

While there, a balloon falls from the sky, and Dorothy meets her old friend the humbug Wizard of Oz. Jim and Dorothy’s cat, Eureka, are able to talk and so Dorothy knows that once again she is in a fairyland. An earthquake opens a crevice which they fall through, ending up in the land of the Mangaboos, strange vegetable people who blame Dorothy and Zeb for damaging their glass dwellings. She joins her cousin Zeb for a ride in a buggy drawn by a horse named Jim.

In the narrative, Dorothy Gale is on her way to see Uncle Henry in California at Hugson’s Ranch.

Neill, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz was Baum’s fourth Oz book and one of his most exciting. Published by Reilly & Britton in 1908 and illustrated by John R.
