The Patchwork Girl of Oz

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank BaumThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: The Patchwork Girl of OzAuthor: L. Frank BaumRelease Date: April 22, 2010 [EBook #32094]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ ***Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netTHEPATCHWORK GIRLOF OZThis book belongs toThe Patchwork Girl of OzTHEPATCHWORK GIRLOF OZBYL. FRANK BAUMAUTHOR OF THE ROAD TO OZ, DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ, THE EMERALD CITYOF OZ, THE LAND OF OZ, OZMA OF OZ, ETC.ILLUSTRATED BYJOHN R. NEILLThe Reilly & Lee Co.ChicagoCopyright 1913Affectionately Dedicated to my young friend Sumner Hamilton Brittonof ChicagoPROLOGUETHROUGH the kindness of Dorothy Gale of Kansas, afterward Princess Dorothy of Oz, an humble writer in the UnitedStates of America was once appointed Royal Historian of Oz, with the privilege of writing the chronicle of that wonderfulfairyland. But after making six books about the adventures of those interesting but queer people who live in the Land ofOz, the Historian learned with sorrow that by an edict of the Supreme Ruler, Ozma of Oz, her country would thereafter berendered ...