Land of Oz Patchwork Girl of Oz", Dorothy specifies that he cannot speak because he is not a fairy dog. However, in "Ozma of Oz", the chicken Billina acquires speech merely by being swept to the lands near Oz, and in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", the same is true of the kitten Eureka and the cab horse Jim when reaching the land of Mangaboos, a similarly magical land. In "Tik-Tok of Oz", Baum restored the continuity: Toto can speak, and always could, but never bothered to, because it was unnecessary. An additional inconsistency is introduced with "Tik-Tok of Oz": Hank the
Ozma of Oz – and especially to the Dorothys – this book is lovingly dedicated." It has been five years since "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" took place. Uncle Henry has been ordered by his doctor to take a vacation from the stress and labor of having to replace the Kansas farmhouse due to the first one being swept away in a cyclone. He is accompanied by his adolescent niece, Dorothy Gale (this is the first of the Oz books in which the reader learns her last name), while aboard a small steamship headed to Australia while Aunt Em and Dorothy's pet dog