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- Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
The Road to Oz is the fifth book in the Oz series, A Shaggy Man wanders past the Kansas farm where Dorothy Gale lives. He asks for directions, and while Dorothy is showing him the way, they meet a boy named Button-Bright and later encounter Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter. The travelers visit a city of foxes and one of donkeys. They meet the Musicker and the Scoodlers and eventually, with the help of Johnny Dooit, cross the Deadly Desert into the Land of Oz. They journey to the Emerald City meeting many of Dorothy's old friends along the way. They arrive just in time for Princess Ozma's birthday party, to which many distinguished guests from the neighboring countries have been invited as well as King Dox and King Kik-a-bray. Finally, Dorothy and Toto return to Kansas while the Shaggy Man is invited to stay in Oz.
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Table of contents
TO MY READERS
CHAPTER 1. THE WAY TO BUTTERFIELD
By
L. Frank Baum
Table of Contents
TO MY READERS
CHAPTER 1. THE WAY TO BUTTERFIELD
CHAPTER 2. DOROTHY MEETS BUTTON-BRIGHT
CHAPTER 3. A QUEER VILLAGE
CHAPTER 4. KING DOX
CHAPTER 5. THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER 6. THE CITY OF BEASTS
CHAPTER 7. THE SHAGGY MAN'S TRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER 8. THE MUSICKER
CHAPTER 9. FACING THE SCOODLERS
CHAPTER 10. ESCAPING THE SOUP-KETTLE
CHAPTER 11. JOHNNY DOOIT DOES IT
CHAPTER 12. THE DEADLY DESERT CROSSED
CHAPTER 13. THE TRUTH POND
CHAPTER 14. TIK-TOK AND BILLINA
CHAPTER 15. THE EMPEROR'S TIN CASTLE
CHAPTER 16. VISITING THE PUMPKIN-FIELD
CHAPTER 17. THE ROYAL CHARIOT ARRIVES
CHAPTER 18. THE EMERALD CITY
CHAPTER 19. THE SHAGGY MAN'S WELCOME
CHAPTER 20. PRINCESS OZMA OF OZ
CHAPTER 21. DOROTHY RECEIVES THE GUESTS
CHAPTER 22. IMPORTANT ARRIVALS
CHAPTER 23. THE GRAND BANQUET
CHAPTER 24. THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
TO MY READERS
Well, my dears, here is what you have asked for: another "Oz Book" about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story, because you wanted him to be there, and many other characters which you will recognize are in the story, too. Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if the story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, you must remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written down, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.
In the preface to "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" I said I would like to write some stories that were not "Oz" stories, because I thought I had written about Oz long enough; but since that volume was published I have been fairly deluged with letters from children imploring me to "write more about Dorothy," and "more about Oz," and since I write only to please the children I shall try to respect their wishes.
There are some new characters in this book that ought to win your love. I'm very fond of the shaggy man myself, and I think you will like him, too. As for Polychrome—the Rainbow's Daughter—and stupid little Button-Bright, they seem to have brought a new element of fun into these Oz stories, and I am glad I discovered them. Yet I am anxious to have you write and tell me how you like them.
Since this book was written I have received some very remarkable News from The Land of Oz, which has greatly astonished me. I believe it will astonish you, too, my dears, when you hear it. But it is such a long and exciting story that it must be saved for another book—and perhaps that book will be the last story that will ever be told about the Land of Oz.
L. FRANK BAUM Coronado, 1909.
CHAPTER 1. THE WAY TO BUTTERFIELD
"Please, miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"
Dorothy looked him over. Yes, he was shaggy, all right, but there was a twinkle in his eye that seemed pleasant.
"Oh yes," she replied; "I can tell you. But it isn't this road at all."
"No?"
"You cross the ten-acre lot, follow the lane to the highway, go north to the five branches, and take—let me see—"
"To be sure, miss; see as far as Butterfield, if you like," said the shaggy man.
"You take the branch next the willow stump, I b'lieve; or else the branch by the gopher holes; or else—"
"Won't any of 'em do, miss?"
"'Course not, Shaggy Man. You must take the right road to get to Butterfield."
"And is that the one by the gopher stump, or—"
"Dear me!" cried Dorothy. "I shall have to show you the way, you're so stupid. Wait a minute till I run in the house and get my sunbonnet."
The shaggy man waited. He had an oat-straw in his mouth, which he chewed slowly as if it tasted good; but it didn't. There was an apple-tree beside the house, and some apples had fallen to the ground. The shaggy man thought they would taste better than the oat-straw, so he walked over to get some. A little black dog with bright brown eyes dashed out of the farm-house and ran madly toward the shaggy man, who had already picked up three apples and put them in one of the big wide pockets of his shaggy coat. The little dog barked and made a dive for the shaggy man's leg; but he grabbed the dog by the neck and put it in his big pocket along with the apples. He took more apples, afterward, for many were on the ground; and each one that he tossed into his pocket hit the little dog somewhere upon the head or back, and made him growl. The little dog's name was Toto, and he was sorry he had been put in the shaggy man's pocket.
Pretty soon Dorothy came out of the house with her sunbonnet, and she called out:
"Come on, Shaggy Man, if you want me to show you the road to Butterfield." She climbed the fence into the ten-acre lot and he followed her, walking slowly and stumbling over the little hillocks in the pasture as if he was thinking of something else and did not notice them.
"My, but you're clumsy!" said the little girl. "Are your feet tired?"
"No, miss; it's my whiskers; they tire very easily in this warm weather," said he. "I wish it would snow, don't you?"
