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THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ by L. FRANK BAUM
This Book is Dedicated To My Granddaughter OZMA BAUM
To My Readers
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations.
This pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark
Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to
discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the
talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed
of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams -- day dreams,
you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery
whizzing -- are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The
imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt
to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent
educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing
imagination in the young. I believe it.
Among the letters I receive from children are many containing
suggestions of "what to write about in the next Oz Book." Some of the
ideas advanced are mighty interesting, while others are too extravagant
to be seriously considered -- even in a fairy tale. Yet I like them all, and
I must admit that the main idea in "The Lost Princess of Oz" was
suggested to me by a sweet little girl of eleven who called to see me
and to talk about the Land of Oz. Said she: "I s'pose if Ozma ever got
lost, or stolen, ev'rybody in Oz would be dreadful sorry."
That was all, but quite enough foundation to build this present story on.
If you happen to like the story, give credit to my little friend's clever
hint.
L. Frank Baum Royal Historian of Oz
1 A Terrible Loss 2 The Troubles of Glinda the Good 3 The Robbery of
Cayke the Cookie Cook 4 Among the Winkies 5 Ozma's Friends Are

Perplexed 6 The Search Party 7 The Merry-Go-Round Mountains 8
The Mysterious City 9 The High Coco-Lorum of Thi 10 Toto Loses
Something 11 Button-Bright Loses Himself 12 The Czarover of Herku
13 The Truth Pond 14 The Unhappy Ferryman 15 The Big Lavender
Bear 16 The Little Pink Bear 17 The Meeting 18 The Conference 19
Ugu the Shoemaker 20 More Surprises 21 Magic Against Magic 22 In
the Wicker Castle 23 The Defiance of Ugu the Shoemaker 24 The
Little Pink Bear Speaks Truly 25 Ozma of Oz 26 Dorothy Forgives

THE LOST PRINCESS
BY L. FRANK BAUM



CHAPTER 1
A TERRIBLE LOSS
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 Land of Oz to
live and had been given a delightful suite of rooms in Ozma's royal
palace just because Ozma loved Dorothy and wanted her to live as near
her as possible so the two girls might be much together.
Dorothy was not the only girl from the outside world who had been
welcomed to Oz and lived in the royal palace. There was another
named Betsy Bobbin, whose adventures had led her to seek refuge with
Ozma, and still