So Dorothy, who now lived with Ozma, seemed just the same sweet little girl she had been when first she came to this delightful fairyland. Such incidents, however, were very unusual, and so seldom was there anything to worry over that the Oz people were as happy and contented as can be.Īnother strange thing about this fairy Land of Oz was that whoever managed to enter it from the outside world came under the magic spell of the place and did not change in appearance as long as they lived there.
Accidents might happen to some, on rare occasions, it is true, and while no one could die naturally, as other people do, it was possible that one might be totally destroyed. They did not get sick, so there were no doctors among them. So people in Oz stopped counting how old they were in years, for years made no difference in their appearance and could not alter their station. Those who were old remained old those who were young and strong did not change as years passed them by the children remained children always, and played and romped to their hearts’ content, while all the babies lived in their cradles and were tenderly cared for and never grew up. And Queen Lurline left one of her fairies to rule this enchanted Land of Oz, and then passed on and forgot all about it.įrom that moment no one in Oz ever died. Seeing this isolation, the fairy band of Queen Lurline, passing over Oz while on a journey, enchanted the country and so made it a Fairyland. Once it was much like other lands, except it was shut in by a dreadful desert of sandy wastes that lay all around it, thus preventing its people from all contact with the rest of the world. Oz was not always a fairyland, I am told. She had been a little girl when first she came to the Land of Oz, and she was a little girl still, and would never seem to be a day older while she lived in this wonderful fairyland. To judge Ozma of Oz by the standards of our world, you would think her very young-perhaps fourteen or fifteen years of age-yet for years she had ruled the Land of Oz and had never seemed a bit older. The little dog’s name was Toto, and he was Dorothy’s faithful companion. Ozma was studying a roll of manuscript which she had taken from the Royal Library, while Dorothy worked at her embroidery and at times stooped to pat a shaggy little black dog that lay at her feet. In her magnificent palace in the Emerald City, the beautiful girl Ruler of all the wonderful Land of Oz sat in her dainty boudoir with her friend Princess Dorothy beside her. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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