldquo;how these fruits keep good when you&rsquo;ve
-picked &rsquo;em, but dis&rsquo;pear inter thin air if they&rsquo;re left
-on the bush.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The whole thing is curious,&rdquo; declared the girl,
-&ldquo;and it couldn&rsquo;t exist in any country but this, where
-magic is so common. Those are limes. Don&rsquo;t pick &rsquo;em,
-for they&rsquo;d pucker up your mouth and&mdash;Ooo! here
-come plums!&rdquo; and she tucked her apple in her apron
-pocket and captured three plums&mdash;each one almost as
-big as an egg&mdash;before they disappeared. Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-got some too, but both were too hungry to fast any
-longer, so they began eating their apples and plums
-and let the magic bush bear all sorts of fruits, one after
-another. The Cap&rsquo;n stopped once to pick a fine cantaloupe,
-which he held under his arm, and Trot, having
-finished her plums, got a handful of cherries and an
-orange; but when almost every sort of fruit had
-appeared on the bush, the crop ceased and only flowers,
-as before, bloomed upon it.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_173">173</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i173.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="692" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_174">174</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I wonder why it changed back,&rdquo; mused Trot, who
-was not worried because she had enough fruit to satisfy
-her hunger.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, you only wished it would bear fruit &lsquo;for a
-while,&rsquo;&rdquo; said the sailor, &ldquo;and it did. P&rsquo;raps if you&rsquo;d
-said &lsquo;forever,&rsquo; Trot, it would have always been fruit.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But why should <i>my</i> wish be obeyed?&rdquo; asked the
-girl. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a fairy or a wizard or any kind of a
-magic-maker.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I guess,&rdquo; replied Cap&rsquo;n Bill, &ldquo;that this little island
-is a magic island, and any folks on it can tell the bush
-what to produce, an&rsquo; it&rsquo;ll produce it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do you think I could wish for anything else, Cap&rsquo;n,
-and get it?&rdquo; she inquired anxiously.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you thinkin&rsquo; of, Trot?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m thinking of wishing that these roots on our
-feet would disappear, and let us free.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Try it, Trot.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So she tried it, and the wish had no effect whatever.
-&ldquo;Try it yourself, Cap&rsquo;n,&rdquo; she suggested.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_175">175</div>
-<p>Then Cap&rsquo;n Bill made the wish to be free, with no
-better result.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s no use; the wishes only affect
-the Magic Plant; but I&rsquo;m glad we can make it bear
-fruit, &rsquo;cause now we know we won&rsquo;t starve before the
-Wizard gets to us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;m gett&rsquo;n&rsquo; tired standing here so long,&rdquo; complained
-the girl. &ldquo;If I could only lift one foot, and
-rest it, I&rsquo;d feel better.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Same with me, Trot. I&rsquo;ve noticed that if you&rsquo;ve
-got to do a thing, and can&rsquo;t help yourself, it gets to
-be a hardship mighty quick.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Folks that can raise their feet don&rsquo;t appreciate
-what a blessing it is,&rdquo; said Trot thoughtfully. &ldquo;I
-never knew before what fun it is to raise one foot,
-an&rsquo; then another, any time you feel like it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s lots o&rsquo; things folks don&rsquo;t &rsquo;preciate,&rdquo; replied
-the sailor-man. &ldquo;If somethin&rsquo; would &rsquo;most stop your
-breath, you&rsquo;d think breathin&rsquo; easy was the finest thing
-in life. When a person&rsquo;s well, he don&rsquo;t realize how
-jolly it is, but when he gets sick he &rsquo;members the time
-he was well, an&rsquo; wishes that time would come back.
-Most folks forget to thank God for givin&rsquo; &rsquo;em two
-good legs, till they lose one o&rsquo; &rsquo;em, like I did; and
-then it&rsquo;s too late, &rsquo;cept to praise God for leavin&rsquo; one.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_176">176</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Your wooden leg ain&rsquo;t so bad, Cap&rsquo;n,&rdquo; she
-remarked, looking at it critically. &ldquo;Anyhow, it don&rsquo;t
-take root on a Magic Island, like our meat legs do.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I ain&rsquo;t complaining&rdquo; said Cap&rsquo;n Bill. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s
-that swimmin&rsquo; towards us, Trot?&rdquo; he added, looking
-over the Magic Flower and across the water.</p>
-<p>The girl looked, too, and then she replied.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a bird of some sort. It&rsquo;s like a duck, only I
-never saw a duck have so many colors.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the
-Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored
-plumage astonished them. The feathers were
-of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples,
-and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and
-pink, white and violet in its tail. When it reached
-the Isle, it came ashore and approached them, waddling
-slowly and turning its head first to one side and
-then to the other, so as to see the girl and the sailor
-better.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re strangers,&rdquo; said the bird, coming to a halt
-near them, &ldquo;and you&rsquo;ve been caught by the Magic
-Isle and made prisoners.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; returned Trot, with a sigh; &ldquo;we&rsquo;re rooted.
-But I hope we won&rsquo;t grow.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_177">177</div>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll grow small,&rdquo; said the Bird. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll keep
-growing smaller every day, until bye and bye there&rsquo;ll
-be nothing left of you. That&rsquo;s the usual way, on this
-Magic Isle.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How do you know about it, and who are you, anyhow?&rdquo;
-asked Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i177.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="294" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the Lonesome Duck,&rdquo; replied the bird. &ldquo;I
-suppose you&rsquo;ve heard of me?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; said Trot, &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say I have. What makes
-you lonesome?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, I haven&rsquo;t any family or any relations,&rdquo;
-returned the Duck.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_178">178</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Haven&rsquo;t you any friends?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Not a friend. And I&rsquo;ve nothing to do. I&rsquo;ve lived
-a long time, and I&rsquo;ve got to live forever, because I
-belong in the Land of Oz, where no living thing dies.
-Think of existing year after year, with no friends,
-no family, and nothing to do! Can you wonder I&rsquo;m
-lonesome?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you make a few friends, and find something
-to do?&rdquo; inquired Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t make friends because everyone I meet&mdash;bird,
-beast or person&mdash;is disagreeable to me. In a
-few minutes I shall be unable to bear your society
-longer, and then I&rsquo;ll go away and leave you,&rdquo; said the
-Lonesome Duck. &ldquo;And, as for doing anything, there&rsquo;s
-no use in it. All I meet are doing something, so I
-have decided it&rsquo;s common and uninteresting and I
-prefer to remain lonesome.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you have to hunt for your food?&rdquo; asked
-Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No. In my diamond palace, a little way up the
-river, food is magically supplied me; but I seldom eat,
-because it is so common.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You must be a Magician Duck,&rdquo; remarked Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why so?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_179">179</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, ordinary ducks don&rsquo;t have diamond palaces
-an&rsquo; magic food, like you do.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;True; and that&rsquo;s another reason why I&rsquo;m lonesome.
-You must remember I&rsquo;m the only Duck in the Land
-of Oz, and I&rsquo;m not like any other duck in the outside
-world.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Seems to me you <i>like</i> bein&rsquo; lonesome,&rdquo; observed
-Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say I like it, exactly,&rdquo; replied the Duck,
-&ldquo;but since it seems to be my fate, I&rsquo;m rather proud
-of it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How do you s&rsquo;pose a single, solitary Duck happened
-to be in the Land of Oz?&rdquo; asked Trot, wonderingly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I used to know the reason, many years ago, but
-I&rsquo;ve quite forgotten it,&rdquo; declared the Duck. &ldquo;The
-reason for a thing is never so important as the thing
-itself, so there&rsquo;s no use remembering anything but
-the fact that I&rsquo;m lonesome.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I guess you&rsquo;d be happier if you tried to do something,&rdquo;
-asserted Trot. &ldquo;If you can&rsquo;t do anything for
-yourself, you can do things for others, and then you&rsquo;d
-get lots of friends and stop being lonesome.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Now you&rsquo;re getting disagreeable,&rdquo; said the Lonesome
-Duck, &ldquo;and I shall have to go and leave you.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_180">180</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Can&rsquo;t you help us any,&rdquo; pleaded the girl. &ldquo;If
-there&rsquo;s anything magic about you, you might get us
-out of this scrape.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t any magic strong enough to get you
-off the Magic Isle,&rdquo; replied the Lonesome Duck.
-&ldquo;What magic I possess is very simple, but I find it
-enough for my own needs.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If we could only sit down a while, we could stand
-it better,&rdquo; said Trot, &ldquo;but we have nothing to sit on.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then you will have to stand it,&rdquo; said the Lonesome
-Duck.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;P&rsquo;raps you&rsquo;ve enough magic to give us a couple
-of stools,&rdquo; suggested Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;A duck isn&rsquo;t supposed to know what stools are,&rdquo;
-was the reply.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But you&rsquo;re different from all other ducks.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That is true.&rdquo; The strange creature seemed to
-reflect for a moment, looking at them sharply from
-its round black eyes. Then it said: &ldquo;Sometimes,
-when the sun is hot, I grow a toadstool to shelter me
-from its rays. Perhaps you could sit on toadstools.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, if they were strong enough, they&rsquo;d do,&rdquo;
-answered Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_181">181</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Then, before I go I&rsquo;ll give you a couple,&rdquo; said the
-Lonesome Duck, and began waddling about in a small
-circle. It went around the circle to the right three
-times, and then it went around to the left three times.
-Then it hopped backward three times and forward
-three times.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you doing?&rdquo; asked Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t interrupt. This is an incantation,&rdquo; replied
-the Lonesome Duck, but now it began making a succession
-of soft noises that sounded like quacks and
-seemed to mean nothing at all. And it kept up these
-sounds so long that Trot finally exclaimed:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Can&rsquo;t you hurry up and finish that &rsquo;cantation?
-If it takes all summer to make a couple of toadstools,
-you&rsquo;re not much of a magician.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I told you not to interrupt,&rdquo; said the Lonesome
-Duck, sternly. &ldquo;If you get <i>too</i> disagreeable, you&rsquo;ll
-drive me away before I finish this incantation.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Trot kept quiet, after the rebuke, and the Duck
-resumed the quacky muttering. Cap&rsquo;n Bill chuckled
-a little to himself and remarked to Trot in a whisper:
-&ldquo;For a bird that ain&rsquo;t got anything to do, this Lonesome
-Duck is makin&rsquo; consider&rsquo;ble fuss. An&rsquo; I ain&rsquo;t
-sure, after all, as toadstools would be worth sittin&rsquo; on.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_182">182</div>
-<p>Even as he spoke, the sailor-man felt something
-touch him from behind and, turning his head, he found
-a big toadstool in just the right place and of just the
-right size to sit upon. There was one behind Trot,
-too, and with a cry of pleasure the little girl sank
-back upon it and found it a very comfortable seat&mdash;solid,
-yet almost like a cushion. Even Cap&rsquo;n Bill&rsquo;s
-weight did not break his toadstool down, and when
-both were seated, they found that the Lonesome Duck
-had waddled away and was now at the water&rsquo;s edge.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Thank you, ever so much!&rdquo; cried Trot, and the
-sailor called out: &ldquo;Much obliged!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But the Lonesome Duck paid no attention. Without
-even looking in their direction again, the gaudy
-fowl entered the water and swam gracefully away.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i182.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="343" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_183">183</div>
-<h2 id="c16">The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i183.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="653" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 16</p>
-<p>When the six monkeys were
-transformed by Kiki Aru into
-six giant soldiers fifty feet
-tall, their heads came above
-the top of the trees, which in
-this part of the forest were
-not so high as in some other
-parts; and, although the trees
-were somewhat scattered, the
-bodies of the giant soldiers
-were so big that they quite
-filled the spaces in which they
-stood and the branches pressed them on every side.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_184">184</div>
-<p>Of course, Kiki was foolish to have made his soldiers
-so big, for now they could not get out of the
-forest. Indeed, they could not stir a step, but were
-imprisoned by the trees. Even had they been in the
-little clearing they could not have made their way
-out of it, but they were a little beyond the clearing.
-At first, the other monkeys who had not been
-enchanted were afraid of the soldiers, and hastily
-quitted the place; but soon finding that the great men
-stood stock still, although grunting indignantly at
-their transformation, the band of monkeys returned
-to the spot and looked at them curiously, not guessing
-that they were really monkeys and their own
-friends.</p>
-<p>The soldiers couldn&rsquo;t see them, their heads being
-above the trees; they could not even raise their arms
-or draw their sharp swords, so closely were they held
-by the leafy branches. So the monkeys, finding the
-giants helpless, began climbing up their bodies, and
-presently all the band were perched on the shoulders
-of the giants and peering into their faces.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Ebu, your father,&rdquo; cried one soldier to a monkey
-who had perched upon his left ear, &ldquo;but some
-cruel person has enchanted me.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_185">185</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m your Uncle Peeker,&rdquo; said another soldier to
-another monkey.</p>
-<p>So, very soon all the monkeys knew the truth and
-were sorry for their friends and relations and angry
-at the person&mdash;whoever it was&mdash;who had transformed
-them. There was a great chattering among
-the tree-tops, and the noise attracted other monkeys,
-so that the clearing and all the trees around were
-full of them.</p>
-<p>Rango the Gray Ape, who was the Chief of all the
-monkey tribes of the forest, heard the uproar and came
-to see what was wrong with his people. And Rango,
-being wiser and more experienced, at once knew that
-the strange magician who looked like a mixed-up
-beast was responsible for the transformations. He
-realized that the six giant soldiers were helpless prisoners,
-because of their size, and knew he was powerless
-to release them. So, although he feared to meet
-the terrible magician, he hurried away to the great
-clearing to tell Gugu the King what had happened
-and to try to find the Wizard of Oz and get him to
-save his six enchanted subjects.</p>
-<p>Rango darted into the Great Clearing just as the
-Wizard had restored all the enchanted ones around
-him to their proper shapes, and the Gray Ape was
-glad to hear that the wicked magician-beast had been
-conquered.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_186">186</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i186.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="683" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_187">187</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i187.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="693" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_188">188</div>
-<p>&ldquo;But now, O mighty Wizard, you must come with
-me to where six of my people are transformed into
-six great giant men,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;for if they are allowed
-to remain there, their happiness and their future lives
-will be ruined.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard did not reply at once, for he was thinking
-this a good opportunity to win Rango&rsquo;s consent
-to his taking some monkeys to the Emerald City for
-Ozma&rsquo;s birthday cake.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It is a great thing you ask of me, O Rango the
-Gray Ape,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;for the bigger the giants are
-the more powerful their enchantment, and the more
-difficult it will be to restore them to their natural
-forms. However, I will think it over.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Then the Wizard went to another part of the clearing
-and sat on a log and appeared to be in deep
-thought.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_189">189</div>
-<p>The Glass Cat had been greatly interested in the
-Gray Ape&rsquo;s story and was curious to see what the
-giant soldiers looked like. Hearing that their heads
-extended above the tree-tops, the Glass Cat decided
-that if it climbed the tall avocado tree that stood at
-the side of the clearing, it might be able to see the
-giants&rsquo; heads. So, without mentioning her errand,
-the crystal creature went to the tree and, by sticking
-her sharp glass claws in the bark, easily climbed the
-tree to its very top and, looking over the forest, saw
-the six giant heads, although they were now a long
-way off. It was, indeed, a remarkable sight, for the
-huge heads had immense soldier caps on them, with
-red and yellow plumes and looked very fierce and
-terrible, although the monkey hearts of the giants
-were at that moment filled with fear.</p>
-<p>Having satisfied her curiosity, the Glass Cat began
-to climb down from the tree more slowly. Suddenly
-she discerned the Wizard&rsquo;s black bag hanging to a
-limb of the tree. She grasped the black bag in her
-glass teeth, and although it was rather heavy for so
-small an animal, managed to get it free and to carry
-it safely down to the ground. Then she looked around
-for the Wizard and seeing him seated upon the stump
-she hid the black bag among some leaves and then
-went over to where the Wizard sat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I forgot to tell you,&rdquo; said the Glass Cat, &ldquo;that Trot
-and Cap&rsquo;n Bill are in trouble, and I came here to hunt
-you up and get you to go and rescue them.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Good gracious, Cat! Why didn&rsquo;t you tell me
-before?&rdquo; exclaimed the Wizard.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_190">190</div>
-<p>&ldquo;For the reason that I found so much excitement
-here that I forgot Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s wrong with them?&rdquo; asked the Wizard.</p>
-<p>Then the Glass Cat explained how they had gone
-to get the Magic Flower for Ozma&rsquo;s birthday gift and
-had been trapped by the magic of the queer island.
-The Wizard was really alarmed, but he shook his
-head and said sadly:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m afraid I can&rsquo;t help my dear friends, because
-I&rsquo;ve lost my black bag.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If I find it, will you go to them?&rdquo; asked the
-creature.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; replied the Wizard. &ldquo;But I do not
-think that a Glass Cat with nothing but pink brains
-can succeed when all the rest of us have failed.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you admire my pink brains?&rdquo; demanded
-the Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re pretty,&rdquo; admitted the Wizard, &ldquo;but
-they&rsquo;re not regular brains, you know, and so we don&rsquo;t
-expect them to amount to much.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But if I find your black bag&mdash;and find it inside
-of five minutes&mdash;will you admit my pink brains are
-better than your common human brains?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_191">191</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;ll admit they&rsquo;re better <i>hunters</i>,&rdquo; said the
-Wizard, reluctantly, &ldquo;but you can&rsquo;t do it. We&rsquo;ve
-searched everywhere, and the black bag isn&rsquo;t to be
-found.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That shows how much you know!&rdquo; retorted the
-Glass Cat, scornfully. &ldquo;Watch my brains a minute,
-and see them whirl around.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i191.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="345" />
-</div>
-<p>The Wizard watched, for he was anxious to regain
-his black bag, and the pink brains really did whirl
-around in a remarkable manner.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_192">192</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Now, come with me,&rdquo; commanded the Glass Cat,
-and led the Wizard straight to the spot where it had
-covered the bag with leaves. &ldquo;According to my
-brains,&rdquo; said the creature, &ldquo;your black bag ought to
-be here.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Then it scratched at the leaves and uncovered the
-bag, which the Wizard promptly seized with a cry of
-delight. Now that he had regained his Magic Tools,
-he felt confident he could rescue Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>Rango the Gray Ape was getting impatient. He
-now approached the Wizard and said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, what do you intend to do about those poor
-enchanted monkeys?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll make a bargain with you, Rango,&rdquo; replied
-the little man. &ldquo;If you will let me take a dozen of
-your monkeys to the Emerald City, and keep them
-until after Ozma&rsquo;s birthday, I&rsquo;ll break the enchantment
-of the six Giant Soldiers and return them to
-their natural forms.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But the Gray Ape shook his head.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t do it,&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;The monkeys would
-be very lonesome and unhappy in the Emerald City
-and your people would tease them and throw stones
-at them, which would cause them to fight and bite.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_193">193</div>
-<p>&ldquo;The people won&rsquo;t see them till Ozma&rsquo;s birthday
-dinner,&rdquo; promised the Wizard. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll make them very
-small&mdash;about four inches high, and I&rsquo;ll keep them
-in a pretty cage in my own room, where they will be
-safe from harm. I&rsquo;ll feed them the nicest kind of
-food, train them to do some clever tricks, and on
-Ozma&rsquo;s birthday I&rsquo;ll hide the twelve little monkeys
-inside a cake. When Ozma cuts the cake the monkeys
-will jump out on to the table and do their tricks.
-The next day I will bring them back to the forest
-and make them big as ever, and they&rsquo;ll have some
-exciting stories to tell their friends. What do you
-say, Rango?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I say no!&rdquo; answered the Gray Ape. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t
-have my monkeys enchanted and made to do tricks
-for the Oz people.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Very well,&rdquo; said the Wizard calmly; &ldquo;then I&rsquo;ll go.
-Come, Dorothy,&rdquo; he called to the little girl, &ldquo;let&rsquo;s start
-on our journey.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t you going to save those six monkeys who
-are giant soldiers?&rdquo; asked Rango, anxiously.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why should I?&rdquo; returned the Wizard. &ldquo;If you
-will not do me the favor I ask, you cannot expect
-me to favor you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Wait a minute,&rdquo; said the Gray Ape. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve
-changed my mind. If you will treat the twelve monkeys
-nicely and bring them safely back to the forest.
-I&rsquo;ll let you take them.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_194">194</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Thank you,&rdquo; replied the Wizard, cheerfully.
-&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll go at once and save those giant soldiers.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So all the party left the clearing and proceeded to
-the place where the giants still stood among the trees.
-Hundreds of monkeys, apes, baboons and orang-outangs
-had gathered round, and their wild chatter
-could be heard a mile away. But the Gray Ape soon
-hushed the babel of sounds, and the Wizard lost no
-time in breaking the enchantments. First one and
-then another giant soldier disappeared and became
-an ordinary monkey again, and the six were shortly
-returned to their friends in their proper forms.</p>
-<p>This action made the Wizard very popular with
-the great army of monkeys, and when the Gray Ape
-announced that the Wizard wanted to borrow twelve
-monkeys to take to the Emerald City for a couple of
-weeks, and asked for volunteers, nearly a hundred
-offered to go, so great was their confidence in the little
-man who had saved their comrades.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_195">195</div>
-<p>The Wizard selected a dozen that seemed intelligent
-and good-tempered, and then he opened his black
-bag and took out a queerly shaped dish that was silver
-on the outside and gold on the inside. Into this dish
-he poured a powder and set fire to it. It made a
-thick smoke that quite enveloped the twelve monkeys,
-as well as the form of the Wizard, but when
-the smoke cleared away the dish had been changed
-to a golden cage with silver bars, and the twelve
-monkeys had become about three inches high and
-were all seated comfortably inside the cage.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i195.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="398" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_196">196</div>
-<p>The thousands of hairy animals who had witnessed
-this act of magic were much astonished and applauded
-the Wizard by barking aloud and shaking the limbs
-of the trees in which they sat. Dorothy said: &ldquo;That
-was a fine trick, Wizard!&rdquo; and the Gray Ape
-remarked: &ldquo;You are certainly the most wonderful
-magician in all the Land of Oz!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, no,&rdquo; modestly replied the little man. &ldquo;Glinda&rsquo;s
-magic is better than mine, but mine seems good
-enough to use on ordinary occasions. And now, Rango,
-we will say good-bye, and I promise to return your
-monkeys as happy and safe as they are now.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard rode on the back of the Hungry Tiger
-and carried the cage of monkeys very carefully, so
-as not to joggle them. Dorothy rode on the back of
-the Cowardly Lion, and the Glass Cat trotted, as
-before, to show them the way.</p>
-<p>Gugu the King crouched upon a log and watched
-them go, but as he bade them farewell, the enormous
-leopard said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I know now that you are the friends of beasts
-and that the forest people may trust you. Whenever
-the Wizard of Oz and Princess Dorothy enter the
-Forest of Gugu hereafter, they will be as welcome
-and as safe with us as ever they are in the Emerald
-City.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_197">197</div>
-<h2 id="c17">A Remarkable Journey</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i197.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="682" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 17</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You see,&rdquo; explained the
-Glass Cat, &ldquo;that Magic Isle
-where Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-are stuck is also in this Gillikin
-country&mdash;over at the
-east side of it, and it&rsquo;s no
-farther to go across-lots from
-here than it is from here to
-the Emerald City. So we&rsquo;ll
-save time by cutting across
-the mountains.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Are you sure you know
-the way?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_198">198</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I know all the Land of Oz better than any other
-living creature knows it,&rdquo; asserted the Glass Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Go ahead, then, and guide us,&rdquo; said the Wizard.
-&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve left our poor friends helpless too long already,
-and the sooner we rescue them the happier they&rsquo;ll be.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Are you sure you can get &rsquo;em out of their fix?&rdquo;
-the little girl inquired.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve no doubt of it,&rdquo; the Wizard assured her. &ldquo;But
-I can&rsquo;t tell what sort of magic I must use until I get
-to the place and discover just how they are enchanted.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve heard of that Magic Isle where the Wonderful
-Flower grows,&rdquo; remarked the Cowardly Lion.
-&ldquo;Long ago, when I used to live in the forests, the
-beasts told stories about the Isle and how the Magic
-Flower was placed there to entrap strangers&mdash;men
-or beasts.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Is the Flower really wonderful?&rdquo; questioned
-Dorothy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_199">199</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I have heard it is the most beautiful plant in the
-world,&rdquo; answered the Lion. &ldquo;I have never seen it
-myself, but friendly beasts have told me that they
-have stood on the shore of the river and looked across
-at the plant in the gold flowerpot and seen hundreds
-of flowers, of all sorts and sizes, blossom upon it in
-quick succession. It is said that if one picks the
-flowers while they are in bloom they will remain
-perfect for a long time, but if they are not picked
-they soon disappear and are replaced by other flowers.
-That, in my opinion, makes the magic plant the most
-wonderful in existence.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But these are only stories,&rdquo; said the girl. &ldquo;Has
-any of your friends ever picked a flower from the
-wonderful plant?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; admitted the Cowardly Lion, &ldquo;for if any
-living thing ventures upon the Magic Isle, where
-the golden flowerpot stands, that man or beast takes
-root in the soil and cannot get away again.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What happens to them, then?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;They grow smaller, hour by hour and day by day,
-and finally disappear entirely.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then,&rdquo; said the girl anxiously, &ldquo;we must hurry
-up, or Cap&rsquo;n Bill an&rsquo; Trot will get too small to be
-comf&rsquo;table.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>They were proceeding at a rapid pace during this
-conversation, for the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly
-Lion were obliged to move swiftly in order to
-keep pace with the Glass Cat. After leaving the
-Forest of Gugu they crossed a mountain range, and
-then a broad plain, after which they reached another
-forest, much smaller than that where Gugu ruled.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_200">200</div>
-<p>&ldquo;The Magic Isle is in this forest,&rdquo; said the Glass
-Cat, &ldquo;but the river is at the other side of the forest.
-There is no path through the trees, but if we keep
-going east, we will find the river, and then it will be
-easy to find the Magic Isle.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Have you ever traveled this way before?&rdquo; inquired
-the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Not exactly,&rdquo; admitted the Cat, &ldquo;but I know we
-shall reach the river if we go east through the forest.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Lead on, then,&rdquo; said the Wizard.</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat started away, and at first it was
-easy to pass between the trees; but before long the
-underbrush and vines became thick and tangled, and
-after pushing their way through these obstacles for
-a time, our travelers came to a place where even the
-Glass Cat could not push through.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;d better go back and find a path,&rdquo; suggested
-the Hungry Tiger.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m s&rsquo;prised at you,&rdquo; said Dorothy, eyeing the
-Glass Cat severely.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m surprised, myself,&rdquo; replied the Cat. &ldquo;But
-it&rsquo;s a long way around the forest to where the river
-enters it, and I thought we could save time by going
-straight through.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_201">201</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No one can blame you,&rdquo; said the Wizard, &ldquo;and I
-think, instead of turning back, I can make a path
-that will allow us to proceed.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>He opened his black bag and after searching among
-his magic tools drew out a small axe, made of some
-metal so highly polished that it glittered brightly
-even in the dark forest. The Wizard laid the little
-axe on the ground and said in a commanding voice:</p>
-<div class="verse">
-<p class="t0">&ldquo;Chop, Little Axe, chop clean and true;</p>
-<p class="t0">A path for our feet you must quickly hew.</p>
-<p class="t0">Chop till this tangle of jungle is passed;</p>
-<p class="t0">Chop to the east, Little Axe&mdash;chop fast!&rdquo;</p>
-</div>
-<p>Then the little axe began to move and flashed its
-bright blade right and left, clearing a way through
-vine and brush and scattering the tangled barrier so
-quickly that the Lion and the Tiger, carrying Dorothy
-and the Wizard and the cage of monkeys on their
-backs, were able to stride through the forest at a fast
-walk. The brush seemed to melt away before them
-and the little axe chopped so fast that their eyes only
-saw a twinkling of the blade. Then, suddenly, the
-forest was open again, and the little axe, having
-obeyed its orders, lay still upon the ground.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_202">202</div>
-<p>The Wizard picked up the magic axe and after
-carefully wiping it with his silk handkerchief put it
-away in his black bag. Then they went on and in
-a short time reached the river.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Let me see,&rdquo; said the Glass Cat, looking up and
-down the stream, &ldquo;I think we are below the Magic
-Isle; so we must go up the stream until we come to it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So up the stream they traveled, walking comfortably
-on the river bank, and after a while the water
-broadened and a sharp bend appeared in the river,
-hiding all below from their view. They walked
-briskly along, however, and had nearly reached the
-bend when a voice cried warningly: &ldquo;Look out!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The travelers halted abruptly and the Wizard said:
-&ldquo;Look out for what?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You almost stepped on my Diamond Palace,&rdquo;
-replied the voice, and a duck with gorgeously colored
-feathers appeared before them. &ldquo;Beasts and men
-are terribly clumsy,&rdquo; continued the Duck in an irritated
-tone, &ldquo;and you&rsquo;ve no business on this side of
-the river, anyway. What are you doing here?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve come to rescue some friends of ours who
-are stuck fast on the Magic Isle in this river,&rdquo;
-explained Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I know &rsquo;em,&rdquo; said the Duck. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been to see
-&rsquo;em, and they&rsquo;re stuck fast, all right. You may as
-well go back home, for no power can save them.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_203">203</div>
-<p>&ldquo;This is the Wonderful Wizard of Oz,&rdquo; said Dorothy,
-pointing to the little man.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;m the Lonesome Duck,&rdquo; was the reply,
-as the fowl strutted up and down to show its feathers
-to best advantage. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m the great Forest Magician,
-as any beast can tell you, but even I have no power
-to destroy the dreadful charm of the Magic Isle.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i203.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="329" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Are you lonesome because you&rsquo;re a magician?&rdquo;
-inquired Dorothy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_204">204</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No; I&rsquo;m lonesome because I have no family and
-no friends. But I like to be lonesome, so please don&rsquo;t
-offer to be friendly with me. Go away, and try not
-to step on my Diamond Palace.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where is it?&rdquo; asked the girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Behind this bush.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Dorothy hopped off the lion&rsquo;s back and ran around
-the bush to see the Diamond Palace of the Lonesome
-Duck, although the gaudy fowl protested in a series
-of low quacks. The girl found, indeed, a glistening
-dome formed of clearest diamonds, neatly cemented
-together, with a doorway at the side just big enough
-to admit the duck.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where did you find so many diamonds?&rdquo; asked
-Dorothy, wonderingly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I know a place in the mountains where they are
-thick as pebbles,&rdquo; said the Lonesome Duck, &ldquo;and I
-brought them here in my bill, one by one and put them
-in the river and let the water run over them until
-they were brightly polished. Then I built this palace,
-and I&rsquo;m positive it&rsquo;s the only Diamond Palace in all
-the world.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the only one I know of,&rdquo; said the little girl;
-&ldquo;but if you live in it all alone, I don&rsquo;t see why it&rsquo;s
-any better than a wooden palace, or one of bricks
-or cobble-stones.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_205">205</div>
-<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re not supposed to understand that,&rdquo; retorted
-the Lonesome Duck. &ldquo;But I might tell you, as a
-matter of education, that a home of any sort should
-be beautiful to those who live in it, and should not
-be intended to please strangers. The Diamond Palace
-is my home, and I like it. So I don&rsquo;t care a quack
-whether <i>you</i> like it or not.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i205.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_206">206</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, but I do!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s lovely
-on the outside, but&mdash;&rdquo; Then she stopped speaking,
-for the Lonesome Duck had entered his palace through
-the little door without even saying good-bye. So
-Dorothy returned to her friends and they resumed
-their journey.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do you think, Wizard, the Duck was right in saying
-no magic can rescue Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill?&rdquo; asked
-the girl in a worried tone of voice.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t think the Lonesome Duck was right
-in saying that,&rdquo; answered the Wizard, gravely, &ldquo;but
-it is possible that their enchantment will be harder
-to overcome than I expected. I&rsquo;ll do my best, of
-course, and no one can do more than his best.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>That didn&rsquo;t entirely relieve Dorothy&rsquo;s anxiety, but
-she said nothing more, and soon, on turning the bend
-in the river, they came in sight of the Magic Isle.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There they are!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy eagerly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes, I see them,&rdquo; replied the Wizard, nodding.
-&ldquo;They are sitting on two big toadstools.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s queer,&rdquo; remarked the Glass Cat. &ldquo;There
-were no toadstools there when I left them.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What a lovely flower!&rdquo; cried Dorothy in rapture,
-as her gaze fell on the Magic Plant.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Never mind the Flower, just now,&rdquo; advised the
-Wizard. &ldquo;The most important thing is to rescue our
-friends.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_207">207</div>
-<p>By this time they had arrived at a place just opposite
-the Magic Isle, and now both Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-saw the arrival of their friends and called to them
-for help.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How are you?&rdquo; shouted the Wizard, putting his
-hands to his mouth so they could hear him better
-across the water.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i207.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="346" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in hard luck,&rdquo; shouted Cap&rsquo;n Bill, in reply.
-&ldquo;We&rsquo;re anchored here and can&rsquo;t move till you find a
-way to cut the hawser.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_208">208</div>
-<p>&ldquo;What does he mean by that?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t move our feet a bit!&rdquo; called Trot, speaking
-as loud as she could.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why not?&rdquo; inquired Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got roots on &rsquo;em,&rdquo; explained Trot.</p>
-<p>It was hard to talk from so great a distance, so the
-Wizard said to the Glass Cat:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Go to the island and tell our friends to be patient,
-for we have come to save them. It may take a little
-time to release them, for the Magic of the Isle is new
-to me and I shall have to experiment. But tell them
-I&rsquo;ll hurry as fast as I can.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So the Glass Cat walked across the river under the
-water to tell Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill not to worry, and
-the Wizard at once opened his black bag and began
-to make his preparations.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_209">209</div>
-<h2 id="c18">The Magic of the Wizard</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i209.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="677" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 18</p>
-<p>He first set up a small silver
-tripod and placed a gold basin
-at the top of it. Into this
-basin he put two powders&mdash;a
-pink one and a sky-blue one&mdash;and
-poured over them a
-yellow liquid from a crystal
-vial. Then he mumbled some
-magic words, and the powders
-began to sizzle and burn and
-send out a cloud of violet
-smoke that floated across the
-river and completely enveloped
-both Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill, as well as the toadstools
-on which they sat, and even the Magic Plant
-in the gold flowerpot. Then, after the smoke had
-disappeared into air, the Wizard called out to the
-prisoners:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_210">210</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Are you free?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Both Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill tried to move their feet
-and failed.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No!&rdquo; they shouted in answer.</p>
-<p>The Wizard rubbed his bald head thoughtfully and
-then took some other magic tools from the bag.</p>
-<p>First he placed a little black ball in a silver pistol
-and shot it toward the Magic Isle. The ball exploded
-just over the head of Trot and scattered a thousand
-sparks over the little girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh!&rdquo; said the Wizard, &ldquo;I guess that will set her
-free.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But Trot&rsquo;s feet were still rooted in the ground of
-the Magic Isle, and the disappointed Wizard had to
-try something else.</p>
-<p>For almost an hour he worked hard, using almost
-every magic tool in his black bag, and still Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-and Trot were not rescued.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Dear me!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m &rsquo;fraid we&rsquo;ll
-have to go to Glinda, after all.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_211">211</div>
-<p>That made the little Wizard blush, for it shamed
-him to think that his magic was not equal to that of
-the Magic Isle.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t give up yet, Dorothy,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;for I know
-a lot of wizardry that I haven&rsquo;t yet tried. I don&rsquo;t
-know what magician enchanted this little island, or
-what his powers were, but I do know that I can break
-any enchantment known to the ordinary witches and
-magicians that used to inhabit the Land of Oz. It&rsquo;s
-like unlocking a door; all you need is to find the right
-key.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But &rsquo;spose you haven&rsquo;t the right key with you,&rdquo;
-suggested Dorothy; &ldquo;what then?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then we&rsquo;ll have to make the key,&rdquo; he answered.</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat now came back to their side of the
-river, walking under the water, and said to the Wizard:
-&ldquo;They&rsquo;re getting frightened over there on the
-island because they&rsquo;re both growing smaller every
-minute. Just now, when I left them, both Trot
-and Cap&rsquo;n Bill were only about half their natural
-sizes.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think,&rdquo; said the Wizard reflectively, &ldquo;that I&rsquo;d
-better go to the shore of the island, where I can talk
-to them and work to better advantage. How did Trot
-and Cap&rsquo;n Bill get to the island?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_212">212</div>
-<p>&ldquo;On a raft,&rdquo; answered the Glass Cat. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s over
-there now on the beach.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I suppose you&rsquo;re not strong enough to bring the
-raft to this side, are you?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; I couldn&rsquo;t move it an inch,&rdquo; said the Cat.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll try to get it for you,&rdquo; volunteered the Cowardly
-Lion. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m dreadfully scared for fear the Magic
-Isle will capture me, too; but I&rsquo;ll try to get the raft
-and bring it to this side for you.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Thank you, my friend,&rdquo; said the Wizard.</p>
-<p>So the Lion plunged into the river and swam with
-powerful strokes across to where the raft was beached
-upon the island. Placing one paw on the raft, he
-turned and struck out with his other three legs and so
-strong was the great beast that he managed to drag
-the raft from off the beach and propel it slowly to
-where the Wizard stood on the river bank.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Good!&rdquo; exclaimed the little man, well pleased.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;May I go across with you?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.</p>
-<p>The Wizard hesitated.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;ll take care not to leave the raft or step
-foot on the island, you&rsquo;ll be quite safe,&rdquo; he decided.
-So the Wizard told the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly
-Lion to guard the cage of monkeys until he
-returned, and then he and Dorothy got upon the raft.
-The paddle which Cap&rsquo;n Bill had made was still there
-so the little Wizard paddled the clumsy raft across
-the water and ran it upon the beach of the Magic Isle
-as close to the place where Cap&rsquo;n Bill and Trot were
-rooted as he could.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_213">213</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i213.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="701" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_214">214</div>
-<p>Dorothy was shocked to see how small the prisoners
-had become, and Trot said to her friends: &ldquo;If
-you can&rsquo;t save us soon, there&rsquo;ll be nothing left of us.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Be patient, my dear,&rdquo; counselled the Wizard, and
-took the little axe from his black bag.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you going to do with that?&rdquo; asked Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a magic axe,&rdquo; replied the Wizard, &ldquo;and when
-I tell it to chop, it will chop those roots from your feet
-and you can run to the raft before they grow again.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t!&rdquo; shouted the sailor in alarm. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t do
-it! Those roots are all flesh roots, and our bodies are
-feeding &rsquo;em while they&rsquo;re growing into the ground.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;To cut off the roots,&rdquo; said Trot, &ldquo;would be like
-cutting off our fingers and toes.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard put the little axe back in the black bag
-and took out a pair of silver pincers.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Grow&mdash;grow&mdash;grow!&rdquo; he said to the pincers,
-and at once they grew and extended until they reached
-from the raft to the prisoners.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_215">215</div>
-<p>&ldquo;What are you going to do now?&rdquo; demanded Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill, fearfully eyeing the pincers.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;This magic tool will pull you up, roots and all, and
-land you on this raft,&rdquo; declared the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t do it!&rdquo; pleaded the sailor, with a shudder.
-&ldquo;It would hurt us awfully.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i215.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;It would be just like pulling teeth to pull us up
-by the roots,&rdquo; explained Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Grow small!&rdquo; said the Wizard to the pincers, and
-at once they became small and he threw them into
-the black bag.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_216">216</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I guess, friends, it&rsquo;s all up with us, this time,&rdquo;
-remarked Cap&rsquo;n Bill, with a dismal sigh.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Please tell Ozma, Dorothy,&rdquo; said Trot, &ldquo;that we
-got into trouble trying to get her a nice birthday
-present. Then she&rsquo;ll forgive us. The Magic Flower
-is lovely and wonderful, but it&rsquo;s just a lure to catch
-folks on this dreadful island and then destroy them.
-You&rsquo;ll have a nice birthday party, without us, I&rsquo;m
-sure; and I hope, Dorothy, that none of you in the
-Emerald City will forget me&mdash;or dear ol&rsquo; Cap&rsquo;n Bill.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i216.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_217">217</div>
-<h2 id="c19">Dorothy and the Bumble Bees</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i217.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="684" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 19</p>
-<p>Dorothy was greatly distressed
-and had hard work to
-keep the tears from her eyes.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Is that all you can do,
-Wizard?&rdquo; she asked the little
-man.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s all I can think of just
-now,&rdquo; he replied sadly. &ldquo;But
-I intend to keep on thinking
-as long&mdash;as long&mdash;well, as
-long as thinking will do any
-good.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_218">218</div>
-<p>They were all silent for a
-time, Dorothy and the Wizard sitting thoughtfully
-on the raft, and Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill sitting thoughtfully
-on the toadstools and growing gradually smaller
-and smaller in size.</p>
-<p>Suddenly Dorothy said: &ldquo;Wizard, I&rsquo;ve thought of
-something!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What have you thought of?&rdquo; he asked, looking
-at the little girl with interest.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Can you remember the Magic Word that transforms
-people?&rdquo; she asked.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; said he.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Then you can transform Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill into
-birds or Bumblebees, and they can fly away to the
-other shore. When they&rsquo;re there, you can transform
-&rsquo;em into their reg&rsquo;lar shapes again!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Can you do that, Wizard?&rdquo; asked Cap&rsquo;n Bill,
-eagerly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think so.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Roots an&rsquo; all?&rdquo; inquired Trot.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, the roots are now a part of you, and if you
-were transformed to a bumble-bee the whole of you
-would be transformed, of course, and you&rsquo;d be free
-of this awful island.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;All right; do it!&rdquo; cried the sailor-man.</p>
-<p>So the Wizard said slowly and distinctly:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_219">219</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I want Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill to become bumble-bees&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Fortunately, he pronounced the Magic Word in the
-right way, and instantly Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill vanished
-from view, and up from the places where they had
-been flew two bumble-bees.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Hooray!&rdquo; shouted Dorothy in delight; &ldquo;they&rsquo;re
-saved!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I guess they are,&rdquo; agreed the Wizard, equally
-delighted.</p>
-<p>The bees hovered over the raft an instant and then
-flew across the river to where the Lion and the Tiger
-waited. The Wizard picked up the paddle and paddled
-the raft across as fast as he could. When it
-reached the river bank, both Dorothy and the Wizard
-leaped ashore and the little man asked excitedly:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Where are the bees?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The bees?&rdquo; inquired the Lion, who was half asleep
-and did not know what had happened on the Magic
-Isle.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes; there were two of them.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Two bees?&rdquo; said the Hungry Tiger, yawning.
-&ldquo;Why, I ate one of them and the Cowardly Lion ate
-the other.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Goodness gracious!&rdquo; cried Dorothy horrified.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_220">220</div>
-<p>&ldquo;It was little enough for our lunch,&rdquo; remarked the
-Tiger, &ldquo;but the bees, were the only things we could
-find.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;How dreadful!&rdquo; wailed Dorothy, wringing her
-hands in despair. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve eaten Trot and Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>But just then she heard a buzzing overhead and
-two bees alighted on her shoulder.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Here we are,&rdquo; said a small voice in her ear. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m
-Trot, Dorothy.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And I&rsquo;m Cap&rsquo;n Bill,&rdquo; said the other bee.</p>
-<p>Dorothy almost fainted, with relief, and the Wizard,
-who was close by and had heard the tiny voices, gave
-a laugh and said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You are not the only two bees in the forest, it
-seems, but I advise you to keep away from the Lion
-and the Tiger until you regain your proper forms.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Do it now, Wizard!&rdquo; advised Dorothy. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re
-so small that you never can tell what might happen
-to &rsquo;em.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_221">221</div>
-<p>So the Wizard gave the command and pronounced
-the Magic Word, and in the instant Trot and Cap&rsquo;n
-Bill stood beside them as natural as before they had
-met their fearful adventure. For they were no longer
-small in size, because the Wizard had transformed
-them from bumble-bees into the shapes and sizes that
-nature had formerly given them. The ugly roots on
-their feet had disappeared with the transformation.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i221.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="337" />
-</div>
-<p>While Dorothy was hugging Trot, and Trot was
-softly crying because she was so happy, the Wizard
-shook hands with Cap&rsquo;n Bill and congratulated him
-on his escape. The old sailor-man was so pleased that
-he also shook the Lion&rsquo;s paw and took off his hat and
-bowed politely to the cage of monkeys.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_222">222</div>
-<p>Then Cap&rsquo;n Bill did a curious thing. He went to
-a big tree and, taking out his knife, cut away a big,
-broad piece of thick bark. Then he sat down on the
-ground and after taking a roll of stout cord from his
-pocket&mdash;which seemed to be full of all sorts of things&mdash;he
-proceeded to bind the flat piece of bark to the
-bottom of his good foot, over the leather sole.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s that for?&rdquo; inquired the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I hate to be stumped,&rdquo; replied the sailor-man;
-&ldquo;so I&rsquo;m goin&rsquo; back to that island.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And get enchanted again?&rdquo; exclaimed Trot, with
-evident disapproval.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; this time I&rsquo;ll dodge the magic of the island.
-I noticed that my wooden leg didn&rsquo;t get stuck, or take
-root, an&rsquo; neither did the glass feet of the Glass Cat.
-It&rsquo;s only a thing that&rsquo;s made of meat&mdash;like man an&rsquo;
-beasts&mdash;that the magic can hold an&rsquo; root to the
-ground. Our shoes are leather, an&rsquo; leather comes from
-a beast&rsquo;s hide. Our stockin&rsquo;s are wool, an&rsquo; wool comes
-from a sheep&rsquo;s back. So, when we walked on the
-Magic Isle, our feet took root there an&rsquo; held us fast.
-But not my wooden leg. So now I&rsquo;ll put a wooden
-bottom on my other foot an&rsquo; the magic can&rsquo;t stop me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But why do you wish to go back to the island?&rdquo;
-asked Dorothy.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_223">223</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t you see the Magic Flower in the gold
-flower-pot?&rdquo; returned Cap&rsquo;n Bill.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Of course I saw it, and it&rsquo;s lovely and wonderful.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, Trot an&rsquo; I set out to get that magic plant
-for a present to Ozma on her birthday, and I mean
-to get it an&rsquo; take it back with us to the Emerald City.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That would be fine,&rdquo; cried Trot eagerly, &ldquo;if you
-think you can do it, and it would be safe to try!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pretty sure it is safe, the way I&rsquo;ve fixed my
-foot,&rdquo; said the sailor, &ldquo;an&rsquo; if I <i>should</i> happen to get
-caught, I s&rsquo;pose the Wizard could save me again.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I suppose I could,&rdquo; agreed the Wizard. &ldquo;Anyhow,
-if you wish to try it, Cap&rsquo;n Bill, go ahead and we&rsquo;ll
-stand by and watch what happens.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So the sailor-man got upon the raft again and paddled
-over to the Magic Isle, landing as close to the
-golden flower-pot as he could. They watched him
-walk across the land, put both arms around the flower-pot
-and lift it easily from its place. Then he carried
-it to the raft and set it down very gently. The removal
-did not seem to affect the Magic Flower in any way,
-for it was growing daffodils when Cap&rsquo;n Bill picked it
-up and on the way to the raft it grew tulips and gladioli.
-During the time the sailor was paddling across
-the river to where his friends awaited him, seven different
-varieties of flowers bloomed in succession on
-the plant.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_224">224</div>
-<p>&ldquo;I guess the Magician who put it on the island never
-thought that any one would carry it off,&rdquo; said Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;He figured that only men would want the plant,
-and any man who went upon the island to get it would
-be caught by the enchantment,&rdquo; added the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;After this,&rdquo; remarked Trot, &ldquo;no one will care to
-go on the island, so it won&rsquo;t be a trap any more.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;There,&rdquo; exclaimed Cap&rsquo;n Bill, setting down the
-Magic Plant in triumph upon the river bank, &ldquo;if
-Ozma gets a better birthday present than that, I&rsquo;d
-like to know what it can be!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;ll s&rsquo;prise her, all right,&rdquo; declared Dorothy, standing
-in awed wonder before the gorgeous blossoms and
-watching them change from yellow roses to violets.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;ll s&rsquo;prise ev&rsquo;rybody in the Em&rsquo;rald City,&rdquo; Trot
-asserted in glee, &ldquo;and it&rsquo;ll be Ozma&rsquo;s present from
-Cap&rsquo;n Bill and me.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I think <i>I</i> ought to have a little credit,&rdquo; objected
-the Glass Cat. &ldquo;I discovered the thing, and led you
-to it, and brought the Wizard here to save you when
-you got caught.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; admitted Trot, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll tell Ozma
-the whole story, so she&rsquo;ll know how good you&rsquo;ve been.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_225">225</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i225.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="689" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_226">226</div>
-<h2 id="c20">The Monkeys Have Trouble</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i226.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="676" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 20</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Now,&rdquo; said the Wizard, &ldquo;we
-must start for home. But how
-are we going to carry that big
-gold flowerpot? Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-can&rsquo;t lug it all the way, that&rsquo;s
-certain.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; acknowledged the
-sailor-man; &ldquo;it&rsquo;s pretty heavy.
-I could carry it for a little
-while, but I&rsquo;d have to stop to
-rest every few minutes.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_227">227</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Couldn&rsquo;t we put it on your
-back?&rdquo; Dorothy asked the
-Cowardly Lion, with a good-natured yawn.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t object to carrying it, if you can fasten it
-on,&rdquo; answered the Lion.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;If it falls off,&rdquo; said Trot, &ldquo;it might get smashed
-an&rsquo; be ruined.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll fix it,&rdquo; promised Cap&rsquo;n Bill. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll make a
-flat board out of one of these tree trunks, an&rsquo; tie the
-board on the lion&rsquo;s back, an&rsquo; set the flowerpot on the
-board.&rdquo; He set to work at once to do this, but as he
-only had his big knife for a tool his progress was slow.</p>
-<p>So the Wizard took from his black bag a tiny saw
-that shone like silver and said to it:</p>
-<div class="verse">
-<p class="t0">&ldquo;Saw, little Saw, come show your power;</p>
-<p class="t0">Make us a board for the Magic Flower.&rdquo;</p>
-</div>
-<p>And at once the Little Saw began to move and it
-sawed the log so fast that those who watched it work
-were astonished. It seemed to understand, too, just
-what the board was to be used for, for when it was
-completed it was flat on top and hollowed beneath in
-such a manner that it exactly fitted the Lion&rsquo;s back.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That beats whittlin&rsquo;!&rdquo; exclaimed Cap&rsquo;n Bill,
-admiringly. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t happen to have <i>two</i> o&rsquo; them
-saws; do you, Wizard?&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_228">228</div>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; replied the Wizard, wiping the Magic Saw
-carefully with his silk handkerchief and putting it
-back in the black bag. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the only saw of its kind
-in the world; and if there were more like it, it wouldn&rsquo;t
-be so wonderful.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>They now tied the board on the Lion&rsquo;s back, flat
-side up, and Cap&rsquo;n Bill carefully placed the Magic
-Flower on the board.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;For fear o&rsquo; accidents,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll walk beside
-the lion and hold onto the flowerpot.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Trot and Dorothy could both ride on the back of
-the Hungry Tiger, and between them they carried
-the cage of monkeys. But this arrangement left the
-Wizard, as well as the sailor, to make the journey on
-foot, and so the procession moved slowly and the
-Glass Cat grumbled because it would take so long to
-get to the Emerald City.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_229">229</div>
-<p>The Cat was sour-tempered and grumpy, at first,
-but before they had journeyed far, the crystal creature
-had discovered a fine amusement. The long tails of
-the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars
-of their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would
-slyly seize the tails in her paws and pull them. That
-made the monkeys scream, and their screams pleased
-the Glass Cat immensely. Trot and Dorothy tried to
-stop this naughty amusement, but when they were
-not looking the Cat would pull the tails again, and
-the creature was so sly and quick that the monkeys
-could seldom escape. They scolded the Cat angrily
-and shook the bars of their cage, but they could not
-get out and the Cat only laughed at them.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i229.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="340" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_230">230</div>
-<p>After the party had left the forest and were on the
-plains of the Munchkin Country, it grew dark, and
-they were obliged to make camp for the night, choosing
-a pretty place beside a brook. By means of his
-magic the Wizard created three tents, pitched in a row
-on the grass and nicely fitted with all that was needful
-for the comfort of his comrades. The middle tent was
-for Dorothy and Trot, and had in it two cosy white
-beds and two chairs. Another tent, also with beds
-and chairs, was for the Wizard and Cap&rsquo;n Bill, while
-the third tent was for the Hungry Tiger, the Cowardly
-Lion, the cage of Monkeys and the Glass Cat. Outside
-the tents the Wizard made a fire and placed over it
-a magic kettle from which he presently drew all sorts
-of nice things for their supper, smoking hot.</p>
-<p>After they had eaten and talked together for a
-while under the twinkling stars, they all went to bed
-and the people were soon asleep. The Lion and the
-Tiger had almost fallen asleep, too, when they were
-roused by the screams of the monkeys, for the Glass
-Cat was pulling their tails again. Annoyed by the
-uproar, the Hungry Tiger cried: &ldquo;Stop that racket!&rdquo;
-and getting sight of the Glass Cat, he raised his big
-paw and struck at the creature. The cat was quick
-enough to dodge the blow, but the claws of the Hungry
-Tiger scraped the monkeys&rsquo; cage and bent two
-of the bars.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_231">231</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i231.jpg" alt="" width="599" height="207" />
-</div>
-<p>Then the Tiger lay down again to sleep, but the
-monkeys soon discovered that the bending of the bars
-would allow them to squeeze through. They did not
-leave the cage, however, but after whispering
-together they let their tails stick out and all remained
-quiet. Presently the Glass Cat stole near the cage
-again and gave a yank to one of the tails. Instantly
-the monkeys leaped through the bars, one after
-another, and although they were so small the entire
-dozen of them surrounded the Glass Cat and clung to
-her claws and tail and ears and made her a prisoner.
-Then they forced her out of the tent and down to the
-banks of the stream. The monkeys had noticed that
-these banks were covered with thick, slimy mud of a
-dark blue color, and when they had taken the Cat to
-the stream, they smeared this mud all over the glass
-body of the cat, filling the creature&rsquo;s ears and eyes
-with it, so that she could neither see nor hear. She
-was no longer transparent and so thick was the mud
-upon her that no one could see her pink brains or
-her ruby heart.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_232">232</div>
-<p>In this condition they led the pussy back to the
-tent and then got inside their cage again.</p>
-<p>By morning the mud had dried hard on the Glass
-Cat and it was a dull blue color throughout. Dorothy
-and Trot were horrified, but the Wizard shook his
-head and said it served the Glass Cat right for teasing
-the monkeys.</p>
-<p>Cap&rsquo;n Bill, with his strong hands, soon bent the
-golden wires of the monkeys&rsquo; cage into the proper
-position and then he asked the Wizard if he should
-wash the Glass Cat in the water of the brook.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Not just yet,&rdquo; answered the Wizard. &ldquo;The Cat
-deserves to be punished, so I think I&rsquo;ll leave that blue
-mud&mdash;which is as bad as paint&mdash;upon her body until
-she gets to the Emerald City. The silly creature is so
-vain that she will be greatly shamed when the Oz
-people see her in this condition, and perhaps she&rsquo;ll
-take the lesson to heart and leave the monkeys alone
-hereafter.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>However, the Glass Cat could not see or hear, and to
-avoid carrying her on the journey the Wizard picked
-the mud out of her eyes and ears and Dorothy dampened
-her handkerchief and washed both the eyes and
-ears clean.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_233">233</div>
-<p>As soon as she could speak the Glass Cat asked
-indignantly: &ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t you going to punish those
-monkeys for playing such a trick on me?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; answered the Wizard. &ldquo;You played a trick
-on them by pulling their tails, so this is only tit-for-tat,
-and I&rsquo;m glad the monkeys had their revenge.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>He wouldn&rsquo;t allow the Glass Cat to go near the
-water, to wash herself, but made her follow them
-when they resumed their journey toward the Emerald
-City.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;This is only part of your punishment,&rdquo; said the
-Wizard, severely. &ldquo;Ozma will laugh at you, when
-we get to her palace, and so will the Scarecrow, and the
-Tin Woodman, and Tik-Tok, and the Shaggy Man,
-and Button-Bright, and the Patchwork Girl, and&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And the Pink Kitten,&rdquo; added Dorothy.</p>
-<p>That suggestion hurt the Glass Cat more than anything
-else. The Pink Kitten always quarreled with
-the Glass Cat and insisted that flesh was superior to
-glass, while the Glass Cat would jeer at the Pink
-Kitten, because it had no pink brains. But the pink
-brains were all daubed with blue mud, just now,
-and if the Pink Kitten should see the Glass Cat in
-such a condition, it would be dreadfully humiliating.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_234">234</div>
-<p>For several hours the Glass Cat walked along very
-meekly, but toward noon it seized an opportunity
-when no one was looking and darted away through
-the long grass. It remembered that there was a tiny
-lake of pure water near by, and to this lake the Cat
-sped as fast as it could go.</p>
-<p>The others never missed her until they stopped for
-lunch, and then it was too late to hunt for her.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I s&rsquo;pect she&rsquo;s gone somewhere to clean herself,&rdquo;
-said Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Never mind,&rdquo; replied the Wizard. &ldquo;Perhaps this
-glass creature has been punished enough, and we
-must not forget she saved both Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;After first leading &rsquo;em onto an enchanted island,&rdquo;
-added Dorothy. &ldquo;But I think, as you do, that the
-Glass Cat is punished enough, and p&rsquo;raps she won&rsquo;t
-try to pull the monkeys&rsquo; tails again.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Glass Cat did not rejoin the party of travelers.
-She was still resentful, and they moved too slowly to
-suit her, besides. When they arrived at the Royal
-Palace, one of the first things they saw was the Glass
-Cat curled up on a bench as bright and clean and
-transparent as ever. But she pretended not to notice
-them, and they passed her by without remark.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_235">235</div>
-<h2 id="c21">The College of Athletic Arts</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i235.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="675" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 21</p>
-<p>Dorothy and her friends arrived
-at the Royal Palace at
-an opportune time, for Ozma
-was holding high court in her
-Throne Room, where Professor
-H. M. Wogglebug, T.E.,
-was appealing to her to punish
-some of the students of the
-Royal Athletic College, of
-which he was the Principal.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_236">236</div>
-<p>This College is located in
-the Munchkin Country, but
-not far from the Emerald
-City. To enable the students to devote their entire
-time to athletic exercises, such as boating, foot-ball,
-and the like, Professor Wogglebug had invented an
-assortment of Tablets of Learning. One of these
-tablets, eaten by a scholar after breakfast, would
-instantly enable him to understand arithmetic or
-algebra or any other branch of mathematics. Another
-tablet eaten after lunch gave a student a complete
-knowledge of geography. Another tablet made it
-possible for the eater to spell the most difficult words,
-and still another enabled him to write a beautiful
-hand. There were tablets for history, mechanics, home
-cooking and agriculture, and it mattered not whether
-a boy or a girl was stupid or bright, for the tablets
-taught them everything in the twinkling of an eye.</p>
-<p>This method, which is patented in the Land of Oz
-by Professor Wogglebug, saves paper and books, as
-well as the tedious hours devoted to study in some of
-our less favored schools, and it also allows the students
-to devote all their time to racing, base-ball, tennis
-and other manly and womanly sports, which are
-greatly interfered with by study in those Temples
-of Learning where Tablets of Learning are unknown.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_237">237</div>
-<p>But it so happened that Professor Wogglebug (who
-had invented so much that he had acquired the habit)
-carelessly invented a Square-Meal Tablet, which was
-no bigger than your little finger-nail but contained, in
-condensed form, the equal of a bowl of soup, a portion
-of fried fish, a roast, a salad and a dessert, all of which
-gave the same nourishment as a square meal.</p>
-<p>The Professor was so proud of these Square-Meal
-Tablets that he began to feed them to the students at
-his college, instead of other food, but the boys and
-girls objected because they wanted food that they
-could enjoy the taste of. It was no fun at all to
-swallow a tablet, with a glass of water, and call it a
-dinner; so they refused to eat the Square-Meal
-Tablets. Professor Wogglebug insisted, and the
-result was that the Senior Class seized the learned
-Professor one day and threw him into the river&mdash;clothes
-and all. Everyone knows that a wogglebug
-cannot swim, and so the inventor of the wonderful
-Square-Meal Tablets lay helpless on the bottom of
-the river for three days before a fisherman caught one
-of his legs on a fishhook and dragged him out upon the
-bank.</p>
-<p>The learned Professor was naturally indignant at
-such treatment, and so he brought the entire senior
-class to the Emerald City and appealed to Ozma of Oz
-to punish them for their rebellion.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_238">238</div>
-<p>I do not suppose the girl Ruler was very severe with
-the rebellious boys and girls, because she had herself
-refused to eat the Square-Meal Tablets in place of
-food, but while she was listening to the interesting
-case in her Throne Room, Cap&rsquo;n Bill managed to
-carry the golden flower-pot containing the Magic
-Flower up to Trot&rsquo;s room without it being seen by
-anyone except Jellia Jamb, Ozma&rsquo;s chief Maid of
-Honor, and Jellia promised not to tell.</p>
-<p>Also the Wizard was able to carry the cage of
-monkeys up to one of the top towers of the palace,
-where he had a room of his own, to which no one came
-unless invited. So Trot and Dorothy and Cap&rsquo;n Bill
-and the Wizard were all delighted at the successful
-end of their adventure. The Cowardly Lion and the
-Hungry Tiger went to the marble stables behind the
-Royal Palace, where they lived while at home, and
-they too kept the secret, even refusing to tell the
-Wooden Sawhorse, and Hank the Mule, and the Yellow
-Hen, and the Pink Kitten where they had been.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_239">239</div>
-<p>Trot watered the Magic Flower every day and
-allowed no one in her room to see the beautiful
-blossoms except her friends, Betsy Bobbin and
-Dorothy. The wonderful plant did not seem to lose
-any of its magic by being removed from its island,
-and Trot was sure that Ozma would prize it as one of
-her most delightful treasures.</p>
-<p>Up in his tower the little Wizard of Oz began
-training his twelve tiny monkeys, and the little
-creatures were so intelligent that they learned every
-trick the Wizard tried to teach them. The Wizard
-treated them with great kindness and gentleness and
-gave them the food that monkeys love best, so they
-promised to do their best on the great occasion of
-Ozma&rsquo;s birthday.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i239.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="335" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_240">240</div>
-<h2 id="c22">Ozma&rsquo;s Birthday Party</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i240.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="683" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 22</p>
-<p>It seems odd that a fairy
-should have a birthday, for
-fairies, they say, were born at
-the beginning of time and live
-forever. Yet, on the other
-hand, it would be a shame to
-deprive a fairy, who has so
-many other good things, of
-the delights of a birthday. So
-we need not wonder that the
-fairies keep their birthdays
-just as other folks do, and
-consider them occasions for feasting and rejoicing.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_241">241</div>
-<p>Ozma, the beautiful girl Ruler of the Fairyland of
-Oz, was a real fairy, and so sweet and gentle in caring
-for her people that she was greatly beloved by them
-all. She lived in the most magnificent palace in the
-most magnificent city in the world, but that did not
-prevent her from being the friend of the most humble
-person in her dominions. She would mount her
-wooden Sawhorse, and ride out to a farm house and sit
-in the kitchen to talk with the good wife of the farmer
-while she did her family baking; or she would play
-with the children and give them rides on her famous
-wooden steed; or she would stop in a forest to speak to
-a charcoal burner and ask if he was happy or desired
-anything to make him more content; or she would teach
-young girls how to sew and plan pretty dresses, or
-enter the shops where the jewelers and craftsmen were
-busy and watch them at their work, giving to each and
-all a cheering word or sunny smile.</p>
-<p>And then Ozma would sit in her jeweled throne, with
-her chosen courtiers all about her, and listen patiently
-to any complaint brought to her by her subjects,
-striving to accord equal justice to all. Knowing she
-was fair in her decisions, the Oz people never
-murmured at her judgments, but agreed, if Ozma
-decided against them, she was right and they wrong.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_242">242</div>
-<p>When Dorothy and Trot and Betsy Bobbin and Ozma
-were together, one would think they were all about of
-an age, and the fairy Ruler no older and no more
-&ldquo;grown up&rdquo; than the other three. She would laugh
-and romp with them in regular girlish fashion, yet
-there was an air of quiet dignity about Ozma, even in
-her merriest moods, that, in a manner, distinguished
-her from the others. The three girls loved her
-devotedly, but they were never able to quite forget
-that Ozma was the Royal Ruler of the wonderful fairyland
-of Oz, and by birth belonged to a powerful race.</p>
-<p>Ozma&rsquo;s palace stood in the center of a delightful
-and extensive garden, where splendid trees and
-flowering shrubs and statuary and fountains
-abounded. One could walk for hours in this fascinating
-park and see something interesting at every step.
-In one place was an aquarium, where strange and
-beautiful fish swam; at another spot all the birds of
-the air gathered daily to a great feast which Ozma&rsquo;s
-servants provided for them, and were so fearless of
-harm that they would alight upon one&rsquo;s shoulders and
-eat from one&rsquo;s hand. There was also the Fountain of
-the Water of Oblivion, but it was dangerous to drink
-of this water, because it made one forget everything
-he had ever before known, even to his own name, and
-therefore Ozma had placed a sign of warning upon the
-fountain. But there were also fountains that were
-delightfully perfumed, and fountains of delicious nectar,
-cool and richly flavored, where all were welcome
-to refresh themselves.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_243">243</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i243.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="695" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_244">244</div>
-<p>Around the palace grounds was a great wall, thickly
-encrusted with glittering emeralds, but the gates stood
-open and no one was forbidden entrance. On holidays
-the people of the Emerald City often took their children
-to see the wonders of Ozma&rsquo;s gardens, and even
-entered the Royal Palace, if they felt so inclined, for
-they knew that they and their Ruler were friends, and
-that Ozma delighted to give them pleasure.</p>
-<p>When all this is considered, you will not be surprised
-that the people throughout the Land of Oz, as well as
-Ozma&rsquo;s most intimate friends and her royal courtiers,
-were eager to celebrate her birthday, and made preparations
-for the festival weeks in advance. All the brass
-bands practiced their nicest tunes, for they were to
-march in the numerous processions to be made in the
-Winkie Country, the Gillikin Country, the Munchkin
-Country and the Quadling Country, as well as in the
-Emerald City. Not all the people could go to congratulate
-their Ruler, but all could celebrate her birthday,
-in one way or another, however far distant from
-her palace they might be. Every home and building
-throughout the Land of Oz was to be decorated with
-banners and bunting, and there were to be games, and
-plays, and a general good time for every one.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_245">245</div>
-<p>It was Ozma&rsquo;s custom on her birthday to give a
-grand feast at the palace, to which all her closest
-friends were invited. It was a queerly assorted company,
-indeed, for there are more quaint and unusual
-characters in Oz than in all the rest of the world, and
-Ozma was more interested in unusual people than in
-ordinary ones&mdash;just as you and I are.</p>
-<p>On this especial birthday of the lovely girl Ruler, a
-long table was set in the royal Banquet Hall of the
-palace, at which were place-cards for the invited
-guests, and at one end of the great room was a smaller
-table, not so high, for Ozma&rsquo;s animal friends, whom
-she never forgot, and at the other end was a big table
-where all of the birthday gifts were to be arranged.</p>
-<p>When the guests arrived, they placed their gifts on
-this table and then found their places at the banquet
-table. And, after the guests were all placed, the animals
-entered in a solemn procession and were placed
-at their table by Jellia Jamb. Then, while an orchestra
-hidden by a bank of roses and ferns played a march
-composed for the occasion, the Royal Ozma entered
-the Banquet Hall, attended by her Maids of Honor,
-and took her seat at the head of the table.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_246">246</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i246.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="686" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_247">247</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i247.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="687" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_248">248</div>
-<p>She was greeted by a cheer from all the assembled
-company, the animals adding their roars and growls
-and barks and mewing and cackling to swell the glad
-tumult, and then all seated themselves at their tables.</p>
-<p>At Ozma&rsquo;s right sat the famous Scarecrow of Oz,
-whose straw-stuffed body was not beautiful, but whose
-happy nature and shrewd wit had made him a general
-favorite. On the left of the Ruler was placed the Tin
-Woodman, whose metal body had been brightly polished
-for this event. The Tin Woodman was the Emperor
-of the Winkie Country and one of the most
-important persons in Oz.</p>
-<p>Next to the Scarecrow, Dorothy was seated, and next
-to her was Tik-Tok, the Clockwork Man, who had been
-wound up as tightly as his clockwork would permit, so
-he wouldn&rsquo;t interrupt the festivities by running down.
-Then came Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy&rsquo;s own
-relations, two kindly old people who had a cozy home
-in the Emerald City and were very happy and contented
-there. Then Betsy Bobbin was seated, and next
-to her the droll and delightful Shaggy Man, who was a
-favorite wherever he went.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_249">249</div>
-<p>On the other side of the table, opposite the Tin
-Woodman was placed Trot, and next to her, Cap&rsquo;n Bill.
-Then was seated Button Bright and Ojo the Lucky,
-and Dr. Pipt and his good wife Margalot, and the
-astonishing Frogman, who had come from the Yip
-country to be present at Ozma&rsquo;s birthday feast.</p>
-<p>At the foot of the table, facing Ozma, was seated the
-queenly Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, for this was
-really the place of honor next to the head of the table
-where Ozma herself sat. On Glinda&rsquo;s right was the
-Little Wizard of Oz, who owed to Glinda all of the
-magical arts he knew. Then came Jinjur, a pretty
-girl farmer of whom Ozma and Dorothy were quite
-fond. The adjoining seat was occupied by the Tin
-Soldier, and next to him was Professor H. M. Wogglebug,
-T.E., of the Royal Athletic College.</p>
-<p>On Glinda&rsquo;s left was placed the jolly Patchwork
-Girl, who was a little afraid of the Sorceress and so
-was likely to behave herself pretty well. The Shaggy
-Man&rsquo;s brother was beside the Patchwork Girl, and
-then came that interesting personage, Jack Pumpkinhead,
-who had grown a splendid big pumpkin for a
-new head to be worn on Ozma&rsquo;s birthday, and had
-carved a face on it that was even jollier in expression
-than the one he had last worn. New heads were not
-unusual with Jack, for the pumpkins did not keep
-long, and when the seeds&mdash;which served him as
-brains&mdash;began to get soft and mushy, he realized his
-head would soon spoil, and so he procured a new one
-from his great field of pumpkins&mdash;grown by him so
-that he need never lack a head.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_250">250</div>
-<p>You will have noticed that the company at Ozma&rsquo;s
-banquet table was somewhat mixed, but every one
-invited was a tried and trusted friend of the girl
-Ruler, and their presence made her quite happy.</p>
-<p>No sooner had Ozma seated herself, with her back
-to the birthday table, than she noticed that all present
-were eyeing with curiosity and pleasure something
-behind her, for the gorgeous Magic Flower was blooming
-gloriously and the mammoth blossoms that quickly
-succeeded one another on the plant were beautiful to
-view and filled the entire room with their delicate
-fragrance. Ozma wanted to look, too, to see what all
-were staring at, but she controlled her curiosity because
-it was not proper that she should yet view her
-birthday gifts.</p>
-<p>So the sweet and lovely Ruler devoted herself to
-her guests, several of whom, as the Sorcerer, the Tin
-Woodman, the Patchwork Girl, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead
-and the Tin Soldier, never ate anything but
-sat very politely in their places and tried to entertain
-those of the guests who did eat.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_251">251</div>
-<p>And, at the animal table, there was another interesting
-group, consisting of the Cowardly Lion, the
-Hungry Tiger, Toto&mdash;Dorothy&rsquo;s little shaggy black dog&mdash;Hank
-the Mule, the Pink Kitten, the Wooden Sawhorse,
-the Yellow Hen, and the Glass Cat. All of these
-had good appetites except the Sawhorse and the Glass
-Cat, and each was given a plentiful supply of the food
-it liked best.</p>
-<p>Finally, when the banquet was nearly over and the
-ice-cream was to be served, four servants entered
-bearing a huge cake, all frosted and decorated with
-candy flowers. Around the edge of the cake was a
-row of lighted candles, and in the center were raised
-candy letters that spelled the words:</p>
-<p class="center">OZMA&rsquo;S
-<br />Birthday Cake
-<br />from
-<br />Dorothy and the Wizard</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Oh, how beautiful!&rdquo; cried Ozma, greatly delighted,
-and Dorothy said eagerly: &ldquo;Now you must cut the
-cake, Ozma, and each of us will eat a piece with our
-ice-cream.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_252">252</div>
-<p>Jellia Jamb brought a large golden knife with a
-jeweled handle, and Ozma stood up in her place and
-attempted to cut the cake. But as soon as the frosting
-in the center broke under the pressure of the knife
-there leaped from the cake a tiny monkey three
-inches high, and he was followed by another and another,
-until twelve monkeys stood on the tablecloth
-and bowed low to Ozma.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Congratulations to our gracious Ruler!&rdquo; they exclaimed
-in a chorus, and then they began a dance, so
-droll and amusing that all the company roared with
-laughter and even Ozma joined in the merriment.
-But after the dance the monkeys performed some
-wonderful acrobatic feats, and then they ran to the
-hollow of the cake and took out some band instruments
-of burnished gold&mdash;cornets, horns, drums, and
-the like&mdash;and forming into a procession the monkeys
-marched up and down the table playing a jolly tune
-with the ease of skilled musicians.</p>
-<p>Dorothy was delighted with the success of her &ldquo;Surprise
-Cake,&rdquo; and after the monkeys had finished their
-performance, the banquet came to an end.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_253">253</div>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i253.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="694" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_254">254</div>
-<p>Now was the time for Ozma to see her other presents,
-so Glinda the Good rose and, taking the girl
-Ruler by her hand, led her to the table where all her
-gifts were placed in magnificent array. The Magic
-Flower of course attracted her attention first, and Trot
-had to tell her the whole story of their adventures in
-getting it. The little girl did not forget to give due
-credit to the Glass Cat and the little Wizard, but it
-was really Cap&rsquo;n Bill who bravely carried the golden
-flowerpot away from the enchanted Isle.</p>
-<p>Ozma thanked them all, and said she would place
-the Magic Flower in her boudoir where she might
-enjoy its beauty and fragrance continually. But now
-she discovered the marvelous gown woven by Glinda
-and her maidens from strands drawn from pure emeralds,
-and being a girl who loved pretty clothes, Ozma&rsquo;s
-ecstasy at being presented with this exquisite gown
-may well be imagined. She could hardly wait to put
-it on, but the table was loaded with other pretty gifts
-and the night was far spent before the happy girl
-Ruler had examined all her presents and thanked
-those who had lovingly donated them.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_255">255</div>
-<h2 id="c23">The Fountain of Oblivion</h2>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i255.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="677" />
-</div>
-<p class="center">CHAPTER 23</p>
-<p>The morning after the birthday
-fete, as the Wizard and
-Dorothy were walking in the
-grounds of the palace, Ozma
-came out and joined them,
-saying:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want to hear more of
-your adventures in the Forest
-of Gugu, and how you were
-able to get those dear little
-monkeys to use in Dorothy&rsquo;s
-Surprise Cake.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_256">256</div>
-<p>So they sat down on a marble
-bench near to the fountain of the Water of Oblivion,
-and between them Dorothy and the Wizard
-related their adventures.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I was dreadfully fussy while I was a woolly
-lamb,&rdquo; said Dorothy, &ldquo;for it didn&rsquo;t feel good, a bit.
-And I wasn&rsquo;t quite sure, you know, that I&rsquo;d ever get
-to be a girl again.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;You might have been a woolly lamb yet, if I
-hadn&rsquo;t happened to have discovered that Magic Transformation
-Word,&rdquo; declared the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;But what became of the walnut and the hickory-nut
-into which you transformed those dreadful beast
-magicians?&rdquo; inquired Ozma.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, I&rsquo;d almost forgotten them,&rdquo; was the reply;
-&ldquo;but I believe they are still here in my pocket.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Then he searched in his pockets and brought out
-the two nuts and showed them to her.</p>
-<p>Ozma regarded them thoughtfully.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t right to leave any living creatures in such
-helpless forms,&rdquo; said she. &ldquo;I think, Wizard, you
-ought to transform them into their natural shapes
-again.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_257">257</div>
-<p>&ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t know what their natural shapes are,&rdquo;
-he objected, &ldquo;for of course the forms of mixed animals
-which they had assumed were not natural to
-them. And you must not forget, Ozma, that their
-natures were cruel and mischievous, so if I bring
-them back to life they might cause us a great deal
-of trouble.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Nevertheless,&rdquo; said the Ruler of Oz, &ldquo;we must
-free them from their present enchantments. When
-you restore them to their natural forms we will discover
-who they really are, and surely we need not
-fear any two people, even though they prove to be
-magicians and our enemies.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I am not so sure of that,&rdquo; protested the Wizard,
-with a shake of his bald head. &ldquo;The one bit of magic
-I robbed them of&mdash;which was the word of transformation&mdash;is
-so simple, yet so powerful, that neither
-Glinda nor I can equal it. It isn&rsquo;t all in the word,
-you know, it&rsquo;s the way the word is pronounced. So
-if the two strange magicians have other magic of the
-same sort, they might prove very dangerous to us, if
-we liberated them.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve an idea!&rdquo; exclaimed Dorothy. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m no wizard,
-and no fairy, but if you do as I say, we needn&rsquo;t
-fear these people at all.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What is your thought, my dear?&rdquo; asked Ozma.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_258">258</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; replied the girl, &ldquo;here is this fountain of
-the Water of Oblivion, and that&rsquo;s what put the notion
-into my head. When the Wizard speaks that ter&rsquo;ble
-word that will change &rsquo;em back to their real forms, he
-can make &rsquo;em dreadful thirsty, too, and we&rsquo;ll put a
-cup right here by the fountain, so it&rsquo;ll be handy. Then
-they&rsquo;ll drink the water and forget all the magic they
-ever knew&mdash;and everything else, too.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not a bad idea,&rdquo; said the Wizard, looking
-at Dorothy approvingly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very <i>good</i> idea,&rdquo; declared Ozma. &ldquo;Run for
-a cup, Dorothy.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>So Dorothy ran to get a cup, and while she was
-gone the Wizard said:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether the real forms of these
-magicians are those of men or beasts. If they&rsquo;re
-beasts, they would not drink from a cup but might
-attack us at once and drink afterward. So it might
-be safer for us to have the Cowardly Lion and the
-Hungry Tiger here to protect us if necessary.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_259">259</div>
-<p>Ozma drew out a silver whistle which was attached
-to a slender gold chain and blew upon the whistle
-two shrill blasts. The sound, though not harsh, was
-very penetrating, and as soon as it reached the ears
-of the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the two
-huge beasts quickly came bounding toward them.
-Ozma explained to them what the Wizard was about
-to do, and told them to keep quiet unless danger
-threatened. So the two powerful guardians of the
-Ruler of Oz crouched beside the fountain and waited.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i259.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="341" />
-</div>
-<p>Dorothy returned and set the cup on the edge of
-the fountain. Then the Wizard placed the hickory-nut
-beside the fountain and said in a solemn voice:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want you to resume your natural form, and to
-be very thirsty&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_260">260</div>
-<p>In an instant there appeared, in the place of the
-hickory-nut, the form of Kiki Aru, the Hyup boy. He
-seemed bewildered, at first, as if trying to remember
-what had happened to him and why he was in this
-strange place. But he was facing the fountain, and
-the bubbling water reminded him that he was thirsty.
-Without noticing Ozma, the Wizard and Dorothy, who
-were behind him, he picked up the cup, filled it with
-the Water of Oblivion, and drank it to the last drop.</p>
-<p>He was now no longer thirsty, but he felt more bewildered
-than ever, for now he could remember nothing
-at all&mdash;not even his name or where he came
-from. He looked around the beautiful garden with
-a pleased expression, and then, turning, he beheld
-Ozma and the Wizard and Dorothy regarding him curiously
-and the two great beasts crouching behind them.</p>
-<p>Kiki Aru did not know who they were, but he
-thought Ozma very lovely and Dorothy very pleasant.
-So he smiled at them&mdash;the same innocent, happy
-smile that a baby might have indulged in, and that
-pleased Dorothy, who seized his hand and led him to
-a seat beside her on the bench.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, I thought you were a dreadful magician,&rdquo;
-she exclaimed, &ldquo;and you&rsquo;re only a boy!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What is a magician?&rdquo; he asked, &ldquo;and what is a
-boy?&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you know?&rdquo; inquired the girl.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_261">261</div>
-<p>Kiki shook his head. Then he laughed.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I do not seem to know anything,&rdquo; he replied.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i261.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="343" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s very curious,&rdquo; remarked the Wizard. &ldquo;He
-wears the dress of the Munchkins, so he must have
-lived at one time in the Munchkin Country. Of
-course the boy can tell us nothing of his history or
-his family, for he has forgotten all that he ever knew.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_262">262</div>
-<p>&ldquo;He seems a nice boy, now that all the wickedness
-has gone from him,&rdquo; said Ozma. &ldquo;So we will keep
-him here with us and teach him our ways&mdash;to be
-true and considerate of others.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, in that case, it&rsquo;s lucky for him he drank the
-Water of Oblivion,&rdquo; said Dorothy.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;It is indeed,&rdquo; agreed the Wizard. &ldquo;But the remarkable
-thing, to me, is how such a young boy ever
-learned the secret of the Magic Word of Transformation.
-Perhaps his companion, who is at present this
-walnut, was the real magician, although I seem to
-remember that it was this boy in the beast&rsquo;s form
-who whispered the Magic Word into the hollow tree,
-where I overheard it.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Well, we will soon know who the other is,&rdquo; suggested
-Ozma. &ldquo;He may prove to be another Munchkin
-boy.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>The Wizard placed the walnut near the fountain
-and said, as slowly and solemnly as before:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I want you to resume your natural form, and to
-be very thirsty&mdash;<span class="gs">Pyrzqxgl</span>!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>Then the walnut disappeared and Ruggedo the
-Nome stood in its place. He also was facing the
-fountain, and he reached for the cup, filled it, and
-was about to drink when Dorothy exclaimed:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Why, it&rsquo;s the old Nome King!&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_263">263</div>
-<p>Ruggedo swung around and faced them, the cup
-still in his hand.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i263.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="318" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he said in an angry voice, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s the old Nome
-King, and I&rsquo;m going to conquer all Oz and be revenged
-on you for kicking me out of my throne.&rdquo; He
-looked around a moment, and then continued: &ldquo;There
-isn&rsquo;t an egg in sight, and I&rsquo;m stronger than all of you
-people put together! I don&rsquo;t know how I came here,
-<span class="pb" id="Page_264">264</span>
-but I&rsquo;m going to fight the fight of my life&mdash;and I&rsquo;ll
-win!&rdquo;</p>
-<p>His long white hair and beard waved in the breeze;
-his eyes flashed hate and vengeance, and so astonished
-and shocked were they by the sudden appearance of
-this old enemy of the Oz people that they could only
-stare at him in silence and shrink away from his
-wild glare.</p>
-<p>Ruggedo laughed. He drank the water, threw the
-cup on the ground and said fiercely:</p>
-<p>&ldquo;And now&mdash;and now&mdash;and&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
-<p>His voice grew gentle. He rubbed his forehead
-with a puzzled air and stroked his long beard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;What was I going to say?&rdquo; he asked, pleadingly.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you remember?&rdquo; said the Wizard.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;No; I&rsquo;ve forgotten.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Who <i>are</i> you?&rdquo; asked Dorothy.</p>
-<p>He tried to think. &ldquo;I&mdash;I&rsquo;m sure I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo;
-he stammered.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you know who <i>we</i> are, either?&rdquo; questioned
-the girl.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t the slightest idea,&rdquo; said the Nome.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Tell us who this Munchkin boy is,&rdquo; suggested
-Ozma.</p>
-<p>Ruggedo looked at the boy and shook his head.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_265">265</div>
-<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a stranger to me. You are all strangers. I&mdash;I&rsquo;m
-a stranger to myself,&rdquo; he said.</p>
-<p>Then he patted the Lion&rsquo;s head and murmured,
-&ldquo;Good doggie!&rdquo; and the Lion growled indignantly.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i265.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="311" />
-</div>
-<p>&ldquo;What shall we do with him?&rdquo; asked the Wizard,
-perplexed.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;Once before the wicked old Nome came here to
-conquer us, and then, as now, he drank of the Water
-of Oblivion and became harmless. But we sent him
-back to the Nome Kingdom, where he soon learned
-the old evil ways again.&rdquo;</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_266">266</div>
-<p>&ldquo;For that reason,&rdquo; said Ozma, &ldquo;we must find a place
-for him in the Land of Oz, and keep him here. For
-here he can learn no evil and will always be as innocent
-of guile as our own people.&rdquo;</p>
-<p>And so the wandering ex-King of the Nomes found
-a new home, a peaceful and happy home, where he
-was quite content and passed his days in innocent
-enjoyment.</p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i266.jpg" alt="THE END" width="500" height="299" />
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_267">267</div>
-<h2><span class="large"><i>The Oz Books</i></span>
-<br /><span class="smallest">BY</span>
-<br />L. FRANK BAUM
-<br /><span class="smaller">&ldquo;Royal Historian of Oz&rdquo;</span></h2>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Wizard of Oz</i>
-<br /><span class="smaller">[Originally published as <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i>]</span></h3>
-<p class="biblio">It is in this book that Oz is &ldquo;discovered.&rdquo; A little Kansas girl&mdash;Dorothy
-Gale&mdash;is carried in her house to Oz when a cyclone whisks it through
-the sky. As the house lands in the Munchkin Country (one of the four great
-countries of Oz) it destroys a wicked witch and sends Dorothy off on her first
-adventure in Oz. She finds the Scarecrow, meets the Tin Woodman and the
-Cowardly Lion, melts a second wicked witch with a pail of water and finds her
-way home. Since this book appeared a half-century ago, we have learned many
-marvelous things about the Land of Oz.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Land of Oz</i>
-<br /><span class="smaller">[Originally published as <i>The Marvelous Land of Oz</i>]</span></h3>
-<p class="biblio">This sequel to <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> deals entirely with the early
-history of Oz. No one from the United States or any other part of the &ldquo;great
-outside world&rdquo; appears in it. It takes its readers on a series of incredible adventures
-with Tip, a small boy who runs away from old Mombi, the witch, taking
-with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden Saw-Horse. The Scarecrow is King
-of the Emerald City until he, Tip, Jack, and the Tin Woodman are forced to
-flee the royal palace when it is invaded by General Jinjur and her army of rebelling
-girls. <i>The Land of Oz</i> ends with an amazing surprise, and from that
-moment on Ozma is princess of all Oz.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_268">268</div>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>Ozma of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Few of the Oz books are as crowded with exciting Oz happenings
-as this one. Not only does it bring Dorothy back to Oz on her second visit,
-but it introduces Dorothy to Ozma, relates Ozma&rsquo;s first important adventure,
-and introduces for the first time such famous Oz characters as Tik-Tok, the mechanical
-man, Billina the hen, the Hungry Tiger, and&mdash;<i>the Nome King</i>! Most
-of the adventures in this book take place outside Oz, in the Land of Ev and
-the Nome Kingdom. Scarcely a page fails to quiver with excitement, magic and
-adventure.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Of course, everyone always predicted it would happen! And in
-this book it does&mdash;the Wizard comes back to Oz to stay. Best of all, he comes
-with Dorothy, who is having adventure number three that leads her to Oz, this
-time via a California earthquake. In this book we meet Dorothy&rsquo;s pink kitten,
-Eureka, whose manners need adjusting badly, and two good friends who we
-are sorry did not remain in Oz&mdash;Jim the cabhorse, and Zeb, Dorothy&rsquo;s young
-cousin, who works on a ranch as a hired boy.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Road to Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">We like to think of this volume as &ldquo;The Party Book of Oz.&rdquo;
-Almost everyone loves a party, and when Ozma has a birthday party with
-notables from every part of fairyland attending&mdash;well! It is just like attending
-Ozma&rsquo;s party in person. You meet the famous of Oz, and lots of others, such as
-Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough, Chick the Cherub, the Queen of Merryland, Para
-Bruin the rubber bear and&mdash;best of all&mdash;Santa Claus himself! Of course there
-are lots of adventures on that famous road to Oz before the party, during which
-Dorothy, on her way to Oz for the fourth time, meets such heart-warming characters
-as the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and lovely Polychrome, daughter of
-the rainbow.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_269">269</div>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Emerald City of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Here is a &ldquo;double&rdquo; story of Oz. While Dorothy, her Aunt Em
-and Uncle Henry experience the events that lead to their going to Oz to make
-their home in the Emerald City, the wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer
-Oz and enslave its people. Later we go with Dorothy and her friends in the
-Red Wagon on a grand tour of Oz that is simply packed with excitement and
-events. While this transpires, we learn also of the Nome King&rsquo;s elaborate preparations
-to conquer Oz. As Dorothy and her friends return to the Emerald City,
-the Nome King and his hordes of warriors are about to invade it. How Oz is
-saved is an ending that will amaze and delight you.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Patchwork Girl of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Here, the Patchwork Girl is brought to life by Dr. Pipt&rsquo;s magic
-Powder of Life. From that moment on the action never slows down in this
-exciting book. It tells of Ojo&rsquo;s quest for the strange ingredients necessary to
-brew a magic liquid that will release his Unk Nunkie from a spell&mdash;the spell
-cast by the Liquid of Petrefaction, which has turned him into a marble statue.
-In addition to the Patchwork Girl, Ojo and Unk Nunkie, this book introduces
-those famous Oz creatures, the Woozy, and Bungle the glass cat. Oz certainly
-has become a merrier, happier land since the Patchwork Girl came to life, and
-this is the book that tells how Scraps came to be made, how she was brought
-to life, and all about her early adventures.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>Tik-Tok of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">For the second time a little girl from the United States comes
-to Oz. Betsy Bobbin is shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean with her friend Hank
-the mule. The two drift to shore in the Rose Kingdom on a fragment of wreckage.
-Betsy meets the Shaggy Man and accompanies him to the Nome Kingdom,
-where Shaggy hopes to release his brother, a prisoner of the Nome King. On
-their way to the Nome Kingdom, one fascinating adventure follows another.
-They meet Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo and her army, and lovely Polychrome,
-who had lost her rainbow again; they rescue Tik-Tok from a well; and
-are dropped through a Hollow Tube to the other side of the world where they
-meet Quox, the dragon. You&rsquo;ll find it one of the most exciting of all the Oz books.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_270">270</div>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Scarecrow of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">This is the Oz book which L. Frank Baum considered his best.
-It starts quietly enough with Trot and Cap&rsquo;n Bill rowing along a shore of the
-Pacific Ocean to visit one of the many caves near their home on the California
-coast. Suddenly, a mighty whirlpool engulfs them. The old sailorman and the
-little girl are miraculously saved and regain consciousness to find themselves in
-a sea cavern. (To this day, Trot asserts she felt mermaid arms about her during
-those terrible moments under water.) From here on, one perilous adventure
-crowds in upon another. In Jinxland they meet the Scarecrow who takes charge
-of things once Cap&rsquo;n Bill is transformed into a tiny grasshopper with a wooden
-leg. An exciting royal reception greets the adventurers upon their return to the
-Emerald City.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>Rinkitink in Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Prince Inga of Pingaree is the boy hero of this fine story of
-peril-filled adventure in the islands of the Nonestic Ocean. King Rinkitink provides
-comic relief, and by the time you reach the final page you will love this
-fat, jolly little king. Bilbil the goat, with his surly disposition, provides a fine
-contrast to Rinkitink&rsquo;s merriment and Prince Inga&rsquo;s bravery and courage in the
-face of danger. Some may say that the three magic pearls are the real heroes
-of this story, but the pearls would have been of little use to King Kitticut and
-Queen Garee if Prince Inga hadn&rsquo;t used them wisely and courageously.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_271">271</div>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Lost Princess of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Talk about <i>Button-Bright</i> getting lost&mdash;<i>Ozma</i> is almost as bad!
-This is actually the second time Ozma has been lost. As you know, once she was
-&ldquo;lost&rdquo; for many years. But in this book she is lost for only a short time. As soon
-as it is discovered that the ruler of Oz is lost&mdash;and with her all the important
-magical instruments in Oz&mdash;search parties, one for each of the four countries
-of Oz, set out to find her. We follow the adventures of the party headed by
-Dorothy and the Wizard, who explore unknown parts of the Winkie Country in
-search of Ozma. How Ozma is found, and where she has been, will surprise you.
-Frogman, a new character, is introduced in this book.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Tin Woodman of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Woot the Wanderer causes this chapter of Oz history to transpire.
-When Woot wanders into the splendid tin castle of Nick Chopper, the Tin
-Woodman and Emperor of the Winkies, he meets the Scarecrow, who is visiting
-his old friend. The Tin Woodman tells Woot the story of how he had once been
-a flesh-and-blood woodman in love with a maiden named Nimmie Aimee. Woot
-suggests that since the Tin Woodman now has a kind and loving heart, it is his
-duty to find Nimmie Aimee and make her Empress of the Winkies. The Scarecrow
-agrees, so the three set off to search for the girl. No less surprising than the
-adventures encountered on the journey is Nimmie Aimee&rsquo;s reception of her
-former suitor.</p>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>The Magic of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">Old Ruggedo, the former Nome King, comes to Oz for the
-second time, and makes more trouble than he did on his first visit. Ruggedo
-never gives up the idea of conquering Oz, and this time he has the advantage
-of being in the country without Ozma&rsquo;s knowledge. Also, he has the magic and
-somewhat grudging help of Kiki Aru, the Munchkin boy who is illegally practicing
-the art. If you like magic, then this is a book for you. There&rsquo;s magic on
-every page, and everyone in the story eventually is transformed into something
-else, or bewitched in one way or another. Even the wild animals in the great
-Forest of Gugu do not escape.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_272">272</div>
-<h3 class="biblio"><i>Glinda of Oz</i></h3>
-<p class="biblio">This is the last Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. It is one of
-the best in the series, with Dorothy, Ozma, and Glinda in an adventure that
-takes them to an amazing crystal-domed city on an enchanted island. This island
-is situated in a lake in the Gillikin Country. Ozma and Glinda are confronted
-by powerful magic and determined enemies. For a time Dorothy and Ozma
-are prisoners in the crystal-domed city which is able to submerge below the
-surface of the lake. Few of the Oz books equal this one in suspense and mystery&mdash;a
-story that is truly &ldquo;out of this world.&rdquo;</p>
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-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/i300.jpg" alt="Back Cover" width="500" height="713" />
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-<h2 id="tn">Transcriber&rsquo;s Notes</h2><ul><li>Copyright notice provided as in the original&mdash;this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.</li>
-<li>Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.</li>
-<li>In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)</li></ul>
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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Magic of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
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-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most
-other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
-the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at
-www.gutenberg.org.  If you are not located in the United States, you'll have
-to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
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-Title: The Magic of Oz
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-Author: L. Frank Baum
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-Illustrator: John R. Neill
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-Release Date: October 13, 2015 [EBook #50194]
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-Language: English
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-Character set encoding: ASCII
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-*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGIC OF OZ ***
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-                          The Famous Oz Books
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-
-Since 1900, when L. Frank Baum introduced to the children of America THE
-WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and all the other exciting characters who inhabit
-the land of Oz, these delightful fairy tales have stimulated the
-imagination of millions of young readers.
-
-These are stories which are genuine fantasy--creative, funny, tender,
-exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most absurd
-creatures, each of the 40 volumes which now comprise the series, has
-been eagerly sought out by generation after generation until today they
-are known to all except the very young or those who were never young at
-all.
-
-When, in a recent survey, The New York Times polled a group of teen
-agers on the books they liked best when they were young, the Oz books
-topped the list.
-
-
-                         _THE FAMOUS OZ BOOKS_
-
-                            By L. Frank Baum:
-  THE WIZARD OF OZ
-  THE LAND OF OZ
-  OZMA OF OZ
-  DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ
-  THE ROAD TO OZ
-  THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
-  THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ
-  TIK-TOK OF OZ
-  THE SCARECROW OF OZ
-  RINKITINK IN OZ
-  THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ
-  THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ
-  THE MAGIC OF OZ
-  GLINDA OF OZ
-
-                         By Ruth Plumly Thompson:
-  THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ
-  KABUMPO IN OZ
-  THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ
-  GRAMPA IN OZ
-  THE LOST KING OF OZ
-  THE HUNGRY TIGER OF OZ
-  THE GNOME KING OF OZ
-  THE GIANT HORSE OF OZ
-  JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ
-  THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ
-  PIRATES IN OZ
-  THE PURPLE PRINCE OF OZ
-  OJO IN OZ
-  SPEEDY IN OZ
-  THE WISHING HORSE OF OZ
-  CAPTAIN SALT IN OZ
-  HANDY MANDY IN OZ
-  THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ
-  OZOPLANING WITH THE WIZARD OF OZ
-
-                            By John R. Neill:
-  THE WONDER CITY OF OZ
-  SCALAWAGONS OF OZ
-  LUCKY BUCKY IN OZ
-
-                              By Jack Snow:
-  THE MAGICAL MIMICS IN OZ
-  THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ
-
-                          By Rachel R. Cosgrove:
-  THE HIDDEN VALLEY OF OZ
-
-             By Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren McGraw Wagner:
-  MERRY GO ROUND IN OZ
-
-
-            Chicago    THE REILLY & LEE CO.    _Publishers_
-
-                  [Illustration: This Book Belongs To]
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-                   [Illustration: _The Magic of Oz_]
-
-                [Illustration: Dorothy _and the_ Wizard]
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-
-
-                            THE MAGIC OF OZ
-
-
-       A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy
-            and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the
-               Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n
-             Bill, in their successful search for a Magical
-                   and Beautiful Birthday Present for
-                          Princess Ozma of Oz
-
-
-                                   BY
-                             L. FRANK BAUM
-                        "Royal Historian of Oz"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             ILLUSTRATED BY
-                             JOHN R. NEILL
-
-
-                          The Reilly & Lee Co.
-                                Chicago
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                           Copyright 1919 By
-                              L Frank Baum
-                          All Rights Reserved
-                             MADE IN U.S.A.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-I Dedicate this Book to the Children of our Soldiers, the Americans and
-their Allies, with unmeasured Pride and Affection.
-                                                                L. F. B.
-
-         [Illustration: THE HUNGRY TIGER AND THE COWARDLY LION]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-                             TO MY READERS
-
-Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few
-years in our "great outside world," we may find incidents so marvelous
-and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of The Land
-of Oz.
-
-However, "The Magic of Oz" is really more strange and unusual than
-anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy
-Desert which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past
-exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.
-
-A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good
-letters sent me--unless stamps were enclosed--but from now on I hope to
-be able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my
-readers favor me.
-
-Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the Oz
-Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write
-them, I am
-                         Yours affectionately,
-                                                          L. FRANK BAUM,
-                                                "Royal Historian of Oz."
-
-      "OZCOT"
-  at HOLLYWOOD
-  in CALIFORNIA
-        1919
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                            LIST OF CHAPTERS
-
-
-  1 Mount Munch                                                       17
-  2 The Hawk                                                          27
-  3 Two Bad Ones                                                      34
-  4 Conspirators                                                      48
-  5 A Happy Corner of Oz                                              53
-  6 Ozma's Birthday Presents                                          65
-  7 The Forest of Gugu                                                81
-  8 The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble                                      87
-  9 The Isle of the Magic Flower                                      99
-  10 Stuck Fast                                                      112
-  11 The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu                                121
-  12 Kiki Uses His Magic                                             131
-  13 The Loss of the Black Bag                                       144
-  14 The Wizard Learns the Magic Word                                157
-  15 The Lonesome Duck                                               169
-  16 The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag                               183
-  17 A Remarkable Journey                                            197
-  18 The Magic of the Wizard                                         209
-  19 Dorothy and the Bumble Bees                                     217
-  20 The Monkeys Have Trouble                                        226
-  21 The College of Athletic Arts                                    235
-  22 Ozma's Birthday Party                                           240
-  23 The Fountain of Oblivion                                        255
-
-                              [Illustration]
-
-                     [Illustration: The Magic of Oz]
-
-                        [Illustration: Mt. Munch]
-
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-
-
-                              Mount Munch
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 1
-
-On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big,
-tall hill called Mount Munch. On one side, the bottom of this hill just
-touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from
-all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the
-beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins.
-
-The Munchkin folks, however, merely stand off and look at Mount Munch
-and know very little about it; for, about a third of the way up, its
-sides become too steep to climb, and if any people live upon the top of
-that great towering peak that seems to reach nearly to the skies, the
-Munchkins are not aware of the fact.
-
-But people _do_ live there, just the same. The top of Mount Munch is
-shaped like a saucer, broad and deep, and in the saucer are fields where
-grains and vegetables grow, and flocks are fed, and brooks flow and
-trees bear all sorts of things. There are houses scattered here and
-there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves.
-The Hyups seldom go down the mountain, for the same reason that the
-Munchkins never climb up: the sides are too steep.
-
-In one of the houses lived a wise old Hyup named Bini Aru, who used to
-be a clever Sorcerer. But Ozma of Oz, who rules everyone in the Land of
-Oz, had made a decree that no one should practice magic in her dominions
-except Glinda the Good and the Wizard of Oz, and when Glinda sent this
-royal command to the Hyups by means of a strong-winged Eagle, old Bini
-Aru at once stopped performing magical arts. He destroyed many of his
-magic powders and tools of magic, and afterward honestly obeyed the law.
-He had never seen Ozma, but he knew she was his Ruler and must be
-obeyed.
-
-There was only one thing that grieved him. He had discovered a new and
-secret method of transformations that was unknown to any other Sorcerer.
-Glinda the Good did not know it, nor did the little Wizard of Oz, nor
-Dr. Pipt nor old Mombi, nor anyone else who dealt in magic arts. It was
-Bini Aru's own secret. By its means, it was the simplest thing in the
-world to transform anyone into beast, bird or fish, or anything else,
-and back again, once you knew how to pronounce the mystical word:
-"Pyrzqxgl."
-
-Bini Aru had used this secret many times, but not to cause evil or
-suffering to others. When he had wandered far from home and was hungry,
-he would say: "I want to become a cow--Pyrzqxgl!" In an instant he would
-be a cow, and then he would eat grass and satisfy his hunger. All beasts
-and birds can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no longer
-hungry, it would say: "I want to be Bini Aru again: Pyrzqxgl!" and the
-magic word, properly pronounced, would instantly restore him to his
-proper form.
-
-Now, of course, I would not dare to write down this magic word so
-plainly if I thought my readers would pronounce it properly and so be
-able to transform themselves and others, but it is a fact that no one in
-all the world except Bini Aru, had ever (up to the time this story
-begins) been able to pronounce "Pyrzqxgl" the right way, so I think it
-is safe to give it to you. It might be well, however, in reading this
-story aloud, to be careful not to pronounce Pyrzqxgl the proper way, and
-thus avoid all danger of the secret being able to work mischief.
-
-Bini Aru, having discovered the secret of instant transformation, which
-required no tools or powders or other chemicals or herbs and always
-worked perfectly, was reluctant to have such a wonderful discovery
-entirely unknown or lost to all human knowledge. He decided not to use
-it again, since Ozma had forbidden him to do so, but he reflected that
-Ozma was a girl and some time might change her mind and allow her
-subjects to practice magic, in which case Bini Aru could again transform
-himself and others at will,--unless, of course, he forgot how to
-pronounce Pyrzqxgl in the meantime.
-
-After giving the matter careful thought, he decided to write the word,
-and how it should be pronounced, in some secret place, so that he could
-find it after many years, but where no one else could ever find it.
-
-That was a clever idea, but what bothered the old Sorcerer was to find a
-secret place. He wandered all over the Saucer at the top of Mount Munch,
-but found no place in which to write the secret word where others might
-not be likely to stumble upon it. So finally he decided it must be
-written somewhere in his own house.
-
-Bini Aru had a wife named Mopsi Aru who was famous for making fine
-huckleberry pies, and he had a son named Kiki Aru who was not famous at
-all. He was noted as being cross and disagreeable because he was not
-happy, and he was not happy because he wanted to go down the mountain
-and visit the big world below and his father would not let him. No one
-paid any attention to Kiki Aru, because he didn't amount to anything,
-anyway.
-
-Once a year there was a festival on Mount Munch which all the Hyups
-attended. It was held in the center of the saucer-shaped country, and
-the day was given over to feasting and merry-making. The young folks
-danced and sang songs; the women spread the tables with good things to
-eat, and the men played on musical instruments and told fairy tales.
-
-Kiki Aru usually went to these festivals with his parents, and then sat
-sullenly outside the circle and would not dance or sing or even talk to
-the other young people. So the festival did not make him any happier
-than other days, and this time he told Bini Aru and Mopsi Aru that he
-would not go. He would rather stay at home and be unhappy all by
-himself, he said, and so they gladly let him stay.
-
-But after he was left alone Kiki decided to enter his father's private
-room, where he was forbidden to go, and see if he could find any of the
-magic tools Bini Aru used to work with when he practiced sorcery. As he
-went in Kiki stubbed his toe on one of the floor boards. He searched
-everywhere but found no trace of his father's magic. All had been
-destroyed.
-
-Much disappointed, he started to go out again when he stubbed his toe on
-the same floor board. That set him thinking. Examining the board more
-closely, Kiki found it had been pried up and then nailed down again in
-such a manner that it was a little higher than the other boards. But why
-had his father taken up the board? Had he hidden some of his magic tools
-underneath the floor?
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Kiki got a chisel and pried up the board, but found nothing under it. He
-was just about to replace the board when it slipped from his hand and
-turned over, and he saw something written on the underside of it. The
-light was rather dim, so he took the board to the window and examined
-it, and found that the writing described exactly how to pronounce the
-magic word Pyrzqxgl, which would transform anyone into anything
-instantly, and back again when the word was repeated.
-
-Now, at first, Kiki Aru didn't realize what a wonderful secret he had
-discovered; but he thought it might be of use to him and so he took a
-piece of paper and made on it an exact copy of the instructions for
-pronouncing Pyrzqxgl. Then he folded the paper and put it in his pocket,
-and replaced the board in the floor so that no one would suspect it had
-been removed.
-
-After this Kiki went into the garden and sitting beneath a tree made a
-careful study of the paper. He had always wanted to get away from Mount
-Munch and visit the big world--especially the Land of Oz--and the idea
-now came to him that if he could transform himself into a bird, he could
-fly to any place he wished to go and fly back again whenever he cared
-to. It was necessary, however, to learn by heart the way to pronounce
-the magic word, because a bird would have no way to carry a paper with
-it, and Kiki would be unable to resume his proper shape if he forgot the
-word or its pronunciation.
-
-So he studied it a long time, repeating it a hundred times in his mind
-until he was sure he would not forget it. But to make safety doubly sure
-he placed the paper in a tin box in a neglected part of the garden and
-covered the box with small stones.
-
-By this time it was getting late in the day and Kiki wished to attempt
-his first transformation before his parents returned from the festival.
-So he stood on the front porch of his home and said:
-
-"I want to become a big, strong bird, like a hawk--Pyrzqxgl!" He
-pronounced it the right way, so in a flash he felt that he was
-completely changed in form. He flapped his wings, hopped to the porch
-railing and said: "Caw-oo! Caw-oo!"
-
-Then he laughed and said half aloud: "I suppose that's the funny sound
-this sort of a bird makes. But now let me try my wings and see if I'm
-strong enough to fly across the desert."
-
-For he had decided to make his first trip to the country outside the
-Land of Oz. He had stolen this secret of transformation and he knew he
-had disobeyed the law of Oz by working magic. Perhaps Glinda or the
-Wizard of Oz would discover him and punish him, so it would be good
-policy to keep away from Oz altogether.
-
-Slowly Kiki rose into the air, and resting on his broad wings, floated
-in graceful circles above the saucer-shaped mountain-top. From his
-height, he could see, far across the burning sands of the Deadly Desert,
-another country that might be pleasant to explore, so he headed that
-way, and with strong, steady strokes of his wings, began the long
-flight.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                                THE HAWK
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 2
-
-Even a hawk has to fly high in order to cross the Deadly Desert, from
-which poisonous fumes are constantly rising. Kiki Aru felt sick and
-faint by the time he reached good land again, for he could not quite
-escape the effects of the poisons. But the fresh air soon restored him
-and he alighted in a broad table-land which is called Hiland. Just
-beyond it is a valley known as Loland, and these two countries are ruled
-by the Gingerbread Man, John Dough, with Chick the Cherub as his Prime
-Minister. The Hawk merely stopped here long enough to rest, and then he
-flew north and passed over a fine country called Merryland, which is
-ruled by a lovely Wax Doll. Then, following the curve of the Desert, he
-turned north and settled on a tree-top in the Kingdom of Noland.
-
-Kiki was tired by this time, and the sun was now setting, so he decided
-to remain here till morning. From his tree-top he could see a house near
-by, which looked very comfortable. A man was milking a cow in the yard
-and a pleasant-faced woman came to the door and called him to supper.
-
-That made Kiki wonder what sort of food hawks ate. He felt hungry, but
-didn't know what to eat or where to get it. Also he thought a bed would
-be more comfortable than a tree-top for sleeping, so he hopped to the
-ground and said: "I want to become Kiki Aru again--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-Instantly he had resumed his natural shape, and going to the house, he
-knocked upon the door and asked for some supper.
-
-"Who are you?" asked the man of the house.
-
-"A stranger from the Land of Oz," replied Kiki Aru.
-
-"Then you are welcome," said the man.
-
-Kiki was given a good supper and a good bed, and he behaved very well,
-although he refused to answer all the questions the good people of
-Noland asked him. Having escaped from his home and found a way to see
-the world, the young man was no longer unhappy, and so he was no longer
-cross and disagreeable. The people thought him a very respectable person
-and gave him breakfast next morning, after which he started on his way
-feeling quite contented.
-
-Having walked for an hour or two through the pretty country that is
-ruled by King Bud, Kiki Aru decided he could travel faster and see more
-as a bird, so he transformed himself into a white dove and visited the
-great city of Nole and saw the King's palace and gardens and many other
-places of interest. Then he flew westward into the Kingdom of Ix, and
-after a day in Queen Zixi's country went on westward into the Land of
-Ev. Every place he visited he thought was much more pleasant than the
-saucer-country of the Hyups, and he decided that when he reached the
-finest country of all he would settle there and enjoy his future life to
-the utmost.
-
-In the Land of Ev he resumed his own shape again, for the cities and
-villages were close together and he could easily go on foot from one to
-another of them.
-
-Toward evening he came to a good Inn and asked the inn-keeper if he
-could have food and lodging.
-
-"You can if you have the money to pay," said the man, "otherwise you
-must go elsewhere."
-
-This surprised Kiki, for in the Land of Oz they do not use money at all,
-everyone being allowed to take what he wishes without price. He had no
-money, therefore, and so he turned away to seek hospitality elsewhere.
-Looking through an open window into one of the rooms of the Inn, as he
-passed along, he saw an old man counting on a table a big heap of gold
-pieces, which Kiki thought to be money. One of these would buy him
-supper and a bed, he reflected, so he transformed himself into a magpie
-and, flying through the open window, caught up one of the gold pieces in
-his beak and flew out again before the old man could interfere. Indeed,
-the old man who was robbed was quite helpless, for he dared not leave
-his pile of gold to chase the magpie, and before he could place the gold
-in a sack and the sack in his pocket the robber bird was out of sight
-and to seek it would be folly.
-
-Kiki Aru flew to a group of trees and, dropping the gold piece to the
-ground, resumed his proper shape, and then picked up the money and put
-it in his pocket.
-
-"You'll be sorry for this!" exclaimed a small voice just over his head.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Kiki looked up and saw that a sparrow, perched upon a branch, was
-watching him.
-
-"Sorry for what?" he demanded.
-
-"Oh, I saw the whole thing," asserted the sparrow. "I saw you look in
-the window at the gold, and then make yourself into a magpie and rob the
-poor man, and then I saw you fly here and make the bird into your former
-shape. That's magic, and magic is wicked and unlawful; and you stole
-money, and that's a still greater crime. You'll be sorry, some day."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"I don't care," replied Kiki Aru, scowling.
-
-"Aren't you afraid to be wicked?" asked the sparrow.
-
-"No, I didn't know I was being wicked," said Kiki, "but if I was, I'm
-glad of it. I hate good people. I've always wanted to be wicked, but I
-didn't know how."
-
-"Haw, haw, haw!" laughed someone behind him, in a big voice; "that's the
-proper spirit, my lad! I'm glad I've met you; shake hands."
-
-The sparrow gave a frightened squeak and flew away.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                              Two Bad Ones
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 3
-
-Kiki turned around and saw a queer old man standing near. He didn't
-stand straight, for he was crooked. He had a fat body and thin legs and
-arms. He had a big, round face with bushy, white whiskers that came to a
-point below his waist, and white hair that came to a point on top of his
-head. He wore dull-gray clothes that were tight fitting, and his pockets
-were all bunched out as if stuffed full of something.
-
-"I didn't know you were here," said Kiki.
-
-"I didn't come until after you did," said the queer old man.
-
-"Who are you?" asked Kiki.
-
-"My name's Ruggedo. I used to be the Nome King; but I got kicked out of
-my country, and now I'm a wanderer."
-
-"What made them kick you out?" inquired the Hyup boy.
-
-"Well, it's the fashion to kick kings nowadays. I was a pretty good
-King--to myself--but those dreadful Oz people wouldn't let me alone. So
-I had to abdicate."
-
-"What does that mean?"
-
-"It means to be kicked out. But let's talk about something pleasant. Who
-are you and where did you come from?"
-
-"I'm called Kiki Aru. I used to live on Mount Munch in the Land of Oz,
-but now I'm a wanderer like yourself."
-
-The Nome King gave him a shrewd look.
-
-"I heard that bird say that you transformed yourself into a magpie and
-back again. Is that true?"
-
-Kiki hesitated, but saw no reason to deny it. He felt that it would make
-him appear more important.
-
-"Well--yes," he said.
-
-"Then you're a wizard?"
-
-"No; I only understand transformations," he admitted.
-
-"Well, that's pretty good magic, anyhow," declared old Ruggedo. "I used
-to have some very fine magic, myself, but my enemies took it all away
-from me. Where are you going now?"
-
-"I'm going into the inn, to get some supper and a bed," said Kiki.
-
-"Have you the money to pay for it?" asked the Nome.
-
-"I have one gold piece."
-
-"Which you stole. Very good. And you're glad that you're wicked. Better
-yet. I like you, young man, and I'll go to the inn with you if you'll
-promise not to eat eggs for supper."
-
-"Don't you like eggs?" asked Kiki.
-
-"I'm afraid of 'em; they're dangerous!" said Ruggedo, with a shudder.
-
-"All right," agreed Kiki; "I won't ask for eggs."
-
-"Then come along," said the Nome.
-
-When they entered the inn, the landlord scowled at Kiki and said:
-
-"I told you I would not feed you unless you had money."
-
-Kiki showed him the gold piece.
-
-"And how about you?" asked the landlord, turning to Ruggedo. "Have you
-money?"
-
-"I've something better," answered the old Nome, and taking a bag from
-one of his pockets he poured from it upon the table a mass of glittering
-gems--diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
-
-The landlord was very polite to the strangers after that. He served them
-an excellent supper, and while they ate it, the Hyup boy asked his
-companion:
-
-"Where did you get so many jewels?"
-
-"Well, I'll tell you," answered the Nome. "When those Oz people took my
-kingdom away from me--just because it was my kingdom and I wanted to run
-it to suit myself--they said I could take as many precious stones as I
-could carry. So I had a lot of pockets made in my clothes and loaded
-them all up. Jewels are fine things to have with you when you travel;
-you can trade them for anything."
-
-"Are they better than gold pieces?" asked Kiki.
-
-"The smallest of these jewels is worth a hundred gold pieces such as you
-stole from the old man."
-
-"Don't talk so loud," begged Kiki, uneasily. "Some one else might hear
-what you are saying."
-
-After supper they took a walk together, and the former Nome King said:
-
-"Do you know the Shaggy Man, and the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, and
-Dorothy, and Ozma and all the other Oz people?"
-
-"No," replied the boy, "I have never been away from Mount Munch until I
-flew over the Deadly Desert the other day in the shape of a hawk."
-
-"Then you've never seen the Emerald City of Oz?"
-
-"Never."
-
-"Well," said the Nome, "I knew all the Oz people, and you can guess I do
-not love them. All during my wanderings I have brooded on how I can be
-revenged on them. Now that I've met you I can see a way to conquer the
-Land of Oz and be King there myself, which is better than being King of
-the Nomes."
-
-"How can you do that?" inquired Kiki Aru, wonderingly.
-
-"Never mind how. In the first place, I'll make a bargain with you. Tell
-me the secret of how to perform transformations and I will give you a
-pocketful of jewels, the biggest and finest that I possess."
-
-"No," said Kiki, who realized that to share his power with another would
-be dangerous to himself.
-
-"I'll give you _two_ pocketsful of jewels," said the Nome.
-
-"No;" answered Kiki.
-
-"I'll give you every jewel I possess."
-
-"No, no, no!" said Kiki, who was beginning to be frightened.
-
-"Then," said the Nome, with a wicked look at the boy, "I'll tell the
-inn-keeper that you stole that gold piece and he will have you put in
-prison."
-
-Kiki laughed at the threat.
-
-"Before he can do that," said he, "I will transform myself into a lion
-and tear him to pieces, or into a bear and eat him up, or into a fly and
-fly away where he could not find me."
-
-"Can you really do such wonderful transformations?" asked the old Nome,
-looking at him curiously.
-
-"Of course," declared Kiki. "I can transform you into a stick of wood,
-in a flash, or into a stone, and leave you here by the roadside."
-
-The wicked Nome shivered a little when he heard that, but it made him
-long more than ever to possess the great secret. After a while he said:
-
-"I'll tell you what I'll do. If you will help me to conquer Oz and to
-transform the Oz people, who are my enemies, into sticks or stones, by
-telling me your secret, I'll agree to make _you_ the Ruler of all Oz,
-and I will be your Prime Minister and see that your orders are obeyed."
-
-"I'll help do that," said Kiki, "but I won't tell you my secret."
-
-The Nome was so furious at this refusal that he jumped up and down with
-rage and spluttered and choked for a long time before he could control
-his passion. But the boy was not at all frightened. He laughed at the
-wicked old Nome, which made him more furious than ever.
-
-"Let's give up the idea," he proposed, when Ruggedo had quieted
-somewhat. "I don't know the Oz people you mention and so they are not my
-enemies. If they've kicked you out of your kingdom, that's your
-affair--not mine."
-
-"Wouldn't you like to be king of that splendid fairyland?" asked
-Ruggedo.
-
-"Yes, I would," replied Kiki Aru; "but you want to be king yourself, and
-we would quarrel over it."
-
-"No," said the Nome, trying to deceive him. "I don't care to be king of
-Oz, come to think it over. I don't even care to live in that country.
-What I want first is revenge. If we can conquer Oz, I'll get enough
-magic then to conquer my own kingdom of the Nomes, and I'll go back and
-live in my underground caverns, which are more home-like than the top of
-the earth. So here's my proposition: Help me conquer Oz and get revenge,
-and help me get the magic away from Glinda and the Wizard, and I'll let
-you be King of Oz forever afterward."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"I'll think it over," answered Kiki, and that is all he would say that
-evening.
-
-In the night when all in the Inn were asleep but himself, old Ruggedo
-the Nome, rose softly from his couch and went into the room of Kiki Aru
-the Hyup, and searched everywhere for the magic tool that performed his
-transformations. Of course, there was no such tool, and although Ruggedo
-searched in all the boy's pockets, he found nothing magical whatever. So
-he went back to his bed and began to doubt that Kiki could perform
-transformations.
-
-Next morning he said:
-
-"Which way do you travel to-day?"
-
-"I think I shall visit the Rose Kingdom," answered the boy.
-
-"That is a long journey," declared the Nome.
-
-"I shall transform myself into a bird," said Kiki, "and so fly to the
-Rose Kingdom in an hour."
-
-"Then transform me, also, into a bird, and I will go with you,"
-suggested Ruggedo. "But, in that case, let us fly together to the Land
-of Oz, and see what it looks like."
-
-Kiki thought this over. Pleasant as were the countries he had visited,
-he heard everywhere that the Land of Oz was more beautiful and
-delightful. The Land of Oz was his own country, too, and if there was
-any possibility of his becoming its King, he must know something about
-it.
-
-While Kiki the Hyup thought, Ruggedo the Nome was also thinking. This
-boy possessed a marvelous power, and although very simple in some ways,
-he was determined not to part with his secret. However, if Ruggedo could
-get him to transport the wily old Nome to Oz, which he could reach in no
-other way, he might then induce the boy to follow his advice and enter
-into the plot for revenge, which he had already planned in his wicked
-heart.
-
-"There are wizards and magicians in Oz," remarked Kiki, after a time.
-"They might discover us, in spite of our transformations."
-
-"Not if we are careful," Ruggedo assured him. "Ozma has a Magic Picture,
-in which she can see whatever she wishes to see; but Ozma will know
-nothing of our going to Oz, and so she will not command her Magic
-Picture to show where we are or what we are doing. Glinda the Good has a
-Great Book called the Book of Records, in which is magically written
-everything that people do in the Land of Oz, just the instant they do
-it."
-
-"Then," said Kiki, "there is no use our attempting to conquer the
-country, for Glinda would read in her book all that we do, and as her
-magic is greater than mine, she would soon put a stop to our plans."
-
-"I said 'people,' didn't I?" retorted the Nome. "The book doesn't make a
-record of what birds do, or beasts. It only tells the doings of people.
-So, if we fly into the country as birds, Glinda won't know anything
-about it."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Two birds couldn't conquer the Land of Oz," asserted the boy,
-scornfully.
-
-"No; that's true," admitted Ruggedo, and then he rubbed his forehead and
-stroked his long pointed beard and thought some more.
-
-"Ah, now I have the idea!" he declared. "I suppose you can transform us
-into beasts as well as birds?"
-
-"Of course."
-
-"And can you make a bird a beast, and a beast a bird again, without
-taking a human form in between?"
-
-"Certainly," said Kiki. "I can transform myself or others into anything
-that can talk. There's a magic word that must be spoken in connection
-with the transformations, and as beasts and birds and dragons and fishes
-can talk in Oz, we may become any of these we desire to. However, if I
-transformed myself into a tree, I would always remain a tree, because
-then I could not utter the magic word to change the transformation."
-
-"I see; I see," said Ruggedo, nodding his bushy, white head until the
-point of his hair waved back and forth like a pendulum. "That fits in
-with my idea, exactly. Now, listen, and I'll explain to you my plan.
-We'll fly to Oz as birds and settle in one of the thick forests in the
-Gillikin Country. There you will transform us into powerful beasts, and
-as Glinda doesn't keep any track of the doings of beasts we can act
-without being discovered."
-
-"But how can two beasts raise an army to conquer the powerful people of
-Oz?" inquired Kiki.
-
-"That's easy. But not an army of _people_, mind you. That would be
-quickly discovered. And while we are in Oz you and I will never resume
-our human forms until we've conquered the country and destroyed Glinda,
-and Ozma, and the Wizard, and Dorothy, and all the rest, and so have
-nothing more to fear from them."
-
-"It is impossible to kill anyone in the Land of Oz," declared Kiki.
-
-"It isn't necessary to kill the Oz people," rejoined Ruggedo.
-
-"I'm afraid I don't understand you," objected the boy. "What will happen
-to the Oz people, and what sort of an army could we get together, except
-of people?"
-
-"I'll tell you. The forests of Oz are full of beasts. Some of them, in
-the far-away places, are savage and cruel, and would gladly follow a
-leader as savage as themselves. They have never troubled the Oz people
-much, because they had no leader to urge them on, but we will tell them
-to help us conquer Oz and as a reward we will transform all the beasts
-into men and women, and let them live in the houses and enjoy all the
-good things; and we will transform all the people of Oz into beasts of
-various sorts, and send them to live in the forests and the jungles.
-That is a splendid idea, you must admit, and it's so easy that we won't
-have any trouble at all to carry it through to success."
-
-"Will the beasts consent, do you think?" asked the boy.
-
-"To be sure they will. We can get every beast in Oz on our side--except
-a few who live in Ozma's palace, and they won't count."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                              Conspirators
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 4
-
-Kiki Aru didn't know much about Oz and didn't know much about the beasts
-who lived there, but the old Nome's plan seemed to him to be quite
-reasonable. He had a faint suspicion that Ruggedo meant to get the best
-of him in some way, and he resolved to keep a close watch on his
-fellow-conspirator. As long as he kept to himself the secret word of the
-transformations, Ruggedo would not dare to harm him, and he promised
-himself that as soon as they had conquered Oz, he would transform the
-old Nome into a marble statue and keep him in that form forever.
-
-Ruggedo, on his part, decided that he could, by careful watching and
-listening, surprise the boy's secret, and when he had learned the magic
-word he would transform Kiki Aru into a bundle of faggots and burn him
-up and so be rid of him.
-
-This is always the way with wicked people. They cannot be trusted even
-by one another. Ruggedo thought he was fooling Kiki, and Kiki thought he
-was fooling Ruggedo; so both were pleased.
-
-"It's a long way across the Desert," remarked the boy, "and the sands
-are hot and send up poisonous vapors. Let us wait until evening and then
-fly across in the night when it will be cooler."
-
-The former Nome King agreed to this, and the two spent the rest of that
-day in talking over their plans. When evening came they paid the
-inn-keeper and walked out to a little grove of trees that stood near by.
-
-"Remain here for a few minutes and I'll soon be back," said Kiki, and
-walking swiftly away, he left the Nome standing in the grove. Ruggedo
-wondered where he had gone, but stood quietly in his place until, all of
-a sudden, his form changed to that of a great eagle, and he uttered a
-piercing cry of astonishment and flapped his wings in a sort of panic.
-At once his eagle cry was answered from beyond the grove, and another
-eagle, even larger and more powerful than the transformed Ruggedo, came
-sailing through the trees and alighted beside him.
-
-"Now we are ready for the start," said the voice of Kiki, coming from
-the eagle.
-
-Ruggedo realized that this time he had been outwitted. He had thought
-Kiki would utter the magic word in his presence, and so he would learn
-what it was, but the boy had been too shrewd for that.
-
-As the two eagles mounted high into the air and began their flight
-across the great Desert that separates the Land of Oz from all the rest
-of the world, the Nome said:
-
-"When I was king of the Nomes I had a magic way of working
-transformations that I thought was good, but it could not compare with
-your secret word. I had to have certain tools and make passes and say a
-lot of mystic words before I could transform anybody."
-
-"What became of your magic tools?" inquired Kiki.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"The Oz people took them all away from me--that horrid girl, Dorothy,
-and that terrible fairy, Ozma, the Ruler of Oz--at the time they took
-away my underground kingdom and kicked me upstairs into the cold,
-heartless world."
-
-"Why did you let them do that?" asked the boy.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Well," said Ruggedo, "I couldn't help it. They rolled eggs at
-me--_eggs_--dreadful eggs!--and if an egg even touches a Nome, he is
-ruined for life."
-
-"Is any kind of an egg dangerous to a Nome?"
-
-"Any kind and every kind. An egg is the only thing I'm afraid of."
-
-
-
-
-                          A Happy Corner of Oz
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 5
-
-There is no other country so beautiful as the Land of Oz. There are no
-other people so happy and contented and prosperous as the Oz people.
-They have all they desire; they love and admire their beautiful girl
-Ruler, Ozma of Oz, and they mix work and play so justly that both are
-delightful and satisfying and no one has any reason to complain. Once in
-a while something happens in Oz to disturb the people's happiness for a
-brief time, for so rich and attractive a fairyland is sure to make a few
-selfish and greedy outsiders envious, and therefore certain evil-doers
-have treacherously plotted to conquer Oz and enslave its people and
-destroy its girl Ruler, and so gain the wealth of Oz for themselves. But
-up to the time when the cruel and crafty Nome, Ruggedo, conspired with
-Kiki Aru, the Hyup, all such attempts had failed. The Oz people
-suspected no danger. Life in the world's nicest fairyland was one round
-of joyous, happy days.
-
-In the center of the Emerald City of Oz, the capital city of Ozma's
-dominions, is a vast and beautiful garden, surrounded by a wall inlaid
-with shining emeralds, and in the center of this garden stands Ozma's
-Royal Palace, the most splendid building ever constructed. From a
-hundred towers and domes floated the banners of Oz, which included the
-Ozmies, the Munchkins, the Gillikins, the Winkies and the Quadlings. The
-banner of the Munchkins is blue, that of the Winkies yellow; the
-Gillikin banner is purple, and the Quadling's banner is red. The colors
-of the Emerald City are of course green. Ozma's own banner has a green
-center, and is divided into four quarters. These quarters are colored
-blue, purple, yellow and red, indicating that she rules over all the
-countries of the Land of Oz.
-
-This fairyland is so big, however, that all of it is not yet known to
-its girl Ruler, and it is said that in some far parts of the country, in
-forests and mountain fastnesses, in hidden valleys and thick jungles,
-are people and beasts that know as little about Ozma as she knows of
-them. Still, these unknown subjects are not nearly so numerous as the
-known inhabitants of Oz, who occupy all the countries near to the
-Emerald City. Indeed, I'm sure it will not be long until all parts of
-the fairyland of Oz are explored and their peoples made acquainted with
-their Ruler, for in Ozma's palace are several of her friends who are so
-curious that they are constantly discovering new and extraordinary
-places and inhabitants.
-
-One of the most frequent discoverers of these hidden places in Oz is a
-little Kansas girl named Dorothy, who is Ozma's dearest friend and lives
-in luxurious rooms in the Royal Palace. Dorothy is, indeed, a Princess
-of Oz, but she does not like to be called a princess, and because she is
-simple and sweet and does not pretend to be anything but an ordinary
-little girl, she is called just "Dorothy" by everybody and is the most
-popular person, next to Ozma, in all the Land of Oz.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-One morning Dorothy crossed the hall of the palace and knocked on the
-door of another girl named Trot, also a guest and friend of Ozma. When
-told to enter, Dorothy found that Trot had company, an old sailor-man
-with one wooden leg and one meat leg, who was sitting by the open window
-puffing smoke from a corn-cob pipe. This sailor-man was named Cap'n
-Bill, and he had accompanied Trot to the Land of Oz and was her oldest
-and most faithful comrade and friend. Dorothy liked Cap'n Bill, too, and
-after she had greeted him, she said to Trot:
-
-"You know, Ozma's birthday is next month, and I've been wondering what I
-can give her as a birthday present. She's so good to us all that we
-certainly ought to remember her birthday."
-
-"That's true," agreed Trot. "I've been wondering, too, what I could give
-Ozma. It's pretty hard to decide, 'cause she's got already all she
-wants, and as she's a fairy and knows a lot about magic, she could
-satisfy any wish."
-
-"I know," returned Dorothy, "but that isn't the point. It isn't that
-Ozma _needs_ anything, but that it will please her to know we've
-remembered her birthday. But what shall we give her?"
-
-Trot shook her head in despair.
-
-"I've tried to think and I can't," she declared.
-
-"It's the same way with me," said Dorothy.
-
-"I know one thing that 'ud please her," remarked Cap'n Bill, turning his
-round face with its fringe of whiskers toward the two girls and staring
-at them with his big, light-blue eyes wide open.
-
-"What is it, Cap'n Bill?"
-
-"It's an Enchanted Flower," said he. "It's a pretty plant that stands in
-a golden flower-pot an' grows all sorts o' flowers, one after another.
-One minute a fine rose buds an' blooms, an' then a tulip, an' next a
-chrys--chrys--"
-
-"--anthemum," said Dorothy, helping him.
-
-"That's it; and next a dahlia, an' then a daffydil, an' on all through
-the range o' posies. Jus' as soon as one fades away, another comes, of a
-different sort, an' the perfume from 'em is mighty snifty, an' they
-keeps bloomin' night and day, year in an' year out."
-
-"That's wonderful!" exclaimed Dorothy. "I think Ozma would like it."
-
-"But where is the Magic Flower, and how can we get it?" asked Trot.
-
-"Dun'no, zac'ly," slowly replied Cap'n Bill. "The Glass Cat tol' me
-about it only yesterday, an' said it was in some lonely place up at the
-nor'east o' here. The Glass Cat goes travelin' all around Oz, you know,
-an' the little critter sees a lot o' things no one else does."
-
-"That's true," said Dorothy, thoughtfully. "Northeast of here must be in
-the Munchkin Country, and perhaps a good way off, so let's ask the Glass
-Cat to tell us how to get to the Magic Flower."
-
-So the two girls, with Cap'n Bill stumping along on his wooden leg after
-them, went out into the garden, and after some time spent in searching,
-they found the Glass Cat curled up in the sunshine beside a bush, fast
-asleep.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was
-made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her
-subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat to catch mice,
-but the Cat refused to catch mice and was considered more curious than
-useful.
-
-This astonishing cat was made all of glass and was so clear and
-transparent that you could see through it as easily as through a window.
-In the top of its head, however, was a mass of delicate pink balls which
-looked like jewels but were intended for brains. It had a heart made of
-a blood-red ruby. The eyes were two large emeralds. But, aside from
-these colors, all the rest of the animal was of clear glass, and it had
-a spun-glass tail that was really beautiful.
-
-"Here, wake up," said Cap'n Bill. "We want to talk to you."
-
-Slowly the Glass Cat got upon its feet, yawned and then looked at the
-three who stood before it.
-
-"How dare you disturb me?" it asked in a peevish voice. "You ought to be
-ashamed of yourselves."
-
-"Never mind that," returned the Sailor. "Do you remember tellin' me
-yesterday 'bout a Magic Flower in a Gold Pot?"
-
-"Do you think I'm a fool? Look at my brains--you can see 'em work. Of
-course I remember!" said the cat.
-
-"Well, where can we find it?"
-
-"You can't. It's none of your business, anyhow. Go away and let me
-sleep," advised the Glass Cat.
-
-"Now, see here," said Dorothy; "we want the Magic Flower to give to Ozma
-on her birthday. You'd be glad to please Ozma, wouldn't you?"
-
-"I'm not sure," replied the creature. "Why should I want to please
-anybody?"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"You've got a heart, 'cause I can see it inside of you," said Trot.
-
-"Yes; it's a pretty heart, and I'm fond of it," said the cat, twisting
-around to view its own body. "But it's made from a ruby, and it's hard
-as nails."
-
-"Aren't you good for _any_thing?" asked Trot.
-
-"Yes, I'm pretty to look at, and that's more than can be said of you,"
-retorted the creature.
-
-Trot laughed at this, and Dorothy, who understood the Glass Cat pretty
-well, said soothingly:
-
-"You are indeed beautiful, and if you can tell Cap'n Bill where to find
-the Magic Flower, all the people in Oz will praise your cleverness. The
-Flower will belong to Ozma, but everyone will know the Glass Cat
-discovered it."
-
-This was the kind of praise the crystal creature liked.
-
-"Well," it said, while the pink brains rolled around, "I found the Magic
-Flower way up in the north of the Munchkin Country where few people live
-or ever go. There's a river there that flows through a forest, and in
-the middle of the river in the middle of the forest there is a small
-island on which stands the gold pot in which grows the Magic Flower."
-
-"How did you get to the island?" asked Dorothy. "Glass cats can't swim."
-
-"No, but I'm not afraid of water," was the reply. "I just walked across
-the river on the bottom."
-
-"Under the water?" exclaimed Trot.
-
-The cat gave her a scornful look.
-
-"How could I walk _over_ the water on the _bottom_ of the river? If you
-were transparent, anyone could see _your_ brains were not working. But
-I'm sure you could never find the place alone. It has always been hidden
-from the Oz people."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"But you, with your fine pink brains, could find it again, I s'pose,"
-remarked Dorothy.
-
-"Yes; and if you want that Magic Flower for Ozma, I'll go with you and
-show you the way."
-
-"That's lovely of you!" declared Dorothy. "Trot and Cap'n Bill will go
-with you, for this is to be their birthday present to Ozma. While you're
-gone I'll have to find something else to give her."
-
-"All right. Come on, then, Cap'n," said the Glass Cat, starting to move
-away.
-
-"Wait a minute," begged Trot. "How long will we be gone?"
-
-"Oh, about a week."
-
-"Then I'll put some things in a basket to take with us," said the girl,
-and ran into the palace to make her preparations for the journey.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                        Ozma's Birthday Presents
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 6
-
-When Cap'n Bill and Trot and the Glass Cat had started for the hidden
-island in the far-off river to get the Magic Flower, Dorothy wondered
-again what she could give Ozma on her birthday. She met the Patchwork
-Girl and said:
-
-"What are you going to give Ozma for a birthday present?"
-
-"I've written a song for her," answered the strange Patchwork Girl, who
-went by the name of "Scraps," and who, though stuffed with cotton, had a
-fair assortment of mixed brains. "It's a splendid song and the chorus
-runs this way:
-
-        "I am crazy;
-        You're a daisy,
-          Ozma dear;
-        I'm demented;
-        You're contented,
-          Ozma dear;
-  I am patched and gay and glary;
-  You're a sweet and lovely fairy;
-  May your birthdays all be happy,
-          Ozma dear!"
-
-"How do you like it, Dorothy?" inquired the Patchwork Girl.
-
-"Is it good poetry, Scraps?" asked Dorothy, doubtfully.
-
-"It's as good as any ordinary song," was the reply. "I have given it a
-dandy title, too. I shall call the song: 'When Ozma Has a Birthday,
-Everybody's Sure to Be Gay, for She Cannot Help the Fact That She Was
-Born.'"
-
-"That's a pretty long title, Scraps," said Dorothy.
-
-"That makes it stylish," replied the Patchwork Girl, turning a
-somersault and alighting on one stuffed foot. "Now-a-days the titles are
-sometimes longer than the songs."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy left her and walked slowly toward the palace, where she met the
-Tin Woodman just going up the front steps.
-
-"What are you going to give Ozma on her birthday?" she asked.
-
-"It's a secret, but I'll tell you," replied the Tin Woodman, who was
-Emperor of the Winkies. "I am having my people make Ozma a lovely girdle
-set with beautiful tin nuggets. Each tin nugget will be surrounded by a
-circle of emeralds, just to set it off to good advantage. The clasp of
-the girdle will be pure tin! Won't that be fine?"
-
-"I'm sure she'll like it," said Dorothy. "Do you know what _I_ can give
-her?"
-
-"I haven't the slightest idea, Dorothy. It took me three months to think
-of my own present for Ozma."
-
-The girl walked thoughtfully around to the back of the palace, and
-presently came upon the famous Scarecrow of Oz, who was having two of
-the palace servants stuff his legs with fresh straw.
-
-"What are you going to give Ozma on her birthday?" asked Dorothy.
-
-"I want to surprise her," answered the Scarecrow.
-
-"I won't tell," promised Dorothy.
-
-"Well, I'm having some straw slippers made for her--all straw, mind you,
-and braided very artistically. Ozma has always admired my straw filling,
-so I'm sure she'll be pleased with these lovely straw slippers."
-
-"Ozma will be pleased with anything her loving friends give her," said
-the girl. "What _I'm_ worried about, Scarecrow, is what to give Ozma
-that she hasn't got already."
-
-"That's what worried me, until I thought of the slippers," said the
-Scarecrow. "You'll have to _think_, Dorothy; that's the only way to get
-a good idea. If I hadn't such wonderful brains, I'd never have thought
-of those straw foot-decorations."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy left him and went to her room, where she sat down and tried to
-think hard. A Pink Kitten was curled up on the window-sill and Dorothy
-asked her:
-
-"What can I give Ozma for her birthday present?"
-
-"Oh, give her some milk," replied the Pink Kitten; "that's the nicest
-thing I know of."
-
-A fuzzy little black dog had squatted down at Dorothy's feet and now
-looked up at her with intelligent eyes.
-
-"Tell me, Toto," said the girl; "what would Ozma like best for a
-birthday present?"
-
-The little black dog wagged his tail.
-
-"Your love," said he. "Ozma wants to be loved more than anything else."
-
-"But I already love her, Toto!"
-
-"Then tell her you love her twice as much as you ever did before."
-
-"That wouldn't be true," objected Dorothy, "for I've always loved her as
-much as I could, and, really, Toto, I want to give Ozma some _present_,
-'cause everyone else will give her a present."
-
-"Let me see," said Toto. "How would it be to give her that useless Pink
-Kitten?"
-
-"No, Toto; that wouldn't do."
-
-"Then six kisses."
-
-"No; that's no present."
-
-"Well, I guess you'll have to figure it out for yourself, Dorothy," said
-the little dog. "To _my_ notion you're more particular than Ozma will
-be."
-
-Dorothy decided that if anyone could help her it would be Glinda the
-Good, the wonderful Sorceress of Oz who was Ozma's faithful subject and
-friend. But Glinda's castle was in the Quadling Country and quite a
-journey from the Emerald City.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-So the little girl went to Ozma and asked permission to use the Wooden
-Sawhorse and the royal Red Wagon to pay a visit to Glinda, and the girl
-Ruler kissed Princess Dorothy and graciously granted permission.
-
-The Wooden Sawhorse was one of the most remarkable creatures in Oz. Its
-body was a small log and its legs were limbs of trees stuck in the body.
-Its eyes were knots, its mouth was sawed in the end of the log and its
-ears were two chips. A small branch had been left at the rear end of the
-log to serve as a tail.
-
-Ozma herself, during one of her early adventures, had brought this
-wooden horse to life, and so she was much attached to the queer animal
-and had shod the bottoms of its wooden legs with plates of gold so they
-would not wear out. The sawhorse was a swift and willing traveler, and
-though it could talk if need arose, it seldom said anything unless
-spoken to. When the Sawhorse was harnessed to the Red Wagon there were
-no reins to guide him because all that was needed was to tell him where
-to go.
-
-Dorothy now told him to go to Glinda's Castle and the Sawhorse carried
-her there with marvelous speed.
-
-"Glinda," said Dorothy, when she had been greeted by the Sorceress, who
-was tall and stately, with handsome and dignified features and dressed
-in a splendid and becoming gown, "what are you going to give Ozma for a
-birthday present?"
-
-The Sorceress smiled and answered:
-
-"Come into my patio and I will show you."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-So they entered a place that was surrounded by the wings of the great
-castle but had no roof, and was filled with flowers and fountains and
-exquisite statuary and many settees and chairs of polished marble or
-filigree gold. Here there were gathered fifty beautiful young girls,
-Glinda's handmaids, who had been selected from all parts of the Land of
-Oz on account of their wit and beauty and sweet dispositions. It was a
-great honor to be made one of Glinda's handmaidens.
-
-When Dorothy followed the Sorceress into this delightful patio all the
-fifty girls were busily weaving, and their shuttles were filled with a
-sparkling green spun glass such as the little girl had never seen
-before.
-
-"What is it, Glinda?" she asked.
-
-"One of my recent discoveries," explained the Sorceress. "I have found a
-way to make threads from emeralds, by softening the stones and then
-spinning them into long, silken strands. With these emerald threads we
-are weaving cloth to make Ozma a splendid court gown for her birthday.
-You will notice that the threads have all the beautiful glitter and
-luster of the emeralds from which they are made, and so Ozma's new dress
-will be the most magnificent the world has ever seen, and quite fitting
-for our lovely Ruler of the Fairyland of Oz."
-
-Dorothy's eyes were fairly dazed by the brilliance of the emerald cloth,
-some of which the girls had already woven.
-
-"I've never seen _any_thing so beautiful!" she said, with a sigh. "But
-tell me, Glinda, what can _I_ give our lovely Ozma on her birthday?"
-
-The good Sorceress considered this question for a long time before she
-replied. Finally she said:
-
-"Of course there will be a grand feast at the Royal Palace on Ozma's
-birthday, and all our friends will be present. So I suggest that you
-make a fine big birthday cake for Ozma, and surround it with candles."
-
-"Oh, just a _cake_!" exclaimed Dorothy, in disappointment.
-
-"Nothing is nicer for a birthday," said the Sorceress.
-
-"How many candles should there be on the cake?" asked the girl.
-
-"Just a row of them," replied Glinda, "for no one knows how old Ozma is,
-although she appears to us to be just a young girl--as fresh and fair as
-if she had lived but a few years."
-
-"A cake doesn't seem like much of a present," Dorothy asserted.
-
-"Make it a surprise cake," suggested the Sorceress. "Don't you remember
-the four and twenty blackbirds that were baked in a pie? Well, you need
-not use live blackbirds in your cake, but you could have some surprise
-of a different sort."
-
-"Like what?" questioned Dorothy, eagerly.
-
-"If I told you, it wouldn't be _your_ present to Ozma, but _mine_,"
-answered the Sorceress, with a smile. "Think it over, my dear, and I am
-sure you can originate a surprise that will add greatly to the joy and
-merriment of Ozma's birthday banquet."
-
-Dorothy thanked her friend and entered the Red Wagon and told the
-Sawhorse to take her back home to the palace in the Emerald City.
-
-On the way she thought the matter over seriously of making a surprise
-birthday cake and finally decided what to do.
-
-As soon as she reached home, she went to the Wizard of Oz, who had a
-room fitted up in one of the high towers of the palace, where he studied
-magic so as to be able to perform such wizardry as Ozma commanded him to
-do for the welfare of her subjects.
-
-The Wizard and Dorothy were firm friends and had enjoyed many strange
-adventures together. He was a little man with a bald head and sharp eyes
-and a round, jolly face, and because he was neither haughty nor proud he
-had become a great favorite with the Oz people.
-
-"Wizard," said Dorothy, "I want you to help me fix up a present for
-Ozma's birthday."
-
-"I'll be glad to do anything for you and for Ozma," he answered. "What's
-on your mind, Dorothy?"
-
-"I'm going to make a great cake, with frosting and candles, and all
-that, you know."
-
-"Very good," said the Wizard.
-
-"In the center of this cake I'm going to leave a hollow place, with just
-a roof of the frosting over it," continued the girl.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Very good," repeated the Wizard, nodding his bald head.
-
-"In that hollow place," said Dorothy, "I want to hide a lot of monkeys
-about three inches high, and after the cake is placed on the banquet
-table, I want the monkeys to break through the frosting and dance around
-on the table-cloth. Then, I want each monkey to cut out a piece of cake
-and hand it to a guest."
-
-"Mercy me!" cried the little Wizard, as he chuckled with laughter. "Is
-that _all_ you want, Dorothy?"
-
-"Almost," said she. "Can you think of anything more the little monkeys
-can do, Wizard?"
-
-"Not just now," he replied. "But where will you get such tiny monkeys?"
-
-"That's where you're to help me," said Dorothy. "In some of those wild
-forests in the Gillikin Country are lots of monkeys."
-
-"Big ones," said the Wizard.
-
-"Well, you and I will go there, and we'll get some of the big monkeys,
-and you will make them small--just three inches high--by means of your
-magic, and we'll put the little monkeys all in a basket and bring them
-home with us. Then you'll train them to dance--up here in your room,
-where no one can see them--and on Ozma's birthday we'll put 'em into the
-cake and they'll know by that time just what to do."
-
-The Wizard looked at Dorothy with admiring approval, and chuckled again.
-
-"That's really clever, my dear," he said, "and I see no reason why we
-can't do it, just the way you say, if only we can get the wild monkeys
-to agree to it."
-
-"Do you think they'll object?" asked the girl.
-
-"Yes; but perhaps we can argue them into it. Anyhow, it's worth trying,
-and I'll help you if you'll agree to let this Surprise Cake be a present
-to Ozma from you and me together. I've been wondering what _I_ could
-give Ozma, and as I've got to train the monkeys as well as make them
-small, I think you ought to make me your partner."
-
-"Of course," said Dorothy; "I'll be glad to do so."
-
-"Then, it's a bargain," declared the Wizard. "We must go to seek those
-monkeys at once, however, for it will take time to train them and we'll
-have to travel a good way to the Gillikin forests where they live."
-
-"I'm ready to go any time," agreed Dorothy. "Shall we ask Ozma to let us
-take the Sawhorse?"
-
-The Wizard did not answer that at once. He took time to think of the
-suggestion.
-
-"No," he answered at length, "the Red Wagon couldn't get through the
-thick forests and there's some danger to us in going into the wild
-places to search for monkeys. So I propose we take the Cowardly Lion and
-the Hungry Tiger. We can ride on their backs as well as in the Red
-Wagon, and if there is danger to us from other beasts, these two
-friendly champions will protect us from all harm."
-
-"That's a splendid idea!" exclaimed Dorothy. "Let's go now and ask the
-Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion if they will help us. Shall we ask
-Ozma if we can go?"
-
-"I think not," said the Wizard, getting his hat and his black bag of
-magic tools. "This is to be a surprise for her birthday, and so she
-mustn't know where we're going. We'll just leave word, in case Ozma
-inquires for us, that we'll be back in a few days."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                           The Forest of Gugu
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 7
-
-In the central western part of the Gillikin Country is a great tangle of
-trees called Gugu Forest. It is the biggest forest in all Oz and
-stretches miles and miles in every direction--north, south, east and
-west. Adjoining it on the east side is a range of rugged mountains
-covered with underbrush and small twisted trees. You can find this place
-by looking at the Map of the Land of Oz.
-
-Gugu Forest is the home of most of the wild beasts that inhabit Oz.
-These are seldom disturbed in their leafy haunts because there is no
-reason why Oz people should go there, except on rare occasions, and most
-parts of the forest have never been seen by any eyes but the eyes of the
-beasts who make their home there. The biggest beasts inhabit the great
-forest, while the smaller ones live mostly in the mountain underbrush at
-the east.
-
-Now, you must know that there are laws in the forests, as well as in
-every other place, and these laws are made by the beasts themselves, and
-are necessary to keep them from fighting and tearing one another to
-pieces. In Gugu Forest there is a King--an enormous yellow leopard
-called "Gugu"--after whom the forest is named. And this King has three
-other beasts to advise him in keeping the laws and maintaining
-order--Bru the Bear, Loo the Unicorn and Rango the Gray Ape--who are
-known as the King's Counselors. All these are fierce and ferocious
-beasts, and hold their high offices because they are more intelligent
-and more feared than their fellows.
-
-Since Oz became a fairyland, no man, woman or child ever dies in that
-land nor is anyone ever sick. Likewise the beasts of the forests never
-die, so that long years add to their cunning and wisdom, as well as to
-their size and strength. It is possible for beasts--or even people--to
-be destroyed, but the task is so difficult that it is seldom attempted.
-Because it is free from sickness and death is one reason why Oz is a
-fairyland, but it is doubtful whether those who come to Oz from the
-outside world, as Dorothy and Button-Bright and Trot and Cap'n Bill and
-the Wizard did, will live forever or cannot be injured. Even Ozma is not
-sure about this, and so the guests of Ozma from other lands are always
-carefully protected from any danger, so as to be on the safe side.
-
-In spite of the laws of the forests there are often fights among the
-beasts; some of them have lost an eye or an ear or even had a leg torn
-off. The King and the King's Counselors always punish those who start a
-fight, but so fierce is the nature of some beasts that they will at
-times fight in spite of laws and punishment.
-
-Over this vast, wild Forest of Gugu flew two eagles, one morning, and
-near the center of the jungle the eagles alighted on a branch of a tall
-tree.
-
-"Here is the place for us to begin our work," said one, who was Ruggedo,
-the Nome.
-
-"Do many beasts live here?" asked Kiki Aru, the other eagle.
-
-"The forest is full of them," said the Nome. "There are enough beasts
-right here to enable us to conquer the people of Oz, if we can get them
-to consent to join us. To do that, we must go among them and tell them
-our plans, so we must now decide on what shapes we had better assume
-while in the forest."
-
-"I suppose we must take the shapes of beasts?" said Kiki.
-
-"Of course. But that requires some thought. All kinds of beasts live
-here, and a yellow leopard is King. If we become leopards, the King will
-be jealous of us. If we take the forms of some of the other beasts, we
-shall not command proper respect."
-
-"I wonder if the beasts will attack us?" asked Kiki.
-
-"I'm a Nome, and immortal, so nothing can hurt me," replied Ruggedo.
-
-"I was born in the Land of Oz, so nothing can hurt me," said Kiki.
-
-"But, in order to carry out our plans, we must win the favor of all the
-animals of the forest."
-
-"Then what shall we do?" asked Kiki.
-
-"Let us mix the shapes of several beasts, so we will not look like any
-one of them," proposed the wily old Nome. "Let us have the heads of
-lions, the bodies of monkeys, the wings of eagles and the tails of wild
-asses, with knobs of gold on the end of them instead of bunches of
-hair."
-
-"Won't that make a queer combination?" inquired Kiki.
-
-"The queerer the better," declared Ruggedo.
-
-"All right," said Kiki. "You stay here, and I'll fly away to another
-tree and transform us both, and then we'll climb down our trees and meet
-in the forest."
-
-"No," said the Nome, "we mustn't separate. You must transform us while
-we are together."
-
-"I won't do that," asserted Kiki, firmly. "You're trying to get my
-secret, and I won't let you."
-
-The eyes of the other eagle flashed angrily, but Ruggedo did not dare
-insist. If he offended this boy, he might have to remain an eagle always
-and he wouldn't like that. Some day he hoped to be able to learn the
-secret word of the magical transformations, but just now he must let
-Kiki have his own way.
-
-"All right," he said gruffly; "do as you please."
-
-So Kiki flew to a tree that was far enough distant so that Ruggedo could
-not overhear him and said: "I want Ruggedo, the Nome, and myself to have
-the heads of lions, the bodies of monkeys, the wings of eagles and the
-tails of wild asses, with knobs of gold on the ends of them instead of
-bunches of hair--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-He pronounced the magic word in the proper manner and at once his form
-changed to the one he had described. He spread his eagle's wings and
-finding they were strong enough to support his monkey body and lion head
-he flew swiftly to the tree where he had left Ruggedo. The Nome was also
-transformed and was climbing down the tree because the branches all
-around him were so thickly entwined that there was no room between them
-to fly.
-
-Kiki quickly joined his comrade and it did not take them long to reach
-the ground.
-
-
-
-
-                      The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 8
-
-There had been trouble in the Forest of Gugu that morning. Chipo the
-Wild Boar had bitten the tail off Arx the Giraffe while the latter had
-his head among the leaves of a tree, eating his breakfast. Arx kicked
-with his heels and struck Tirrip, the great Kangaroo, who had a new baby
-in her pouch. Tirrip knew it was the Wild Boar's fault, so she knocked
-him over with one powerful blow and then ran away to escape Chipo's
-sharp tusks. In the chase that followed a giant porcupine stuck fifty
-sharp quills into the Boar and a chimpanzee in a tree threw a cocoanut
-at the porcupine that jammed its head into its body.
-
-All this was against the Laws of the Forest, and when the excitement was
-over, Gugu the Leopard King called his royal Counselors together to
-decide how best to punish the offenders.
-
-The four lords of the forest were holding solemn council in a small
-clearing when they saw two strange beasts approaching them--beasts the
-like of which they had never seen before.
-
-Not one of the four, however, relaxed his dignity or showed by a
-movement that he was startled. The great Leopard crouched at full length
-upon a fallen tree-trunk. Bru the Bear sat on his haunches before the
-King; Rango the Gray Ape stood with his muscular arms folded, and Loo
-the Unicorn reclined, much as a horse does, between his
-fellow-councillors. With one consent they remained silent, eyeing with
-steadfast looks the intruders, who were making their way into their
-forest domain.
-
-"Well met, Brothers!" said one of the strange beasts, coming to a halt
-beside the group, while his comrade with hesitation lagged behind.
-
-"We are not brothers," returned the Gray Ape, sternly. "Who are you, and
-how came you in the forest of Gugu?"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"We are two Li-Mon-Eags," said Ruggedo, inventing the name. "Our home is
-in Sky Island, and we have come to earth to warn the forest beasts that
-the people of Oz are about to make war upon them and enslave them, so
-that they will become beasts of burden forever after and obey only the
-will of their two-legged masters."
-
-A low roar of anger arose from the Council of Beasts.
-
-"_Who's_ going to do that?" asked Loo the Unicorn, in a high, squeaky
-voice, at the same time rising to his feet.
-
-"The people of Oz," said Ruggedo.
-
-"But what will _we_ be doing?" inquired the Unicorn.
-
-"That's what I've come to talk to you about."
-
-"You needn't talk! We'll fight the Oz people!" screamed the Unicorn.
-"We'll smash 'em; we'll trample 'em; we'll gore 'em; we'll--"
-
-"Silence!" growled Gugu the King, and Loo obeyed, although still
-trembling with wrath. The cold, steady gaze of the Leopard wandered over
-the two strange beasts. "The people of Oz," said he, "have not been our
-friends; they have not been our enemies. They have let us alone, and we
-have let them alone. There is no reason for war between us. They have no
-slaves. They could not use us as slaves if they should conquer us. I
-think you are telling us lies, you strange Li-Mon-Eag--you mixed-up
-beast who are neither one thing nor another."
-
-"Oh, on my word, it's the truth!" protested the Nome in the beast's
-shape. "I wouldn't lie for the world; I--"
-
-"Silence!" again growled Gugu the King; and, somehow, even Ruggedo was
-abashed and obeyed the edict.
-
-"What do you say, Bru?" asked the king, turning to the great Bear, who
-had until now said nothing.
-
-"How does the Mixed Beast know that what he says is true?" asked the
-Bear.
-
-"Why, I can fly, you know, having the wings of an Eagle," explained the
-Nome. "I and my comrade yonder," turning to Kiki, "flew to a grove in
-Oz, and there we heard the people telling how they will make many ropes
-to snare you beasts, and then they will surround this forest, and all
-other forests, and make you prisoners. So we came here to warn you, for
-being beasts ourselves, although we live in the sky, we are your
-friends."
-
-The Leopard's lip curled and showed his enormous teeth, sharp as
-needles. He turned to the Gray Ape.
-
-"What do _you_ think, Rango?" he asked.
-
-"Send these mixed beasts away, your Majesty," replied the Gray Ape.
-"They are mischief-makers."
-
-"Don't do that--don't do that!" cried the Unicorn, nervously. "The
-stranger said he would tell us what to do. Let him tell us, then. Are we
-fools, not to heed a warning?"
-
-Gugu the King turned to Ruggedo.
-
-"Speak, Stranger," he commanded.
-
-"Well," said the Nome, "it's this way: The Land of Oz is a fine country.
-The people of Oz have many good things--houses with soft beds, all sorts
-of nice-tasting food, pretty clothes, lovely jewels, and many other
-things that beasts know nothing of. Here in the dark forests the poor
-beasts have hard work to get enough to eat and to find a bed to rest in.
-But the beasts are better than the people, and why should they not have
-all the good things the people have? So I propose that before the Oz
-people have the time to make all those ropes to snare you with, that all
-we beasts get together and march against the Oz people and capture them.
-Then the beasts will become the masters and the people their slaves."
-
-"What good would that do us?" asked Bru the Bear.
-
-"It would save you from slavery, for one thing, and you could enjoy all
-the fine things the Oz people have."
-
-"Beasts wouldn't know what to do with the things people use," said the
-Gray Ape.
-
-"But this is only part of my plan," insisted the Nome. "Listen to the
-rest of it. We two Li-Mon-Eags are powerful magicians. When you have
-conquered the Oz people we will transform them all into beasts, and send
-them to the forests to live, and we will transform all the beasts into
-people, so they can enjoy all the wonderful delights of the Emerald
-City."
-
-For a moment no beast spoke. Then the King said: "Prove it."
-
-"Prove what?" asked Ruggedo.
-
-"Prove that you can transform us. If you are a magician transform the
-Unicorn into a man. Then we will believe you. If you fail, we will
-destroy you."
-
-"All right," said the Nome. "But I'm tired, so I'll let my comrade make
-the transformation."
-
-Kiki Aru had stood back from the circle, but he had heard all that was
-said. He now realized that he must make good Ruggedo's boast, so he
-retreated to the edge of the clearing and whispered the magic word.
-
-Instantly the Unicorn became a fat, chubby little man, dressed in the
-purple Gillikin costume, and it was hard to tell which was the more
-astonished, the King, the Bear, the Ape or the former Unicorn.
-
-"It's true!" shouted the man-beast. "Good gracious, look what I am! It's
-wonderful!"
-
-The King of the Beasts now addressed Ruggedo in a more friendly tone.
-
-"We must believe your story, since you have given us proof of your
-power," said he. "But why, if you are so great a magician, cannot you
-conquer the Oz people without our help, and so save us the trouble?"
-
-"Alas!" replied the crafty old Nome, "no magician is able to do
-everything. The transformations are easy to us because we are
-Li-Mon-Eags, but we cannot fight, or conquer even such weak creatures as
-the Oz people. But we will stay with you and advise and help you, and we
-will transform all the Oz people into beasts, when the time comes, and
-all the beasts into people."
-
-Gugu the King turned to his Counselors.
-
-"How shall we answer this friendly stranger?" he asked.
-
-Loo the former Unicorn was dancing around and cutting capers like a
-clown.
-
-"On my word, your Majesty," he said, "this being a man is more fun than
-being a Unicorn."
-
-"You look like a fool," said the Gray Ape.
-
-"Well, I _feel_ fine!" declared the man-beast.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"I think I prefer to be a Bear," said Big Bru. "I was born a Bear, and I
-know a Bear's ways. So I am satisfied to live as a Bear lives."
-
-"That," said the old Nome, "is because you know nothing better. When we
-have conquered the Oz people, and you become a man, you'll be glad of
-it."
-
-The immense Leopard rested his chin on the log and seemed thoughtful.
-
-"The beasts of the forest must decide this matter for themselves," he
-said. "Go you, Rango the Gray Ape, and tell your monkey tribe to order
-all the forest beasts to assemble in the Great Clearing at sunrise
-to-morrow. When all are gathered together, this mixed-up Beast who is a
-magician shall talk to them and tell them what he has told us. Then, if
-they decide to fight the Oz people, who have declared war on us, I will
-lead the beasts to battle."
-
-Rango the Gray Ape turned at once and glided swiftly through the forest
-on his mission. The Bear gave a grunt and walked away. Gugu the King
-rose and stretched himself. Then he said to Ruggedo: "Meet us at sunrise
-to-morrow," and with stately stride vanished among the trees.
-
-The man-unicorn, left alone with the strangers, suddenly stopped his
-foolish prancing.
-
-"You'd better make me a Unicorn again," he said. "I like being a man,
-but the forest beasts won't know I'm their friend, Loo, and they might
-tear me in pieces before morning."
-
-So Kiki changed him back to his former shape, and the Unicorn departed
-to join his people.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Ruggedo the Nome was much pleased with his success.
-
-"To-morrow," he said to Kiki Aru, "we'll win over these beasts and set
-them to fight and conquer the Oz people. Then I will have my revenge on
-Ozma and Dorothy and all the rest of my enemies."
-
-"But I am doing all the work," said Kiki.
-
-"Never mind; you're going to be King of Oz," promised Ruggedo.
-
-"Will the big Leopard let me be King?" asked the boy anxiously.
-
-The Nome came close to him and whispered:
-
-"If Gugu the Leopard opposes us, you will transform him into a tree, and
-then he will be helpless."
-
-"Of course," agreed Kiki, and he said to himself: "I shall also
-transform this deceitful Nome into a tree, for he lies and I cannot
-trust him."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                      The Isle of the Magic Flower
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 9
-
-The Glass Cat was a good guide and led Trot and Cap'n Bill by straight
-and easy paths through all the settled part of the Munchkin Country, and
-then into the north section where there were few houses, and finally
-through a wild country where there were no houses or paths at all. But
-the walking was not difficult and at last they came to the edge of a
-forest and stopped there to make camp and sleep until morning.
-
-From branches of trees Cap'n Bill made a tiny house that was just big
-enough for the little girl to crawl into and lie down. But first they
-ate some of the food Trot had carried in the basket.
-
-"Don't you want some, too?" she asked the Glass Cat.
-
-"No," answered the creature.
-
-"I suppose you'll hunt around an' catch a mouse," remarked Cap'n Bill.
-
-"Me? Catch a mouse! Why should I do that?" inquired the Glass Cat.
-
-"Why, then you could eat it," said the sailor-man.
-
-"I beg to inform you," returned the crystal tabby, "that I do not eat
-mice. Being transparent, so anyone can see through me, I'd look nice,
-wouldn't I, with a common mouse inside me? But the fact is that I
-haven't any stomach or other machinery that would permit me to eat
-things. The careless magician who made me didn't think I'd need to eat,
-I suppose."
-
-"Don't you ever get hungry or thirsty?" asked Trot.
-
-"Never. I don't complain, you know, at the way I'm made, for I've never
-yet seen any living thing as beautiful as I am. I have the handsomest
-brains in the world. They're pink, and you can see 'em work."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"I wonder," said Trot thoughtfully, as she ate her bread and jam, "if
-_my_ brains whirl around in the same way yours do."
-
-"No; not the same way, surely," returned the Glass Cat; "for, in that
-case, they'd be as good as _my_ brains, except that they're hidden under
-a thick, boney skull."
-
-"Brains," remarked Cap'n Bill, "is of all kinds and work different ways.
-But I've noticed that them as thinks that their brains is best is often
-mistook."
-
-Trot was a little disturbed by sounds from the forest, that night, for
-many beasts seemed prowling among the trees, but she was confident Cap'n
-Bill would protect her from harm. And in fact, no beast ventured from
-the forest to attack them.
-
-At daybreak they were up again, and after a simple breakfast Cap'n Bill
-said to the Glass Cat:
-
-"Up anchor, Mate, and let's forge ahead. I don't suppose we're far from
-that Magic Flower, are we?"
-
-"Not far," answered the transparent one, as it led the way into the
-forest, "but it may take you some time to get to it."
-
-Before long they reached the bank of a river. It was not very wide, at
-this place, but as they followed the banks in a northerly direction it
-gradually broadened.
-
-Suddenly the blue-green leaves of the trees changed to a purple hue, and
-Trot noticed this and said:
-
-"I wonder what made the colors change like that?"
-
-"It's because we have left the Munchkin Country and entered the Gillikin
-Country," explained the Glass Cat. "Also it's a sign our journey is
-nearly ended."
-
-The river made a sudden turn, and after the travelers had passed around
-the bend, they saw that the stream had now become as broad as a small
-lake, and in the center of the Lake they beheld a little island, not
-more than fifty feet in extent, either way. Something glittered in the
-middle of this tiny island, and the Glass Cat paused on the bank and
-said:
-
-"There is the gold flower-pot containing the Magic Flower, which is very
-curious and beautiful. If you can get to the island, your task is
-ended--except to carry the thing home with you."
-
-Cap'n Bill looked at the broad expanse of water and began to whistle a
-low, quavering tune. Trot knew that the whistle meant that Cap'n Bill
-was thinking, and the old sailor didn't look at the island as much as he
-looked at the trees upon the bank where they stood. Presently he took
-from the big pocket of his coat an axe-blade, wound in an old cloth to
-keep the sharp edge from cutting his clothing. Then, with a large pocket
-knife, he cut a small limb from a tree and whittled it into a handle for
-his axe.
-
-"Sit down, Trot," he advised the girl, as he worked. "I've got quite a
-job ahead of me now, for I've got to build us a raft."
-
-"What do we need a raft for, Cap'n?"
-
-"Why, to take us to the island. We can't walk under water, in the river
-bed, as the Glass Cat did, so we must float atop the water."
-
-"Can you make a raft, Cap'n Bill?"
-
-"O' course, Trot, if you give me time."
-
-The little girl sat down on a log and gazed at the Island of the Magic
-Flower. Nothing else seemed to grow on the tiny isle. There was no tree,
-no shrub, no grass, even, as far as she could make out from that
-distance. But the gold pot glittered in the rays of the sun, and Trot
-could catch glimpses of glowing colors above it, as the Magic Flower
-changed from one sort to another.
-
-"When I was here before," remarked the Glass Cat, lazily reclining at
-the girl's feet, "I saw two Kalidahs on this very bank, where they had
-come to drink."
-
-"What are Kalidahs?" asked the girl.
-
-"The most powerful and ferocious beasts in all Oz. This forest is their
-especial home, and so there are few other beasts to be found except
-monkeys. The monkeys are spry enough to keep out of the way of the
-fierce Kalidahs, which attack all other animals and often fight among
-themselves."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Did they try to fight you when you saw 'em?" asked Trot, getting very
-much excited.
-
-"Yes. They sprang upon me in an instant; but I lay flat on the ground,
-so I wouldn't get my legs broken by the great weight of the beasts, and
-when they tried to bite me I laughed at them and jeered them until they
-were frantic with rage, for they nearly broke their teeth on my hard
-glass. So, after a time, they discovered they could not hurt me, and
-went away. It was great fun."
-
-"I hope they don't come here again to drink,--not while we're here,
-anyhow," returned the girl, "for I'm not made of glass, nor is Cap'n
-Bill, and if those bad beasts bit us, we'd get hurt."
-
-Cap'n Bill was cutting from the trees some long stakes, making them
-sharp at one end and leaving a crotch at the other end. These were to
-bind the logs of his raft together. He had fashioned several and was
-just finishing another when the Glass Cat cried: "Look out! There's a
-Kalidah coming toward us."
-
-Trot jumped up, greatly frightened, and looked at the terrible animal as
-if fascinated by its fierce eyes, for the Kalidah was looking at her,
-too, and its look wasn't at all friendly. But Cap'n Bill called to her:
-"Wade into the river, Trot, up to your knees--an' stay there!" and she
-obeyed him at once. The sailor-man hobbled forward, the stake in one
-hand and his axe in the other, and got between the girl and the beast,
-which sprang upon him with a growl of defiance.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Cap'n Bill moved pretty slowly, sometimes, but now he was quick as could
-be. As the Kalidah sprang toward him he stuck out his wooden leg and the
-point of it struck the beast between its eyes and sent it rolling upon
-the ground. Before it could get upon its feet again the sailor pushed
-the sharp stake right through its body and then with the flat side of
-the axe he hammered the stake as far into the ground as it would go. By
-this means he captured the great beast and made it harmless, for try as
-it would, it could not get away from the stake that held it.
-
-Cap'n Bill knew he could not kill the Kalidah, for no living thing in Oz
-can be killed, so he stood back and watched the beast wriggle and growl
-and paw the earth with its sharp claws, and then, satisfied it could not
-escape, he told Trot to come out of the water again and dry her wet
-shoes and stockings in the sun.
-
-"Are you sure he can't get away?" she asked.
-
-"I'd bet a cookie on it," said Cap'n Bill, so Trot came ashore and took
-off her shoes and stockings and laid them on the log to dry, while the
-sailor-man resumed his work on the raft.
-
-The Kalidah, realizing after many struggles that it could not escape,
-now became quiet, but it said in a harsh, snarling voice:
-
-"I suppose you think you're clever, to pin me to the ground in this
-manner. But when my friends, the other Kalidahs, come here, they'll tear
-you to pieces for treating me this way."
-
-"P'raps," remarked Cap'n Bill, coolly, as he chopped at the logs, "an'
-p'raps not. When are your folks comin' here?"
-
-"I don't know," admitted the Kalidah. "But when they _do_ come, you
-can't escape them."
-
-"If they hold off long enough, I'll have my raft ready," said Cap'n
-Bill.
-
-"What are you going to do with a raft?" inquired the beast.
-
-"We're goin' over to that island, to get the Magic Flower."
-
-The huge beast looked at him in surprise a moment, and then it began to
-laugh. The laugh was a good deal like a roar, and it had a cruel and
-derisive sound, but it was a laugh nevertheless.
-
-"Good!" said the Kalidah. "Good! Very good! I'm glad you're going to get
-the Magic Flower. But what will you do with it?"
-
-"We're going to take it to Ozma, as a present on her birthday."
-
-The Kalidah laughed again; then it became sober. "If you get to the land
-on your raft before my people can catch you," it said, "you will be safe
-from us. We can swim like ducks, so the girl couldn't have escaped me by
-getting into the water; but Kalidahs don't go to that island over
-there."
-
-"Why not?" asked Trot.
-
-The beast was silent.
-
-"Tell us the reason," urged Cap'n Bill.
-
-"Well, it's the Isle of the Magic Flower," answered the Kalidah, "and we
-don't care much for magic. If you hadn't had a magic leg, instead of a
-meat one, you couldn't have knocked me over so easily and stuck this
-wooden pin through me."
-
-"I've been to the Magic Isle," said the Glass Cat, "and I've watched the
-Magic Flower bloom, and I'm sure it's too pretty to be left in that
-lonely place where only beasts prowl around it and no one else sees it.
-So we're going to take it away to the Emerald City."
-
-"I don't care," the beast replied in a surly tone. "We Kalidahs would be
-just as contented if there wasn't a flower in our forest. What good are
-the things anyhow?"
-
-"Don't you like pretty things?" asked Trot.
-
-"No."
-
-"You ought to admire my pink brains, anyhow," declared the Glass Cat.
-"They're beautiful and you can see 'em work."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The beast only growled in reply, and Cap'n Bill, having now cut all his
-logs to a proper size, began to roll them to the water's edge and fasten
-them together.
-
-
-
-
-                               Stuck Fast
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 10
-
-The day was nearly gone when, at last, the raft was ready.
-
-"It ain't so very big," said the old sailor, "but I don't weigh much,
-an' you, Trot, don't weigh half as much as I do, an' the glass pussy
-don't count."
-
-"But it's safe, isn't it?" inquired the girl.
-
-"Yes; it's good enough to carry us to the island an' back again, an'
-that's about all we can expect of it."
-
-Saying this, Cap'n Bill pushed the raft into the water, and when it was
-afloat, stepped upon it and held out his hand to Trot, who quickly
-followed him. The Glass Cat boarded the raft last of all.
-
-The sailor had cut a long pole, and had also whittled a flat paddle, and
-with these he easily propelled the raft across the river. As they
-approached the island, the Wonderful Flower became more plainly visible,
-and they quickly decided that the Glass Cat had not praised it too
-highly. The colors of the flowers that bloomed in quick succession were
-strikingly bright and beautiful, and the shapes of the blossoms were
-varied and curious. Indeed, they did not resemble ordinary flowers at
-all.
-
-So intently did Trot and Cap'n Bill gaze upon the Golden Flower pot that
-held the Magic Flower that they scarcely noticed the island itself until
-the raft beached upon its sands. But then the girl exclaimed: "How funny
-it is, Cap'n Bill, that nothing else grows here excep' the Magic
-Flower."
-
-Then the sailor glanced at the island and saw that it was all bare
-ground, without a weed, a stone or a blade of grass. Trot, eager to
-examine the Flower closer, sprang from the raft and ran up the bank
-until she reached the Golden Flowerpot. Then she stood beside it
-motionless and filled with wonder. Cap'n Bill joined her, coming more
-leisurely, and he, too, stood in silent admiration for a time.
-
-"Ozma will like this," remarked the Glass Cat, sitting down to watch the
-shifting hues of the flowers. "I'm sure she won't have as fine a
-birthday present from anyone else."
-
-"Do you s'pose it's very heavy, Cap'n? And can we get it home without
-breaking it?" asked Trot anxiously.
-
-"Well, I've lifted many bigger things than that," he replied; "but let's
-see what it weighs."
-
-He tried to take a step forward, but could not lift his meat foot from
-the ground. His wooden leg seemed free enough, but the other would not
-budge.
-
-"I seem stuck, Trot," he said, with a perplexed look at his foot. "It
-ain't mud, an' it ain't glue, but somethin's holdin' me down."
-
-The girl attempted to lift her own feet, to go nearer to her friend, but
-the ground held them as fast as it held Cap'n Bill's foot. She tried to
-slide them, or to twist them around, but it was no use; she could not
-move either foot a hair's breadth.
-
-"This is funny!" she exclaimed. "What do you 'spose has happened to us,
-Cap'n Bill?"
-
-"I'm tryin' to make out," he answered. "Take off your shoes, Trot.
-P'raps it's the leather soles that's stuck to the ground."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-She leaned down and unlaced her shoes, but found she could not pull her
-feet out of them. The Glass Cat, which was walking around as naturally
-as ever, now said:
-
-"Your foot has got roots to it, Cap'n, and I can see the roots going
-into the ground, where they spread out in all directions. It's the same
-way with Trot. That's why you can't move. The roots hold you fast."
-
-Cap'n Bill was rather fat and couldn't see his own feet very well, but
-he squatted down and examined Trot's feet and decided that the Glass Cat
-was right.
-
-"This is hard luck," he declared, in a voice that showed he was uneasy
-at the discovery. "We're pris'ners, Trot, on this funny island, an' I'd
-like to know how we're ever goin' to get loose, so's we can get home
-again."
-
-"Now I know why the Kalidah laughed at us," said the girl, "and why he
-said none of the beasts ever came to this island. The horrid creature
-knew we'd be caught, and wouldn't warn us."
-
-In the meantime, the Kalidah, although pinned fast to the earth by Cap'n
-Bill's stake, was facing the island, and now the ugly expression which
-passed over its face when it defied and sneered at Cap'n Bill and Trot,
-had changed to one of amusement and curiosity. When it saw the
-adventurers had actually reached the island and were standing beside the
-Magic Flower, it heaved a breath of satisfaction--a long, deep breath
-that swelled the deep chest until the beast could feel the stake that
-held him move a little, as if withdrawing itself from the ground.
-
-"Ah ha!" murmured the Kalidah, "a little more of this will set me free
-and allow me to escape!"
-
-So he began breathing as hard as he could, puffing out his chest as much
-as possible with each indrawing breath, and by doing this he managed to
-raise the stake with each powerful breath, until at last the
-Kalidah--using the muscles of his four legs as well as his deep
-breaths--found itself free of the sandy soil. The stake was sticking
-right through him, however, so he found a rock deeply set in the bank
-and pressed the sharp point of the stake upon the surface of this rock
-until he had driven it clear through his body. Then, by getting the
-stake tangled among some thorny bushes, and wiggling his body, he
-managed to draw it out altogether.
-
-"There!" he exclaimed, "except for those two holes in me, I'm as good as
-ever; but I must admit that that old wooden-legged fellow saved both
-himself and the girl by making me a prisoner."
-
-Now the Kalidahs, although the most disagreeable creatures in the Land
-of Oz, were nevertheless magical inhabitants of a magical Fairyland, and
-in their natures a certain amount of good was mingled with the evil.
-This one was not very revengeful, and now that his late foes were in
-danger of perishing, his anger against them faded away.
-
-"Our own Kalidah King," he reflected, "has certain magical powers of his
-own. Perhaps he knows how to fill up these two holes in my body."
-
-So without paying any more attention to Trot and Cap'n Bill than they
-were paying to him, he entered the forest and trotted along a secret
-path that led to the hidden lair of all the Kalidahs.
-
-While the Kalidah was making good its escape Cap'n Bill took his pipe
-from his pocket and filled it with tobacco and lighted it. Then, as he
-puffed out the smoke, he tried to think what could be done.
-
-"The Glass Cat seems all right," he said, "an' my wooden leg didn't take
-roots and grow, either. So it's only flesh that gets caught."
-
-"It's magic that does it, Cap'n!"
-
-"I know, Trot, and that's what sticks me. We're livin' in a magic
-country, but neither of us knows any magic an' so we can't help
-ourselves."
-
-"Couldn't the Wizard of Oz help us--or Glinda the Good?" asked the
-little girl.
-
-"Ah, now we're beginnin' to reason," he answered. "I'd probably thought
-o' that, myself, in a minute more. By good luck the Glass Cat is free,
-an' so it can run back to the Emerald City an' tell the Wizard about our
-fix, an' ask him to come an' help us get loose."
-
-"Will you go?" Trot asked the cat, speaking very earnestly.
-
-"I'm no messenger, to be sent here and there," asserted the curious
-animal in a sulky tone of voice.
-
-"Well," said Cap'n Bill, "you've got to go home, anyhow, 'cause you
-don't want to stay here, I take it. And, when you get home, it wouldn't
-worry you much to tell the Wizard what's happened to us."
-
-"That's true," said the cat, sitting on its haunches and lazily washing
-its face with one glass paw. "I don't mind telling the Wizard--when I
-get home."
-
-"Won't you go now?" pleaded Trot. "We don't want to stay here any longer
-than we can help, and everybody in Oz will be interested in you, and
-call you a hero, and say nice things about you because you helped your
-friends out of trouble."
-
-That was the best way to manage the Glass Cat, which was so vain that it
-loved to be praised.
-
-"I'm going home right away," said the creature, "and I'll tell the
-Wizard to come and help you."
-
-Saying this, it walked down to the water and disappeared under the
-surface. Not being able to manage the raft alone, the Glass Cat walked
-on the bottom of the river as it had done when it visited the island
-before, and soon they saw it appear on the farther bank and trot into
-the forest, where it was quickly lost to sight among the trees.
-
-Then Trot heaved a deep sigh.
-
-"Cap'n," said she, "we're in a bad fix. There's nothing here to eat, and
-we can't even lie down to sleep. Unless the Glass Cat hurries, and the
-Wizard hurries, I don't know what's going to become of us!"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                    The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 11
-
-That was a wonderful gathering of wild animals in the Forest of Gugu
-next sunrise. Rango, the Gray Ape, had even called his monkey sentinels
-away from the forest edge, and every beast, little and big, was in the
-great clearing where meetings were held on occasions of great
-importance.
-
-In the center of the clearing stood a great shelving rock, having a
-flat, inclined surface, and on this sat the stately Leopard Gugu, who
-was King of the Forest. On the ground beneath him squatted Bru the Bear,
-Loo the Unicorn, and Rango the Gray Ape, the King's three Counsellors,
-and in front of them stood the two strange beasts who had called
-themselves Li-Mon-Eags, but were really the transformations of Ruggedo
-the Nome, and Kiki Aru the Hyup.
-
-Then came the beasts--rows and rows and rows of them! The smallest
-beasts were nearest the King's rock throne; then there were wolves and
-foxes, lynxes and hyenas, and the like; behind them were gathered the
-monkey tribes, who were hard to keep in order because they teased the
-other animals and were full of mischievous tricks. Back of the monkeys
-were the pumas, jaguars, tigers and lions, and their kind; next the
-bears, all sizes and colors; after them bisons, wild asses, zebras and
-unicorns; farther on the rhinoceri and hippopotami, and at the far edge
-of the forest, close to the trees that shut in the clearing, was a row
-of thick-skinned elephants, still as statues but with eyes bright and
-intelligent.
-
-Many other kinds of beasts, too numerous to mention, were there, and
-some were unlike any beasts we see in the menageries and zoos in our
-country. Some were from the mountains west of the forest, and some from
-the plains at the east, and some from the river; but all present
-acknowledged the leadership of Gugu, who for many years had ruled them
-wisely and forced all to obey the laws.
-
-When the beasts had taken their places in the clearing and the rising
-sun was shooting its first bright rays over the treetops, King Gugu rose
-on his throne. The Leopard's giant form, towering above all the others,
-caused a sudden hush to fall on the assemblage.
-
-"Brothers," he said in his deep voice, "a stranger has come among us, a
-beast of curious form who is a great magician and is able to change the
-shapes of men or beasts at his will. This stranger has come to us, with
-another of his kind, from out of the sky, to warn us of a danger which
-threatens us all, and to offer us a way to escape from that danger. He
-says he is our friend, and he has proved to me and to my counsellors his
-magic powers. Will you listen to what he has to say to you--to the
-message he has brought from the sky?"
-
-"Let him speak!" came in a great roar from the great company of
-assembled beasts.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-So Ruggedo the Nome sprang upon the flat rock beside Gugu the King, and
-another roar, gentle this time, showed how astonished the beasts were at
-the sight of his curious form. His lion's face was surrounded by a mane
-of pure white hair; his eagle's wings were attached to the shoulders of
-his monkey body and were so long that they nearly touched the ground; he
-had powerful arms and legs in addition to the wings, and at the end of
-his long, strong tail was a golden ball. Never had any beast beheld such
-a curious creature before, and so the very sight of the stranger, who
-was said to be a great magician, filled all present with awe and wonder.
-
-Kiki stayed down below and, half hidden by the shelf of rock, was
-scarcely noticed. The boy realized that the old Nome was helpless
-without his magic power, but he also realized that Ruggedo was the best
-talker. So he was willing the Nome should take the lead.
-
-"Beasts of the Forest of Gugu," began Ruggedo the Nome, "my comrade and
-I are your friends. We are magicians, and from our home in the sky we
-can look down into the Land of Oz and see everything that is going on.
-Also we can hear what the people below us are saying. That is how we
-heard Ozma, who rules the Land of Oz, say to her people: 'The beasts in
-the Forest of Gugu are lazy and are of no use to us. Let us go to their
-forest and make them all our prisoners. Let us tie them with ropes, and
-beat them with sticks, until they work for us and become our willing
-slaves.' And when the people heard Ozma of Oz say this, they were glad
-and raised a great shout and said: 'We will do it! We will make the
-beasts of the Forest of Gugu our slaves!'"
-
-The wicked old Nome could say no more, just then, for such a fierce roar
-of anger rose from the multitude of beasts that his voice was drowned by
-the clamor. Finally the roar died away, like distant thunder, and
-Ruggedo the Nome went on with his speech.
-
-"Having heard the Oz people plot against your liberty, we watched to see
-what they would do, and saw them all begin making ropes--ropes long and
-short--with which to snare our friends the beasts. You are angry, but we
-also were angry, for when the Oz people became the enemies of the beasts
-they also became our enemies; for we, too, are beasts, although we live
-in the sky. And my comrade and I said: 'We will save our friends and
-have revenge on the Oz people,' and so we came here to tell you of your
-danger and of our plan to save you."
-
-"We can save ourselves," cried an old elephant. "We can fight."
-
-"The Oz people are fairies, and you can't fight against magic unless you
-also have magic," answered the Nome.
-
-"Tell us your plan!" shouted the huge Tiger, and the other beasts echoed
-his words, crying: "Tell us your plan."
-
-"My plan is simple," replied Ruggedo. "By our magic we will transform
-all you animals into men and women--like the Oz people--and we will
-transform all the Oz people into beasts. You can then live in the fine
-houses of the Land of Oz, and eat the fine food of the Oz people, and
-wear their fine clothes, and sing and dance and be happy. And the Oz
-people, having become beasts, will have to live here in the forest and
-hunt and fight for food, and often go hungry, as you now do, and have no
-place to sleep but a bed of leaves or a hole in the ground. Having
-become men and women, you beasts will have all the comforts you desire,
-and having become beasts, the Oz people will be very miserable. That is
-our plan, and if you agree to it, we will all march at once into the
-Land of Oz and quickly conquer our enemies."
-
-When the stranger ceased speaking, a great silence fell on the
-assemblage, for the beasts were thinking of what he had said. Finally
-one of the walrus asked:
-
-"Can you really transform beasts into men, and men into beasts?"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"He can--he can!" cried Loo the Unicorn, prancing up and down in an
-excited manner. "He transformed _me_, only last evening, and he can
-transform us all."
-
-Gugu the King now stepped forward.
-
-"You have heard the stranger speak," said he, "and now you must answer
-him. It is for you to decide. Shall we agree to this plan, or not?"
-
-"Yes!" shouted some of the animals.
-
-"No!" shouted others.
-
-And some were yet silent.
-
-Gugu looked around the great circle.
-
-"Take more time to think," he suggested. "Your answer is very important.
-Up to this time we have had no trouble with the Oz people, but we are
-proud and free, and never will become slaves. Think carefully, and when
-you are ready to answer, I will hear you."
-
-
-
-
-                          Kiki Uses His Magic
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 12
-
-Then arose a great confusion of sounds as all the animals began talking
-to their fellows. The monkeys chattered and the bears growled and the
-voices of the jaguars and lions rumbled, and the wolves yelped and the
-elephants had to trumpet loudly to make their voices heard. Such a
-hubbub had never been known in the forest before, and each beast argued
-with his neighbor until it seemed the noise would never cease.
-
-Ruggedo the Nome waved his arms and fluttered his wings to try to make
-them listen to him again, but the beasts paid no attention. Some wanted
-to fight the Oz people, some wanted to be transformed, and some wanted
-to do nothing at all.
-
-The growling and confusion had grown greater than ever when in a flash
-silence fell on all the beasts present, the arguments were hushed, and
-all gazed in astonishment at a strange sight.
-
-For into the circle strode a great Lion--bigger and more powerful than
-any other lion there--and on his back rode a little girl who smiled
-fearlessly at the multitude of beasts. And behind the lion and the
-little girl came another beast--a monstrous Tiger, who bore upon his
-back a funny little man carrying a black bag. Right past the rows of
-wondering beasts the strange animals walked, advancing until they stood
-just before the rock throne of Gugu.
-
-Then the little girl and the funny little man dismounted, and the great
-Lion demanded in a loud voice:
-
-"Who is King in this forest?"
-
-"I am!" answered Gugu, looking steadily at the other. "I am Gugu the
-Leopard, and I am King of this forest."
-
-"Then I greet Your Majesty with great respect," said the Lion. "Perhaps
-you have heard of me, Gugu. I am called the 'Cowardly Lion,' and I am
-King of all Beasts, the world over."
-
-Gugu's eyes flashed angrily.
-
-"Yes," said he, "I have heard of you. You have long claimed to be King
-of Beasts, but no beast who is a coward can be King over me."
-
-"He isn't a coward, Your Majesty," asserted the little girl, "he's just
-cowardly, that's all."
-
-Gugu looked at her. All the other beasts were looking at her, too.
-
-"Who are you?" asked the King.
-
-"Me? Oh, I'm just Dorothy," she answered.
-
-"How dare you come here?" demanded the King.
-
-"Why, I'm not afraid to go anywhere, if the Cowardly Lion is with me,"
-she said. "I know him pretty well, and so I can trust him. He's always
-afraid, when we get into trouble, and that's why he's cowardly; but he's
-a terrible fighter, and that's why he isn't a coward. He doesn't like to
-fight, you know, but when he _has_ to, there isn't any beast living that
-can conquer him."
-
-Gugu the King looked at the big, powerful form of the Cowardly Lion, and
-knew she spoke the truth. Also the other Lions of the forest now came
-forward and bowed low before the strange Lion.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"We welcome Your Majesty," said one. "We have known you many years ago,
-before you went to live at the Emerald City, and we have seen you fight
-the terrible Kalidahs and conquer them, so we know you are the King of
-all Beasts."
-
-"It is true," replied the Cowardly Lion; "but I did not come here to
-rule the beasts of this forest. Gugu is King here, and I believe he is a
-good King and just and wise. I come, with my friends, to be the guest of
-Gugu, and I hope we are welcome."
-
-That pleased the great Leopard, who said very quickly:
-
-"Yes; you, at least, are welcome to my forest. But who are these
-strangers with you."
-
-"Dorothy has introduced herself," replied the Lion, "and you are sure to
-like her when you know her better. This man is the Wizard of Oz, a
-friend of mine who can do wonderful tricks of magic. And here is my true
-and tried friend, the Hungry Tiger, who lives with me in the Emerald
-City."
-
-"Is he _always_ hungry?" asked Loo the Unicorn.
-
-"I am," replied the Tiger, answering the question himself. "I am always
-hungry for fat babies."
-
-"Can't you find any fat babies in Oz to eat?" inquired Loo, the Unicorn.
-
-"There are plenty of them, of course," said the Tiger, "but
-unfortunately I have such a tender conscience that it won't allow me to
-eat babies. So I'm always hungry for 'em and never can eat 'em, because
-my conscience won't let me."
-
-Now of all the surprised beasts in that clearing, not one was so much
-surprised at the sudden appearance of these four strangers as Ruggedo
-the Nome. He was frightened, too, for he recognized them as his most
-powerful enemies; but he also realized that they could not know he was
-the former King of the Nomes, because of the beast's form he wore, which
-disguised him so effectually. So he took courage and resolved that the
-Wizard and Dorothy should not defeat his plans.
-
-It was hard to tell, just yet, what the vast assemblage of beasts
-thought of the new arrivals. Some glared angrily at them, but more of
-them seemed to be curious and wondering. All were interested, however,
-and they kept very quiet and listened carefully to all that was said.
-
-Kiki Aru, who had remained unnoticed in the shadow of the rock, was at
-first more alarmed by the coming of the strangers than even Ruggedo was,
-and the boy told himself that unless he acted quickly and without
-waiting to ask the advice of the old Nome, their conspiracy was likely
-to be discovered and all their plans to conquer and rule Oz be defeated.
-Kiki didn't like the way Ruggedo acted either, for the former King of
-the Nomes wanted to do everything his own way, and made the boy, who
-alone possessed the power of transformations, obey his orders as if he
-were a slave.
-
-Another thing that disturbed Kiki Aru was the fact that a real Wizard
-had arrived, who was said to possess many magical powers, and this
-Wizard carried his tools in a black bag, and was the friend of the Oz
-people, and so would probably try to prevent war between the beasts of
-the forest and the people of Oz.
-
-All these things passed through the mind of the Hyup boy while the
-Cowardly Lion and Gugu the King were talking together, and that was why
-he now began to do several strange things.
-
-He had found a place, near to the point where he stood, where there was
-a deep hollow in the rock, so he put his face into this hollow and
-whispered softly, so he would not be heard:
-
-"I want the Wizard of Oz to become a fox--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-The Wizard, who had stood smilingly beside his friends, suddenly felt
-his form change to that of a fox, and his black bag fell to the ground.
-Kiki reached out an arm and seized the bag, and the Fox cried as loud as
-it could:
-
-"Treason! There's a traitor here with magic powers!"
-
-Everyone was startled at this cry, and Dorothy, seeing her old friend's
-plight, screamed and exclaimed: "Mercy me!"
-
-But the next instant the little girl's form had changed to that of a
-lamb with fleecy white wool, and Dorothy was too bewildered to do
-anything but look around her in wonder.
-
-The Cowardly Lion's eyes now flashed fire; he crouched low and lashed
-the ground with his tail and gazed around to discover who the
-treacherous magician might be. But Kiki, who had kept his face in the
-hollow rock, again whispered the magic word, and the great lion
-disappeared and in his place stood a little boy dressed in Munchkin
-costume. The little Munchkin boy was as angry as the lion had been, but
-he was small and helpless.
-
-Ruggedo the Nome saw what was happening and was afraid Kiki would spoil
-all his plans, so he leaned over the rock and shouted: "Stop,
-Kiki--stop!"
-
-Kiki would not stop, however. Instead, he transformed the Nome into a
-goose, to Ruggedo's horror and dismay. But the Hungry Tiger had
-witnessed all these transformations, and he was watching to see which of
-those present was to blame for them. When Ruggedo spoke to Kiki, the
-Hungry Tiger knew that he was the magician, so he made a sudden spring
-and hurled his great body full upon the form of the Li-Mon-Eag crouching
-against the rock. Kiki didn't see the Tiger coming because his face was
-still in the hollow, and the heavy body of the tiger bore him to the
-earth just as he said "Pyrzqxgl!" for the fifth time.
-
-So now the tiger which was crushing him changed to a rabbit, and
-relieved of its weight, Kiki sprang up and, spreading his eagle's wings,
-flew into the branches of a tree, where no beast could easily reach him.
-He was not an instant too quick in doing this, for Gugu the King had
-crouched on the rock's edge and was about to spring on the boy.
-
-From his tree Kiki transformed Gugu into a fat Gillikin woman, and
-laughed aloud to see how the woman pranced with rage, and how astonished
-all the beasts were at their King's new shape.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The beasts were frightened, too, fearing they would share the fate of
-Gugu, so a stampede began when Rango the Gray Ape sprang into the
-forest, and Bru the Bear and Loo the Unicorn followed as quickly as they
-could. The elephants backed into the forest, and all the other animals,
-big and little, rushed after them, scattering through the jungles until
-the clearing was far behind. The monkeys scrambled into the trees and
-swung themselves from limb to limb, to avoid being trampled upon by the
-bigger beasts, and they were so quick that they distanced all the rest.
-A panic of fear seemed to have overtaken the forest people and they got
-as far away from the terrible Magician as they possibly could.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-But the transformed ones stayed in the clearing, being so astonished and
-bewildered by their new shapes that they could only look at one another
-in a dazed and helpless fashion, although each one was greatly annoyed
-at the trick that had been played on him.
-
-"Who are you?" the Munchkin boy asked the Rabbit; and "Who are you?" the
-Fox asked the Lamb; and "Who are you?" the Rabbit asked the fat Gillikin
-woman.
-
-"I'm Dorothy," said the woolly Lamb.
-
-"I'm the Wizard," said the Fox.
-
-"I'm the Cowardly Lion," said the Munchkin Boy.
-
-"I'm the Hungry Tiger," said the Rabbit.
-
-"I'm Gugu the King," said the fat Woman.
-
-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."
-
-
-
-
-                       The Loss of the Black Bag
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 13
-
-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.
-
-"This is certainly a misfortune," remarked the Wizard in the Fox's form,
-"but our transformations are a sort of enchantment which is very easy to
-break--when you know how and have the tools to do it with. The tools are
-in my Black Bag; but where is the Bag?"
-
-No one knew that, for none had seen Kiki Aru fly away with it.
-
-"Let's look and see if we can find it," suggested Dorothy the Lamb.
-
-So they left the rock, and all of them searched the clearing high and
-low without finding the Bag of Magic Tools. The Goose searched as
-earnestly as the others, for if he could discover it, he meant to hide
-it where the Wizard could never find it, because if the Wizard changed
-him back to his proper form, along with the others, he would then be
-recognized as Ruggedo the Nome, and they would send him out of the Land
-of Oz and so ruin all his hopes of conquest.
-
-Ruggedo was not really sorry, now that he thought about it, that Kiki
-had transformed all these Oz folks. The forest beasts, it was true, had
-been so frightened that they would now never consent to be transformed
-into men, but Kiki could transform them against their will, and once
-they were all in human forms, it would not be impossible to induce them
-to conquer the Oz people.
-
-So all was not lost, thought the old Nome, and the best thing for him to
-do was to rejoin the Hyup boy who had the secret of the transformations.
-So, having made sure the Wizard's black bag was not in the clearing, the
-Goose wandered away through the trees when the others were not looking,
-and when out of their hearing, he began calling, "Kiki Aru! Kiki Aru!
-Quack--quack! Kiki Aru!"
-
-The Boy and the Woman, the Fox, the Lamb and the Rabbit, not being able
-to find the bag, went back to the rock, all feeling exceedingly strange.
-
-"Where's the Goose?" asked the Wizard.
-
-"He must have run away," replied Dorothy. "I wonder who he was?"
-
-"I think," said Gugu the King, who was the fat Woman, "that the Goose
-was the stranger who proposed that we make war upon the Oz people. If
-so, his transformation was merely a trick to deceive us, and he has now
-gone to join his comrade, that wicked Li-Mon-Eag who obeyed all his
-commands."
-
-"What shall we do now?" asked Dorothy. "Shall we go back to the Emerald
-City, as we are, and then visit Glinda the Good and ask her to break the
-enchantments?"
-
-"I think so," replied the Wizard Fox. "And we can take Gugu the King
-with us, and have Glinda restore him to his natural shape. But I hate to
-leave my bag of Magic Tools behind me, for without it I shall lose much
-of my power as a Wizard. Also, if I go back to the Emerald City in the
-shape of a Fox, the Oz people will think I'm a poor Wizard and will lose
-their respect for me."
-
-"Let us make still another search for your tools," suggested the
-Cowardly Lion, "and then, if we fail to find the Black Bag anywhere in
-this forest, we must go back home as we are."
-
-"Why did you come here, anyway?" inquired Gugu.
-
-"We wanted to borrow a dozen monkeys, to use on Ozma's birthday,"
-explained the Wizard. "We were going to make them small, and train them
-to do tricks, and put them inside Ozma's birthday cake."
-
-"Well," said the Forest King, "you would have to get the consent of
-Rango the Gray Ape, to do that. He commands all the tribes of monkeys."
-
-"I'm afraid it's too late, now," said Dorothy, regretfully. "It was a
-splendid plan, but we've got troubles of our own, and I don't like being
-a lamb at all."
-
-"You're nice and fuzzy," said the Cowardly Lion.
-
-"That's nothing," declared Dorothy. "I've never been 'specially proud of
-myself, but I'd rather be the way I was born than anything else in the
-whole world."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The Glass Cat, although it had some disagreeable ways and manners,
-nevertheless realized that Trot and Cap'n Bill were its friends and so
-was quite disturbed at the fix it had gotten them into by leading them
-to the Isle of the Magic Flower. The ruby heart of the Glass Cat was
-cold and hard, but still it was a heart, and to have a heart of any sort
-is to have some consideration for others. But the queer transparent
-creature didn't want Trot and Cap'n Bill to know it was sorry for them,
-and therefore it moved very slowly until it had crossed the river and
-was out of sight among the trees of the forest. Then it headed straight
-toward the Emerald City, and trotted so fast that it was like a crystal
-streak crossing the valleys and plains. Being glass, the cat was
-tireless, and with no reason to delay its journey, it reached Ozma's
-palace in wonderfully quick time.
-
-"Where's the Wizard?" it asked the Pink Kitten, which was curled up in
-the sunshine on the lowest step of the palace entrance.
-
-"Don't bother me," lazily answered the Pink Kitten, whose name was
-Eureka.
-
-"I must find the Wizard at once!" said the Glass Cat.
-
-"Then find him," advised Eureka, and went to sleep again.
-
-The Glass Cat darted up the stairway and came upon Toto, Dorothy's
-little black dog.
-
-"Where's the Wizard?" asked the Cat.
-
-"Gone on a journey with Dorothy," replied Toto.
-
-"When did they go, and where have they gone?" demanded the Cat.
-
-"They went yesterday, and I heard them say they would go to the Great
-Forest in the Munchkin Country."
-
-"Dear me," said the Glass Cat; "that is a long journey."
-
-"But they rode on the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion," explained
-Toto, "and the Wizard carried his Black Bag of Magic Tools."
-
-The Glass Cat knew the Great Forest of Gugu well, for it had traveled
-through this forest many times in its journeys through the Land of Oz.
-And it reflected that the Forest of Gugu was nearer to the Isle of the
-Magic Flower than the Emerald City was, and so, if it could manage to
-find the Wizard, it could lead him across the Gillikin country to where
-Trot and Cap'n Bill were prisoned. It was a wild country and little
-traveled, but the Glass Cat knew every path. So very little time need be
-lost, after all.
-
-Without stopping to ask any more questions the Cat darted out of the
-palace and away from the Emerald City, taking the most direct route to
-the Forest of Gugu. Again the creature flashed through the country like
-a streak of light, and it would surprise you to know how quickly it
-reached the edge of the Great Forest.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-There were no monkey guards among the trees to cry out a warning, and
-this was so unusual that it astonished the Glass Cat. Going farther into
-the forest it presently came upon a wolf, which at first bounded away in
-terror. But then, seeing it was only a Glass Cat, the Wolf stopped, and
-the Cat could see it was trembling, as if from a terrible fright.
-
-"What's the matter?" asked the Cat.
-
-"A dreadful Magician has come among us!" exclaimed the Wolf, "and he's
-changing the forms of all the beasts--quick as a wink--and making them
-all his slaves."
-
-The Glass Cat smiled and said:
-
-"Why, that's only the Wizard of Oz. He may be having some fun with you
-forest people, but the Wizard wouldn't hurt a beast for anything."
-
-"I don't mean the Wizard," explained the Wolf. "And if the Wizard of Oz
-is that funny little man who rode a great Tiger into the clearing, he's
-been transformed himself by the terrible Magician."
-
-"The Wizard transformed? Why, that's impossible," declared the Glass
-Cat.
-
-"No; it isn't. I saw him with my own eyes, changed into the form of a
-Fox, and the girl who was with him was changed to a woolly Lamb."
-
-The Glass Cat was indeed surprised.
-
-"When did that happen?" it asked.
-
-"Just a little while ago in the clearing. All the animals had met there,
-but they ran away when the Magician began his transformations, and I'm
-thankful I escaped with my natural shape. But I'm still afraid, and I'm
-going somewhere to hide."
-
-With this the Wolf ran on, and the Glass Cat, which knew where the big
-clearing was, went toward it. But now it walked more slowly, and its
-pink brains rolled and tumbled around at a great rate because it was
-thinking over the amazing news the Wolf had told it.
-
-When the Glass Cat reached the clearing, it saw a Fox, a Lamb, a Rabbit,
-a Munchkin boy and a fat Gillikin woman, all wandering around in an
-aimless sort of way, for they were again searching for the Black Bag of
-Magic Tools.
-
-The Cat watched them a moment and then it walked slowly into the open
-space. At once the Lamb ran toward it, crying:
-
-"Oh, Wizard, here's the Glass Cat!"
-
-"Where, Dorothy?" asked the Fox.
-
-"Here!"
-
-The Boy and the Woman and the Rabbit now joined the Fox and the Lamb,
-and they all stood before the Glass Cat and speaking together, almost
-like a chorus, asked: "Have you seen the Black Bag?"
-
-"Often," replied the Glass Cat, "but not lately."
-
-"It's lost," said the Fox, "and we must find it."
-
-"Are you the Wizard?" asked the Cat.
-
-"Yes."
-
-"And who are these others?"
-
-"I'm Dorothy," said the Lamb.
-
-"I'm the Cowardly Lion," said the Munchkin boy.
-
-"I'm the Hungry Tiger," said the Rabbit.
-
-"I'm Gugu, King of the Forest," said the fat Woman.
-
-The Glass Cat sat on its hind legs and began to laugh. "My, what a funny
-lot!" exclaimed the Creature. "Who played this joke on you?"
-
-"It's no joke at all," declared the Wizard. "It was a cruel, wicked
-transformation, and the Magician that did it has the head of a lion, the
-body of a monkey, the wings of an eagle and a round ball on the end of
-his tail."
-
-The Glass Cat laughed again. "That Magician must look funnier than you
-do," it said. "Where is he now?"
-
-"Somewhere in the forest," said the Cowardly Lion. "He just jumped into
-that tall maple tree over there, for he can climb like a monkey and fly
-like an eagle, and then he disappeared in the forest."
-
-"And there was another Magician, just like him, who was his friend,"
-added Dorothy, "but they probably quarreled, for the wickedest one
-changed his friend into the form of a Goose."
-
-"What became of the Goose?" asked the Cat, looking around.
-
-"He must have gone away to find his friend," answered Gugu the King.
-"But a Goose can't travel very fast, so we could easily find him if we
-wanted to."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"The worst thing of all," said the Wizard, "is that my Black Bag is
-lost. It disappeared when I was transformed. If I could find it I could
-easily break these enchantments by means of my magic, and we would
-resume our own forms again. Will you help us search for the Black Bag,
-Friend Cat?"
-
-"Of course," replied the Glass Cat. "But I expect the strange Magician
-carried it away with him. If he's a magician, he knows you need that
-Bag, and perhaps he's afraid of your magic. So he's probably taken the
-Bag with him, and you won't see it again unless you find the Magician."
-
-"That sounds reasonable," remarked the Lamb, which was Dorothy. "Those
-pink brains of yours seem to be working pretty well to-day."
-
-"If the Glass Cat is right," said the Wizard in a solemn voice, "there's
-more trouble ahead of us. That Magician is dangerous, and if we go near
-him he may transform us into shapes not as nice as these."
-
-"I don't see how we could be any _worse_ off," growled Gugu, who was
-indignant because he was forced to appear in the form of a fat woman.
-
-"Anyway," said the Cowardly Lion, "our best plan is to find the Magician
-and try to get the Black Bag from him. We may manage to steal it, or
-perhaps we can argue him into giving it to us."
-
-"Why not find the Goose, first?" asked Dorothy. "The Goose will be angry
-at the Magician, and he may be able to help us."
-
-"That isn't a bad idea," returned the Wizard. "Come on, Friends; let's
-find that Goose. We will separate and search in different directions,
-and the first to find the Goose must bring him here, where we will all
-meet again in an hour."
-
-
-
-
-                    The Wizard Learns the Magic Word
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 14
-
-Now, the Goose was the transformation of old Ruggedo, who was at one
-time King of the Nomes, and he was even more angry at Kiki Aru than were
-the others whose shapes had been changed. The Nome detested anything in
-the way of a bird, because birds lay eggs and eggs are feared by all the
-Nomes more than anything else in the world. A goose is a foolish bird,
-too, and Ruggedo was dreadfully ashamed of the shape he was forced to
-wear. And it would make him shudder to reflect that the Goose might lay
-an egg!
-
-So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.
-If an egg touched him he could then be destroyed, and almost any animal
-he met in the forest might easily conquer him. And that would be the end
-of old Ruggedo the Nome.
-
-Aside from these fears, however, he was filled with anger against Kiki,
-whom he had meant to trap by cleverly stealing from him the Magic Word.
-The boy must have been crazy to spoil everything the way he did, but
-Ruggedo knew that the arrival of the Wizard had scared Kiki, and he was
-not sorry the boy had transformed the Wizard and Dorothy and made them
-helpless. It was his own transformation that annoyed him and made him
-indignant, so he ran about the forest hunting for Kiki, so that he might
-get a better shape and coax the boy to follow his plans to conquer the
-Land of Oz.
-
-Kiki Aru hadn't gone very far away, for he had surprised himself as well
-as the others by the quick transformations and was puzzled as to what to
-do next. Ruggedo the Nome was overbearing and tricky, and Kiki knew he
-was not to be depended on; but the Nome could plan and plot, which the
-Hyup boy was not wise enough to do, and so, when he looked down through
-the branches of a tree and saw a Goose waddling along below and heard it
-cry out, "Kiki Aru! Quack--quack! Kiki Aru!" the boy answered in a low
-voice, "Here I am," and swung himself down to the lowest limb of the
-tree.
-
-The Goose looked up and saw him.
-
-"You've bungled things in a dreadful way!" exclaimed the Goose. "Why did
-you do it?"
-
-"Because I wanted to," answered Kiki. "You acted as if I was your slave,
-and I wanted to show these forest people that I am more powerful than
-you."
-
-The Goose hissed softly, but Kiki did not hear that.
-
-Old Ruggedo quickly recovered his wits and muttered to himself: "This
-boy is the goose, although it is I who wear the goose's shape. I will be
-gentle with him now, and fierce with him when I have him in my power."
-Then he said aloud to Kiki:
-
-"Well, hereafter I will be content to acknowledge you the master. You
-bungled things, as I said, but we can still conquer Oz."
-
-"How?" asked the boy.
-
-"First give me back the shape of the Li-Mon-Eag, and then we can talk
-together more conveniently," suggested the Nome.
-
-"Wait a moment, then," said Kiki, and climbed higher up the tree. There
-he whispered the Magic Word and the Goose became a Li-Mon-Eag, as he had
-been before.
-
-"Good!" said the Nome, well pleased, as Kiki joined him by dropping down
-from the tree. "Now let us find a quiet place where we can talk without
-being overheard by the beasts."
-
-So the two started away and crossed the forest until they came to a
-place where the trees were not so tall nor so close together, and among
-these scattered trees was another clearing, not so large as the first
-one, where the meeting of the beasts had been held. Standing on the edge
-of this clearing and looking across it, they saw the trees on the
-farther side full of monkeys, who were chattering together at a great
-rate of the sights they had witnessed at the meeting.
-
-The old Nome whispered to Kiki not to enter the clearing or allow the
-monkeys to see them.
-
-"Why not?" asked the boy, drawing back.
-
-"Because those monkeys are to be our army--the army which will conquer
-Oz," said the Nome. "Sit down here with me, Kiki, and keep quiet, and I
-will explain to you my plan."
-
-Now, neither Kiki Aru nor Ruggedo had noticed that a sly Fox had
-followed them all the way from the tree where the Goose had been
-transformed to the Li-Mon-Eag. Indeed, this Fox, who was none other than
-the Wizard of Oz, had witnessed the transformation of the Goose and now
-decided he would keep watch of the conspirators and see what they would
-do next.
-
-A Fox can move through a forest very softly, without making any noise,
-and so the Wizard's enemies did not suspect his presence. But when they
-sat down by the edge of the clearing, to talk, with their backs toward
-him, the Wizard did not know whether to risk being seen, by creeping
-closer to hear what they said, or whether it would be better for him to
-hide himself until they moved on again.
-
-While he considered this question he discovered near him a great tree
-which had a hollow trunk, and there was a round hole in this tree, about
-three feet above the ground. The Wizard Fox decided it would be safer
-for him to hide inside the hollow tree, so he sprang into the hole and
-crouched down in the hollow, so that his eyes just came to the edge of
-the hole by which he had entered, and from here he watched the forms of
-the two Li-Mon-Eags.
-
-"This is my plan," said the Nome to Kiki, speaking so low that the
-Wizard could only hear the rumble of his voice. "Since you can transform
-anything into any form you wish, we will transform these monkeys into an
-army, and with that army we will conquer the Oz people."
-
-"The monkeys won't make much of an army," objected Kiki.
-
-"We need a great army, but not a numerous one," responded the Nome. "You
-will transform each monkey into a giant man, dressed in a fine uniform
-and armed with a sharp sword. There are fifty monkeys over there and
-fifty giants would make as big an army as we need."
-
-"What will they do with the swords?" asked Kiki. "Nothing can kill the
-Oz people."
-
-"True," said Ruggedo. "The Oz people cannot be killed, but they can be
-cut into small pieces, and while every piece will still be alive, we can
-scatter the pieces around so that they will be quite helpless.
-Therefore, the Oz people will be afraid of the swords of our army, and
-we will conquer them with ease."
-
-"That seems like a good idea," replied the boy, approvingly. "And in
-such a case, we need not bother with the other beasts of the forest."
-
-"No; you have frightened the beasts, and they would no longer consent to
-assist us in conquering Oz. But those monkeys are foolish creatures, and
-once they are transformed to Giants, they will do just as we say and
-obey our commands. Can you transform them all at once?"
-
-"No, I must take one at a time," said Kiki. "But the fifty
-transformations can be made in an hour or so. Stay here, Ruggedo, and I
-will change the first monkey--that one at the left, on the end of the
-limb--into a Giant with a sword."
-
-"Where are you going?" asked the Nome.
-
-"I must not speak the Magic Word in the presence of another person,"
-declared Kiki, who was determined not to allow his treacherous companion
-to learn his secret, "so I will go where you cannot hear me."
-
-Ruggedo the Nome was disappointed, but he hoped still to catch the boy
-unawares and surprise the Magic Word. So he merely nodded his lion head,
-and Kiki got up and went back into the forest a short distance. Here he
-spied a hollow tree, and by chance it was the same hollow tree in which
-the Wizard of Oz, now in the form of a Fox, had hidden himself.
-
-As Kiki ran up to the tree the Fox ducked its head, so that it was out
-of sight in the dark hollow beneath the hole, and then Kiki put his face
-into the hole and whispered: "I want that monkey on the branch at the
-left to become a Giant man fifty feet tall, dressed in a uniform and
-with a sharp sword--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-Then he ran back to Ruggedo, but the Wizard Fox had heard quite plainly
-every word that he had said.
-
-The monkey was instantly transformed into the Giant, and the Giant was
-so big that as he stood on the ground his head was higher than the trees
-of the forest. The monkeys raised a great chatter but did not seem to
-understand that the Giant was one of themselves.
-
-"Good!" cried the Nome. "Hurry, Kiki, and transform the others."
-
-So Kiki rushed back to the tree and putting his face to the hollow,
-whispered:
-
-"I want the next monkey to be just like the first--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-Again the Wizard Fox heard the Magic Word, and just how it was
-pronounced. But he sat still in the hollow and waited to hear it again,
-so it would be impressed on his mind and he would not forget it.
-
-Kiki kept running to the edge of the forest and back to the hollow tree
-again until he had whispered the Magic Word six times and six monkeys
-had been changed to six great giants. Then the Wizard decided he would
-make an experiment and use the Magic Word himself. So, while Kiki was
-running back to the Nome, the Fox stuck his head out of the hollow and
-said softly: "I want that creature who is running to become a
-hickory-nut--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Instantly the Li-Mon-Eag form of Kiki Aru the Hyup disappeared and a
-small hickory-nut rolled upon the ground a moment and then lay still.
-
-The Wizard was delighted, and leaped from the hollow just as Ruggedo
-looked around to see what had become of Kiki. The Nome saw the Fox but
-no Kiki, so he hastily rose to his feet. The Wizard did not know how
-powerful the queer beast might be, so he resolved to take no chances.
-
-"I want this creature to become a walnut--Pyrzqxgl!" he said aloud. But
-he did not pronounce the Magic Word in quite the right way, and
-Ruggedo's form did not change. But the Nome knew at once that
-"Pyrzqxgl!" was the Magic Word, so he rushed at the Fox and cried:
-
-"I want you to become a Goose--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-But the Nome did not pronounce the word aright, either, having never
-heard it spoken but once before, and then with a wrong accent. So the
-Fox was not transformed, but it had to run away to escape being caught
-by the angry Nome.
-
-Ruggedo now began pronouncing the Magic Word in every way he could think
-of, hoping to hit the right one, and the Fox, hiding in a bush, was
-somewhat troubled by the fear that he might succeed. However, the
-Wizard, who was used to magic arts, remained calm and soon remembered
-exactly how Kiki Aru had pronounced the word. So he repeated the
-sentence he had before uttered and Ruggedo the Nome became an ordinary
-walnut.
-
-The Wizard now crept out from the bush and said: "I want my own form
-again--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Instantly he was the Wizard of Oz, and after picking up the hickory-nut
-and the walnut, and carefully placing them in his pocket, he ran back to
-the big clearing.
-
-Dorothy the Lamb uttered a bleat of delight when she saw her old friend
-restored to his natural shape. The others were all there, not having
-found the Goose. The fat Gillikin woman, the Munchkin boy, the Rabbit
-and the Glass Cat crowded around the Wizard and asked what had happened.
-
-Before he explained anything of his adventure, he transformed them
-all--except, of course, the Glass Cat--into their natural shapes, and
-when their joy permitted them to quiet somewhat, he told how he had by
-chance surprised the Magician's secret and been able to change the two
-Li-Mon-Eags into shapes that could not speak, and therefore would be
-unable to help themselves. And the little Wizard showed his astonished
-friends the hickory-nut and the walnut to prove that he had spoken the
-truth.
-
-"But--see here!"--exclaimed Dorothy, "What has become of those Giant
-Soldiers who used to be monkeys?"
-
-"I forgot all about them!" admitted the Wizard; "but I suppose they are
-still standing there in the forest."
-
-
-
-
-                           The Lonesome Duck
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 15
-
-Trot and Cap'n Bill stood before the Magic Flower, actually rooted to
-the spot.
-
-"Aren't you hungry, Cap'n?" asked the little girl, with a long sigh, for
-she had been standing there for hours and hours.
-
-"Well," replied the sailor-man, "I ain't sayin' as I couldn't _eat_,
-Trot--if a dinner was handy--but I guess old folks don't get as hungry
-as young folks do."
-
-"I'm not sure 'bout that, Cap'n Bill," she said thoughtfully. "Age
-_might_ make a difference, but seems to me _size_ would make a bigger
-difference. Seeing you're twice as big as me, you ought to be twice as
-hungry."
-
-"I hope I am," he rejoined, "for I can stand it a while longer. I do
-hope the Glass Cat will hurry, and I hope the Wizard won't waste time
-a-comin' to us."
-
-Trot sighed again and watched the wonderful Magic Flower, because there
-was nothing else to do. Just now a lovely group of pink peonies budded
-and bloomed, but soon they faded away, and a mass of deep blue lilies
-took their place. Then some yellow chrysanthemums blossomed on the
-plant, and when they had opened all their petals and reached perfection,
-they gave way to a lot of white floral balls spotted with crimson--a
-flower Trot had never seen before.
-
-"But I get awful tired watchin' flowers an' flowers an' flowers," she
-said impatiently.
-
-"They're mighty pretty," observed Cap'n Bill.
-
-"I know; and if a person could come and look at the Magic Flower just
-when she felt like it, it would be a fine thing, but to _have to_ stand
-and watch it, whether you want to or not, isn't so much fun. I wish,
-Cap'n Bill, the thing would grow fruit for a while instead of flowers."
-
-Scarcely had she spoken when the white balls with crimson spots faded
-away and a lot of beautiful ripe peaches took their place. With a cry of
-mingled surprise and delight Trot reached out and plucked a peach from
-the bush and began to eat it, finding it delicious. Cap'n Bill was
-somewhat dazed at the girl's wish being granted so quickly, so before he
-could pick a peach they had faded away and bananas took their place.
-"Grab one, Cap'n!" exclaimed Trot, and even while eating the peach she
-seized a banana with her other hand and tore it from the bush.
-
-The old sailor was still bewildered. He put out a hand indeed, but he
-was too late, for now the bananas disappeared and lemons took their
-place.
-
-"Pshaw!" cried Trot. "You can't eat those things; but watch out, Cap'n,
-for something else."
-
-Cocoanuts next appeared, but Cap'n Bill shook his head.
-
-"Ca'n't crack 'em," he remarked, "'cause we haven't anything handy to
-smash 'em with."
-
-"Well, take one, anyhow," advised Trot; but the cocoanuts were gone now,
-and a deep, purple, pear-shaped fruit which was unknown to them took
-their place. Again Cap'n Bill hesitated, and Trot said to him:
-
-"You ought to have captured a peach and a banana, as I did. If you're
-not careful, Cap'n, you'll miss all your chances. Here, I'll divide my
-banana with you."
-
-Even as she spoke, the Magic Plant was covered with big red apples,
-growing on every branch, and Cap'n Bill hesitated no longer. He grabbed
-with both hands and picked two apples, while Trot had only time to
-secure one before they were gone.
-
-"It's curious," remarked the sailor, munching his apple, "how these
-fruits keep good when you've picked 'em, but dis'pear inter thin air if
-they're left on the bush."
-
-"The whole thing is curious," declared the girl, "and it couldn't exist
-in any country but this, where magic is so common. Those are limes.
-Don't pick 'em, for they'd pucker up your mouth and--Ooo! here come
-plums!" and she tucked her apple in her apron pocket and captured three
-plums--each one almost as big as an egg--before they disappeared. Cap'n
-Bill got some too, but both were too hungry to fast any longer, so they
-began eating their apples and plums and let the magic bush bear all
-sorts of fruits, one after another. The Cap'n stopped once to pick a
-fine cantaloupe, which he held under his arm, and Trot, having finished
-her plums, got a handful of cherries and an orange; but when almost
-every sort of fruit had appeared on the bush, the crop ceased and only
-flowers, as before, bloomed upon it.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"I wonder why it changed back," mused Trot, who was not worried because
-she had enough fruit to satisfy her hunger.
-
-"Well, you only wished it would bear fruit 'for a while,'" said the
-sailor, "and it did. P'raps if you'd said 'forever,' Trot, it would have
-always been fruit."
-
-"But why should _my_ wish be obeyed?" asked the girl. "I'm not a fairy
-or a wizard or any kind of a magic-maker."
-
-"I guess," replied Cap'n Bill, "that this little island is a magic
-island, and any folks on it can tell the bush what to produce, an' it'll
-produce it."
-
-"Do you think I could wish for anything else, Cap'n, and get it?" she
-inquired anxiously.
-
-"What are you thinkin' of, Trot?"
-
-"I'm thinking of wishing that these roots on our feet would disappear,
-and let us free."
-
-"Try it, Trot."
-
-So she tried it, and the wish had no effect whatever. "Try it yourself,
-Cap'n," she suggested.
-
-Then Cap'n Bill made the wish to be free, with no better result.
-
-"No," said he, "it's no use; the wishes only affect the Magic Plant; but
-I'm glad we can make it bear fruit, 'cause now we know we won't starve
-before the Wizard gets to us."
-
-"But I'm gett'n' tired standing here so long," complained the girl. "If
-I could only lift one foot, and rest it, I'd feel better."
-
-"Same with me, Trot. I've noticed that if you've got to do a thing, and
-can't help yourself, it gets to be a hardship mighty quick."
-
-"Folks that can raise their feet don't appreciate what a blessing it
-is," said Trot thoughtfully. "I never knew before what fun it is to
-raise one foot, an' then another, any time you feel like it."
-
-"There's lots o' things folks don't 'preciate," replied the sailor-man.
-"If somethin' would 'most stop your breath, you'd think breathin' easy
-was the finest thing in life. When a person's well, he don't realize how
-jolly it is, but when he gets sick he 'members the time he was well, an'
-wishes that time would come back. Most folks forget to thank God for
-givin' 'em two good legs, till they lose one o' 'em, like I did; and
-then it's too late, 'cept to praise God for leavin' one."
-
-"Your wooden leg ain't so bad, Cap'n," she remarked, looking at it
-critically. "Anyhow, it don't take root on a Magic Island, like our meat
-legs do."
-
-"I ain't complaining" said Cap'n Bill. "What's that swimmin' towards us,
-Trot?" he added, looking over the Magic Flower and across the water.
-
-The girl looked, too, and then she replied.
-
-"It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck
-have so many colors."
-
-The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it
-drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers
-were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had
-a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.
-When it reached the Isle, it came ashore and approached them, waddling
-slowly and turning its head first to one side and then to the other, so
-as to see the girl and the sailor better.
-
-"You're strangers," said the bird, coming to a halt near them, "and
-you've been caught by the Magic Isle and made prisoners."
-
-"Yes," returned Trot, with a sigh; "we're rooted. But I hope we won't
-grow."
-
-"You'll grow small," said the Bird. "You'll keep growing smaller every
-day, until bye and bye there'll be nothing left of you. That's the usual
-way, on this Magic Isle."
-
-"How do you know about it, and who are you, anyhow?" asked Cap'n Bill.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"I'm the Lonesome Duck," replied the bird. "I suppose you've heard of
-me?"
-
-"No," said Trot, "I can't say I have. What makes you lonesome?"
-
-"Why, I haven't any family or any relations," returned the Duck.
-
-"Haven't you any friends?"
-
-"Not a friend. And I've nothing to do. I've lived a long time, and I've
-got to live forever, because I belong in the Land of Oz, where no living
-thing dies. Think of existing year after year, with no friends, no
-family, and nothing to do! Can you wonder I'm lonesome?"
-
-"Why don't you make a few friends, and find something to do?" inquired
-Cap'n Bill.
-
-"I can't make friends because everyone I meet--bird, beast or person--is
-disagreeable to me. In a few minutes I shall be unable to bear your
-society longer, and then I'll go away and leave you," said the Lonesome
-Duck. "And, as for doing anything, there's no use in it. All I meet are
-doing something, so I have decided it's common and uninteresting and I
-prefer to remain lonesome."
-
-"Don't you have to hunt for your food?" asked Trot.
-
-"No. In my diamond palace, a little way up the river, food is magically
-supplied me; but I seldom eat, because it is so common."
-
-"You must be a Magician Duck," remarked Cap'n Bill.
-
-"Why so?"
-
-"Well, ordinary ducks don't have diamond palaces an' magic food, like
-you do."
-
-"True; and that's another reason why I'm lonesome. You must remember I'm
-the only Duck in the Land of Oz, and I'm not like any other duck in the
-outside world."
-
-"Seems to me you _like_ bein' lonesome," observed Cap'n Bill.
-
-"I can't say I like it, exactly," replied the Duck, "but since it seems
-to be my fate, I'm rather proud of it."
-
-"How do you s'pose a single, solitary Duck happened to be in the Land of
-Oz?" asked Trot, wonderingly.
-
-"I used to know the reason, many years ago, but I've quite forgotten
-it," declared the Duck. "The reason for a thing is never so important as
-the thing itself, so there's no use remembering anything but the fact
-that I'm lonesome."
-
-"I guess you'd be happier if you tried to do something," asserted Trot.
-"If you can't do anything for yourself, you can do things for others,
-and then you'd get lots of friends and stop being lonesome."
-
-"Now you're getting disagreeable," said the Lonesome Duck, "and I shall
-have to go and leave you."
-
-"Can't you help us any," pleaded the girl. "If there's anything magic
-about you, you might get us out of this scrape."
-
-"I haven't any magic strong enough to get you off the Magic Isle,"
-replied the Lonesome Duck. "What magic I possess is very simple, but I
-find it enough for my own needs."
-
-"If we could only sit down a while, we could stand it better," said
-Trot, "but we have nothing to sit on."
-
-"Then you will have to stand it," said the Lonesome Duck.
-
-"P'raps you've enough magic to give us a couple of stools," suggested
-Cap'n Bill.
-
-"A duck isn't supposed to know what stools are," was the reply.
-
-"But you're different from all other ducks."
-
-"That is true." The strange creature seemed to reflect for a moment,
-looking at them sharply from its round black eyes. Then it said:
-"Sometimes, when the sun is hot, I grow a toadstool to shelter me from
-its rays. Perhaps you could sit on toadstools."
-
-"Well, if they were strong enough, they'd do," answered Cap'n Bill.
-
-"Then, before I go I'll give you a couple," said the Lonesome Duck, and
-began waddling about in a small circle. It went around the circle to the
-right three times, and then it went around to the left three times. Then
-it hopped backward three times and forward three times.
-
-"What are you doing?" asked Trot.
-
-"Don't interrupt. This is an incantation," replied the Lonesome Duck,
-but now it began making a succession of soft noises that sounded like
-quacks and seemed to mean nothing at all. And it kept up these sounds so
-long that Trot finally exclaimed:
-
-"Can't you hurry up and finish that 'cantation? If it takes all summer
-to make a couple of toadstools, you're not much of a magician."
-
-"I told you not to interrupt," said the Lonesome Duck, sternly. "If you
-get _too_ disagreeable, you'll drive me away before I finish this
-incantation."
-
-Trot kept quiet, after the rebuke, and the Duck resumed the quacky
-muttering. Cap'n Bill chuckled a little to himself and remarked to Trot
-in a whisper: "For a bird that ain't got anything to do, this Lonesome
-Duck is makin' consider'ble fuss. An' I ain't sure, after all, as
-toadstools would be worth sittin' on."
-
-Even as he spoke, the sailor-man felt something touch him from behind
-and, turning his head, he found a big toadstool in just the right place
-and of just the right size to sit upon. There was one behind Trot, too,
-and with a cry of pleasure the little girl sank back upon it and found
-it a very comfortable seat--solid, yet almost like a cushion. Even Cap'n
-Bill's weight did not break his toadstool down, and when both were
-seated, they found that the Lonesome Duck had waddled away and was now
-at the water's edge.
-
-"Thank you, ever so much!" cried Trot, and the sailor called out: "Much
-obliged!"
-
-But the Lonesome Duck paid no attention. Without even looking in their
-direction again, the gaudy fowl entered the water and swam gracefully
-away.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                   The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 16
-
-When the six monkeys were transformed by Kiki Aru into six giant
-soldiers fifty feet tall, their heads came above the top of the trees,
-which in this part of the forest were not so high as in some other
-parts; and, although the trees were somewhat scattered, the bodies of
-the giant soldiers were so big that they quite filled the spaces in
-which they stood and the branches pressed them on every side.
-
-Of course, Kiki was foolish to have made his soldiers so big, for now
-they could not get out of the forest. Indeed, they could not stir a
-step, but were imprisoned by the trees. Even had they been in the little
-clearing they could not have made their way out of it, but they were a
-little beyond the clearing. At first, the other monkeys who had not been
-enchanted were afraid of the soldiers, and hastily quitted the place;
-but soon finding that the great men stood stock still, although grunting
-indignantly at their transformation, the band of monkeys returned to the
-spot and looked at them curiously, not guessing that they were really
-monkeys and their own friends.
-
-The soldiers couldn't see them, their heads being above the trees; they
-could not even raise their arms or draw their sharp swords, so closely
-were they held by the leafy branches. So the monkeys, finding the giants
-helpless, began climbing up their bodies, and presently all the band
-were perched on the shoulders of the giants and peering into their
-faces.
-
-"I'm Ebu, your father," cried one soldier to a monkey who had perched
-upon his left ear, "but some cruel person has enchanted me."
-
-"I'm your Uncle Peeker," said another soldier to another monkey.
-
-So, very soon all the monkeys knew the truth and were sorry for their
-friends and relations and angry at the person--whoever it was--who had
-transformed them. There was a great chattering among the tree-tops, and
-the noise attracted other monkeys, so that the clearing and all the
-trees around were full of them.
-
-Rango the Gray Ape, who was the Chief of all the monkey tribes of the
-forest, heard the uproar and came to see what was wrong with his people.
-And Rango, being wiser and more experienced, at once knew that the
-strange magician who looked like a mixed-up beast was responsible for
-the transformations. He realized that the six giant soldiers were
-helpless prisoners, because of their size, and knew he was powerless to
-release them. So, although he feared to meet the terrible magician, he
-hurried away to the great clearing to tell Gugu the King what had
-happened and to try to find the Wizard of Oz and get him to save his six
-enchanted subjects.
-
-Rango darted into the Great Clearing just as the Wizard had restored all
-the enchanted ones around him to their proper shapes, and the Gray Ape
-was glad to hear that the wicked magician-beast had been conquered.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"But now, O mighty Wizard, you must come with me to where six of my
-people are transformed into six great giant men," he said, "for if they
-are allowed to remain there, their happiness and their future lives will
-be ruined."
-
-The Wizard did not reply at once, for he was thinking this a good
-opportunity to win Rango's consent to his taking some monkeys to the
-Emerald City for Ozma's birthday cake.
-
-"It is a great thing you ask of me, O Rango the Gray Ape," said he, "for
-the bigger the giants are the more powerful their enchantment, and the
-more difficult it will be to restore them to their natural forms.
-However, I will think it over."
-
-Then the Wizard went to another part of the clearing and sat on a log
-and appeared to be in deep thought.
-
-The Glass Cat had been greatly interested in the Gray Ape's story and
-was curious to see what the giant soldiers looked like. Hearing that
-their heads extended above the tree-tops, the Glass Cat decided that if
-it climbed the tall avocado tree that stood at the side of the clearing,
-it might be able to see the giants' heads. So, without mentioning her
-errand, the crystal creature went to the tree and, by sticking her sharp
-glass claws in the bark, easily climbed the tree to its very top and,
-looking over the forest, saw the six giant heads, although they were now
-a long way off. It was, indeed, a remarkable sight, for the huge heads
-had immense soldier caps on them, with red and yellow plumes and looked
-very fierce and terrible, although the monkey hearts of the giants were
-at that moment filled with fear.
-
-Having satisfied her curiosity, the Glass Cat began to climb down from
-the tree more slowly. Suddenly she discerned the Wizard's black bag
-hanging to a limb of the tree. She grasped the black bag in her glass
-teeth, and although it was rather heavy for so small an animal, managed
-to get it free and to carry it safely down to the ground. Then she
-looked around for the Wizard and seeing him seated upon the stump she
-hid the black bag among some leaves and then went over to where the
-Wizard sat.
-
-"I forgot to tell you," said the Glass Cat, "that Trot and Cap'n Bill
-are in trouble, and I came here to hunt you up and get you to go and
-rescue them."
-
-"Good gracious, Cat! Why didn't you tell me before?" exclaimed the
-Wizard.
-
-"For the reason that I found so much excitement here that I forgot Trot
-and Cap'n Bill."
-
-"What's wrong with them?" asked the Wizard.
-
-Then the Glass Cat explained how they had gone to get the Magic Flower
-for Ozma's birthday gift and had been trapped by the magic of the queer
-island. The Wizard was really alarmed, but he shook his head and said
-sadly:
-
-"I'm afraid I can't help my dear friends, because I've lost my black
-bag."
-
-"If I find it, will you go to them?" asked the creature.
-
-"Of course," replied the Wizard. "But I do not think that a Glass Cat
-with nothing but pink brains can succeed when all the rest of us have
-failed."
-
-"Don't you admire my pink brains?" demanded the Cat.
-
-"They're pretty," admitted the Wizard, "but they're not regular brains,
-you know, and so we don't expect them to amount to much."
-
-"But if I find your black bag--and find it inside of five minutes--will
-you admit my pink brains are better than your common human brains?"
-
-"Well, I'll admit they're better _hunters_," said the Wizard,
-reluctantly, "but you can't do it. We've searched everywhere, and the
-black bag isn't to be found."
-
-"That shows how much you know!" retorted the Glass Cat, scornfully.
-"Watch my brains a minute, and see them whirl around."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The Wizard watched, for he was anxious to regain his black bag, and the
-pink brains really did whirl around in a remarkable manner.
-
-"Now, come with me," commanded the Glass Cat, and led the Wizard
-straight to the spot where it had covered the bag with leaves.
-"According to my brains," said the creature, "your black bag ought to be
-here."
-
-Then it scratched at the leaves and uncovered the bag, which the Wizard
-promptly seized with a cry of delight. Now that he had regained his
-Magic Tools, he felt confident he could rescue Trot and Cap'n Bill.
-
-Rango the Gray Ape was getting impatient. He now approached the Wizard
-and said:
-
-"Well, what do you intend to do about those poor enchanted monkeys?"
-
-"I'll make a bargain with you, Rango," replied the little man. "If you
-will let me take a dozen of your monkeys to the Emerald City, and keep
-them until after Ozma's birthday, I'll break the enchantment of the six
-Giant Soldiers and return them to their natural forms."
-
-But the Gray Ape shook his head.
-
-"I can't do it," he declared. "The monkeys would be very lonesome and
-unhappy in the Emerald City and your people would tease them and throw
-stones at them, which would cause them to fight and bite."
-
-"The people won't see them till Ozma's birthday dinner," promised the
-Wizard. "I'll make them very small--about four inches high, and I'll
-keep them in a pretty cage in my own room, where they will be safe from
-harm. I'll feed them the nicest kind of food, train them to do some
-clever tricks, and on Ozma's birthday I'll hide the twelve little
-monkeys inside a cake. When Ozma cuts the cake the monkeys will jump out
-on to the table and do their tricks. The next day I will bring them back
-to the forest and make them big as ever, and they'll have some exciting
-stories to tell their friends. What do you say, Rango?"
-
-"I say no!" answered the Gray Ape. "I won't have my monkeys enchanted
-and made to do tricks for the Oz people."
-
-"Very well," said the Wizard calmly; "then I'll go. Come, Dorothy," he
-called to the little girl, "let's start on our journey."
-
-"Aren't you going to save those six monkeys who are giant soldiers?"
-asked Rango, anxiously.
-
-"Why should I?" returned the Wizard. "If you will not do me the favor I
-ask, you cannot expect me to favor you."
-
-"Wait a minute," said the Gray Ape. "I've changed my mind. If you will
-treat the twelve monkeys nicely and bring them safely back to the
-forest. I'll let you take them."
-
-"Thank you," replied the Wizard, cheerfully. "We'll go at once and save
-those giant soldiers."
-
-So all the party left the clearing and proceeded to the place where the
-giants still stood among the trees. Hundreds of monkeys, apes, baboons
-and orang-outangs had gathered round, and their wild chatter could be
-heard a mile away. But the Gray Ape soon hushed the babel of sounds, and
-the Wizard lost no time in breaking the enchantments. First one and then
-another giant soldier disappeared and became an ordinary monkey again,
-and the six were shortly returned to their friends in their proper
-forms.
-
-This action made the Wizard very popular with the great army of monkeys,
-and when the Gray Ape announced that the Wizard wanted to borrow twelve
-monkeys to take to the Emerald City for a couple of weeks, and asked for
-volunteers, nearly a hundred offered to go, so great was their
-confidence in the little man who had saved their comrades.
-
-The Wizard selected a dozen that seemed intelligent and good-tempered,
-and then he opened his black bag and took out a queerly shaped dish that
-was silver on the outside and gold on the inside. Into this dish he
-poured a powder and set fire to it. It made a thick smoke that quite
-enveloped the twelve monkeys, as well as the form of the Wizard, but
-when the smoke cleared away the dish had been changed to a golden cage
-with silver bars, and the twelve monkeys had become about three inches
-high and were all seated comfortably inside the cage.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-The thousands of hairy animals who had witnessed this act of magic were
-much astonished and applauded the Wizard by barking aloud and shaking
-the limbs of the trees in which they sat. Dorothy said: "That was a fine
-trick, Wizard!" and the Gray Ape remarked: "You are certainly the most
-wonderful magician in all the Land of Oz!"
-
-"Oh, no," modestly replied the little man. "Glinda's magic is better
-than mine, but mine seems good enough to use on ordinary occasions. And
-now, Rango, we will say good-bye, and I promise to return your monkeys
-as happy and safe as they are now."
-
-The Wizard rode on the back of the Hungry Tiger and carried the cage of
-monkeys very carefully, so as not to joggle them. Dorothy rode on the
-back of the Cowardly Lion, and the Glass Cat trotted, as before, to show
-them the way.
-
-Gugu the King crouched upon a log and watched them go, but as he bade
-them farewell, the enormous leopard said:
-
-"I know now that you are the friends of beasts and that the forest
-people may trust you. Whenever the Wizard of Oz and Princess Dorothy
-enter the Forest of Gugu hereafter, they will be as welcome and as safe
-with us as ever they are in the Emerald City."
-
-
-
-
-                          A Remarkable Journey
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 17
-
-"You see," explained the Glass Cat, "that Magic Isle where Trot and
-Cap'n Bill are stuck is also in this Gillikin country--over at the east
-side of it, and it's no farther to go across-lots from here than it is
-from here to the Emerald City. So we'll save time by cutting across the
-mountains."
-
-"Are you sure you know the way?" asked Dorothy.
-
-"I know all the Land of Oz better than any other living creature knows
-it," asserted the Glass Cat.
-
-"Go ahead, then, and guide us," said the Wizard. "We've left our poor
-friends helpless too long already, and the sooner we rescue them the
-happier they'll be."
-
-"Are you sure you can get 'em out of their fix?" the little girl
-inquired.
-
-"I've no doubt of it," the Wizard assured her. "But I can't tell what
-sort of magic I must use until I get to the place and discover just how
-they are enchanted."
-
-"I've heard of that Magic Isle where the Wonderful Flower grows,"
-remarked the Cowardly Lion. "Long ago, when I used to live in the
-forests, the beasts told stories about the Isle and how the Magic Flower
-was placed there to entrap strangers--men or beasts."
-
-"Is the Flower really wonderful?" questioned Dorothy.
-
-"I have heard it is the most beautiful plant in the world," answered the
-Lion. "I have never seen it myself, but friendly beasts have told me
-that they have stood on the shore of the river and looked across at the
-plant in the gold flowerpot and seen hundreds of flowers, of all sorts
-and sizes, blossom upon it in quick succession. It is said that if one
-picks the flowers while they are in bloom they will remain perfect for a
-long time, but if they are not picked they soon disappear and are
-replaced by other flowers. That, in my opinion, makes the magic plant
-the most wonderful in existence."
-
-"But these are only stories," said the girl. "Has any of your friends
-ever picked a flower from the wonderful plant?"
-
-"No," admitted the Cowardly Lion, "for if any living thing ventures upon
-the Magic Isle, where the golden flowerpot stands, that man or beast
-takes root in the soil and cannot get away again."
-
-"What happens to them, then?" asked Dorothy.
-
-"They grow smaller, hour by hour and day by day, and finally disappear
-entirely."
-
-"Then," said the girl anxiously, "we must hurry up, or Cap'n Bill an'
-Trot will get too small to be comf'table."
-
-They were proceeding at a rapid pace during this conversation, for the
-Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion were obliged to move swiftly in order
-to keep pace with the Glass Cat. After leaving the Forest of Gugu they
-crossed a mountain range, and then a broad plain, after which they
-reached another forest, much smaller than that where Gugu ruled.
-
-"The Magic Isle is in this forest," said the Glass Cat, "but the river
-is at the other side of the forest. There is no path through the trees,
-but if we keep going east, we will find the river, and then it will be
-easy to find the Magic Isle."
-
-"Have you ever traveled this way before?" inquired the Wizard.
-
-"Not exactly," admitted the Cat, "but I know we shall reach the river if
-we go east through the forest."
-
-"Lead on, then," said the Wizard.
-
-The Glass Cat started away, and at first it was easy to pass between the
-trees; but before long the underbrush and vines became thick and
-tangled, and after pushing their way through these obstacles for a time,
-our travelers came to a place where even the Glass Cat could not push
-through.
-
-"We'd better go back and find a path," suggested the Hungry Tiger.
-
-"I'm s'prised at you," said Dorothy, eyeing the Glass Cat severely.
-
-"I'm surprised, myself," replied the Cat. "But it's a long way around
-the forest to where the river enters it, and I thought we could save
-time by going straight through."
-
-"No one can blame you," said the Wizard, "and I think, instead of
-turning back, I can make a path that will allow us to proceed."
-
-He opened his black bag and after searching among his magic tools drew
-out a small axe, made of some metal so highly polished that it glittered
-brightly even in the dark forest. The Wizard laid the little axe on the
-ground and said in a commanding voice:
-
-  "Chop, Little Axe, chop clean and true;
-  A path for our feet you must quickly hew.
-  Chop till this tangle of jungle is passed;
-  Chop to the east, Little Axe--chop fast!"
-
-Then the little axe began to move and flashed its bright blade right and
-left, clearing a way through vine and brush and scattering the tangled
-barrier so quickly that the Lion and the Tiger, carrying Dorothy and the
-Wizard and the cage of monkeys on their backs, were able to stride
-through the forest at a fast walk. The brush seemed to melt away before
-them and the little axe chopped so fast that their eyes only saw a
-twinkling of the blade. Then, suddenly, the forest was open again, and
-the little axe, having obeyed its orders, lay still upon the ground.
-
-The Wizard picked up the magic axe and after carefully wiping it with
-his silk handkerchief put it away in his black bag. Then they went on
-and in a short time reached the river.
-
-"Let me see," said the Glass Cat, looking up and down the stream, "I
-think we are below the Magic Isle; so we must go up the stream until we
-come to it."
-
-So up the stream they traveled, walking comfortably on the river bank,
-and after a while the water broadened and a sharp bend appeared in the
-river, hiding all below from their view. They walked briskly along,
-however, and had nearly reached the bend when a voice cried warningly:
-"Look out!"
-
-The travelers halted abruptly and the Wizard said: "Look out for what?"
-
-"You almost stepped on my Diamond Palace," replied the voice, and a duck
-with gorgeously colored feathers appeared before them. "Beasts and men
-are terribly clumsy," continued the Duck in an irritated tone, "and
-you've no business on this side of the river, anyway. What are you doing
-here?"
-
-"We've come to rescue some friends of ours who are stuck fast on the
-Magic Isle in this river," explained Dorothy.
-
-"I know 'em," said the Duck. "I've been to see 'em, and they're stuck
-fast, all right. You may as well go back home, for no power can save
-them."
-
-"This is the Wonderful Wizard of Oz," said Dorothy, pointing to the
-little man.
-
-"Well, I'm the Lonesome Duck," was the reply, as the fowl strutted up
-and down to show its feathers to best advantage. "I'm the great Forest
-Magician, as any beast can tell you, but even I have no power to destroy
-the dreadful charm of the Magic Isle."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Are you lonesome because you're a magician?" inquired Dorothy.
-
-"No; I'm lonesome because I have no family and no friends. But I like to
-be lonesome, so please don't offer to be friendly with me. Go away, and
-try not to step on my Diamond Palace."
-
-"Where is it?" asked the girl.
-
-"Behind this bush."
-
-Dorothy hopped off the lion's back and ran around the bush to see the
-Diamond Palace of the Lonesome Duck, although the gaudy fowl protested
-in a series of low quacks. The girl found, indeed, a glistening dome
-formed of clearest diamonds, neatly cemented together, with a doorway at
-the side just big enough to admit the duck.
-
-"Where did you find so many diamonds?" asked Dorothy, wonderingly.
-
-"I know a place in the mountains where they are thick as pebbles," said
-the Lonesome Duck, "and I brought them here in my bill, one by one and
-put them in the river and let the water run over them until they were
-brightly polished. Then I built this palace, and I'm positive it's the
-only Diamond Palace in all the world."
-
-"It's the only one I know of," said the little girl; "but if you live in
-it all alone, I don't see why it's any better than a wooden palace, or
-one of bricks or cobble-stones."
-
-"You're not supposed to understand that," retorted the Lonesome Duck.
-"But I might tell you, as a matter of education, that a home of any sort
-should be beautiful to those who live in it, and should not be intended
-to please strangers. The Diamond Palace is my home, and I like it. So I
-don't care a quack whether _you_ like it or not."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Oh, but I do!" exclaimed Dorothy. "It's lovely on the outside, but--"
-Then she stopped speaking, for the Lonesome Duck had entered his palace
-through the little door without even saying good-bye. So Dorothy
-returned to her friends and they resumed their journey.
-
-"Do you think, Wizard, the Duck was right in saying no magic can rescue
-Trot and Cap'n Bill?" asked the girl in a worried tone of voice.
-
-"No, I don't think the Lonesome Duck was right in saying that," answered
-the Wizard, gravely, "but it is possible that their enchantment will be
-harder to overcome than I expected. I'll do my best, of course, and no
-one can do more than his best."
-
-That didn't entirely relieve Dorothy's anxiety, but she said nothing
-more, and soon, on turning the bend in the river, they came in sight of
-the Magic Isle.
-
-"There they are!" exclaimed Dorothy eagerly.
-
-"Yes, I see them," replied the Wizard, nodding. "They are sitting on two
-big toadstools."
-
-"That's queer," remarked the Glass Cat. "There were no toadstools there
-when I left them."
-
-"What a lovely flower!" cried Dorothy in rapture, as her gaze fell on
-the Magic Plant.
-
-"Never mind the Flower, just now," advised the Wizard. "The most
-important thing is to rescue our friends."
-
-By this time they had arrived at a place just opposite the Magic Isle,
-and now both Trot and Cap'n Bill saw the arrival of their friends and
-called to them for help.
-
-"How are you?" shouted the Wizard, putting his hands to his mouth so
-they could hear him better across the water.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"We're in hard luck," shouted Cap'n Bill, in reply. "We're anchored here
-and can't move till you find a way to cut the hawser."
-
-"What does he mean by that?" asked Dorothy.
-
-"We can't move our feet a bit!" called Trot, speaking as loud as she
-could.
-
-"Why not?" inquired Dorothy.
-
-"They've got roots on 'em," explained Trot.
-
-It was hard to talk from so great a distance, so the Wizard said to the
-Glass Cat:
-
-"Go to the island and tell our friends to be patient, for we have come
-to save them. It may take a little time to release them, for the Magic
-of the Isle is new to me and I shall have to experiment. But tell them
-I'll hurry as fast as I can."
-
-So the Glass Cat walked across the river under the water to tell Trot
-and Cap'n Bill not to worry, and the Wizard at once opened his black bag
-and began to make his preparations.
-
-
-
-
-                        The Magic of the Wizard
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 18
-
-He first set up a small silver tripod and placed a gold basin at the top
-of it. Into this basin he put two powders--a pink one and a sky-blue
-one--and poured over them a yellow liquid from a crystal vial. Then he
-mumbled some magic words, and the powders began to sizzle and burn and
-send out a cloud of violet smoke that floated across the river and
-completely enveloped both Trot and Cap'n Bill, as well as the toadstools
-on which they sat, and even the Magic Plant in the gold flowerpot. Then,
-after the smoke had disappeared into air, the Wizard called out to the
-prisoners:
-
-"Are you free?"
-
-Both Trot and Cap'n Bill tried to move their feet and failed.
-
-"No!" they shouted in answer.
-
-The Wizard rubbed his bald head thoughtfully and then took some other
-magic tools from the bag.
-
-First he placed a little black ball in a silver pistol and shot it
-toward the Magic Isle. The ball exploded just over the head of Trot and
-scattered a thousand sparks over the little girl.
-
-"Oh!" said the Wizard, "I guess that will set her free."
-
-But Trot's feet were still rooted in the ground of the Magic Isle, and
-the disappointed Wizard had to try something else.
-
-For almost an hour he worked hard, using almost every magic tool in his
-black bag, and still Cap'n Bill and Trot were not rescued.
-
-"Dear me!" exclaimed Dorothy, "I'm 'fraid we'll have to go to Glinda,
-after all."
-
-That made the little Wizard blush, for it shamed him to think that his
-magic was not equal to that of the Magic Isle.
-
-"I won't give up yet, Dorothy," he said, "for I know a lot of wizardry
-that I haven't yet tried. I don't know what magician enchanted this
-little island, or what his powers were, but I do know that I can break
-any enchantment known to the ordinary witches and magicians that used to
-inhabit the Land of Oz. It's like unlocking a door; all you need is to
-find the right key."
-
-"But 'spose you haven't the right key with you," suggested Dorothy;
-"what then?"
-
-"Then we'll have to make the key," he answered.
-
-The Glass Cat now came back to their side of the river, walking under
-the water, and said to the Wizard: "They're getting frightened over
-there on the island because they're both growing smaller every minute.
-Just now, when I left them, both Trot and Cap'n Bill were only about
-half their natural sizes."
-
-"I think," said the Wizard reflectively, "that I'd better go to the
-shore of the island, where I can talk to them and work to better
-advantage. How did Trot and Cap'n Bill get to the island?"
-
-"On a raft," answered the Glass Cat. "It's over there now on the beach."
-
-"I suppose you're not strong enough to bring the raft to this side, are
-you?"
-
-"No; I couldn't move it an inch," said the Cat.
-
-"I'll try to get it for you," volunteered the Cowardly Lion. "I'm
-dreadfully scared for fear the Magic Isle will capture me, too; but I'll
-try to get the raft and bring it to this side for you."
-
-"Thank you, my friend," said the Wizard.
-
-So the Lion plunged into the river and swam with powerful strokes across
-to where the raft was beached upon the island. Placing one paw on the
-raft, he turned and struck out with his other three legs and so strong
-was the great beast that he managed to drag the raft from off the beach
-and propel it slowly to where the Wizard stood on the river bank.
-
-"Good!" exclaimed the little man, well pleased.
-
-"May I go across with you?" asked Dorothy.
-
-The Wizard hesitated.
-
-"If you'll take care not to leave the raft or step foot on the island,
-you'll be quite safe," he decided. So the Wizard told the Hungry Tiger
-and the Cowardly Lion to guard the cage of monkeys until he returned,
-and then he and Dorothy got upon the raft. The paddle which Cap'n Bill
-had made was still there so the little Wizard paddled the clumsy raft
-across the water and ran it upon the beach of the Magic Isle as close to
-the place where Cap'n Bill and Trot were rooted as he could.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy was shocked to see how small the prisoners had become, and Trot
-said to her friends: "If you can't save us soon, there'll be nothing
-left of us."
-
-"Be patient, my dear," counselled the Wizard, and took the little axe
-from his black bag.
-
-"What are you going to do with that?" asked Cap'n Bill.
-
-"It's a magic axe," replied the Wizard, "and when I tell it to chop, it
-will chop those roots from your feet and you can run to the raft before
-they grow again."
-
-"Don't!" shouted the sailor in alarm. "Don't do it! Those roots are all
-flesh roots, and our bodies are feeding 'em while they're growing into
-the ground."
-
-"To cut off the roots," said Trot, "would be like cutting off our
-fingers and toes."
-
-The Wizard put the little axe back in the black bag and took out a pair
-of silver pincers.
-
-"Grow--grow--grow!" he said to the pincers, and at once they grew and
-extended until they reached from the raft to the prisoners.
-
-"What are you going to do now?" demanded Cap'n Bill, fearfully eyeing
-the pincers.
-
-"This magic tool will pull you up, roots and all, and land you on this
-raft," declared the Wizard.
-
-"Don't do it!" pleaded the sailor, with a shudder. "It would hurt us
-awfully."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"It would be just like pulling teeth to pull us up by the roots,"
-explained Trot.
-
-"Grow small!" said the Wizard to the pincers, and at once they became
-small and he threw them into the black bag.
-
-"I guess, friends, it's all up with us, this time," remarked Cap'n Bill,
-with a dismal sigh.
-
-"Please tell Ozma, Dorothy," said Trot, "that we got into trouble trying
-to get her a nice birthday present. Then she'll forgive us. The Magic
-Flower is lovely and wonderful, but it's just a lure to catch folks on
-this dreadful island and then destroy them. You'll have a nice birthday
-party, without us, I'm sure; and I hope, Dorothy, that none of you in
-the Emerald City will forget me--or dear ol' Cap'n Bill."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                      Dorothy and the Bumble Bees
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 19
-
-Dorothy was greatly distressed and had hard work to keep the tears from
-her eyes.
-
-"Is that all you can do, Wizard?" she asked the little man.
-
-"It's all I can think of just now," he replied sadly. "But I intend to
-keep on thinking as long--as long--well, as long as thinking will do any
-good."
-
-They were all silent for a time, Dorothy and the Wizard sitting
-thoughtfully on the raft, and Trot and Cap'n Bill sitting thoughtfully
-on the toadstools and growing gradually smaller and smaller in size.
-
-Suddenly Dorothy said: "Wizard, I've thought of something!"
-
-"What have you thought of?" he asked, looking at the little girl with
-interest.
-
-"Can you remember the Magic Word that transforms people?" she asked.
-
-"Of course," said he.
-
-"Then you can transform Trot and Cap'n Bill into birds or Bumblebees,
-and they can fly away to the other shore. When they're there, you can
-transform 'em into their reg'lar shapes again!"
-
-"Can you do that, Wizard?" asked Cap'n Bill, eagerly.
-
-"I think so."
-
-"Roots an' all?" inquired Trot.
-
-"Why, the roots are now a part of you, and if you were transformed to a
-bumble-bee the whole of you would be transformed, of course, and you'd
-be free of this awful island."
-
-"All right; do it!" cried the sailor-man.
-
-So the Wizard said slowly and distinctly:
-
-"I want Trot and Cap'n Bill to become bumble-bees--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-Fortunately, he pronounced the Magic Word in the right way, and
-instantly Trot and Cap'n Bill vanished from view, and up from the places
-where they had been flew two bumble-bees.
-
-"Hooray!" shouted Dorothy in delight; "they're saved!"
-
-"I guess they are," agreed the Wizard, equally delighted.
-
-The bees hovered over the raft an instant and then flew across the river
-to where the Lion and the Tiger waited. The Wizard picked up the paddle
-and paddled the raft across as fast as he could. When it reached the
-river bank, both Dorothy and the Wizard leaped ashore and the little man
-asked excitedly:
-
-"Where are the bees?"
-
-"The bees?" inquired the Lion, who was half asleep and did not know what
-had happened on the Magic Isle.
-
-"Yes; there were two of them."
-
-"Two bees?" said the Hungry Tiger, yawning. "Why, I ate one of them and
-the Cowardly Lion ate the other."
-
-"Goodness gracious!" cried Dorothy horrified.
-
-"It was little enough for our lunch," remarked the Tiger, "but the bees,
-were the only things we could find."
-
-"How dreadful!" wailed Dorothy, wringing her hands in despair. "You've
-eaten Trot and Cap'n Bill."
-
-But just then she heard a buzzing overhead and two bees alighted on her
-shoulder.
-
-"Here we are," said a small voice in her ear. "I'm Trot, Dorothy."
-
-"And I'm Cap'n Bill," said the other bee.
-
-Dorothy almost fainted, with relief, and the Wizard, who was close by
-and had heard the tiny voices, gave a laugh and said:
-
-"You are not the only two bees in the forest, it seems, but I advise you
-to keep away from the Lion and the Tiger until you regain your proper
-forms."
-
-"Do it now, Wizard!" advised Dorothy. "They're so small that you never
-can tell what might happen to 'em."
-
-So the Wizard gave the command and pronounced the Magic Word, and in the
-instant Trot and Cap'n Bill stood beside them as natural as before they
-had met their fearful adventure. For they were no longer small in size,
-because the Wizard had transformed them from bumble-bees into the shapes
-and sizes that nature had formerly given them. The ugly roots on their
-feet had disappeared with the transformation.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-While Dorothy was hugging Trot, and Trot was softly crying because she
-was so happy, the Wizard shook hands with Cap'n Bill and congratulated
-him on his escape. The old sailor-man was so pleased that he also shook
-the Lion's paw and took off his hat and bowed politely to the cage of
-monkeys.
-
-Then Cap'n Bill did a curious thing. He went to a big tree and, taking
-out his knife, cut away a big, broad piece of thick bark. Then he sat
-down on the ground and after taking a roll of stout cord from his
-pocket--which seemed to be full of all sorts of things--he proceeded to
-bind the flat piece of bark to the bottom of his good foot, over the
-leather sole.
-
-"What's that for?" inquired the Wizard.
-
-"I hate to be stumped," replied the sailor-man; "so I'm goin' back to
-that island."
-
-"And get enchanted again?" exclaimed Trot, with evident disapproval.
-
-"No; this time I'll dodge the magic of the island. I noticed that my
-wooden leg didn't get stuck, or take root, an' neither did the glass
-feet of the Glass Cat. It's only a thing that's made of meat--like man
-an' beasts--that the magic can hold an' root to the ground. Our shoes
-are leather, an' leather comes from a beast's hide. Our stockin's are
-wool, an' wool comes from a sheep's back. So, when we walked on the
-Magic Isle, our feet took root there an' held us fast. But not my wooden
-leg. So now I'll put a wooden bottom on my other foot an' the magic
-can't stop me."
-
-"But why do you wish to go back to the island?" asked Dorothy.
-
-"Didn't you see the Magic Flower in the gold flower-pot?" returned Cap'n
-Bill.
-
-"Of course I saw it, and it's lovely and wonderful."
-
-"Well, Trot an' I set out to get that magic plant for a present to Ozma
-on her birthday, and I mean to get it an' take it back with us to the
-Emerald City."
-
-"That would be fine," cried Trot eagerly, "if you think you can do it,
-and it would be safe to try!"
-
-"I'm pretty sure it is safe, the way I've fixed my foot," said the
-sailor, "an' if I _should_ happen to get caught, I s'pose the Wizard
-could save me again."
-
-"I suppose I could," agreed the Wizard. "Anyhow, if you wish to try it,
-Cap'n Bill, go ahead and we'll stand by and watch what happens."
-
-So the sailor-man got upon the raft again and paddled over to the Magic
-Isle, landing as close to the golden flower-pot as he could. They
-watched him walk across the land, put both arms around the flower-pot
-and lift it easily from its place. Then he carried it to the raft and
-set it down very gently. The removal did not seem to affect the Magic
-Flower in any way, for it was growing daffodils when Cap'n Bill picked
-it up and on the way to the raft it grew tulips and gladioli. During the
-time the sailor was paddling across the river to where his friends
-awaited him, seven different varieties of flowers bloomed in succession
-on the plant.
-
-"I guess the Magician who put it on the island never thought that any
-one would carry it off," said Dorothy.
-
-"He figured that only men would want the plant, and any man who went
-upon the island to get it would be caught by the enchantment," added the
-Wizard.
-
-"After this," remarked Trot, "no one will care to go on the island, so
-it won't be a trap any more."
-
-"There," exclaimed Cap'n Bill, setting down the Magic Plant in triumph
-upon the river bank, "if Ozma gets a better birthday present than that,
-I'd like to know what it can be!"
-
-"It'll s'prise her, all right," declared Dorothy, standing in awed
-wonder before the gorgeous blossoms and watching them change from yellow
-roses to violets.
-
-"It'll s'prise ev'rybody in the Em'rald City," Trot asserted in glee,
-"and it'll be Ozma's present from Cap'n Bill and me."
-
-"I think _I_ ought to have a little credit," objected the Glass Cat. "I
-discovered the thing, and led you to it, and brought the Wizard here to
-save you when you got caught."
-
-"That's true," admitted Trot, "and I'll tell Ozma the whole story, so
-she'll know how good you've been."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                        The Monkeys Have Trouble
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 20
-
-"Now," said the Wizard, "we must start for home. But how are we going to
-carry that big gold flowerpot? Cap'n Bill can't lug it all the way,
-that's certain."
-
-"No," acknowledged the sailor-man; "it's pretty heavy. I could carry it
-for a little while, but I'd have to stop to rest every few minutes."
-
-"Couldn't we put it on your back?" Dorothy asked the Cowardly Lion, with
-a good-natured yawn.
-
-"I don't object to carrying it, if you can fasten it on," answered the
-Lion.
-
-"If it falls off," said Trot, "it might get smashed an' be ruined."
-
-"I'll fix it," promised Cap'n Bill. "I'll make a flat board out of one
-of these tree trunks, an' tie the board on the lion's back, an' set the
-flowerpot on the board." He set to work at once to do this, but as he
-only had his big knife for a tool his progress was slow.
-
-So the Wizard took from his black bag a tiny saw that shone like silver
-and said to it:
-
-  "Saw, little Saw, come show your power;
-  Make us a board for the Magic Flower."
-
-And at once the Little Saw began to move and it sawed the log so fast
-that those who watched it work were astonished. It seemed to understand,
-too, just what the board was to be used for, for when it was completed
-it was flat on top and hollowed beneath in such a manner that it exactly
-fitted the Lion's back.
-
-"That beats whittlin'!" exclaimed Cap'n Bill, admiringly. "You don't
-happen to have _two_ o' them saws; do you, Wizard?"
-
-"No," replied the Wizard, wiping the Magic Saw carefully with his silk
-handkerchief and putting it back in the black bag. "It's the only saw of
-its kind in the world; and if there were more like it, it wouldn't be so
-wonderful."
-
-They now tied the board on the Lion's back, flat side up, and Cap'n Bill
-carefully placed the Magic Flower on the board.
-
-"For fear o' accidents," he said, "I'll walk beside the lion and hold
-onto the flowerpot."
-
-Trot and Dorothy could both ride on the back of the Hungry Tiger, and
-between them they carried the cage of monkeys. But this arrangement left
-the Wizard, as well as the sailor, to make the journey on foot, and so
-the procession moved slowly and the Glass Cat grumbled because it would
-take so long to get to the Emerald City.
-
-The Cat was sour-tempered and grumpy, at first, but before they had
-journeyed far, the crystal creature had discovered a fine amusement. The
-long tails of the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars of
-their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would slyly seize the tails
-in her paws and pull them. That made the monkeys scream, and their
-screams pleased the Glass Cat immensely. Trot and Dorothy tried to stop
-this naughty amusement, but when they were not looking the Cat would
-pull the tails again, and the creature was so sly and quick that the
-monkeys could seldom escape. They scolded the Cat angrily and shook the
-bars of their cage, but they could not get out and the Cat only laughed
-at them.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-After the party had left the forest and were on the plains of the
-Munchkin Country, it grew dark, and they were obliged to make camp for
-the night, choosing a pretty place beside a brook. By means of his magic
-the Wizard created three tents, pitched in a row on the grass and nicely
-fitted with all that was needful for the comfort of his comrades. The
-middle tent was for Dorothy and Trot, and had in it two cosy white beds
-and two chairs. Another tent, also with beds and chairs, was for the
-Wizard and Cap'n Bill, while the third tent was for the Hungry Tiger,
-the Cowardly Lion, the cage of Monkeys and the Glass Cat. Outside the
-tents the Wizard made a fire and placed over it a magic kettle from
-which he presently drew all sorts of nice things for their supper,
-smoking hot.
-
-After they had eaten and talked together for a while under the twinkling
-stars, they all went to bed and the people were soon asleep. The Lion
-and the Tiger had almost fallen asleep, too, when they were roused by
-the screams of the monkeys, for the Glass Cat was pulling their tails
-again. Annoyed by the uproar, the Hungry Tiger cried: "Stop that
-racket!" and getting sight of the Glass Cat, he raised his big paw and
-struck at the creature. The cat was quick enough to dodge the blow, but
-the claws of the Hungry Tiger scraped the monkeys' cage and bent two of
-the bars.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Then the Tiger lay down again to sleep, but the monkeys soon discovered
-that the bending of the bars would allow them to squeeze through. They
-did not leave the cage, however, but after whispering together they let
-their tails stick out and all remained quiet. Presently the Glass Cat
-stole near the cage again and gave a yank to one of the tails. Instantly
-the monkeys leaped through the bars, one after another, and although
-they were so small the entire dozen of them surrounded the Glass Cat and
-clung to her claws and tail and ears and made her a prisoner. Then they
-forced her out of the tent and down to the banks of the stream. The
-monkeys had noticed that these banks were covered with thick, slimy mud
-of a dark blue color, and when they had taken the Cat to the stream,
-they smeared this mud all over the glass body of the cat, filling the
-creature's ears and eyes with it, so that she could neither see nor
-hear. She was no longer transparent and so thick was the mud upon her
-that no one could see her pink brains or her ruby heart.
-
-In this condition they led the pussy back to the tent and then got
-inside their cage again.
-
-By morning the mud had dried hard on the Glass Cat and it was a dull
-blue color throughout. Dorothy and Trot were horrified, but the Wizard
-shook his head and said it served the Glass Cat right for teasing the
-monkeys.
-
-Cap'n Bill, with his strong hands, soon bent the golden wires of the
-monkeys' cage into the proper position and then he asked the Wizard if
-he should wash the Glass Cat in the water of the brook.
-
-"Not just yet," answered the Wizard. "The Cat deserves to be punished,
-so I think I'll leave that blue mud--which is as bad as paint--upon her
-body until she gets to the Emerald City. The silly creature is so vain
-that she will be greatly shamed when the Oz people see her in this
-condition, and perhaps she'll take the lesson to heart and leave the
-monkeys alone hereafter."
-
-However, the Glass Cat could not see or hear, and to avoid carrying her
-on the journey the Wizard picked the mud out of her eyes and ears and
-Dorothy dampened her handkerchief and washed both the eyes and ears
-clean.
-
-As soon as she could speak the Glass Cat asked indignantly: "Aren't you
-going to punish those monkeys for playing such a trick on me?"
-
-"No," answered the Wizard. "You played a trick on them by pulling their
-tails, so this is only tit-for-tat, and I'm glad the monkeys had their
-revenge."
-
-He wouldn't allow the Glass Cat to go near the water, to wash herself,
-but made her follow them when they resumed their journey toward the
-Emerald City.
-
-"This is only part of your punishment," said the Wizard, severely. "Ozma
-will laugh at you, when we get to her palace, and so will the Scarecrow,
-and the Tin Woodman, and Tik-Tok, and the Shaggy Man, and Button-Bright,
-and the Patchwork Girl, and--"
-
-"And the Pink Kitten," added Dorothy.
-
-That suggestion hurt the Glass Cat more than anything else. The Pink
-Kitten always quarreled with the Glass Cat and insisted that flesh was
-superior to glass, while the Glass Cat would jeer at the Pink Kitten,
-because it had no pink brains. But the pink brains were all daubed with
-blue mud, just now, and if the Pink Kitten should see the Glass Cat in
-such a condition, it would be dreadfully humiliating.
-
-For several hours the Glass Cat walked along very meekly, but toward
-noon it seized an opportunity when no one was looking and darted away
-through the long grass. It remembered that there was a tiny lake of pure
-water near by, and to this lake the Cat sped as fast as it could go.
-
-The others never missed her until they stopped for lunch, and then it
-was too late to hunt for her.
-
-"I s'pect she's gone somewhere to clean herself," said Dorothy.
-
-"Never mind," replied the Wizard. "Perhaps this glass creature has been
-punished enough, and we must not forget she saved both Trot and Cap'n
-Bill."
-
-"After first leading 'em onto an enchanted island," added Dorothy. "But
-I think, as you do, that the Glass Cat is punished enough, and p'raps
-she won't try to pull the monkeys' tails again."
-
-The Glass Cat did not rejoin the party of travelers. She was still
-resentful, and they moved too slowly to suit her, besides. When they
-arrived at the Royal Palace, one of the first things they saw was the
-Glass Cat curled up on a bench as bright and clean and transparent as
-ever. But she pretended not to notice them, and they passed her by
-without remark.
-
-
-
-
-                      The College of Athletic Arts
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 21
-
-Dorothy and her friends arrived at the Royal Palace at an opportune
-time, for Ozma was holding high court in her Throne Room, where
-Professor H. M. Wogglebug, T.E., was appealing to her to punish some of
-the students of the Royal Athletic College, of which he was the
-Principal.
-
-This College is located in the Munchkin Country, but not far from the
-Emerald City. To enable the students to devote their entire time to
-athletic exercises, such as boating, foot-ball, and the like, Professor
-Wogglebug had invented an assortment of Tablets of Learning. One of
-these tablets, eaten by a scholar after breakfast, would instantly
-enable him to understand arithmetic or algebra or any other branch of
-mathematics. Another tablet eaten after lunch gave a student a complete
-knowledge of geography. Another tablet made it possible for the eater to
-spell the most difficult words, and still another enabled him to write a
-beautiful hand. There were tablets for history, mechanics, home cooking
-and agriculture, and it mattered not whether a boy or a girl was stupid
-or bright, for the tablets taught them everything in the twinkling of an
-eye.
-
-This method, which is patented in the Land of Oz by Professor Wogglebug,
-saves paper and books, as well as the tedious hours devoted to study in
-some of our less favored schools, and it also allows the students to
-devote all their time to racing, base-ball, tennis and other manly and
-womanly sports, which are greatly interfered with by study in those
-Temples of Learning where Tablets of Learning are unknown.
-
-But it so happened that Professor Wogglebug (who had invented so much
-that he had acquired the habit) carelessly invented a Square-Meal
-Tablet, which was no bigger than your little finger-nail but contained,
-in condensed form, the equal of a bowl of soup, a portion of fried fish,
-a roast, a salad and a dessert, all of which gave the same nourishment
-as a square meal.
-
-The Professor was so proud of these Square-Meal Tablets that he began to
-feed them to the students at his college, instead of other food, but the
-boys and girls objected because they wanted food that they could enjoy
-the taste of. It was no fun at all to swallow a tablet, with a glass of
-water, and call it a dinner; so they refused to eat the Square-Meal
-Tablets. Professor Wogglebug insisted, and the result was that the
-Senior Class seized the learned Professor one day and threw him into the
-river--clothes and all. Everyone knows that a wogglebug cannot swim, and
-so the inventor of the wonderful Square-Meal Tablets lay helpless on the
-bottom of the river for three days before a fisherman caught one of his
-legs on a fishhook and dragged him out upon the bank.
-
-The learned Professor was naturally indignant at such treatment, and so
-he brought the entire senior class to the Emerald City and appealed to
-Ozma of Oz to punish them for their rebellion.
-
-I do not suppose the girl Ruler was very severe with the rebellious boys
-and girls, because she had herself refused to eat the Square-Meal
-Tablets in place of food, but while she was listening to the interesting
-case in her Throne Room, Cap'n Bill managed to carry the golden
-flower-pot containing the Magic Flower up to Trot's room without it
-being seen by anyone except Jellia Jamb, Ozma's chief Maid of Honor, and
-Jellia promised not to tell.
-
-Also the Wizard was able to carry the cage of monkeys up to one of the
-top towers of the palace, where he had a room of his own, to which no
-one came unless invited. So Trot and Dorothy and Cap'n Bill and the
-Wizard were all delighted at the successful end of their adventure. The
-Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger went to the marble stables behind the
-Royal Palace, where they lived while at home, and they too kept the
-secret, even refusing to tell the Wooden Sawhorse, and Hank the Mule,
-and the Yellow Hen, and the Pink Kitten where they had been.
-
-Trot watered the Magic Flower every day and allowed no one in her room
-to see the beautiful blossoms except her friends, Betsy Bobbin and
-Dorothy. The wonderful plant did not seem to lose any of its magic by
-being removed from its island, and Trot was sure that Ozma would prize
-it as one of her most delightful treasures.
-
-Up in his tower the little Wizard of Oz began training his twelve tiny
-monkeys, and the little creatures were so intelligent that they learned
-every trick the Wizard tried to teach them. The Wizard treated them with
-great kindness and gentleness and gave them the food that monkeys love
-best, so they promised to do their best on the great occasion of Ozma's
-birthday.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-                         Ozma's Birthday Party
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 22
-
-It seems odd that a fairy should have a birthday, for fairies, they say,
-were born at the beginning of time and live forever. Yet, on the other
-hand, it would be a shame to deprive a fairy, who has so many other good
-things, of the delights of a birthday. So we need not wonder that the
-fairies keep their birthdays just as other folks do, and consider them
-occasions for feasting and rejoicing.
-
-Ozma, the beautiful girl Ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was a real fairy,
-and so sweet and gentle in caring for her people that she was greatly
-beloved by them all. She lived in the most magnificent palace in the
-most magnificent city in the world, but that did not prevent her from
-being the friend of the most humble person in her dominions. She would
-mount her wooden Sawhorse, and ride out to a farm house and sit in the
-kitchen to talk with the good wife of the farmer while she did her
-family baking; or she would play with the children and give them rides
-on her famous wooden steed; or she would stop in a forest to speak to a
-charcoal burner and ask if he was happy or desired anything to make him
-more content; or she would teach young girls how to sew and plan pretty
-dresses, or enter the shops where the jewelers and craftsmen were busy
-and watch them at their work, giving to each and all a cheering word or
-sunny smile.
-
-And then Ozma would sit in her jeweled throne, with her chosen courtiers
-all about her, and listen patiently to any complaint brought to her by
-her subjects, striving to accord equal justice to all. Knowing she was
-fair in her decisions, the Oz people never murmured at her judgments,
-but agreed, if Ozma decided against them, she was right and they wrong.
-
-When Dorothy and Trot and Betsy Bobbin and Ozma were together, one would
-think they were all about of an age, and the fairy Ruler no older and no
-more "grown up" than the other three. She would laugh and romp with them
-in regular girlish fashion, yet there was an air of quiet dignity about
-Ozma, even in her merriest moods, that, in a manner, distinguished her
-from the others. The three girls loved her devotedly, but they were
-never able to quite forget that Ozma was the Royal Ruler of the
-wonderful fairyland of Oz, and by birth belonged to a powerful race.
-
-Ozma's palace stood in the center of a delightful and extensive garden,
-where splendid trees and flowering shrubs and statuary and fountains
-abounded. One could walk for hours in this fascinating park and see
-something interesting at every step. In one place was an aquarium, where
-strange and beautiful fish swam; at another spot all the birds of the
-air gathered daily to a great feast which Ozma's servants provided for
-them, and were so fearless of harm that they would alight upon one's
-shoulders and eat from one's hand. There was also the Fountain of the
-Water of Oblivion, but it was dangerous to drink of this water, because
-it made one forget everything he had ever before known, even to his own
-name, and therefore Ozma had placed a sign of warning upon the fountain.
-But there were also fountains that were delightfully perfumed, and
-fountains of delicious nectar, cool and richly flavored, where all were
-welcome to refresh themselves.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Around the palace grounds was a great wall, thickly encrusted with
-glittering emeralds, but the gates stood open and no one was forbidden
-entrance. On holidays the people of the Emerald City often took their
-children to see the wonders of Ozma's gardens, and even entered the
-Royal Palace, if they felt so inclined, for they knew that they and
-their Ruler were friends, and that Ozma delighted to give them pleasure.
-
-When all this is considered, you will not be surprised that the people
-throughout the Land of Oz, as well as Ozma's most intimate friends and
-her royal courtiers, were eager to celebrate her birthday, and made
-preparations for the festival weeks in advance. All the brass bands
-practiced their nicest tunes, for they were to march in the numerous
-processions to be made in the Winkie Country, the Gillikin Country, the
-Munchkin Country and the Quadling Country, as well as in the Emerald
-City. Not all the people could go to congratulate their Ruler, but all
-could celebrate her birthday, in one way or another, however far distant
-from her palace they might be. Every home and building throughout the
-Land of Oz was to be decorated with banners and bunting, and there were
-to be games, and plays, and a general good time for every one.
-
-It was Ozma's custom on her birthday to give a grand feast at the
-palace, to which all her closest friends were invited. It was a queerly
-assorted company, indeed, for there are more quaint and unusual
-characters in Oz than in all the rest of the world, and Ozma was more
-interested in unusual people than in ordinary ones--just as you and I
-are.
-
-On this especial birthday of the lovely girl Ruler, a long table was set
-in the royal Banquet Hall of the palace, at which were place-cards for
-the invited guests, and at one end of the great room was a smaller
-table, not so high, for Ozma's animal friends, whom she never forgot,
-and at the other end was a big table where all of the birthday gifts
-were to be arranged.
-
-When the guests arrived, they placed their gifts on this table and then
-found their places at the banquet table. And, after the guests were all
-placed, the animals entered in a solemn procession and were placed at
-their table by Jellia Jamb. Then, while an orchestra hidden by a bank of
-roses and ferns played a march composed for the occasion, the Royal Ozma
-entered the Banquet Hall, attended by her Maids of Honor, and took her
-seat at the head of the table.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-She was greeted by a cheer from all the assembled company, the animals
-adding their roars and growls and barks and mewing and cackling to swell
-the glad tumult, and then all seated themselves at their tables.
-
-At Ozma's right sat the famous Scarecrow of Oz, whose straw-stuffed body
-was not beautiful, but whose happy nature and shrewd wit had made him a
-general favorite. On the left of the Ruler was placed the Tin Woodman,
-whose metal body had been brightly polished for this event. The Tin
-Woodman was the Emperor of the Winkie Country and one of the most
-important persons in Oz.
-
-Next to the Scarecrow, Dorothy was seated, and next to her was Tik-Tok,
-the Clockwork Man, who had been wound up as tightly as his clockwork
-would permit, so he wouldn't interrupt the festivities by running down.
-Then came Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy's own relations, two kindly
-old people who had a cozy home in the Emerald City and were very happy
-and contented there. Then Betsy Bobbin was seated, and next to her the
-droll and delightful Shaggy Man, who was a favorite wherever he went.
-
-On the other side of the table, opposite the Tin Woodman was placed
-Trot, and next to her, Cap'n Bill. Then was seated Button Bright and Ojo
-the Lucky, and Dr. Pipt and his good wife Margalot, and the astonishing
-Frogman, who had come from the Yip country to be present at Ozma's
-birthday feast.
-
-At the foot of the table, facing Ozma, was seated the queenly Glinda,
-the good Sorceress of Oz, for this was really the place of honor next to
-the head of the table where Ozma herself sat. On Glinda's right was the
-Little Wizard of Oz, who owed to Glinda all of the magical arts he knew.
-Then came Jinjur, a pretty girl farmer of whom Ozma and Dorothy were
-quite fond. The adjoining seat was occupied by the Tin Soldier, and next
-to him was Professor H. M. Wogglebug, T.E., of the Royal Athletic
-College.
-
-On Glinda's left was placed the jolly Patchwork Girl, who was a little
-afraid of the Sorceress and so was likely to behave herself pretty well.
-The Shaggy Man's brother was beside the Patchwork Girl, and then came
-that interesting personage, Jack Pumpkinhead, who had grown a splendid
-big pumpkin for a new head to be worn on Ozma's birthday, and had carved
-a face on it that was even jollier in expression than the one he had
-last worn. New heads were not unusual with Jack, for the pumpkins did
-not keep long, and when the seeds--which served him as brains--began to
-get soft and mushy, he realized his head would soon spoil, and so he
-procured a new one from his great field of pumpkins--grown by him so
-that he need never lack a head.
-
-You will have noticed that the company at Ozma's banquet table was
-somewhat mixed, but every one invited was a tried and trusted friend of
-the girl Ruler, and their presence made her quite happy.
-
-No sooner had Ozma seated herself, with her back to the birthday table,
-than she noticed that all present were eyeing with curiosity and
-pleasure something behind her, for the gorgeous Magic Flower was
-blooming gloriously and the mammoth blossoms that quickly succeeded one
-another on the plant were beautiful to view and filled the entire room
-with their delicate fragrance. Ozma wanted to look, too, to see what all
-were staring at, but she controlled her curiosity because it was not
-proper that she should yet view her birthday gifts.
-
-So the sweet and lovely Ruler devoted herself to her guests, several of
-whom, as the Sorcerer, the Tin Woodman, the Patchwork Girl, Tik-Tok,
-Jack Pumpkinhead and the Tin Soldier, never ate anything but sat very
-politely in their places and tried to entertain those of the guests who
-did eat.
-
-And, at the animal table, there was another interesting group,
-consisting of the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, Toto--Dorothy's
-little shaggy black dog--Hank the Mule, the Pink Kitten, the Wooden
-Sawhorse, the Yellow Hen, and the Glass Cat. All of these had good
-appetites except the Sawhorse and the Glass Cat, and each was given a
-plentiful supply of the food it liked best.
-
-Finally, when the banquet was nearly over and the ice-cream was to be
-served, four servants entered bearing a huge cake, all frosted and
-decorated with candy flowers. Around the edge of the cake was a row of
-lighted candles, and in the center were raised candy letters that
-spelled the words:
-
-                                 OZMA'S
-                             Birthday Cake
-                                  from
-                         Dorothy and the Wizard
-
-"Oh, how beautiful!" cried Ozma, greatly delighted, and Dorothy said
-eagerly: "Now you must cut the cake, Ozma, and each of us will eat a
-piece with our ice-cream."
-
-Jellia Jamb brought a large golden knife with a jeweled handle, and Ozma
-stood up in her place and attempted to cut the cake. But as soon as the
-frosting in the center broke under the pressure of the knife there
-leaped from the cake a tiny monkey three inches high, and he was
-followed by another and another, until twelve monkeys stood on the
-tablecloth and bowed low to Ozma.
-
-"Congratulations to our gracious Ruler!" they exclaimed in a chorus, and
-then they began a dance, so droll and amusing that all the company
-roared with laughter and even Ozma joined in the merriment. But after
-the dance the monkeys performed some wonderful acrobatic feats, and then
-they ran to the hollow of the cake and took out some band instruments of
-burnished gold--cornets, horns, drums, and the like--and forming into a
-procession the monkeys marched up and down the table playing a jolly
-tune with the ease of skilled musicians.
-
-Dorothy was delighted with the success of her "Surprise Cake," and after
-the monkeys had finished their performance, the banquet came to an end.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Now was the time for Ozma to see her other presents, so Glinda the Good
-rose and, taking the girl Ruler by her hand, led her to the table where
-all her gifts were placed in magnificent array. The Magic Flower of
-course attracted her attention first, and Trot had to tell her the whole
-story of their adventures in getting it. The little girl did not forget
-to give due credit to the Glass Cat and the little Wizard, but it was
-really Cap'n Bill who bravely carried the golden flowerpot away from the
-enchanted Isle.
-
-Ozma thanked them all, and said she would place the Magic Flower in her
-boudoir where she might enjoy its beauty and fragrance continually. But
-now she discovered the marvelous gown woven by Glinda and her maidens
-from strands drawn from pure emeralds, and being a girl who loved pretty
-clothes, Ozma's ecstasy at being presented with this exquisite gown may
-well be imagined. She could hardly wait to put it on, but the table was
-loaded with other pretty gifts and the night was far spent before the
-happy girl Ruler had examined all her presents and thanked those who had
-lovingly donated them.
-
-
-
-
-                        The Fountain of Oblivion
-
-
-                               CHAPTER 23
-
-The morning after the birthday fete, as the Wizard and Dorothy were
-walking in the grounds of the palace, Ozma came out and joined them,
-saying:
-
-"I want to hear more of your adventures in the Forest of Gugu, and how
-you were able to get those dear little monkeys to use in Dorothy's
-Surprise Cake."
-
-So they sat down on a marble bench near to the fountain of the Water of
-Oblivion, and between them Dorothy and the Wizard related their
-adventures.
-
-"I was dreadfully fussy while I was a woolly lamb," said Dorothy, "for
-it didn't feel good, a bit. And I wasn't quite sure, you know, that I'd
-ever get to be a girl again."
-
-"You might have been a woolly lamb yet, if I hadn't happened to have
-discovered that Magic Transformation Word," declared the Wizard.
-
-"But what became of the walnut and the hickory-nut into which you
-transformed those dreadful beast magicians?" inquired Ozma.
-
-"Why, I'd almost forgotten them," was the reply; "but I believe they are
-still here in my pocket."
-
-Then he searched in his pockets and brought out the two nuts and showed
-them to her.
-
-Ozma regarded them thoughtfully.
-
-"It isn't right to leave any living creatures in such helpless forms,"
-said she. "I think, Wizard, you ought to transform them into their
-natural shapes again."
-
-"But I don't know what their natural shapes are," he objected, "for of
-course the forms of mixed animals which they had assumed were not
-natural to them. And you must not forget, Ozma, that their natures were
-cruel and mischievous, so if I bring them back to life they might cause
-us a great deal of trouble."
-
-"Nevertheless," said the Ruler of Oz, "we must free them from their
-present enchantments. When you restore them to their natural forms we
-will discover who they really are, and surely we need not fear any two
-people, even though they prove to be magicians and our enemies."
-
-"I am not so sure of that," protested the Wizard, with a shake of his
-bald head. "The one bit of magic I robbed them of--which was the word of
-transformation--is so simple, yet so powerful, that neither Glinda nor I
-can equal it. It isn't all in the word, you know, it's the way the word
-is pronounced. So if the two strange magicians have other magic of the
-same sort, they might prove very dangerous to us, if we liberated them."
-
-"I've an idea!" exclaimed Dorothy. "I'm no wizard, and no fairy, but if
-you do as I say, we needn't fear these people at all."
-
-"What is your thought, my dear?" asked Ozma.
-
-"Well," replied the girl, "here is this fountain of the Water of
-Oblivion, and that's what put the notion into my head. When the Wizard
-speaks that ter'ble word that will change 'em back to their real forms,
-he can make 'em dreadful thirsty, too, and we'll put a cup right here by
-the fountain, so it'll be handy. Then they'll drink the water and forget
-all the magic they ever knew--and everything else, too."
-
-"That's not a bad idea," said the Wizard, looking at Dorothy
-approvingly.
-
-"It's a very _good_ idea," declared Ozma. "Run for a cup, Dorothy."
-
-So Dorothy ran to get a cup, and while she was gone the Wizard said:
-
-"I don't know whether the real forms of these magicians are those of men
-or beasts. If they're beasts, they would not drink from a cup but might
-attack us at once and drink afterward. So it might be safer for us to
-have the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger here to protect us if
-necessary."
-
-Ozma drew out a silver whistle which was attached to a slender gold
-chain and blew upon the whistle two shrill blasts. The sound, though not
-harsh, was very penetrating, and as soon as it reached the ears of the
-Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the two huge beasts quickly came
-bounding toward them. Ozma explained to them what the Wizard was about
-to do, and told them to keep quiet unless danger threatened. So the two
-powerful guardians of the Ruler of Oz crouched beside the fountain and
-waited.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-Dorothy returned and set the cup on the edge of the fountain. Then the
-Wizard placed the hickory-nut beside the fountain and said in a solemn
-voice:
-
-"I want you to resume your natural form, and to be very
-thirsty--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-In an instant there appeared, in the place of the hickory-nut, the form
-of Kiki Aru, the Hyup boy. He seemed bewildered, at first, as if trying
-to remember what had happened to him and why he was in this strange
-place. But he was facing the fountain, and the bubbling water reminded
-him that he was thirsty. Without noticing Ozma, the Wizard and Dorothy,
-who were behind him, he picked up the cup, filled it with the Water of
-Oblivion, and drank it to the last drop.
-
-He was now no longer thirsty, but he felt more bewildered than ever, for
-now he could remember nothing at all--not even his name or where he came
-from. He looked around the beautiful garden with a pleased expression,
-and then, turning, he beheld Ozma and the Wizard and Dorothy regarding
-him curiously and the two great beasts crouching behind them.
-
-Kiki Aru did not know who they were, but he thought Ozma very lovely and
-Dorothy very pleasant. So he smiled at them--the same innocent, happy
-smile that a baby might have indulged in, and that pleased Dorothy, who
-seized his hand and led him to a seat beside her on the bench.
-
-"Why, I thought you were a dreadful magician," she exclaimed, "and
-you're only a boy!"
-
-"What is a magician?" he asked, "and what is a boy?"
-
-"Don't you know?" inquired the girl.
-
-Kiki shook his head. Then he laughed.
-
-"I do not seem to know anything," he replied.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"It's very curious," remarked the Wizard. "He wears the dress of the
-Munchkins, so he must have lived at one time in the Munchkin Country. Of
-course the boy can tell us nothing of his history or his family, for he
-has forgotten all that he ever knew."
-
-"He seems a nice boy, now that all the wickedness has gone from him,"
-said Ozma. "So we will keep him here with us and teach him our ways--to
-be true and considerate of others."
-
-"Why, in that case, it's lucky for him he drank the Water of Oblivion,"
-said Dorothy.
-
-"It is indeed," agreed the Wizard. "But the remarkable thing, to me, is
-how such a young boy ever learned the secret of the Magic Word of
-Transformation. Perhaps his companion, who is at present this walnut,
-was the real magician, although I seem to remember that it was this boy
-in the beast's form who whispered the Magic Word into the hollow tree,
-where I overheard it."
-
-"Well, we will soon know who the other is," suggested Ozma. "He may
-prove to be another Munchkin boy."
-
-The Wizard placed the walnut near the fountain and said, as slowly and
-solemnly as before:
-
-"I want you to resume your natural form, and to be very
-thirsty--Pyrzqxgl!"
-
-Then the walnut disappeared and Ruggedo the Nome stood in its place. He
-also was facing the fountain, and he reached for the cup, filled it, and
-was about to drink when Dorothy exclaimed:
-
-"Why, it's the old Nome King!"
-
-Ruggedo swung around and faced them, the cup still in his hand.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"Yes," he said in an angry voice, "it's the old Nome King, and I'm going
-to conquer all Oz and be revenged on you for kicking me out of my
-throne." He looked around a moment, and then continued: "There isn't an
-egg in sight, and I'm stronger than all of you people put together! I
-don't know how I came here, but I'm going to fight the fight of my
-life--and I'll win!"
-
-His long white hair and beard waved in the breeze; his eyes flashed hate
-and vengeance, and so astonished and shocked were they by the sudden
-appearance of this old enemy of the Oz people that they could only stare
-at him in silence and shrink away from his wild glare.
-
-Ruggedo laughed. He drank the water, threw the cup on the ground and
-said fiercely:
-
-"And now--and now--and--"
-
-His voice grew gentle. He rubbed his forehead with a puzzled air and
-stroked his long beard.
-
-"What was I going to say?" he asked, pleadingly.
-
-"Don't you remember?" said the Wizard.
-
-"No; I've forgotten."
-
-"Who _are_ you?" asked Dorothy.
-
-He tried to think. "I--I'm sure I don't know," he stammered.
-
-"Don't you know who _we_ are, either?" questioned the girl.
-
-"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Nome.
-
-"Tell us who this Munchkin boy is," suggested Ozma.
-
-Ruggedo looked at the boy and shook his head.
-
-"He's a stranger to me. You are all strangers. I--I'm a stranger to
-myself," he said.
-
-Then he patted the Lion's head and murmured, "Good doggie!" and the Lion
-growled indignantly.
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-"What shall we do with him?" asked the Wizard, perplexed.
-
-"Once before the wicked old Nome came here to conquer us, and then, as
-now, he drank of the Water of Oblivion and became harmless. But we sent
-him back to the Nome Kingdom, where he soon learned the old evil ways
-again."
-
-"For that reason," said Ozma, "we must find a place for him in the Land
-of Oz, and keep him here. For here he can learn no evil and will always
-be as innocent of guile as our own people."
-
-And so the wandering ex-King of the Nomes found a new home, a peaceful
-and happy home, where he was quite content and passed his days in
-innocent enjoyment.
-
-                        [Illustration: THE END]
-
-
-
-
-                             _The Oz Books_
-                                   BY
-                             L. FRANK BAUM
-                        "Royal Historian of Oz"
-
-
-                           _The Wizard of Oz_
-         [Originally published as _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_]
-
-It is in this book that Oz is "discovered." A little Kansas
-girl--Dorothy Gale--is carried in her house to Oz when a cyclone whisks
-it through the sky. As the house lands in the Munchkin Country (one of
-the four great countries of Oz) it destroys a wicked witch and sends
-Dorothy off on her first adventure in Oz. She finds the Scarecrow, meets
-the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, melts a second wicked witch with
-a pail of water and finds her way home. Since this book appeared a
-half-century ago, we have learned many marvelous things about the Land
-of Oz.
-
-
-                            _The Land of Oz_
-          [Originally published as _The Marvelous Land of Oz_]
-
-This sequel to _The Wizard of Oz_ deals entirely with the early history
-of Oz. No one from the United States or any other part of the "great
-outside world" appears in it. It takes its readers on a series of
-incredible adventures with Tip, a small boy who runs away from old
-Mombi, the witch, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden
-Saw-Horse. The Scarecrow is King of the Emerald City until he, Tip,
-Jack, and the Tin Woodman are forced to flee the royal palace when it is
-invaded by General Jinjur and her army of rebelling girls. _The Land of
-Oz_ ends with an amazing surprise, and from that moment on Ozma is
-princess of all Oz.
-
-
-                              _Ozma of Oz_
-
-Few of the Oz books are as crowded with exciting Oz happenings as this
-one. Not only does it bring Dorothy back to Oz on her second visit, but
-it introduces Dorothy to Ozma, relates Ozma's first important adventure,
-and introduces for the first time such famous Oz characters as Tik-Tok,
-the mechanical man, Billina the hen, the Hungry Tiger, and--_the Nome
-King_! Most of the adventures in this book take place outside Oz, in the
-Land of Ev and the Nome Kingdom. Scarcely a page fails to quiver with
-excitement, magic and adventure.
-
-
-                     _Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz_
-
-Of course, everyone always predicted it would happen! And in this book
-it does--the Wizard comes back to Oz to stay. Best of all, he comes with
-Dorothy, who is having adventure number three that leads her to Oz, this
-time via a California earthquake. In this book we meet Dorothy's pink
-kitten, Eureka, whose manners need adjusting badly, and two good friends
-who we are sorry did not remain in Oz--Jim the cabhorse, and Zeb,
-Dorothy's young cousin, who works on a ranch as a hired boy.
-
-
-                            _The Road to Oz_
-
-We like to think of this volume as "The Party Book of Oz." Almost
-everyone loves a party, and when Ozma has a birthday party with notables
-from every part of fairyland attending--well! It is just like attending
-Ozma's party in person. You meet the famous of Oz, and lots of others,
-such as Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough, Chick the Cherub, the Queen of
-Merryland, Para Bruin the rubber bear and--best of all--Santa Claus
-himself! Of course there are lots of adventures on that famous road to
-Oz before the party, during which Dorothy, on her way to Oz for the
-fourth time, meets such heart-warming characters as the Shaggy Man,
-Button-Bright, and lovely Polychrome, daughter of the rainbow.
-
-
-                        _The Emerald City of Oz_
-
-Here is a "double" story of Oz. While Dorothy, her Aunt Em and Uncle
-Henry experience the events that lead to their going to Oz to make their
-home in the Emerald City, the wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer Oz
-and enslave its people. Later we go with Dorothy and her friends in the
-Red Wagon on a grand tour of Oz that is simply packed with excitement
-and events. While this transpires, we learn also of the Nome King's
-elaborate preparations to conquer Oz. As Dorothy and her friends return
-to the Emerald City, the Nome King and his hordes of warriors are about
-to invade it. How Oz is saved is an ending that will amaze and delight
-you.
-
-
-                       _The Patchwork Girl of Oz_
-
-Here, the Patchwork Girl is brought to life by Dr. Pipt's magic Powder
-of Life. From that moment on the action never slows down in this
-exciting book. It tells of Ojo's quest for the strange ingredients
-necessary to brew a magic liquid that will release his Unk Nunkie from a
-spell--the spell cast by the Liquid of Petrefaction, which has turned
-him into a marble statue. In addition to the Patchwork Girl, Ojo and Unk
-Nunkie, this book introduces those famous Oz creatures, the Woozy, and
-Bungle the glass cat. Oz certainly has become a merrier, happier land
-since the Patchwork Girl came to life, and this is the book that tells
-how Scraps came to be made, how she was brought to life, and all about
-her early adventures.
-
-
-                            _Tik-Tok of Oz_
-
-For the second time a little girl from the United States comes to Oz.
-Betsy Bobbin is shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean with her friend Hank
-the mule. The two drift to shore in the Rose Kingdom on a fragment of
-wreckage. Betsy meets the Shaggy Man and accompanies him to the Nome
-Kingdom, where Shaggy hopes to release his brother, a prisoner of the
-Nome King. On their way to the Nome Kingdom, one fascinating adventure
-follows another. They meet Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo and her army,
-and lovely Polychrome, who had lost her rainbow again; they rescue
-Tik-Tok from a well; and are dropped through a Hollow Tube to the other
-side of the world where they meet Quox, the dragon. You'll find it one
-of the most exciting of all the Oz books.
-
-
-                         _The Scarecrow of Oz_
-
-This is the Oz book which L. Frank Baum considered his best. It starts
-quietly enough with Trot and Cap'n Bill rowing along a shore of the
-Pacific Ocean to visit one of the many caves near their home on the
-California coast. Suddenly, a mighty whirlpool engulfs them. The old
-sailorman and the little girl are miraculously saved and regain
-consciousness to find themselves in a sea cavern. (To this day, Trot
-asserts she felt mermaid arms about her during those terrible moments
-under water.) From here on, one perilous adventure crowds in upon
-another. In Jinxland they meet the Scarecrow who takes charge of things
-once Cap'n Bill is transformed into a tiny grasshopper with a wooden
-leg. An exciting royal reception greets the adventurers upon their
-return to the Emerald City.
-
-
-                           _Rinkitink in Oz_
-
-Prince Inga of Pingaree is the boy hero of this fine story of
-peril-filled adventure in the islands of the Nonestic Ocean. King
-Rinkitink provides comic relief, and by the time you reach the final
-page you will love this fat, jolly little king. Bilbil the goat, with
-his surly disposition, provides a fine contrast to Rinkitink's merriment
-and Prince Inga's bravery and courage in the face of danger. Some may
-say that the three magic pearls are the real heroes of this story, but
-the pearls would have been of little use to King Kitticut and Queen
-Garee if Prince Inga hadn't used them wisely and courageously.
-
-
-                       _The Lost Princess of Oz_
-
-Talk about _Button-Bright_ getting lost--_Ozma_ is almost as bad! This
-is actually the second time Ozma has been lost. As you know, once she
-was "lost" for many years. But in this book she is lost for only a short
-time. As soon as it is discovered that the ruler of Oz is lost--and with
-her all the important magical instruments in Oz--search parties, one for
-each of the four countries of Oz, set out to find her. We follow the
-adventures of the party headed by Dorothy and the Wizard, who explore
-unknown parts of the Winkie Country in search of Ozma. How Ozma is
-found, and where she has been, will surprise you. Frogman, a new
-character, is introduced in this book.
-
-
-                        _The Tin Woodman of Oz_
-
-Woot the Wanderer causes this chapter of Oz history to transpire. When
-Woot wanders into the splendid tin castle of Nick Chopper, the Tin
-Woodman and Emperor of the Winkies, he meets the Scarecrow, who is
-visiting his old friend. The Tin Woodman tells Woot the story of how he
-had once been a flesh-and-blood woodman in love with a maiden named
-Nimmie Aimee. Woot suggests that since the Tin Woodman now has a kind
-and loving heart, it is his duty to find Nimmie Aimee and make her
-Empress of the Winkies. The Scarecrow agrees, so the three set off to
-search for the girl. No less surprising than the adventures encountered
-on the journey is Nimmie Aimee's reception of her former suitor.
-
-
-                           _The Magic of Oz_
-
-Old Ruggedo, the former Nome King, comes to Oz for the second time, and
-makes more trouble than he did on his first visit. Ruggedo never gives
-up the idea of conquering Oz, and this time he has the advantage of
-being in the country without Ozma's knowledge. Also, he has the magic
-and somewhat grudging help of Kiki Aru, the Munchkin boy who is
-illegally practicing the art. If you like magic, then this is a book for
-you. There's magic on every page, and everyone in the story eventually
-is transformed into something else, or bewitched in one way or another.
-Even the wild animals in the great Forest of Gugu do not escape.
-
-
-                             _Glinda of Oz_
-
-This is the last Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. It is one of the best
-in the series, with Dorothy, Ozma, and Glinda in an adventure that takes
-them to an amazing crystal-domed city on an enchanted island. This
-island is situated in a lake in the Gillikin Country. Ozma and Glinda
-are confronted by powerful magic and determined enemies. For a time
-Dorothy and Ozma are prisoners in the crystal-domed city which is able
-to submerge below the surface of the lake. Few of the Oz books equal
-this one in suspense and mystery--a story that is truly "out of this
-world."
-
-                             [Illustration]
-
-                       [Illustration: Back Cover]
-
-
-
-
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