Re-Reading the Oz Books

[The Baron]

We start with The Wizard  of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, first published on May 7, 1900.

1. The illustrations are by W.W. Denslow, who depicts Dorothy as a young girl (maybe around eight) with dark hair
2. Baum's "Kansas" is very bleak.  From what I've read, it's more like the Dakota that Baum knew than the actual Kansas.
3. Re-reading this book, you realize just how much the 1939 mpvie simply made up.  Emlira Gulch, Professor Marvel, Zeke, Hunk and Hickory are not present in the book, In the book, Dorothy doesn't run away, she misses getting into  the storm cellar because she was chasing Toto, who was hiding under the bed.
4. The witch who sends Dorothy to the Emerald City is not Glinda, but instead  is the Good Witch of the North, who is not named here. There is no appearance by the Wicked Witch of the West in this part of the story.
5. We get the first mention of Oz being surrounded by an impassable desert.
6. The magic footwear are Silver Shoes and not Ruby Slippers. Dorothy puts them on because her old shoes were worn out, and not at the Witch's suggestion.
7. We learn that the land  is divided between the Munchkins in the east, the Winkies  in the west, the Quadlings in the south, and the people of the north, who  aren't named here.  Initially, only the area around the Emerald City is called "the Land of Oz", after the Wizard. the Munchkins' national color is blue.
8. No explanation is given as to how the Scarecrow comes to be alive. He reveaals that he was created only the day before yesterday.
9. The Tin Woodman's origin is wild. He was a mormal  man who wanted to marry a girl  he was into. The girl's guardian objected, and paid off a witch to enchant his axe so  that every time he used it,  it would cut off a body part, which he would have replced with a tin prosthesis,   Eventually his entire body was replaced, and he lost interest in the girl because he no longer had a heart.  Two questions here: "How did he survive all this?" and "Why did he keep using the axe after the second or maybe third time that it happened?"
10. Lots of animals get killed in this book.  The Tin Woodman kills a beetle, the  Lion offers to  kill a deer for Dorothy  to eat, and they kill some monsters called "Kalidahs"   It is established that all animals  are intelligent - well, I'm not sure about insects. Anyway, the whole issue of whether killing an intelligent animal onstitutes murder, or what - or is it "who" - carnivores eat is kind of skirted around. Toto cannot speak in Oz, I giess because he's not a local pup.
11. In the book, the  poppy field has nothing to  do with the Wicked Witch, and Glinda doesn't  save them.  The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman carry Dorothy and Toto out of the field.  The Woodman coincidentally kills a wildcat that was chasing the Queen of the Field Mice.  In gratitude, she has a few thousand  of her subjects help the boys haul the Lion to safety.
12. Everyone  in the Emerald City must wear green glasses, ostensibly to  protect them from glare, but actually to cover up the fact that most of the city is, in reality, white. I'm reasonably certain that this is never mentioned again.
13. Dorothy and her associates visit the Wizard individually, and not as a group.  He appears to Dorothy as a Big Giant Head, to the Scarerow as a beautiful winged woman, to the Tin Woodman as a Horrific Beast and to thr Lion as a Fireball.
14. Chickens and storks also exist  in Oz
15. The Tin Woodman slaughters a pack of wolves sent by the Witch with his axe.  The Scarecrow slaughters a murder of crows by twisting their necks with his bare hands. Bet crows are scared of him, now! the Woodman kills a swarn of bees, and the  Lion frightens off some spearmen. Can't kill off humans, I guess.
16. The illustration of the Wicked Witch of the West looks nothing like Margaret Hamilton's depiction.  She looks more like if the Sea Hag had a cousin who liked to cosplay as obscure anime characters.
17. The Witch using a Magi Cap to ccontrol the Winged Monkeys, because the Monkey King's grandfather p*ssed off a princess. The monkeys capture Dorothy, Toto and the Lion after battering the Scarecrow and te Woodman.
18. The Winkies' color  is yellow.
19. The Witch is afraid of the dark.
20. Dorothy throws a bucket  of water at the Witch after the Witch stole one of her shoes.  The Winkies retrieve and repair the Scarecrow and the Woodman.  Doorthy takes the Golden Cap.  There's nothing about needing the Witch's broomstick.
21. The Wizard claims that he commissioned the building of the Emerald City.  His illustration depicts him as a dumpy little bald guy.
22. The Wizard gives the Scarerow a "brain" made of bran, pins and needles, the Woodman a silk heart stuffed with sawdust, and the Lion a drink of Liquid Courage. (I've had a taste or two of that over they years, m'self.)
23. After the Wizad's departure, our heroes decide to go see Glinda, instead of Glinda coming to them, as in the movie.
24. They meet the Fighting Trees on this trip, as well as a city full of people made  of fine china, and the Hammer-Heads,  a race of cheerfully hostile headbutters who  are armless but not  'armless.  
25. The Lion becomes King of the Forest a giant spider that's been terrorizing the animals. He does this by courageously waiting until it's asleep and tearing its head off before it could defend itself.  (Hey, it's all very well to be brave, but there's no need to be stupid about it.)
26. The Quadling national color is red.
27. glinda reveals that she will use the Monkeyd to return the Scsrecrow to rule the Emerald City, the Woodman to rule the Winkies and the Lion to rule the Animals, after  which she will set them free.  I can see why people do conspiracy theories about this story, since it ends with the Witches dead, the Wizard gone, and people that Glinda can easily control in charge of the Emerald City and Winkieland. I bet that if Dorothy had wanted to stay and become the Kanzlerin of Munchkinland, Glinda would've lived with that. I also bet that the Witch of the North keeps a very low profile.
28. Glinda explains how Dorothy can use the Silver Shoes to  get home.  It does not involve saying "There's no place like home."  The shoes are lost during Dorothy's return home.
29. Dorothy's homecoming is anticlimactic.  Uncle Henry has a new farmhouse. Guess he had good insurance.
30. Oz is a real place and not just a dream in the book.

Overall: Some weird, wild stuff in here.  If all you know is the movie, you should definitely give this book a read, sometime.

[The Baron]

Next is The Road to Oz, by L.Frank Baum, first published July 10, 1909

1. The illustrations are by Neill, again.
2. Dorothy is approached by a "Shaggy Man" (i.e., a hobo), who  asks directions.  orothy decides to  go  with hinpartway to  show him where to  go.  He sticks Toto in his pocket  when Dorothy isn't looking.  Did they not know about  "stranger danger" 115 years ago?  We never learn this guy's name and he's kinda shifty. He's lucky it wasn't Uncle Henry out front when he came by. Henry  might've sped him on his way with some buckshot in his arse.
3. They find thesevles at an unfaniliar intersection.
4. Shaggy Manrreceals that he owns the Love Magnet, which supposedly  makes everyone he meets love him.
5. They set off along a road and meet Button-Bright, who's sort of like an ur-Ralph Wiggum, only much, much dumber. They bring him along with them, presumably because they're afraid that he'll just sit there until he starves if they leave him. This character literally is in the book only to  be completely stupid.
6. They come to Foxville, a town of sentient foxes ruled  by King Renard the Fourth, a.k.a. King Dox. Dox knows of Dorothy, and informs her that Ozma will be celebrating a birthday soon, and wheedles Dorothy for an invitation. Dox becomes convinced that Butthead-Bright is a genius, and transforms his head into a fox's head as a mark of his esteem.
7. Next they meet  Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, who is lost.  They bring her along, too.
8. Then they come to  Dunkiton, a town of intelligent donkeys.  They are brought before King Kik-a-Bray, who  admires the Shaggy Man's eloquence so much that he turns his head  into  a donkey's head.  He cannot reverse the spell, and recommends that they seek out the Truth Pond in Oz, which will restore both Shaggy and Not-Too Bright. He also wheedles for an invite to Ozna's party.
9. Next they met Allegro da Capo, whom they call "The Musicker".  He makes annoying music just by bretahing. He also wheedles for an invite to Ozma's party.
10. Dorothy wishes that she had the Magic Belt.  Doesn't Ozma check on her every day at 4:00?  Why can't she wait until 4:00 and make the special signal?
11. Next they meet the Scoodlers, who hav two faces (one black and one white) and detachable heads.   They capture our heroes and pla  to eat them.They escape when Shaggy provoes them into  throwing their heads at him.  He catches the heads (he has learned "base-ball") and toses the into  a nearby abyss  Not sure if this constitutes genocide or not.
12. Our heroes reach the deadly Desert.  Shaggy summons his friend nJohnny Dooit, who  can do anything. Johnny bulds them a sand-noat and then leaves.It carries them across the desert into the Winkie Country.
13. They happen upon the Truth Pond.  Shaggy and B-B btahe in it, and their heads are restored to normal.
14. They meet Tik-Tok and Billina, who were sent by Ozma as an escort.  Billina has had ten chikcs, all of whom she has named "Dorothy".
15. They reach the Tin Woodman's Castle.  They find statues of Dorothy and their pals. Neill draws the statues in Denslow's style.
16. They don't use money  in Oz.  They all help each other get what they need, and no one  wants more than they can use.
17. They set out for the Emerald City witthe Tin Woodman joining them.
18. It is stated that no one dies naturally in Oz, but that they can be killed.
19. They come to Jack Pumpkinheads's home, whch is a giant pumpkin. He farms pumpkins to use as new heads. When one of his heds spoils, Ozma carves him a new one. He keeps a graveyard of his old heads.
20. The cover illustration shows his home connected to power lines. Is there electricity in Oz?
21. The Royal Chariot arrives, drawn by the Lion and the Tiger.
22. "The queerness doesn't mattr, so long as they're friends", says Dorothy.  That takes on a different meaning in the Twenty-First Century.
23. It is noted that Dorothy is a princess while in Oz.
24. They arrive in the Emerald City.  None of that business about the spectacles, of course.
25. The Shaggy Man feels out of place in the palace.  Ozma has provided him with elegant clothing that is still "shaggy".
26. Ozma reveals that she was the one who mixed up  the roads to  get Dorothy to Oz, because just sednng an invite would have been too easy.
27. She has invited Dox and Kik-a-Bray, but not the Musicker.
28. Under the influence of the Truth Pond, the Shagggy Man admits that he stole the Love Magnet, and surrenders it to Ozma.
29. The guests start to arrive, including the Scarecrow, Jack Pumpkinhead, Glinda, the Woggle-Bug, Billina and Tik-Tok.
30. The foreign guests start to arrive, many of them from Baum's non-Oz books. The out-of-town guests include:
    1. King John Dough of Hiland and  Loland, Chick the Cherub and Para Bruin (John Dough and the Cherub, 1906)
    2. Santa Claus
    3. The Queen of Merryland and the Candy Man (Dot and Tot of Merryland, 1901)
    4. The Braided Man (They invited the crazy man they met once?)
    5. The Evian royals
    6. Queen Zixi of Ix, King Bud of Noland, and Princess Fludd, Queen Zixi of Ix, 1905)
31. Johnny Dooit and the Good Witch of the North are described as running late.
32. They hve a big banquet that night.
33. There's an Emperor of the Winkies (which we  know is the Tin Woodman), , a Monarch of the Munchkins (who is never named), a King of the Quadlings (I thought Glinda ruled Quadlingland) and a Sovereign of the Gillikins (who I would've thought was the Good Witch of the North).
34. The next day there's a parade and an exhibition, after which, everyone goes home except the Shaggy Man, who is allowed to stay in Oz on  probation.

Overall: It's an interesting story. I feel like Baum is trying t tie all of his books together.

[The Baron]

Next is The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum, first published July 20, 1910.

1. The Nome King, Roquat the Red, is angry and wants his Magic Belt back.
2. Meanwhile, the Gales are on the verge of losing their farm to the bank, which is one of the common themes o Twentieth Century American  popular culture. This raises a question that I have long pondered:  What do Uncle Henry and Aunt Em think about  Dorothy periodically disappearing and then reappearing with tales of having been to a fairy kingdom?  As it turns out, Em half-believes her, while Henry thinks that she's a dreamer like her mother. Dorothy says that she will go to Oz to talk things over with Ozma
3. The Emerald City is said to have 9,654 buildings and a population of 57,318 people. Oz is said to have a population of over 500,000 people.
4. There is a lengthy description of how great life in Oz is, which has an occasional tendency to sound like Latverian propaganda: "They (the Ozites) were her (Ozma's) children, and she cared for them."
5. Sez Baum: "I do not suppose such an arrangement would work with us, but Dorothy assures me that it works finely with the Oz people." If one was a cynical person, one might suggest that that was exactly the sort of thing that a girl who was basically Ozma's pet might say.
6. Ozma agrees to let the Gales live in Oz, so Baum won't have to keep coming up with implausible reasons for Dorothy to get to Oz.
7. It occurs to me to wonder  what the chronology of Dorothy's adventures is. If it matches the publication dates, she'd be nearly an adult by now.
8. Ozma decides to bring Henry and Em to Oz without warning, because sick old people wouldn't have heart attacks or nervous breakdowns if they siddenly foound themselvs in a fairy kingdom.
9. Meanwhile, a Nome called Guph offers to lead Roquat's army against Oz, under penaty of being sliced thin and being fed to the seven-headed hounds if he fails. His plan is for Roquat to tunnel under the Deadly Desert while he seeks out evil allies.
10. The Shaggy Man is now Keeper of the Royal Storehouses.
11. Ozma transports Henry and Em to her throne room, brooking no argument from Dorothy, who suggests meeting  them in an agriculturl   setting.. Ozma also has no doubt that the Galesd will be grateful.
12. Guph recruits the Whimsies, who  are giants with tiny heads. Guph promises them that Roquat will give them big heads if they win.
13. One of Billlina's chicks dide of "the pip", whatever that is. I guess no one dies in Oz unless they do.
14. Billina is now the Queen and Governor  of all the chickens in Oz.
15. Guph recruits the Growleywogs, skeletally thin giants who agree in return for twenty thousand slaves, although they plan to  betray the nomes afterwards.  Gupjh plans to overthrow Roquat.
16. The Gales are restless with nothing to do, so Ozma suggests that Dorothy take them on a tour of Oz while she th nks of something for them to do. They set out with the Wizard, the Shaggy Man, Omby Amby, Billina and the Sawhorse. They pay a call on the Wogglebug, and then move on to the village of the Cuttenclips, a race of living paper dolls. They meet Miss Cuttenclip, an immortal little girl who makes the dolls. The Shaggy Man sneezes and  blows a large part of the town down.
17. Guph seeks to  recruit the Phanfasms, a race of powerful sorcerers who agree to join the alliance, but secretly plan to destroy them all.
18. Next, Dorothy and company visit Fuddlecumjig, home of the Fuddles, who are living jigsaw puzzles.
19. Guph reports back to the Nome King.
20. Glinda has been teachng the Wizard some real magic, so he is no longer a humbug.
21. Dorothy, Toto and Billina get lost and are captured by the living utensils of Utensia. They are brought before King Kleaver, and a barrage of  puns ensues before  they are allowed to go on their way.
22. Next they go to Bunbury, a villiage of living baked goods.  More puns ensue.
23. Ozma decides to make Uncke Henry the Keeper  of the Jewels and Aunt Em the Royal Mender of the Stockings of the Ruler of Oz.
24. She sees on the Magic Picture that the Nome King  is tunneling to the Emerald City.
25. Dorothy visits Bunnybury, a town of rabbits.  She has lunch with the King, who  is unhappy in his work. Dorothy jollies him out of it.
26. Dortohy, Billina and Toto find their way back to the Wizard and the others. Dorothy and the Wizard discuss airships as a means  of travel. The idea that airships might find their way to Oz concerns the Wizard.
27. Now would be a good time to  discuss where Oz and the surrounding countries ae located in relation to Kansas. As far as I can tell, Baum places  tehm on Earth, but never specifies where.  I get the impression that Baum is relying on his target audience not knowing much geography.
28. They visit Rigmarole Town,wherever everyone talks endlessly and never gets to the point, and Flutterbudget Center, where everyone worries about things that haven't happened.  These are described aas "the Defensive Settlements of Oz".
29. They reach the Tin Woodman's castle, and he tells them of the Nome King's  plans, and that Ozma refuses to fight. He goes with them to the Emerald City.
30. They meet the Scarecrow at his new mansion, which is shaped like a giant ear of corn.  He joins their party, and they pick up Jack Pumpkinhead along the way.
31. Wen they reach the Emerald City, Ozma tells them that the invaders' tunnel will surface on the palace grounds  near the Forbidden Fountain, which contains the Water of Oblivion, which makes everyone who  drinks it forget everythmg they've ever known.
32. The Scarecrow has a plan. Ozma magically causes the tunnel to fill with dust. When the invaders surface, they all drink from the Fountain, are rendered harmless, and are sent home. 
33. They decide to consult with Glinda on how to prevent future invasions,
34. Glinda says that her Magic Book records everything that happens everywhere.  So I buy a Diet Coke and some beef jerky, and it gets recorded in her Book?
35. Glinda renders Oz invisible to all  outsiders.  I feel  that that might npt be as effective as she thinks it will be.
36. We end with Baum getting a letter from Dorothy saying that Oz has gone over the Reichenbach Falls, and will be heard from  no more.  We shall see.

Overall: An OK story - lots of dark stuff in this, though.

[The Baron]

Next is The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank Baum,  first published July 1, 1913.

1. The ilustrations are by Neill, again.
2. Baum begins with an introduction exlaining how a kid suggested he use wireless telegraphy to contact Oz.  He describes how he boadcast to Oz, and how Glinda saw this in the Great Book, and reported this to Ozma, who had the Shaggy Man telegraph back to Baum.
3. We begin with Ojo the Unlucky, who  lives in the remote mountains of Munchkinland with his Unc Nunkie.  They have little to no food, which contradicts  all that propaganda about how everyone in Oz hs everything they need.
4. They decide to visit their nearest  neighbors, Doctor Pipt and his wife, Margolotte.
5. Pipt invented the Powder of Life that Tip/Ozma used to bring the Sawhorse to life. Pipt is known as the Crooked Magician,because his body is  physically  rooked.
6. Pipt has anmted a Glass Cat called Bungle that has pink brains thrt it is CONSTANTLY bragging about, and he intends to animate a girl made out  of a patchwork quilt. Margolotte intends to give her the  minimum necessary amount of brain, but Ojo augments them when she isn't looking.
7. Pipt explains that only Ozma, Glinda and the Wizardare allowed to practice magic in Oz (What about the Good With of the North?), but he sees no harm if he only does it for himself.
8. He also  has the Liquid of Petrifaction, which turns whatever it touches to marble.
9. Nunkie is described as beomg descended from the former Kings of Munchkinland before it became part of Oz, which contradicts one of the previous books, where the Munchkins still had a monarch.
10. Doctor Pipt has a phonograph.
11. When the Patchwork Girl is animated, she knocks some  of the Liquid of Petrifaction onto Margolotte and nunkie.
12. The phonograph is accidentally animted as well.
13. The Patchwork Girl is given the name "Scraps".
14. It will take Pipt six years to make more Powder of Life, so  he charges Ojo to  find the ingredients for a charm that  will restore Margolotte and Nunkie. Ojo  sets out with Bungle and Scraps.
15. The living phonograph's name is "Victor Columnbia Edison". It is really annoying.
16. The first ingredient they need is three hairs from a Woozy's tail.  By an astonishing coincidence, they discover a Woozy, which is a square critter like a Minecraft animal a century early.  It agrees to let them have the hairs, but they are unable to pull them out, so the Woozy accompanies them.
17. Eureka the Pink Kitten is described as  living in Oz.  i'm not sure when she was supposed to have come back.
18. They meet the Scarecrow and the Sawhorse on nthe road. The Scarecrow is trveling to  have jinjur repaint his left ear.  I guess he's gotten over that whole  "She overthrew him" thing. He and Scraps are quite taken with  one another.
19. Ojo picks a ssox-leaved clover - which is one of the ingredients he needs - despite having been told that it's illegal. He is arrested the moment they arrive at the Emerald City.
20. The  illustration of Ojo in his prisoner's robe looks kie one of the ghost costumes from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
21. The  prison is very luxurious. One of the food choices is mutton-chops. Again, if all animals on oz are sentient, how is it decided h=who it;s OK tp eat?
22. Ojo is contrite and Ozma lets him off. He is allowed to continue on his quest.
23. Ojo and Scraps set off, accompaioed by Dorothy and the Scarecrow.  Bungle and the Woozy stay behind.
24. They visit Jack Pumpkinhead, who  carves his own new heads now.
25. They head into  Quadlingland, where they encounter the Tottenhots, a group of racist stereotypes.
26. They meet Mr. Yoop, a caged giant who wants to eat them.
27. They get caught up in dispute between the Hoppers and the Horners.
28. The Horners mine radium, lof which their Chief says, "It is a medicine, too, and no one can ever be sick who lives near radium." Of course, this was around the start of the craze fro radium "health drinks".
29. They resolve the dispute, and the Horners give them water from a dark well, which was another one f the things they were looking for.
30. They visit the Tin Woodman. One of the ingredients they need is a drop of oil from aa living man, which Ojo  gets from Nick.
31. The last thing they need as a wing from a yellow butterfly, which the Woodman refuses to let them have.
32. Nick accompanies them to the Emerlad City, where Ozma  informs them that Glinda has been working on the problem.
33. The Wizard takes away Pipt's ability to do magic.and straightens  out his body.
34. He's replaced Bungle's brains with trnasparent ones, making her more humble. Ozma decides to keep her as a pet.
35. The Woozy will live in the Royal Menagerie,
36. Scraps is to live wherever she likes.
37. The Wizard cures Nunkie and Margolotte, and Ozma gives Ojo and Nunkie a house just outside the Emerald City.

Overall: An OK story.  Not that big of a fan of the Patchwork Girl, myself.

[The Baron]

Next up is Tik-Tok of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, first published June 19, 1914.

1. We begin with Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, a remote region in Oz. she sets out to co quer Oz, an gathers an army of 18 men.
2. Glinda's palace is described as being to the north of the Emerald Cty, when it was always placed in the south.  maybe Glinda has two palaces, or maybe Baum conflated her with the Witch of the north. She casts a spell which causes Ann and her army to end  up outside  of Oz.
3. Elsewhere, Betsy Bobbin and Hank the mule are swept overboard during a storm at sea. In researching this book, I discovered that Betsy Bobbin came about as a character because Baum wanted t write an Oz stage play, but someone else had the rights to use Dorothy in a stage play, so he invented Betsy.  She is described as being from Oklahoma, and that's her entire backstory.  No information is given as to where she was sailing or why.
4. Betsy and Hank wash ashore in the Rose Kingdom, a land of roses with women's faces.  
5. They meet the Shaggy Man, who is traveling with the Love Magnet (with Ozma's permission), seeking to find his brother, who wnt missing in a mine in Colorado.  He figurs his brother is held captive by the Nome King.
6. Betsy has heard of  Oz and Dorothy.  i guess the Oz books exist "in-universe", as well.
7. They pluck the Rose Princess, Ozga, a distant cousin of Ozma, but the Roses reject her, and drive her out  of the Rose Kingdom along with Betsy, Hank and Shaggy.
8. Ruggedo is the current Nome King.  A footnote expalins the "Ruggedo" is the name that Roquat toom after he forgot his old name after drinking the Water of Oblivion.  He seems to remember everything else, though.  I think Ozma got ripped off on the Well of Oblivion.
9. They meet Polychrome who  fell off the rainbow again, and Tok-Tok, who  was sent by Ozma to  help, but was thrown down a well by Ruggedo. They also meet Ann and her army, and convince them to  help  fight the Nome King.
10. Ruggedo sees them coming and drops them through something called the "Hollow Tube" despite having been ordered not to by someone called Tititi-Hoochoo.
11. Our ghroes end up on the other side of the world, in a realms filled with kings and queens, who  are ruled by the Private Citizen, a.k.a the Great Jinjin, a.k.a. Tititi-Hoochoo.
12. He decides to punish Ruggedo by sending them back with an Instrument of Vengeance, a dragon named Quox.  They had back through the Tube.
13. There's a Nome called the Long-Eared Hearer who has super-hearing, and who hears them comng.
14. Ann insists on trying to conquer theNomes without Quox's help.  She orders Tik-Tok (who  has been drafted into  her army)not to kill anyone unless it was absolutely necessary, to  which Tik-Tok replied "I do not think Ruggedo  would bleed if I filled him full og holes and put him in a cider-press."
15. Ann's army is quickly captured. Kaliko, Ruggedo's steward, protects Betsy and Hank.
16. Everyone else is quickly captured, except for Polychrome.
17. Ruggedo mentions "Saratoga-chips", which seems to have been an old name for potato chips.
18. He turns the Shaggy Man into a dove, and the Rose princess into a fiddle.
19. Polychrome fetches Quox, who takes away Ruggedo's magic and uses magical eggs to drive Ruggedo out  of the Nome Kingdom.
20. Kaliko is made the new king, and Quox goes home.
21. They rescue Shaggy's brother and Ruggedo promises to reform.
22. Polychrome goes hme. and Ann  gives up on conquering the world, so Ozam sends her and her army home, along with the Rose Princess, who is smitten with one of Ann's soldiers.
23. The Shaggy man has a wireless telephone that the Wizard of Oz invented, and he calls Ozma. She warps Tik-Tok home, but Shaggy doesn't want to abanson his brother, Betsy and Hank. Ozma consults with  Tik-Tok, the Wizard and Dorothy, and they talk her into letting the Shaggy Brothers, Betsy and Han come to live  in Oz.
24. Hank can speak when he gets to Oz, usually, animals could speak once they got to any fairyland.  He is the  only mule in Oz.
25. We learn that Toto could always talk in Oz, he just didn't feel like it.

Overall: This was weird, because I know I've read it before, but I didn't remember it at all.  A lot of it feels like retreads of elements of previous stories, and Tik-Tok isn't even that much of a presence in it.