Really, King Kaliko, we ought to be friends, we're so much alike in everything but disposition and intelligence. - L. Frank Baum

"Here is your future ruler, King Evardo Fifteenth. He is fifteen years of age, has fifteen silver buckles on his jacket and is the fifteenth Evardo to rule the land of Ev." The people shouted their approval fifteen times,

And the Lion said to Dorothy: 'We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws. But stand close behind me, and I will fight them as long as I am alive.

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.