"So she does; she rules the Emerald City and all the four countries of Oz; but each
country has another little ruler, not so big as Ozma.
"About the forks of the Missouri is a fine
country; good water; good grass; plenty of buffalo.
The
country was rather more hilly, but otherwise continued the same; an inhabitant of the Pampas no doubt would have considered it as truly Alpine.
He at first objected to my plan as useless, seeing that, owing to the gross ignorance of the people, they could not be brought to profit by the lesson I meant to teach them; and added that, from his knowledge of the
country and its customs, he feared we should fall into great peril by giving offence to these brutal idol worshippers.
I always knew I should live long enough to see my
country girls come into their own, and I have.
In France they are estimated to be about fifteen per cent., and in Britain they exceed this proportion.[1] There seems to be nothing to hinder their being increased in this
country to at least treble their present amount.
"I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the
country, for my part, except the shops and public places.
Oz being a fairy
country, the people were, of course, fairy people; but that does not mean that all of them were very unlike the people of our own world.
And so we got to know all the
country folk and their ways and songs and stories by heart, and went over the fields and woods and hills, again and again, till we made friends of them all.
"What a queer
country America must be!" she exclaimed in great surprise.
Two citizens of his
country had been barbarously murdered within the space of a few hours, one in the heart of the most thickly populated capital in the world, and there was a certain significance attached to this fact which the Ambassador himself and those others at Washington perfectly well realized.
A description of the metropolis, and the
country adjoining.
