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1 The Wonderful Wizard of OzBaum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 Publicly accessibleURL: 2000, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of VirginiaProduced with support from the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationL. FRANK BAUMThe Wonderful Wizard of OzWITH PICTURES BY DENSLOWGeo. M. Hill Co.,CHICAGO NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1900,COPYRIGHT, 1899By L. Frank Baumand W. W. rights ReservedTable of ContentsChapter I. The CyclonePage 15 Chapter II. The Council withthe MunchkinsPage 21 Chapter III. How DorothySaved the ScarecrowPage 31 Chapter IV. The Road Throughthe ForestPage 43 Chapter V. The Rescue of theTin WoodmanPage 51 Chapter VI. The CowardlyLionPage 61 Chapter VII. The Journey tothe Great OzPage 69 Chapter VIII. The DeadlyPoppy FieldPage 77 Chapter IX.

2 The Queen of theField MicePage 87 Chapter X. The Guardian ofthe GatePage 95 Chapter XI. The WonderfulCity of OzPage 105 Chapter XII. The Search forthe Wicked WitchPage 121 Chapter XIII. The RescuePage 137 Chapter XIV. The WingedMonkeysPage 143 Chapter XV. The Discovery ofPage 153Oz, the TerribleChapter XVI. The Magic Artof the Great HumbugPage 165 Chapter XVII. How theBalloon Was LaunchedPage 171 Chapter XVIII. Away to theSouthPage 177 Chapter XIX. Attacked by theFighting TreesPage 183 Chapter XX. The Dainty ChinaCountryPage 189 Chapter XXI. The LionBecomes the King of BeastsPage 197 Chapter XXII. The Country ofthe QuadlingsPage 201 Chapter XXIII. Glinda TheGood Witch Grants Dorothy'sWishPage 207 Chapter XXIV. Home AgainPage 215By L. FRANK BAUM Illustrated by W.

3 Goose: His BookQuarto, printed in three colors,ornamental boards ..Price .. $ Songs of Father GooseWith music by Alberta N. HallQuarto, ornamental boardsPrice .. $ M. HILL , legends, myths and fairy tales have followedchildhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has awholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, mar-velous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimmand Andersen have brought more happiness to childish heartsthan all other human the old time fairy tale, having served for generations,may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library;for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" inwhich the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated,together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents de-vised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each education includes morality.

4 Therefore the modernchild seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladlydispenses with all disagreeable this thought in mind, the story of "The WonderfulWizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the won-derment and joy are retained and the heartaches and night-mares are left Frank BaumChicago, April, book is dedicated to mygood friend and comradeMy WifeL. F. Wonderful Wizard of Oz14 Chapter CycloneDOROTHY LIVED INthe midst of the great Kansas prairies, withUncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was thefarmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to buildit had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were fourwalls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this roomcontained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for thedishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.

5 Uncle Henryand Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a littlebed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cel-lar except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclonecellar, where the family could go in case one of those greatwhirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in itspath. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor,from which a ladder led down into the small, dark Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around,she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every Wonderful Wizard of Oz15 Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat countrythat reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sunhad baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracksrunning through it.

6 Even the grass was not green, for the sunhad burned the tops of the long blades until they were thesame gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house hadbeen painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rainswashed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray aseverything Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, prettywife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had takenthe sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they hadtaken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were grayalso. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now. WhenDorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em hadbeen so startled16L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz17by the child's laughter that she would scream and press herhand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reachedher ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder thatshe could find anything to laugh Henry never laughed.

7 He worked hard from morningtill night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also,from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked sternand solemn, and rarely was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her fromgrowing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray;he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small blackeyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, weenose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him,and loved him , however, they were not playing. Uncle Henry satupon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which waseven grayer than usual. Dorothy stood in the door with Totoin her arms, and looked at the sky too. Aunt Em was washingthe the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, andUncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grassbowed in waves before the coming storm.

8 There now came asharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turnedtheir eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming fromthat direction Uncle Henry stood up."There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called to his wife. "I'llgo look after the stock." Then he ran toward the sheds wherethe cows and horses were Frank BaumAunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. Oneglance told her of the danger close at hand."Quick, Dorothy!" she screamed. "Run for the cellar!"Toto jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed,and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened,threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down theladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at lastand started to follow her aunt.

9 When she was halfway acrossthe room there came a great shriek from the wind, and thehouse shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat downsuddenly upon the a strange thing house whirled around two or three times and roseslowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up ina north and south winds met where the house stood, andmade it the exact center of the cyclone. In the middle of a cy-clone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of thewind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher,until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it re-mained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as youcould carry a was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her,but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.

10 After the firstfew whirls around, and one other time when the house tippedbadly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a babyin a did not like it. He ran about the room, now here, nowthere, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floorThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz19and waited to see what would Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; andat first the little girl thought she had lost him. But soon shesaw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strongpressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could notfall. She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and draggedhim into the room again, afterward closing the trap door sothat no more accidents could after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got overher fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked soloudly all about her that she nearly became deaf.