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      The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

       Table of Contents

       Introduction

       1. The Cyclone

       2. The Council with the Munchkins

       3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow

       4. The Road Through the Forest

       5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

       6. The Cowardly Lion

       7. The Journey to the Great Oz

       8. The Deadly Poppy Field

       9. The Queen of the Field Mice

       10. The Guardian of the Gate

       11. The Wonderful City of Oz

       12. The Search for the Wicked Witch

       13. The Rescue

       14. The Winged Monkeys

       15. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible

       16. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

       17. How the Balloon Was Launched

       18. Away to the South

       19. Attacked by the Fighting Trees

       20. The Dainty China Country

       21. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts

       22. The Country of the Quadlings

       23. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish

       24. Home Again

Introduction

      Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

      Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

      Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of

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