The Magic of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

L. Frank Baum, 1916 · illustrated by John R. Neill

  1. 1If you have a map of the Land of Oz handy, you will find that the great
  2. 2A few days after this, on a bright and sunny morning when the breeze
  3. 3King Rinkitink was so much pleased with the Island of Pingaree that he
  4. 4All through that terrible night Prince Inga remained hidden in his tree.
  5. 5When King Rinkitink and Prince Inga had bathed themselves in the sea and
  6. 6Prince Inga was up with the sun and, accompanied by Bilbil, began
  7. 7The Island of Regos was ten miles wide and forty miles long and it was
  8. 8The fat King rode his goat through the streets of the conquered city and
  9. 9Now it so happened that on the morning of that same day when the Prince
  10. 10You may be sure the Queen of Coregos was not well pleased to have King
  11. 11The forest in which Nikobob lived with his wife and daughter stood
  12. 12Our story must now return to one of our characters whom we have been
  13. 13The wicked Queen of Coregos was in a very bad humor this morning, for
  14. 14"Our fault," said Rinkitink, "is that we conquer only one of these twin
  15. 15Now it seems that when Queen Cor fled from her island to Regos, she had
  16. 16Almost the first persons that Zella saw when she landed from the
  17. 17The Kingdom of the Nomes does not border on the Nonestic Ocean, from
  18. 18The White Pearl guided Inga truly in his pursuit of the boat of King
  19. 19We will now relate what happened to Rinkitink and Bilbil that morning,
  20. 20One day when Princess Dorothy of Oz was visiting Glinda the Good, who is
  21. 21After Kaliko had failed in his attempts to destroy his guests, as has
  22. 22Ozma had seen in her Magic Picture the liberation of Inga's parents and
  23. 23It was unfortunate that the famous Scarecrow--the most popular person in
  24. 24One morning, just as the royal party was finishing breakfast, a servant