Baum, L Frank - Oz 05 - The Road to Oz

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The Road to Oz

In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas,

The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome

the Rainbow's Daughter met on an

Enchanted Road and followed

it all the way to the

Marvelous Land

of Oz.

by L. Frank Baum

"Royal Historian of Oz"

Contents

--To My Readers--

1. The Way to Butterfield

2. Dorothy Meets Button-Bright

3. A Queer Village

4. King Dox

5. The Rainbow's Daughter

6. The City of Beasts

7. The Shaggy Man's Transformation

8. The Musicker

9. Facing the Scoodlers

10. Escaping the Soup-Kettle

11. Johnny Dooit Does It

12. The Deadly Desert Crossed

13. The Truth Pond

14. Tik-Tok and Billina

15. The Emperor's Tin Castle

16. Visiting the Pumpkin-Field

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17. The Royal Chariot Arrives

18. The Emerald City

19. The Shaggy Man's Welcome

20. Princess Ozma of Oz

21. Dorothy Receives the Guests

22. Important Arrivals

23. The Grand Banquet

24. The Birthday Celebration

To My Readers

Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book"

about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because

you wanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will

recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little

correspondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if

the story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, you

must remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written

down, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.

In the preface to "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" I said I would like

to write some stories that were not "Oz" stories, because I thought I

had written about Oz long enough; but since that volume was published

I have been fairly deluged with letters from children imploring me to

"write more about Dorothy," and "more about Oz," and since I write

only to please the children I shall try to respect their wishes.

There are some new characters in this book that ought to win your

live. I'm very fond of the shaggy man myself, and I think you will

like him, too. As for Polychrome--the Rainbow's Daughter--and stupid

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little Button-Bright, they seem to have brought a new element of fun

into these Oz stories, and I am glad I discovered them. Yet I am

anxious to have you write and tell me how you like them.

Since this book was written I have received some very remarkable News

from The Land of Oz, which has greatly astonished me. I believe it

will astonish you, too, my dears, when you hear it. But it is such a

long and exciting story that it must be saved for another book--and

perhaps that book will be the last story that will ever be told about

the Land of Oz.

L. FRANK BAUM

Coronado, 1909.

1. The Way to Butterfield

"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.

"Oh yes," she replied; "I can tell you. But it isn't this road at all."

"No?"

"You cross the ten-acre lot, follow the lane to the highway, go north

to the five branches, and take--let me see--"

"To be sure, miss; see as far as Butterfield, if you like," said the

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shaggy man.

"You take the branch next the willow stump, I b'lieve; or else the

branch by the gopher holes; or else--"

"Won't any of 'em do, miss?"

"'Course not, Shaggy Man. You must take the right road to get

to Butterfield."

"And is that the one by the gopher stump, or--"

"Dear me!" cried Dorothy. "I shall have to show you the way, you're

so stupid. Wait a minute till I run in the house and get my sunbonnet."

The shaggy man waited. He had an oat-straw in his mouth, which he

chewed slowly as if it tasted good; but it didn't. There was an

apple-tree beside the house, and some apples had fallen to the ground.

The shaggy man thought they would taste better than the oat-straw, so

he walked over to get some. A little black dog with bright brown eyes

dashed out of the farm-house and ran madly toward the shaggy man, who

had already picked up three apples and put them in one of the big

wide pockets of his shaggy coat. The little dog barked and made a

dive for the shaggy man's leg; but he grabbed the dog by the neck and

put it in his big pocket along with the apples. He took more apples,

afterward, for many were on the ground; and each one that he tossed

into his pocket hit the little dog somewhere upon the head or back,

and made him growl. The little dog's name was Toto, and he was sorry

he had been put in the shaggy man's pocket.

Pretty soon Dorothy came out of the house with her sunbonnet, and she

called out:

"Come on, Shaggy Man, if you want me to show you the road to

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Butterfield." She climbed the fence into the ten-acre lot and he

followed her, walking slowly and stumbling over the little hillocks in

the pasture as if he was thinking of something else and did not notice

them.

"My, but you're clumsy!" said the little girl. "Are your feet tired?"

"No, miss; it's my whiskers; they tire very easily in this warm

weather," said he. "I wish it would snow, don't you?"

"'Course not, Shaggy Man," replied Dorothy, giving him a severe look.

"If it snowed in August it would spoil the corn and the oats and the

wheat; and then Uncle Henry wouldn't have any crops; and that would

make him poor; and--"

"Never mind," said the shaggy man. "It won't snow, I guess. Is this

the lane?"

"Yes," replied Dorothy, climbing another fence; "I'll go as far as

the highway with you."

"Thankee, miss; you're very kind for your size, I'm sure,"

said he gratefully.

"It isn't everyone who knows the road to Butterfield," Dorothy

remarked as she tripped along the lane; "but I've driven there many a

time with Uncle Henry, and so I b'lieve I could find it blindfolded."

"Don't do that, miss," said the shaggy man earnestly; "you might make

a mistake."

"I won't," she answered, laughing. "Here's the highway. Now it's the

second--no, the third turn to the left--or else it's the fourth.

Let's see. The first one is by the elm tree, and the second is by the

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gopher holes; and then--"

"Then what?" he inquired, putting his hands in his coat pockets.

Toto grabbed a finger and bit it; the shaggy man took his hand out of

that pocket quickly, and said "Oh!"

Dorothy did not notice. She was shading her eyes from the sun with

her arm, looking anxiously down the road.

"Come on," she commanded. "It's only a little way farther, so I may

as well show you."

After a while, they came to the place where five roads branched in

different directions; Dorothy pointed to one, and said:

"That's it, Shaggy Man."

"I'm much obliged, miss," he said, and started along another road.

"Not that one!" she cried; "you're going wrong."

He stopped.

"I thought you said that other was the road to Butterfield," said he,

running his fingers through his shaggy whiskers in a puzzled way.

"So it is."

"But I don't want to go to Butterfield, miss."

"You don't?"

"Of course not. I wanted you to show me the road, so I shouldn't go

there by mistake."

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"Oh! Where DO you want to go, then?"

"I'm not particular, miss."

This answer astonished the little girl; and it made her provoked, too,

to think she had taken all this trouble for nothing.

"There are a good many roads here," observed the shaggy man, turning

slowly around, like a human windmill. "Seems to me a person could go

'most anywhere, from this place."

Dorothy turned around too, and gazed in surprise. There WERE a

good many roads; more than she had ever seen before. She tried to

count them, knowing there ought to be five, but when she had counted

seventeen she grew bewildered and stopped, for the roads were as many

as the spokes of a wheel and ran in every direction from the place

where they stood; so if she kept on counting she was likely to count

some of the roads twice.

"Dear me!" she exclaimed. "There used to be only five roads, highway

and all. And now--why, where's the highway, Shaggy Man?"

"Can't say, miss," he responded, sitting down upon the ground as if

tired with standing. "Wasn't it here a minute ago?"

"I thought so," she answered, greatly perplexed. "And I saw the

gopher holes, too, and the dead stump; but they're not here now.

These roads are all strange--and what a lot of them there are!

Where do you suppose they all go to?"

"Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in

one place, so folks can walk on them."

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He put his hand in his side-pocket and drew out an apple--quick,

before Toto could bite him again. The little dog got his head out

this time and said "Bow-wow!" so loudly that it made Dorothy jump.

"O, Toto!" she cried; "where did you come from?"

"I brought him along," said the shaggy man.

"What for?" she asked.

"To guard these apples in my pocket, miss, so no one would steal them."

With one hand the shaggy man held the apple, which he began eating,

while with the other hand he pulled Toto out of his pocket and dropped

him to the ground. Of course Toto made for Dorothy at once, barking

joyfully at his release from the dark pocket. When the child had

patted his head lovingly, he sat down before her, his red tongue

hanging out one side of his mouth, and looked up into her face with

his bright brown eyes, as if asking her what they should do next.

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.

"I'm 'fraid, Shaggy Man," she said, with a sigh, "that we're lost!"

"That's nothing to be afraid of," he replied, throwing away the core

of his apple and beginning to eat another one. "Each of these roads

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must lead somewhere, or it wouldn't be here. So what does it matter?"

"I want to go home again," she said.

"Well, why don't you?" said he.

"I don't know which road to take."

"That is too bad," he said, shaking his shaggy head gravely. "I wish

I could help you; but I can't. I'm a stranger in these parts."

"Seems as if I were, too," she said, sitting down beside him. "It's

funny. A few minutes ago I was home, and I just came to show you the

way to Butterfield--"

"So I shouldn't make a mistake and go there--"

"And now I'm lost myself and don't know how to get home!"

"Have an apple," suggested the shaggy man, handing her one with pretty

red cheeks.

"I'm not hungry," said Dorothy, pushing it away.

"But you may be, to-morrow; then you'll be sorry you didn't eat the

apple," said he.

"If I am, I'll eat the apple then," promised Dorothy.

"Perhaps there won't be any apple then," he returned, beginning to eat

the red-cheeked one himself. "Dogs sometimes can find their way home

better than people," he went on; "perhaps your dog can lead you back

to the farm."

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"Will you, Toto?" asked Dorothy.

Toto wagged his tail vigorously.

"All right," said the girl; "let's go home."

Toto looked around a minute and dashed up one of the roads.

"Good-bye, Shaggy Man," called Dorothy, and ran after Toto. The

little dog pranced briskly along for some distance; when he turned

around and looked at his mistress questioningly.

"Oh, don't 'spect ME to tell you anything; I don't know the way," she

said. "You'll have to find it yourself."

But Toto couldn't. He wagged his tail, and sneezed, and shook his

ears, and trotted back where they had left the shaggy man. From here

he started along another road; then came back and tried another; but

each time he found the way strange and decided it would not take them

to the farm-house. Finally, when Dorothy had begun to tire with

chasing after him, Toto sat down panting beside the shaggy man and

gave up.

Dorothy sat down, too, very thoughtful. The little girl had

encountered some queer adventures since she came to live at the farm;

but this was the queerest of them all. To get lost in fifteen minutes,

so near to her home and in the unromantic State of Kansas, was an

experience that fairly bewildered her.

"Will your folks worry?" asked the shaggy man, his eyes twinkling in

a pleasant way.

"I s'pose so," answered Dorothy with a sigh. "Uncle Henry says

there's ALWAYS something happening to me; but I've always come

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