Identifier: roadtoozinwhichi00baum (find matches)
Title: The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 Neill, John R. (John Rea), ill
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: Chicago : Reilly & Lee
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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with the other gifts. But the Candy Man did not goto his room, because he said he preferred to stay and talk withthe Scarecrow and Tik-tok and the Wizard and Tin Wood-man, whom he declared the queerest people he had ever met.Button-Bright was glad the Candy Man stayed in theThrone-room, because the boy thought this guest smelleddeliciously of wintergreen and maple sugar. 231 The Road to Oz The Braided Man now entered the room, having beenfortunate enough to receive an invitation to the Princess Oz-mas party. He was from a cave halfway between the In-visible Valley and the Country of the Gargoyles, and hishair and whiskers were so long that he was obliged to plaitthem into many braids that hung to his feet, and every braidwas tied with a bow of colored ribbon. I ve brought Princess Ozma a box of flutters for herbirthday, said the Braided Man, earnestly; and I hope shewill like them, for they are the finest quality I have evermade. I m sure she will be greatly pleased, said Dorothy, who
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Important Arrivals remembered the Braided Man well; and the Wizard intro-duced the guest to the rest of the company and made him sitdown in a chair and keep quiet, for, if allowed, he would talkcontinually about his flutters. The band then played a welcome to another set of guests,and into the Throne-Room swept the handsome and statelyQueen of Ev. Beside her was young King Evardo, andfollowing them came the entire royal family of five Princessesand four Princes of Ev. The Kingdom of Ev lay just acrossthe Deadly Desert to the North of Oz, and once Ozma andher people had rescued the Queen of Ev and her ten childrenfrom the Nome King, who had enslaved them. Dorothy hadbeen present on this adventure, so she greeted the royal fam-ily cordially; and all the visitors were delighted to meet thelittle Kansas girl again. They knew Tik-tok and Billina,too, and the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as theLion and Tiger; so there was a joyful reunion, as you mayimagine, and it was fully an hour b

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