Prairie-Dog Town

By L. Frank Baum

The Picnic
Prairie-Dog Town
Mr. Bowko, the Mayor
Presto Digi, the Magician
The Home of the Puff-Pudgys
Teenty and Weenty
The Mayor Gives a Luncheon
On Top of the Earth Again

• Language: English
• Publisher: anboco
• Release date: Sep 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9783736411913

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American author of children’s literature and pioneer of fantasy fiction. He demonstrated an active imagination and a skill for writing from a young age, encouraged by his father who bought him the printing press with which he began to publish several journals. Although he had a lifelong passion for theater, Baum found success with his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), a self-described “modernized fairy tale” that led to thirteen sequels, inspired several stage and radio adaptations, and eventually, in 1939, was immortalized in the classic film starring Judy Garland.

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Table of Contents

(Unbenannt)

Chapter I The Picnic

Chapter II Prairie-Dog Town

Chapter III Mr. Bowko, the Mayor

Chapter IV Presto Digi, the Magician

Chapter V The Home of the Puff-Pudgys

Chapter VI Teenty and Weenty

Chapter VII The Mayor Gives a Luncheon

Chapter VIII On Top of the Earth Again

LAURA BANCROFT

PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN

With illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright

Chapter I

The Picnic

On the great western prairies of Dakota is a little town called Edgeley, because it is on the edge of civilization—a very big word which means some folks have found a better way to live than other folks. The Edgeley people have a good way to live, for there are almost seventeen wooden houses there, and among them is a school-house, a church, a store and a blacksmith-shop. If people walked out their front doors they were upon the little street; if they walked out the back doors they were on the broad prairies. That was why Twinkle, who was a farmer's little girl, lived so near the town that she could easily walk to school.

She was a pretty, rosy-cheeked little thing, with long, fluffy hair, and big round eyes that everybody smiled into when they saw them. It was hard to keep that fluffy hair from getting tangled; so mamma used to tie it in the