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Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
It
’
s
no
use
;
no
use
at
all
.
The
children
won
’
t
let
me
stop
telling
tales
of
the
Land
of
Oz
.
I
know
lots
of
other
stories
,
and
I
hope
to
tell
them
,
some
time
or
another
;
but
just
now
my
loving
tyrants
won
’
t
allow
me
.
They
cry
:
"
Oz
—
Oz
!
more
about
Oz
,
Mr
.
Baum
!
"
and
what
can
I
do
but
obey
their
commands
?
This
is
Our
Book
—
mine
and
the
children
’
s
.
For
they
have
flooded
me
with
thousands
of
suggestions
in
regard
to
it
,
and
I
have
honestly
tried
to
adopt
as
many
of
these
suggestions
as
could
be
fitted
into
one
story
.
After
the
wonderful
success
of
"
Ozma
of
Oz
"
it
is
evident
that
Dorothy
has
become
a
firm
fixture
in
these
Oz
stories
.
The
little
ones
all
love
Dorothy
,
and
as
one
of
my
small
friends
aptly
states
:
"
It
isn
’
t
a
real
Oz
story
without
her
.
"
So
here
she
is
again
,
as
sweet
and
gentle
and
innocent
as
ever
,
I
hope
,
and
the
heroine
of
another
strange
adventure
.
There
were
many
requests
from
my
little
correspondents
for
"
more
about
the
Wizard
.
"
It
seems
the
jolly
old
fellow
made
hosts
of
friends
in
the
first
Oz
book
,
in
spite
of
the
fact
that
he
frankly
acknowledged
himself
"
a
humbug
.
"
The
children
had
heard
how
he
mounted
into
the
sky
in
a
balloon
and
they
were
all
waiting
for
him
to
come
down
again
.
So
what
could
I
do
but
tell
"
what
happened
to
the
Wizard
afterward
"
?
You
will
find
him
in
these
pages
,
just
the
same
humbug
Wizard
as
before
.
There
was
one
thing
the
children
demanded
which
I
found
it
impossible
to
do
in
this
present
book
:
they
bade
me
introduce
Toto
,
Dorothy
’
s
little
black
dog
,
who
has
many
friends
among
my
readers
.
But
you
will
see
,
when
you
begin
to
read
the
story
,
that
Toto
was
in
Kansas
while
Dorothy
was
in
California
,
and
so
she
had
to
start
on
her
adventure
without
him
.
In
this
book
Dorothy
had
to
take
her
kitten
with
her
instead
of
her
dog
;
but
in
the
next
Oz
book
,
if
I
am
permitted
to
write
one
,
I
intend
to
tell
a
good
deal
about
Toto
’
s
further
history
.
Princess
Ozma
,
whom
I
love
as
much
as
my
readers
do
,
is
again
introduced
in
this
story
,
and
so
are
several
of
our
old
friends
of
Oz
.
You
will
also
become
acquainted
with
Jim
the
Cab
-
Horse
,
the
Nine
Tiny
Piglets
,
and
Eureka
,
the
Kitten
.
I
am
sorry
the
kitten
was
not
as
well
behaved
as
she
ought
to
have
been
;
but
perhaps
she
wasn
’
t
brought
up
properly
.
Dorothy
found
her
,
you
see
,
and
who
her
parents
were
nobody
knows
.
I
believe
,
my
dears
,
that
I
am
the
proudest
story
-
teller
that
ever
lived
.
Many
a
time
tears
of
pride
and
joy
have
stood
in
my
eyes
while
I
read
the
tender
,
loving
,
appealing
letters
that
came
to
me
in
almost
every
mail
from
my
little
readers
.
To
have
pleased
you
,
to
have
interested
you
,
to
have
won
your
friendship
,
and
perhaps
your
love
,
through
my
stories
,
is
to
my
mind
as
great
an
achievement
as
to
become
President
of
the
United
States
.
Indeed
,
I
would
much
rather
be
your
story
-
teller
,
under
these
conditions
,
than
to
be
the
President
.
So
you
have
helped
me
to
fulfill
my
life
’
s
ambition
,
and
I
am
more
grateful
to
you
,
my
dears
,
than
I
can
express
in
words
.
I
try
to
answer
every
letter
of
my
young
correspondents
;
yet
sometimes
there
are
so
many
letters
that
a
little
time
must
pass
before
you
get
your
answer
