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The Enchanted Island of Yew
Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other
Surprising People
By L. Frank Baum
Author of "The Wizard of Oz," "The Life and Adventures of Santa
Claus," "The Magical Monarch of Mo," Etc.

Contents
1. Once On a Time 2. The Enchanted Isle 3. The Fairy Bower 4. Prince
Marvel 5. The King of Thieves 6. The Troubles of Nerle 7. The Gray
Men 8. The Fool-Killer 9. The Royal Dragon of Spor 10. Prince Marvel
Wins His Fight 11. The Cunning of King Terribus 12. The Gift of
Beauty 13. The Hidden Kingdom of Twi 14. The Ki and The Ki-Ki 15.
The High Ki of Twi 16. The Rebellion of The High Ki 17. The
Separation of The High Ki 18. The Rescue of The High Ki 19. The
Reunion of The High Ki 20. Kwytoffle, the Tyrant 21. The Wonderful
Book of Magic 22. The Queen of Plenta 23. The Red Rogue of Dawna
24. The Enchanted Mirrors 25. The Adventurers Separate 26. The End
of the Year 27. A Hundred Years Afterward

1. "Once on a Time"
I am going to tell a story, one of those tales of astonishing adventures
that happened years and years and years ago. Perhaps you wonder why
it is that so many stories are told of "once on a time", and so few of
these days in which we live; but that is easily explained.
In the old days, when the world was young, there were no automobiles
nor flying-machines to make one wonder; nor were there railway trains,
nor telephones, nor mechanical inventions of any sort to keep people
keyed up to a high pitch of excitement. Men and women lived simply
and quietly. They were Nature's children, and breathed fresh air into
their lungs instead of smoke and coal gas; and tramped through green
meadows and deep forests instead of riding in street cars; and went to
bed when it grew dark and rose with the sun--which is vastly different
from the present custom. Having no books to read they told their
adventures to one another and to their little ones; and the stories were
handed down from generation to generation and reverently believed.
Those who peopled the world in the old days, having nothing but their
hands to depend on, were to a certain extent helpless, and so the fairies
were sorry for them and ministered to their wants patiently and frankly,
often showing themselves to those they befriended.
So people knew fairies in those days, my dear, and loved them,
together with all the ryls and knooks and pixies and nymphs and other
beings that belong to the hordes of immortals. And a fairy tale was a
thing to be wondered at and spoken of in awed whispers; for no one

thought of doubting its truth.
To-day the fairies are shy; for so many curious inventions of men have
come into use that the wonders of Fairyland are somewhat tame beside
them, and even the boys and girls can not be so easily interested or
surprised as in the old days. So the sweet and gentle little immortals
perform their tasks unseen and unknown, and live mostly in their own
beautiful realms, where they are almost unthought of by our busy,
bustling world.
Yet when we come to story-telling the marvels of our own age shrink
into insignificance beside the brave deeds and absorbing experiences of
the days when fairies were better known; and so we go back to "once
on a time" for the tales that we most love--and that children have ever
loved since mankind knew that fairies exist.

2. The Enchanted Isle
Once there was an enchanted island in the middle of the sea. It was
called the