Hollow Tube
also Tube
The Hollow Tube, smooth as glass with a silver rim and a gold railing, that runs straight through the earth to the fairyland of the Jinjin.
First named in Tik-Tok of Oz, ch. 9
Go at once to my Chief Magician and order him to turn the path toward the Hollow Tube, and to make the tip of the Tube invisible, so they'll all fall into it."
Where this is
placed In Oz worked out
read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them
Names in the books
What the books say it is
made of gold 1 chapter
This end of the Tube had a silver rim and around it was a gold railing to which was attached a sign that read.
Tik-Tok of Oz, ch. 13
shape turns and windings 1 chapter
Then he put his eye to the glass and was able to gaze along all the turns and windings of the Magic Spyglass and then deep into the Tube, to where our friends were at that time falling.
Tik-Tok of Oz, ch. 14
colour silver rim and gold railing 1 chapter
This end of the Tube had a silver rim and around it was a gold railing to which was attached a sign that read.
Tik-Tok of Oz, ch. 13
texture smooth as glass 1 chapter
But the Tube itself was only dark metal, smooth as glass but exactly the same from one of its ends to the other.
Tik-Tok of Oz, ch. 13
Under the law
law in force Anyone who arrives through the Tube must be tortured for nine days 1 chapter
Then he said: "Most noble Private Soldier, I must inform you that by the laws of our country anyone who comes through the Forbidden Tube must be tortured for nine days and ten nights and then thrown back into the Tube.
Tik-Tok of Oz, ch. 11