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Title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

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THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ

BY L. FRANK BAUM

AUTHOR OF THE ROAD TO OZ, DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ,
THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ, THE LAND OF OZ, OZMA OF OZ, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN R. NEILL

The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago

COPYRIGHT 1913
By L Frank Baum
All RIGHTS RESERVED

Affectionately Dedicated to
my young friend
Sumner Hamilton Britton
of Chicago

[Illustration]

PROLOGUE

Through the kindness of Dorothy Gale of Kansas, afterward Princess
Dorothy of Oz, an humble writer in the United States of America was once
appointed Royal Historian of Oz, with the privilege of writing the
chronicle of that wonderful fairyland. But after making six books about
the adventures of those interesting but queer people who live in the
Land of Oz, the Historian learned with sorrow that by an edict of the
Supreme Ruler, Ozma of Oz, her country would thereafter be rendered
invisible to all who lived outside its borders and that all
communication with Oz would, in the future, be cut off.

The children who had learned to look for the books about Oz and who
loved the stories about the gay and happy people inhabiting that favored
country, were as sorry as their Historian that there would be no more
books of Oz stories. They wrote many letters asking if the Historian did
not know of some adventures to write about that had happened before the
Land of Oz was shut out from all the rest of the world. But he did not
know of any. Finally one of the children inquired why we couldn't hear
from Princess Dorothy by wireless telegraph, which would enable her to
communicate to the Historian whatever happened in the far-off Land of Oz
without his seeing her, or even knowing just wher