Little Wizard Stories of Oz
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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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Little Wizard Stories of Oz - L. Frank Baum
LITTLE WIZARD STORIES OF OZ
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L. Frank Baum
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Little Wizard Stories of Oz
THE COWARDLY LION AND THE HUNGRY TIGER
LITTLE DOROTHY AND TOTO
TIKTOK AND THE NOME KING
OZMA AND THE LITTLE WIZARD
JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE
THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN WOODMAN
LITTLE WIZARD STORIES OF OZ
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THE COWARDLY LION AND THE HUNGRY TIGER
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IN THE SPLENDID PALACE OF the Emerald City, which is in the center of the fairy Land of Oz, is a great Throne Room, where Princess Ozma, the Ruler, for an hour each day sits in a throne of glistening emeralds and listens to all the troubles of her people, which they are sure to tell her about. Around Ozma’s throne, on such occasions, are grouped all the important personages of Oz, such as the Scarecrow, Jack Pumpkinhead, Tiktok the Clockwork Man, the Tin Woodman, the Wizard of Oz, the Shaggy Man and other famous fairy people. Little Dorothy usually has a seat at Ozma’s feet, and crouched on either side the throne are two enormous beasts known as the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion.
These two beasts are Ozma’s chief guardians, but as everyone loves the beautiful girl Princess there has never been any disturbance in the great Throne Room, or anything for the guardians to do but look fierce and solemn and keep quiet until the Royal Audience is over and the people go away to their homes.
Of course no one would dare be naughty while the huge Lion and Tiger crouched beside the throne; but the fact is, the people of Oz are very seldom naughty. So Ozma’s big guards are more ornamental than useful, and no one realizes that better than the beasts themselves.
One day, after everybody had left the Throne Room except the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the Lion yawned and said to his friend:
I’m getting tired of this job. No one is afraid of us and no one pays any attention to us.
That is true,
replied the big Tiger, purring softly. We might as well be in the thick jungles where we were born, as trying to protect Ozma when she needs no protection. And I’m dreadfully hungry all the time.
You have enough to eat, I’m sure,
said the Lion, swaying his tail slowly back and forth.
Enough, perhaps; but not the kind of food I long for,
answered the Tiger. What I’m hungry for is fat babies. I have a great desire to eat a few fat babies. Then, perhaps, the people of Oz would fear me and I’d become more important.
True,
agreed the