To two Little Girls
FLORENCE LINN EDSALL
and
MARY JOSEPHINE RITCHIE
this book is lovingly dedicated
by their cousin
RUTH.
LIST OF CHAPTERS
| [1] | The King Rebels |
| [2] | The Elegant Elephant of Oz |
| [3] | Gaper's Gulch |
| [4] | Out of Gaper's Gulch |
| [5] | Headway |
| [6] | The Other Side of the Desert |
| [7] | The Princess of Anuther Planet |
| [8] | On to Ev |
| [9] | The Box Wood |
| [10] | Night in the Forest |
| [11] | The Field of Feathers |
| [12] | Arrival at the Castle of the Red Jinn |
| [13] | Gludwig the Glubrious |
| [14] | The Slave of the Magic Dinner Bell |
| [15] | Nonagon Island |
| [16] | All Together at Last |
| [17] | In the Red Jinn's Castle |
| [18] | The Red Jinn Restored |
| [19] | Red Magic |
| [20] | King and Queen of Regalia |
CHAPTER 1
The King Rebels
In a far-away northwestern corner of the Gilliken Country of Oz lies the rugged little Kingdom of Regalia, and in an airy and elegant castle, set high on the tallest mountain, lives Randy, its brave young King. When the Regalians are not busy celebrating one of their seventy-seven national holidays, they are busy tending their flocks of goats or looking after the vines that cover every mountain and hill, producing the largest and most luscious grapes in Oz. These proud and independent mountain folk have much to recommend them, and if they consider themselves superior to any and all of the other natives in Oz, we must not blame them too much. Perhaps the sharp, clear air and high altitude in which they live is responsible for their top-lofty attitude. Randy, it must be confessed, found the stiff and unbending manner of his subjects and their correct and formal behavior on all occasions stuffy in the extreme; and of all the stuffy occasions he had to endure the weekly court reception was the stuffiest. Just as I started this story he was winding up another of these royal and boring affairs.