I bet you won't find this in a kid's book these days -

[scottobear]

From Chapter four of The Emerald City of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.

"I want you to march this army through an underground tunnel, which I am going to bore, to the Emerald City of Oz. When you get there I want you to conquer the Oz people, destroy them and their city, and bring all their gold and silver and precious stones back to my cavern. Also you are to recapture my Magic Belt and return it to me. Will you do this, General Crinkle?"

"No, your Majesty," replied the Nome; "for it can't be done."

"Oh indeed!" exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: "Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly cut him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs."

"Anything to oblige your Majesty," replied the servants, politely, and led the condemned man away.

Italics mine.



hey! I did an oz post, one year ago today, too!

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[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

LOVE it!

I wanted to tell you that the end of Robinson Crusoe aggravated me. What happened to Friday? Why didn't they wait for his father and the Spaniards? Or go get them?

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Good questions... I seem to recall that crusoe didn't wan tot leave without the father... perhaps it was a "travel window"?

The mutineers and such that still survived and were living on the island were possibly a real danger.

[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

I just think he ended it so abruptly. I HATE loose ends! : )

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

And then he was rich, and got home.

THE END!

[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It's especially disappointing after he spends so much time on (rather) boring times in the beginning. Oh, well. I am finally getting around to starting Treasure Island.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hee... did you see that disney is planning a remake?

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/treasureplanet/flash.html

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

You know, I wondered about the Oz books. I had the whole set of them when I was in grade school. When they had all the hub-bub about Harry Potter, I remembered the Oz books and all the bizarreness in them. I first checked them out from my grade school library, before they were later bought for me..so the school hadn't banned them. Harry Potter is no different in bizarreness & magical type things, to me. Wonder if they took the Oz books out of the school's now.

I remember there being some kind of cool creature that was glass in one of the Oz books. A cat maybe? A glass, plaid cat..or maybe a person. Can't remember now!

Lookit me. I'm not a freak, I haven't gone off the deep-end from reading the Oz books as a child! I went to Sunday school at the same time that I read the books. ;)

Chronicles of Narnia was my *favorite* in school [they're making a movie about narnia, too..woot!]. That was magical, too. People seem to jump on the bandwagon over some silly things these days.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I adore the oz books.. reread them about once every 3 or so years.
But I'm sort of freaky.

A nice freak, though. (Maybe like the shaggy man?)

There was a whole village of people made of china... and assorted breakable people. :)

Narnia was one of my favorite series as a boy... I reread that about once every six or seven years, too! :)