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
The Tik-Tok Man of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter (which created some continuity inconsistencies when it was adapted to the novel), both of which were influenced by "Prince Silverwings". Betsy Bobbin was intended to be Dorothy Gale, but the characters in "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Woggle-Bug" were contractually unavailable to him—although "Ozma" remained from "The Woggle-Bug", she was a wholly different character renamed Ozga for the books. It also adapted the Rose Kingdom from the Kingdom of Mangaboos in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", and Queen Ann was derived from General Jinjur in spite of the failure of "The Woggle-Bug". The