The Magic of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

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

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