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Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Release Date: September 10, 2007 [EBook #22566]

Language: English

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[Illustration: DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD]

[Illustration: PICKING THE PRINCESS.]

DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ

BY

L. FRANK BAUM

AUTHOR OF THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE LAND OF OZ, OZMA OF OZ, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN R. NEILL

BOOKS OF WONDER WILLIAM MORROW & CO., INC. NEW YORK

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COPYRIGHT 1908 BY L. FRANK BAUM

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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DEDICATED TO HARRIET A. B. NEAL.

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To My Readers

It's no use; no use at all. The children won't let me stop telling tales
of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell
them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants won't allow
me. They cry: "Oz--Oz! more about Oz, Mr. Baum!" and what can I do but
obey their commands?

This is Our Book--mine and the children's. For they have flooded me with
thousands of suggestions in regard to it, and I have honestly tried to
adopt as many of these suggestions as could be fitted into one story.

After the wonderful success of "Ozma of Oz" it is evident that Dorothy
has become a firm fixture in these Oz stories. The little ones all love
Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: "It isn't a real
Oz story without her." So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and
innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange adventure.

There were many requests from my little correspondents for "more about
the Wizard." It seems the jolly old fellow made hosts of friends in the
first Oz book, in spite of the fact that he frankly acknowledged himself
"a humbug." The children had heard how he mounted into the sky in a
ballo