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22566.txt | The Emerald City of Oz | the train from 'frisco was very late. it should have arrived at hugson's siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house. as it came to a stop the conductor called out in a loud voic... |
26624.txt | The Patchwork Girl of Oz | "please, miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to butterfield?"
dorothy looked him over. yes, he was shaggy, all right; but there was a twinkle in his eye that seemed pleasant.
"oh, yes," she replied; "i can tell you. but it isn't this road at all."
"no?"
"you cross the ten-acre lot, follow the lane to ... |
30852.txt | Tik-Tok of Oz | the tin woodman sat on his glittering tin throne in the handsome tin hall of his splendid tin castle in the winkie country of the land of oz. beside him, in a chair of woven straw, sat his best friend, the scarecrow of oz. at times they spoke to one another of curious things they had seen and strange adventures they ha... |
33361.txt | The Scarecrow of Oz | the wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface. then the wind pushed the edges of the ripples until they became waves, and shoved the waves around until they became billows. the billows rolled dreadfully high: higher even than the tops of houses. some of them, indeed, rolled a... |
39868.txt | Rinkitink in Oz | glinda, the good sorceress of oz, sat in the grand court of her palace, surrounded by her maids of honor--a hundred of the most beautiful girls of the fairyland of oz. the palace court was built of rare marbles, exquisitely polished. fountains tinkled musically here and there; the vast colonnade, open to the south, all... |
41667.txt | The Lost Princess of Oz | the nome king was in an angry mood, and at such times he was very disagreeable. every one kept away from him, even his chief steward kaliko.
therefore the king stormed and raved all by himself, walking up and down in his jewel-studded cavern and getting angrier all the time. then he remembered that it was no fun being ... |
43936.txt | The Tin Woodman of Oz | dorothy lived in the midst of the great kansas prairies, with uncle henry, who was a farmer, and aunt em, who was the farmer's wife. their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. there were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty lo... |
50194.txt | The Magic of Oz | 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 ... |
52176.txt | Glinda of Oz | "i won't!" cried ann; "i won't sweep the floor. it is beneath my dignity."
"some one must sweep it," replied ann's younger sister, salye; "else we shall soon be wading in dust. and you are the eldest, and the head of the family."
"i'm queen of oogaboo," said ann, proudly. "but," she added with a sigh, "my kingdom is th... |
54.txt | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | in the country of the gillikins, which is at the north of the land of oz, lived a youth called tip. there was more to his name than that, for old mombi often declared that his whole name was tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "tip" would do just as well.
this boy remembered nothing of his... |
955.txt | The Marvelous Land of Oz | "where's the butter, unc nunkie?" asked ojo.
unc looked out of the window and stroked his long beard. then he turned to the munchkin boy and shook his head.
"isn't," said he.
"isn't any butter? that's too bad, unc. where's the jam then?" inquired ojo, standing on a stool so he could look through all the shelves of the ... |
957.txt | Ozma of Oz | "seems to me," said cap'n bill, as he sat beside trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, "seems to me, trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know."
"i can't quite make that out, cap'n bill," answered the little girl in a serious voice, after a moment's thought, during which h... |
958.txt | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | if you have a map of the land of oz handy, you will find that the great nonestic ocean washes the shores of the kingdom of rinkitink, between which and the land of oz lies a strip of the country of the nome king and a sandy desert. the kingdom of rinkitink isn't very big and lies close to the ocean, all the houses and ... |
959.txt | The Road to Oz | there could be no doubt of the fact: princess ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the fairyland of oz, was lost. she had completely disappeared. not one of her subjects--not even her closest friends--knew what had become of her. it was dorothy who first discovered it. dorothy was a little kansas girl who had come to the lan... |
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