It was a terrible thing to do undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my he… - L. Frank Baum

"All right; let's go!" Trot decided. "But where's Button-Bright?" Just at this important moment Button-Bright was lost again, and they all scattered in search of him. He had been standing beside them just a few minutes before, but his friends had an exciting hunt for him before they finally discovered the boy seated among the members of the band, beating the end of the bass drum with the bone of a turkey-leg that he had taken from the table in the banquet room. "Hello, Trot," he said, looking up at the little girl when she found him. "This is the first chance I ever had to pound a drum with a reg'lar drum stick. And I ate all the meat off the bone myself."

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

I find I learn much more by traveling than by staying at home.