Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and great, and he hoped to make himself master of all the Land of Oz that he might compel everyone in that fairy country to obey him, His ambition blinded him to the rights of others, and he imagined anyone else would act just as he did if anyone else happened to be as clever as himself.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.