The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

er closest friends-knew what had become of her. It was Dorothy who first discovered it. Dorothy was a little Kansas girl who had come to the Land of Oz to live and had been g

nother named Trot, who had been invited, together with her faithful companion Cap'n Bill, to make her home in this wonderful fairyland. The three girls all had rooms in the palace and were great chums; but Dorothy wa

was while the three were talking together one morning in Dorothy's room that Betsy proposed they make a journey into the Munchkin Country, which was one of the four g

o go, too,"

awhorse and the Red Wagon, which would be much nicer for us than having to walk all

royal suite, which filled all the front of the second floor. In a little waiting room s

rd from her this morning. She hasn't even called for her bath

e!" exclaimed

illed in the Land of Oz, and Ozma is herself a powerful fairy, and she has no enemies so far as w

verslept. Or she may be reading or working out s

disturb our royal mistress. You, however, are a privileged character, Prince

m, which was Ozma's boudoir, and then, pushing back a heavy drapery richly broidered with threads of pure gold, the girl entered the s

doir to the other rooms of the suite. She went into the music room, the library, the laboratory, the bath, the wardrob

room where she had left the

rooms now, so she

at without my seeing her," replied Jell

re, anyhow," d

ttle uneasy. So they went into the corridors, and there Dorothy almost

" she called, "Have you

aped 'em both off my face with his square paws. So I put the eyes in my pocket, and this morning Button-Bright led me to Aunt Em,

riously at the eyes, which were merely two ro

cut into shape and stuffed with cotton. Her head was a round ball stuffed in the same manner and fastened to her shoulders. For hair, she had a mass of brown yarn, and to make a nose for her a part of the cloth had been pulled out into

o inhabit the astonishing Fairyland of Oz. Indeed, Scraps was a general favorite, although she was rather flighty and erratic and did and said many things that

ked Dorothy, "for she isn't in her ro

"for my eyes are brighter than

returned Dorothy. "But c

tle girl's face was rather solemn and troubled, for never before had Ozma gone away without telling her friends where she was going, or without an escort that befitted her royal state. She was gone, however, and none had seen her go. Dorothy had

as' night about going anyw

it," replied Dorothy. "Usually Ozma

suggested Betsy Bobbin. "That will te

gold frame in the center of which was a bluish-gray canvas on which various scenes constantly appeared and disappeared. If one who stood before it wished to see what any person anywhere in the world was doing, it was only necessary to make the wish and the

thick satin curtains and pulled the draperies aside. Then she stared in

ank space on the wall behind the curt