Ann's Army "I won't!" cried Ann; "I won't sweep the floor.

It is beneath my dignity." "Some one must sweep it," replied Ann's younger sister, Salye; "else we shall soon be wading in dust.

And you are the eldest, and the head of the family." "I'm Queen of Oogaboo," said Ann, proudly.

"But," she added with a sigh, "my kingdom is the smallest and the poorest in all the Land of Oz." This was quite true.

Away up in the mountains, in a far corner of the beautiful fairyland of Oz, lies a small valley which is named Oogaboo, and in this valley lived a few people who were usually happy and contented and never cared to wander over the mountain pass into the more settled parts of the land.