This story was sweet, though I still prefer the previous story more. On to the next.
I think it's really sweet that Frank Baum writes letters to his child readers at the beginning of each of his books. It definitely goes to show how times have changed, and how an author could so much easier be influenced by their readers during the time where few things were truly mass produced.
"'We had a lot of earthquakes. Didn't you feel the ground shake?'
"'Yes; but we're used to such things in California, they don't scare us much.'"
"We can't help ourselves no, you know, and I've always been told it's foolish to borrow trouble."
"No one can love a person he's afraid of."
Since there are no horses in Oz, it seems odd that they would call a sawhorse a sawhorse, since it's called that based on it looking somewhat like a horse.
"Whenever an appeal is made to law sorrow is almost certain to follow."
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