The Magic of Oz

The Professor was so proud of these Square-Meal Tablets that he

began to feed them to the students at his college, instead of other food, but

the boys and girls objected because they wanted food that they could enjoy

the taste of. It was no fun at all to swallow a tablet, with a glass of water,

and call it a dinner; so they refused to eat the Square-Meal Tablets.

Professor Wogglebug insisted, and the result was that the Senior Class

seized the learned Professor one day and threw him into the river--clothes

and all. Everyone knows that a wogglebug cannot swim, and so the

inventor of the wonderful Square-Meal Tablets lay helpless on the bottom

of the river for three days before a fisherman caught one of his legs on a

fishhook and dragged him out upon the bank.

The learned Professor was naturally indignant at such treatment, and

so he brought the entire Senior Class to the Emerald City and appealed to

Ozma of Oz to punish them for their rebellion.

I do not suppose the girl Ruler was very severe with the rebellious

boys and girls, because she had herself refused to eat the Square-Meal

Tablets in place of food, but while she was listening to the interesting case

in her Throne Room, Cap'n Bill managed to carry the golden flower-pot

containing the Magic Flower up to Trot's room without it being seen by

anyone except Jellia Jamb, Ozma's chief Maid of Honor, and Jellia

promised not to tell.

Also the Wizard was able to carry the cage of monkeys up to one of

the top towers of the palace, where he had a room of his own, to which no

one came unless invited. So Trot and Dorothy and Cap'n Bill and the

Wizard were all delighted at the successful end of their adventure. The

Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger went to the marble stables behind

the Royal Palace, where they lived while at home, and they too kept the

secret, even refusing to tell the Wooden Sawhorse, and Hank the Mule,

and the Yellow Hen, and the Pink Kitten where they had been.

Trot watered the Magic Flower every day and allowed no one in her

room to see the beautiful blossoms except her friends, Betsy Bobbin and

Dorothy. The wonderful plant did not seem to lose any of its magic by

being removed from its island, and Trot was sure that Ozma would prize it