The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Em'rald City, and wherever she's gone, she's taken her Magic Picture with her." She was standing in the courtyard of

, still dancing, "som

dare do that!" e

o, so the thing can't tell where

e loves Ozma. There isn't a person in the Land

k Girl. "You don't know ev'

don

"There are cracks and corners in

irl's just daffy

never come near Ozma or the Em'rald City. I've seen some of 'em myself, girls. But I haven't seen all, of course,

with the Wizard of Oz on his back. "Have you found Ozma?

. "Doesn't Glinda the G

all her magic instruments are go

m. "This is the biggest steal I ever hea

d carry them to Glinda. She is so much more powerful than I that she may be able

othy, "for we've all go

s but presently came back with a l

one?" ask

gic tools. Someone

t one another

the Wizard. "All the magic that belongs to

ave taken them, herself, for

emy has stolen Ozma and for fear we would follow and

f anyone wanting to injure our dear Ozma!

tell her that my magic tools have also disappeared.

t a great calamity had overtaken them all. Ozma was a fairy of considerable power, and all the creatures in Oz as well as the three mortal girls from the outside world looked upon her as their protector and friend. The id

d she wouldn't steal Glinda's Great Book of Records or the Wizard's magic, 'cause she coul

he Land of Oz

bout the Magic Picture and the Book of Records and the Wizard's magic or where they were kept, and so be

sked Scraps. "That's

y severely, "we wouldn't be

o the Lucky, who had once come from the Munchkin Country of Oz and now lived in the Emerald City. The other boy was an American from Philadelphia and had lately found his way to Oz in the company of Trot and Cap'n Bill. His name was Button-Bright; that is, everyone called h

s so?" s

ng about it in the

people found it ou

told them. She has been asking ev

," observed Dor

ked Butto

ur people unhappy till we were dea

"it's nothing to get lost.

inding himself again, "but it's diff'rent with Ozma. She's the Ruler of all this big fairy

aid Ojo. "Do you know of any

she re

hen circling around the group. "Ozma's stolen; someone in Oz s

e now solemn and sorrowful. "One thing is sure," said Button-Bright after a ti

ot gravely, "and in this fairy country they d

soldier," cl

but no one is afraid of either his gun or his whiskers, '

sy, "and perhaps he'd hurt a wicked thie

nths ago and hasn't come back

rouble," sighed little Trot. "But p'raps Ozma, who is a fairy

he power to do that, it isn't likely she'd have let herself be stolen. S

back, riding slowly upon the Sawhorse because he felt discouraged and perplexed. Glinda came later in her aerial chariot drawn by twenty milk-white swans, and she also seemed worried and unhappy. More of Ozma's friends joined them, and that

d in order to create some new instruments of sorcery by means of which I may rescue our fair Ruler. But if you ca

," decided Dorothy. "Betsy and Tro

protect you from harm and to give you my advice. All my wizardry, alas, is stolen, so I am now rea

happen to us in O

ned to Ozma?" re

her magic, and my black bag containing all my tricks of wizardry, then that Evil Power may yet cause us considerable injury. Ozma is a fairy, and s

l me," said Ojo

Country, which they are well acquainted with; and I will send the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman into the Quadling Country, for they are fearless and brave and never tire; and to the Gillikin Country, where many dangers lurk, I wi

tion. In Ozma's absence, Glinda the Good was the most importan