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many more followed them.
     And now, although pleading guilty to  long  delay,  I  have  kept  my
promise in this book.


    L. FRANK BAUM.

                                                       Chicago, June, 1904




                             To those excellent good fellows and comedians
                             David C. Montgomery  and Frank A. Stone whose
                             clever  personations of the  Tin Woodman  and
                             the Scarecrow  have  delighted  thousands  of
                             children  throughout  the land,  this book is
                             gratefully dedicated by THE AUTHOR




    Tip Manufactures a Pumpkinhead


     In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of
Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name  than  that,  for
old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but  no  one
was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.
     This boy remembered nothing of his parents, for he had  been  brought
when quite young to be reared by the  old  woman  known  as  Mombi,  whose
reputation, I am sorry to say, was none of  the  best.  For  the  Gillikin
people had reason to  suspect  her  of  indulging  in  magical  arts,  and
therefore hesitated to associate with her.
     Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled  that
part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any  other  Witch  to  exist  in  her
dominions. So Tip's guardian, however much she  might  aspire  to  working
magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most  a
Wizardess.
     Tip was made to carry wood from the forest, that the old woman  might
boil her pot. He also worked in the corn-fields, hoeing and  husking;  and

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