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      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 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 long delay, I have kept my promise in this book.

      L. FRANK BAUM.

      Chicago, June, 1904

      To those excellent good fellows and comedians

       David C. Montgomery and Frank A. Stone

       whose clever personations of the

       Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow

       have delighted thousands of children

       throughout the land,

       this book is gratefully dedicated by

       THE AUTHOR

      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

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