THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ

LIST OF CHAPTERS

1 Professor Wogglebug's Great Idea
2 The Scarecrow's Family Tree
3 Down the Magic Bean Pole
4 Dorothy's Lonely Breakfast
5 Sir Hokus of Pokes
6 Singing Their Way Out of Pokes
7 The Scarecrow Is Hailed As Emperor!
8 The Scarecrow Studies the Silver Island
9 "Save Us With Your Magic, Exalted One!"
10 Princess Ozma and Betsy Bobbin Talk It Over
11 Sir Hokus Overcometh the Giant
12 Dorothy and Sir Hokus Come to Fix City
13 Dancing Beds and the Road That Unrolled
14 Sons and Grandsons Greet the Scarecrow
15 The Three Princes Plot to Undo the Emperor
16 Dorothy and Her Guardians Meet New Friends
17 Doubty and Camy Vanish Into Space
18 Dorothy Finds the Scarecrow!
19 Planning to Fly From the Silver Island
20 Dorothy Upsets the Ceremony of the Island
21 The Escape From the Silver Island
22 The Flight of the Parasol
23 Safe at Last in the Land of Oz
24 Homeward Bound to the Emerald City



CHAPTER 1

PROFESSOR WOGGLEBUG'S GREAT IDEA

"The very thing!" exclaimed Professor Wogglebug, bounding into the
air and upsetting his gold inkwell. "The very next idea!"

"Who--me?" A round-faced little Munchkin boy stuck his head in the
door and regarded Professor Wogglebug solemnly. He was working his
way through the Professor's Athletic college, and one of his duties
was to wait upon this eminent educator of Oz.

"Certainly not!" snapped Professor Wogglebug. "You're a nobody or a
nothing. Stop gaping and fetch me my hat. I'm off to the Emerald
City. And mind the pupils take their history pills regularly while
I'm gone," he added, clapping his tall hat Zif held out to him on the
back of his head.

"Yes, sir!" said the little Munchkin respectfully.

"Don't hurry back, sir!" This last remark the Professor did not hear,
for he was already half way down the college steps.

"Ozma will be delighted with the idea. How clever I am!" he murmured,
twirling his antennae and walking rapidly down the pleasant blue
lane.

The Professor, whose College of Art and Athletic Perfection is in the
southwestern part of the Munchkin country, is the biggest bug in Oz,
or in anyplace else, for that matter. He has made education painless
by substituting school pills for books. His students take Latin,
history and spelling pills; they swallow knowledge of every kind with
ease and pleasure and spend the rest of their time in sport. No
wonder he is so well thought of in Oz! No wonder he thinks so well of
himself!

Swinging his cane jauntily, the Professor hurried toward the yellow
brick road that leads to the Emerald City, and by nightfall had
reached the lovely capital of Oz.

Oz!--that marvelous country where no one grows old--where animals and
birds talk as sensibly as people, and adventures happen every day.
Indeed, of all fairylands in the world, Oz is the most delightful,
and of all fairy cities, the Emerald City is the most beautiful. A
soft green light shone for miles about, and the gemmed turrets and
spires of the palace flashed more brightly than the stars. But its
loveliness was familiar to Professor Wogglebug, and without a pause
he proceeded to Ozma's palace and was at once admitted to the great
hall.

A roar of merriment greeted his ears. Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of
Oz, was having a party, and the room was full of most surprising
people--surprising to some, that is, but old friends to most of us.

Jack, holding tightly to his pumpkin head, was running as fast as his
wooden feet and wobbly legs would take him from Dorothy. A game of
blind-man's-buff was in full swing, and Scraps and Tik-Tok, the
Scarecrow and Nick Chopper, the Glass Cat and the Cowardly Lion, the
Wizard of Oz and the wooden Sawhorse, Cap'n Bill and Betsy Bobbin,
Billina and the Hungry Tiger were tumbling over each other in an
effort to keep away from the blindfolded little girl.