文档介绍：THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ
THE PATCHWORK
GIRL OF OZ
L. FRANK BAUM
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THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ
Affectionately dedicated to my young friend Sumner Hamilton Britton
of Chicago Prologue.
Through the kindness of Dorothy Gale of Kansas, afterward Princess
Dorothy of Oz, an humble writer in the United States of America was once
appointed Royal Historian of Oz, with the privilege of writing the
chronicle of that wonderful fairyland. But after making six books about
the adventures of those interesting but queer people who live in the Land
of Oz, the Historian learned with sorrow that by an edict of the Supreme
Ruler, Ozma of Oz, her country would thereafter be rendered invisible to
all who lived outside its borders and that munication with Oz
would, in the future, be cut off.
The children who had learned to look for the books about Oz and
who loved the stories about the gay and happy people inhabiting that
favored country, were as sorry as their Historian that there would be no
more books of Oz stories. They wrote many letters asking if the Historian
did not know of some adventures to write about that had happened before
the Land of Oz was shut out from all the rest of the world. But he did not
know of any. Finally one of the children inquired why we couldn't hear
from Princess Dorothy by wireless telegraph, which would enable her to
communicate to the Historian whatever happened in the far-off Land of Oz
without his seeing her, or even knowing just where Oz is.
That seemed a good idea; so the Historian rigged up a high tower in
his back yard, and took lessons in wireless telegraphy until he understood
it, and then began to call "Princess Dorothy of Oz" by sending messages
into the air.
Now, it wasn't likely that Dorothy would be looking for wireless
messages or would heed the call; but one thing the Historian was sure of,
and that was that the powerful Sorceress, Glinda, would know what he
was doing and that he desired municate with Do