FANTASTICAL ADVENTURES – L. Frank Baum Edition (Childhood Essentials Library). Лаймен Фрэнк Баум
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kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little girl a goodbye kiss, and Dorothy thanked her for all the kindness she had shown to her friends and herself.
Dorothy now took Toto up solemnly in her arms, and having said one last goodbye she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying:
“Take me home to Aunt Em!”
Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.
The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was.
At length, however, she sat up and looked about her.
“Good gracious!” she cried.
For she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and just before her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one. Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking furiously.
Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet. For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.
24. Home Again
Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.
“My darling child!” she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. “Where in the world did you come from?”
“From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely. “And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em! I’m so glad to be at home again!”
The Marvelous Land of Oz
1. Tip Manufactures a Pumpkinhead
2. The Marvelous Powder of Life
3. The Flight of the Fugitives
4. Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic
5. The Awakening of the Sawhorse
6. Jack Pumpkinhead’s Ride to the Emerald City
8. Gen. Jinjur’s Army of Revolt
9. The Scarecrow Plans an escape
10. The Journey to the Tin Woodman
12. Mr. H. M. WoggleBug, T. E.
13. A Highly Magnified History
14. Old Mombi indulges in Witchcraft
15. The Prisoners of the Queen
16. The Scarecrow Takes Time to Think
17. The Astonishing Flight of the Gump
19. Dr. Nikidik’s Famous Wishing Pills
20. The Scarecrow Appeals to Glenda the Good
21. The Tin-Woodman Plucks a Rose
22. The Transformation of Old Mombi
Author’s Note
After the publication of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to “write something more” about the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continued to come during succeeding months, and even years.
Finally I promised one little girl, who made a long journey to see me and prefer her request, - and she is a “Dorothy,” by the way-that when a thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for another story of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, I would write the book. Either little Dorothy was a fairy in disguise, and waved her magic wand, or the success of the stage production of “The Wizard of Oz” made new friends for the story. For the thousand letters reached their destination long since-and many more followed them.
And now, although pleading guilty to a long delay, I have kept my promise in this book.
L. FRANK BAUM
Chicago, June, 1904
1. Tip Manufactures a Pumpkinhead
In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when “Tip” would do just as well.
This boy remembered nothing of his parents, for he had been brought when quite young to be reared by the old woman known as Mombi, whose reputation, I am sorry to say, was none of the best. For the Gillikin people had reason to suspect her of indulging in magical arts, and therefore