gratifying
to me and encourages me to write more stories. When the children have
had enough of them, I hope they will let me know, and then I'll try to
write something different.

L. Frank Baum
"Royal Historian of Oz."
"OZCOT"
at HOLLYWOOD
in CALIFORNIA, 1915.

LIST OF CHAPTERS

1 - The Great Whirlpool
2 - The Cavern Under the Sea
3 - The Ork
4 - Daylight at Last
5 - The Little Old Man of the Island
6 - The Flight of the Midgets
7 - The Bumpy Man
8 - Button-Bright is Lost, and Found Again
9 - The Kingdom of Jinxland
10 - Pon, the Gardener's Boy
11 - The Wicked King and Googly-Goo
12 - The Wooden-Legged Grass-Hopper
13 - Glinda the Good and the Scarecrow of Oz
14 - The Frozen Heart
15 - Trot Meets the Scarecrow
16 - Pon Summons the King to Surrender
17 - The Ork Rescues Button-Bright
18 - The Scarecrow Meets an Enemy
19 - The Conquest of the Witch
20 - Queen Gloria
21 - Dorothy, Betsy and Ozma
22 - The Waterfall
23 - The Land of Oz
24 - The Royal Reception

Chapter One

The Great Whirlpool

"Seems to me," said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big
acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, "seems to me, Trot, as
how the more we know, the more we find we don't know."

"I can't quite make that out, Cap'n Bill," answered the little girl in
a serious voice, after a moment's thought, during which her eyes
followed those of the old sailor-man across the glassy surface of the
sea. "Seems to me that all we learn is jus' so much gained."

"I know; it looks that way at first sight," said the sailor, nodding
his head; "but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they
know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a
turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one
lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of
knowledge."

Trot didn't answer. She was a very little girl, with big, solemn eyes
and an earnest, simple manner. Cap'n Bill had been her faithful
companion for years and had taught her almost everything she knew.

He was a wonderful man, this Cap'n Bill. Not so very old, although his
hair was grizzled--what there was of it. Most of his head was bald as
an egg and as shiny as oilcloth, and this made his big ears stick out
in a funny way. His eyes had a gentle look and were pale blue in color,
and his round face was rugged and b