List of Chapters

1[The King of the Ozure Isles]
2[The Golden Pear]
3[The Strange Public Benefactor]
4[Finding a Mortal Maiden]
5[In the Cave of Quiberon]
6[The Wicked Soothsayer]
7[The Trials of Tattypoo]
8[The Man in the Bottle]
9[King of the Uplanders]
10[High Times Up Town]
11[The King of Cave City]
12[Escape from Cave City]
13[The Round-abouties]
14[A Meeting of Celebrities]
15[The Shutter Faces]
16[The Lost Queen Returns]
17[A Royal Welcome]
18[The Tale of Tattypoo]
19[Another Wishing Pill]
20[Rulers East and North]

CHAPTER 1

The King of the Ozure Isles

Far to the North, walled in on all sides by the craggy slopes of the Munchkin Mountains, lies the great Lost Lake of Orizon. And glittering on its blue bosom, like a large and lovely necklace, rest the Ozure Isles of Oz. Now Oz itself, this mysterious land about which we read and hear so often, is a large oblong Kingdom divided into four smaller Kingdoms with the Emerald City in the exact center. Here dwells Ozma, the present ruler, a little fairy of great gentleness and power. While all the Kingdoms in Oz are subject to Ozma, each has its own special sovereign.

For instance, the Northern Country of the Gillikens is governed by the Good Witch Tattypoo; The Red Land of the Quadlings, by Glinda the Good Sorceress of the South; the Western and Yellow Empire of the Winkies is under the kindly control of Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman of Oz; the blue Munchkin Country is governed by a King of whom nothing much has been heard for many a long year. But be that as it may, it is in the Munchkin Country that the great Lost Lake of Orizon lies.