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The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

Pages
about 151
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
2.8 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

To those excellent good fellows and comedians David C. Montgomery and Frank A. Stone whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land, this book is gratefully dedicated by THE AUTHOR

Tip Manufactures Pumpkinhead The Marvelous Powder of Life The Flight of the Fugitives Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic The Awakening of the Saw-horse Jack Pumpkinhead’s Ride to the Emerald City His Majesty the Scarecrow Gen. Jinjur’s Army of Revolt The Scarecrow Plans an escape The Journey to the Tin Woodman A Nickel-Plated Emperor Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E. A Highly Magnified History Old Mombi indulges in Witchcraft The Prisoners of the Queen The Scarecrow Takes Time to Think The Astonishing Flight of the Gump In the Jackdaw’s Nest Dr. Nikidik’s Famous Wishing Pills The Scarecrow Appeals to Glinda the Good The Tin-Woodman Plucks a Rose The Transformation of Old Mombi Princess Ozma of Oz The Riches of Content

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 parents, for he had been brought when quite young to be reared by the old woman known as Mombi, whose reputation, I am sorry to say, was none of the best. For the Gillikin people had reason to suspect her of indulging in magical arts, and therefore hesitated to associate with her.

Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominions. So Tip’s guardian, however much she might aspire to working magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most a Wizardess.

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