The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapters Sixteen to Nineteen

In which wishes are granted, attempted, failed at, and wasted, at which point our heroes set out southwards and encounter some horticultural resistance.



They're late, but here are all of this installment's Denslow illustrations!

 

"Liquid courage," eh Wizard? One does wonder what exactly it was that the Lion just drank.

Only one more installment to go! Will Glinda be able to help Dorothy get back to Kansas? Probably!



If you would like to read along, the text can be found at Project Gutenberg here without pictures, or here with. Though the illustrated page is where I got our illustrations from, the layout is wonky and can be hard to read, so to see what the text looks like with the illustrations properly integrated, take a look at this facsimile of the original edition up at openlibrary.org. No reading ahead, though!