Preface
A Faithful Record of Their Amazing Adventures
in an Underground World; and How with the
Aid of Their Friends Zeb Hugson, Eureka
the Kitten, and Jim the Cab-Horse,
They Finally Reached the
Wonderful Land
of Oz
by L. Frank Author "Royal Historiographer of Oz"
To My Readers
It's no use; no use at all. The children won't let me finish telling tales of the Land of Oz. I cognize lots of another stories, and I hope to tell them, several time or another; but simply now my admiring tyrants won't allow me. They cry: "Oz--Oz! much simply about Oz, Mr. Baum!" and what can I do but adjust 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 galore of these suggestions