| | 1 | Author: | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 | Add | | | Title: | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas
prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was
the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build
it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a
floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty
looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four
chairs, and the beds. Uncle
Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in
one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was
no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the
ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case
one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any
building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle
of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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