Kings aren't always popular with their people, you know, even if they do the best they know how." "Ozma is pop'lar," said Button-Bright.
"Ozma is diff'rent from any other Ruler, from all I've heard," remarked Trot musingly, as she walked beside the boy.

"And, after all, we are really in the Land of Oz, where Ozma rules ev'ry King and ev'rybody else.

I never heard of anybody getting hurt in her dominions, did you, Button-Bright ?" "Not when she knows about it," he replied.

"But those birds landed us in just the wrong place, seems to me.

They might have carried us right on, over that row of mountains, to the Em'rald City." "True enough," said Cap'n Bill; "but they didn't, an' so we must make the best of Jinxland.