Ozma of Oz

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Ozma of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
April, 1996 [Etext #486]
**The Project Gutenberg Etext of Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum**

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Ozma of Oz
A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow
Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and
the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to
Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein
by L. Frank Baum The Author of The Wizard of Oz, The Land of Oz,
etc.

Contents
--Author's Note--
1. The Girl in the Chicken Coop
2. The Yellow Hen
3. Letters in the Sand
4. Tiktok, the Machine Man
5. Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail
6. The Heads of Langwidere

7. Ozma of Oz to the Rescue
8. The Hungry Tiger
9. The Royal Family of Ev
10. The Giant with the Hammer
11. The Nome King
12. The Eleven Guesses
13. The Nome King Laughs
14. Dorothy Tries to be Brave
15. Billina Frightens the Nome King
16. Purple, Green and Gold
17. The Scarecrow Wins the Fight
18. The Fate of the Tin Woodman
19. The King of Ev
20. The Emerald City
21. Dorothy's Magic Belt

Author's Note
My friends the children are responsible for this new "Oz Book," as they
were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. Their sweet
little letters plead to know "more about Dorothy"; and they ask: "What
became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do
afterward?"--meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz.
And some of them suggest plots to me, saying: "Please have Dorothy

go to the Land of Oz again"; or, "Why don't you make Ozma and
Dorothy meet, and have a good time together?" Indeed, could I do all
that my little friends ask, I would be obliged to write dozens of books
to satisfy their demands. And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these
stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them.
Well, here is "more about Dorothy," and about our old friends the
Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and about the Cowardly Lion, and
Ozma, and all the rest of them; and here, likewise, is a good deal about
some new folks that are queer and unusual. One little friend, who read
this story before it was printed, said to me: "Billina is REAL OZZY,
Mr. Baum, and so are Tiktok and the Hungry Tiger."
If this judgment is unbiased and correct, and the little folks find this
new story "real Ozzy," I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it. But
perhaps I shall get some more of those very welcome letters from my
readers, telling me just how they like "Ozma of Oz." I hope so, anyway.
L. FRANK BAUM.
MACATAWA, 1907.

1. The Girl in the Chicken Coop
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 as high as the tops of tall trees,
and seemed like mountains; and the gulfs between the great billows
were like deep valleys.
All this mad dashing and splashing of the waters of the big ocean,
which the mischievous wind caused without any good reason whatever,
resulted in a terrible storm, and a storm on the ocean is liable to cut
many queer pranks and do a lot of damage.

At the time the wind began to blow,