The Road to Oz

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Baum Lyman Frank. The Road to Oz

To My Ferst Grandson

The Way to Butterfield

Dorothy Meets Button-bright

A Queer Village

King Dox

The Rainbow's Daughter

The City of Beasts

The Shaggy Man's Transformation

The Musicker

Facing the Scoodlers

Escaping the Soup-kettle

Johnny Dooit Does It

The Deadly Desert Crossed

The Truth Pond

Tik-Tok and Billina

The Emperor's Tin Castle

Visiting the Pumpkin-Field

The Royal Chariot Arrives

The Emerald City

The Shaggy Man's Welcome

Princess Ozma of Oz

Dorothy Receives the Guests

Important Arrivals

The Grand Banquet

The Birthday Celebration

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"PLEASE, miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"

Dorothy looked him over. Yes, he was shaggy, all right; but there was a twinkle in his eye that seemed pleasant.

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Dorothy didn't know. She looked around her anxiously for some familiar landmark; but everything was strange. Between the branches of the many roads were green meadows and a few shrubs and trees, but she couldn't see anywhere the farm-house from which she had just come, or anything she had ever seen before – except the shaggy man and Toto.

Besides this, she had turned around and around so many times, trying to find out where she was, that now she couldn't even tell which direction the farm-house ought to be in; and this began to worry her and make her feel anxious.

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