Glinda of Oz
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Baum Lyman Frank. Glinda of Oz
CHAPTER 1. The Call to Duty
CHAPTER 2. Ozma and Dorothy
CHAPTER 3. The Mist Maidens
CHAPTER 4. The Magic Tent
CHAPTER 5. The Magic Stairway
CHAPTER 6. Flathead Mountain
CHAPTER 7. The Magic Isle
CHAPTER 8. Queen Coo-ee-oh
CHAPTER 9. Lady Aurex
CHAPTER 10. Under Water
CHAPTER 11. The Conquest of the Skeezers
CHAPTER 12. The Diamond Swan
CHAPTER 13. The Alarm Bell
CHAPTER 14. Ozma's Counsellors
CHAPTER 15. The Great Sorceress
CHAPTER 16. The Enchanted Fishes
CHAPTER 17. Under the Great Dome
CHAPTER 18. The Cleverness of Ervic
CHAPTER 19. Red Reera the Yookoohoo
CHAPTER 20. A Puzzling Problem
CHAPTER 21. The Three Adepts
CHAPTER 22. The Sunken Island
CHAPTER 23. The Magic Words
CHAPTER 24. Glinda's Triumph
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Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace, surrounded by her maids of honor – a hundred of the most beautiful girls of the Fairyland of Oz. The palace court was built of rare marbles, exquisitely polished. Fountains tinkled musically here and there; the vast colonnade, open to the south, allowed the maidens, as they raised their heads from their embroideries, to gaze upon a vista of rose-hued fields and groves of trees bearing fruits or laden with sweet-scented flowers. At times one of the girls would start a song, the others joining in the chorus, or one would rise and dance, gracefully swaying to the music of a harp played by a companion. And then Glinda smiled, glad to see her maids mixing play with work.
Presently among the fields an object was seen moving, threading the broad path that led to the castle gate. Some of the girls looked upon this object enviously; the Sorceress merely gave it a glance and nodded her stately head as if pleased, for it meant the coming of her friend and mistress – the only one in all the land that Glinda bowed to.
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Ozma smiled upon her little friend.
"Those who do not know me or my laws," she said, "cannot be expected to obey my laws. If we know nothing of the Skeezers or the Flatheads, it is likely that they know nothing of us."
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