Identifier: dorothywizardino00baum2 (find matches)
Title: Dorothy and the wizard in Oz
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 Neill, John R. (John Rea), ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Fantasy
Publisher: Chicago : Reilly & Britton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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true, answered the little Wizard; therefore itwill give me pleasure to explain my connection with yourcountry. In the first place, I must tell you that I was bornin Omaha, and my father, who was a politician, named meOscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle EmmannuelAmbroise Diggs, Diggs being the last name because he couldthink of no more to go before it. Taken altogether, it wasa dreadfully long name to weigh down a poor innocent child,and one of the hardest lessons I ever learned was to remembermy own name. When I grew up I just called myself O. Z.,because the other initials were P-I-N-H-E-A-D; and thatspelled pinhead, which was a reflection on my intelligence. Surely no one could blame you for cutting your nameshort, said Ozma, sympathetically. But didnt you cut italmost too short*? Perhaps so, replied the Wizard. When a young manI ran away from home and joined a circus. I used to callmyself a Wizard, and do tricks of ventriloquism. What does that mean? asked the Princess. 192
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DOROTHY AND OZMA. Old Friends are Reunited Throwing my voice into any object I pleased, to makeit appear that the object was speaking instead of me. AlsoI began to make balloon ascensions. On my balloon andon all the other articles I used in the circus I painted the twoinitials: O. Z., to show that those things belonged to me. One day my balloon ran away with me and brought meacross the deserts to this beautiful country. When the peo-ple saw me come from the sky they naturally thought mesome superior creature, and bowed down before me. I toldthem I was a Wizard, and showed them some easy tricks thatamazed them; and when they saw the initials painted on theballoon they called me Oz. Now I begin to understand, said the Princess, smiling. At that time, continued the Wizard, busily eating hissoup while talking, there were four separate countries inthis Land, each one of the four being ruled by a Witch. Butthe people thought my power was greater than that of theWitches: and perhaps the Wit

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