The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum. Chicago, April , 1900. LIST OF CHAPTERS. CHAPTER II .—The Council with The Munchkins. CHAPTER III .—How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. CHAPTER IV .—The Road Through the Forest. CHAPTER V .—The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. CHAPTER VII .—The Journey to The Great Oz. CHAPTER IX .—The Queen of the Field Mice. CHAPTER XI .—The Wonderful Emerald City of Oz. CHAPTER XII .—The Search for the Wicked Witch. CHAPTER XIII .—How the Four were Reunited. CHAPTER XV .—The Discovery of Oz the Terrible. CHAPTER XVI .—The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. CHAPTER XVII .—How the Balloon was Launched. CHAPTER XIX .—Attacked by the Fighting Trees. CHAPTER XXI .—The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts. CHAPTER XXII .—The Country of the Quadlings. CHAPTER XXIII .—The Good Witch grants Dorothy's Wish. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole, dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap-door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led…