Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction; Fantasy fiction; Oz (Imaginary place) -- Juvenile fiction
Knowing that dear delightful place as you do, you can imagine the
welcome accorded the travellers. There were feasts and processions and
story tellings and parties enough to satisfy even the Hungry Tiger.
For days nothing was talked of, but the marvelous adventures of Betsy
Bobbin and the little Princess of Oz. Carter Green was so sought after
and invited about, he could not have taken root, even had he wanted to.
The little Prince Evered has since returned to his own country, but
often comes over to spend a pleasant evening in the castle, bringing
along his big wig, to entertain the Scarecrow.
As for the Hungry Tiger, he never drops off to sleep without thanking
his stars he is not a kitten, and if at times he looks a little
hollow-eyed and wan, he is on the whole happier than ever, for he has
learned that it is better to have a stomach-ache than a heart-ache and
the heart-aches he had in Rash, missing his friends, cured him forever
of the desire to eat a live man.
In the pink palace of Rash the iron boots of Atmos are still shown to
visitors, to prove that an airman really visited that country, and on
clear nights old Fizzenpop, with a telescope, tries to catch a glimpse
of his wicked countrymen.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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