. The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz . ryperson present. Para Bruin, the rubber bear, climbed to a limb of the bigtree, rolled himself into a ball, and dropped to the platform,whence he bounded up again to the limb. He repeated thisbouncing act several times, to the great delight of all thechildren present. After he had finished, and bowed, and 2C1 The Road to Oz returned to his seat, Glinda waved her wand and the tre
. The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz . ryperson present. Para Bruin, the rubber bear, climbed to a limb of the bigtree, rolled himself into a ball, and dropped to the platform,whence he bounded up again to the limb. He repeated thisbouncing act several times, to the great delight of all thechildren present. After he had finished, and bowed, and 2C1 The Road to Oz returned to his seat, Glinda waved her wand and the tree dis-appeared; but its fruit still remained to be eaten. The Good Witch of the North amused the people bytransforming ten stones into ten birds, the ten birds into tenlambs, and the ten lambs into ten little girls, who gave apretty dance and were then transformed into ten stones again,just as they were in the beginning. Johnny Dooit next came on the platform with his tool-chest, and in a few minutes built a great flying machine:then put his chest in the machine and the whole thing flewaway together — Johnny and all — after he had bid good-bye to those present and thanked the Princess for her The Birthday Celebration The Wizard then announced the last act of all, whichwas considered really wonderful. He had invented a ma-chine to blow huge soap-bubbles, as big as balloons, and thismachine was hidden under the platform so that only the rimof the big clay pipe to produce the bubbles showed above theflooring. The tank of soap-suds, and the air-pumps to in-flate the bubbles, were out of sight beneath, so that when thebubbles began to grow upon the floor of the platform it reallyseemed like magic to the people of Oz, who knew nothingabout even the common soap-bubbles that our children blowwith a penny clay pipe and a basin of soap-and-water. The Wizard had invented another thing. Usually soap-bubbles are frail and burst easily, lasting only a few momentsas they fl
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