I can't find this corroborated anywhere else on the Internet (I've checked). The giggling king stays true to form until he’s reluctantly carried back to Gilgad to rule-a funny closing that surely survives largely unadulterated from Baum’s first manuscript. What a betrayal! In fact, the only major character who escapes embarrassment at the hands of the author’s revisions is Rinkitink himself. Bilbil is one of the most amusing characters Baum ever created, but his Ozzy tweaks to the tale turn the surly animal into a pet improvement project for Glinda and the Wizard. Dropping Dorothy into the middle of everything is bad enough, but for me the true atrocity lies in the treatment afforded one very likeable goat. Rinkitink in Oz is the perfect fantasy novel-until, as the reviewer notes, the story reaches the revisions Baum made to his original text.
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