The Magic of Oz™

Grampa

Grampa is an old soldier who has served the royal family of Ragbad since he lost his leg in battle.

First named in Grampa in Oz, ch. 1

Grampa!

What the books say it is

  • role soldier 1 chapter
    • Grampa, as it happened, was in the garden and Grampa was an old soldier with a game leg who had fought in nine hundred and eighty Ragbad battles and beaten everything, including the drum.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 1
  • age old 1 chapter
    • Grampa was an old soldier with a game leg who had fought in nine hundred and eighty Ragbad battles and beaten everything, including the drum.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 1
  • appearance game leg in place of one lost in battle 1 chapter
    • Grampa was very proud of his game leg, for it not only served him in place of the one he had lost in battle, but whiled away many dull hours, and being hollow was a splendid place to store his pipe and tobacco.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 2
  • wears the red uniform of the Ragbad Guards, with its scarlet coat and checkered trousers 1 chapter
    • Grampa wore the red uniform of the Ragbad Guards, with its scarlet coat and checkered trousers and carried not only his knapsack, gun and sword, but his trusty drum as well.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 2
  • trait brave 1 chapter
    • Even Grampa—who was far and away the bravest man in the country—even Grampa, after one look at the sky, rolled himself in the carpet he had been beating and lay trembling like a tobacco leaf.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 1

Appears in

Grampa in Oz (16 of 22 chapters)

Mentioned in

Grampa in Oz (4 of 22 chapters)

Connections

  • travels with Prince Tatters 1 chapter
    • Grampa touched his cap, Prince Tatters waved his umbrella, and having taken the patched flag of Ragbad from Scroggles, who had accompanied them thus far, they wheeled sharply to the left and marched down the broad red highway that led straight out into other and dangerous lands of Oz!
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 2
  • travels with Urtha 1 chapter
    • Taking Urtha’s hand, Grampa guided her up the first step. Tatters stood on the second with Bill on his shoulder.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 7
  • servant of King Fumbo 1 chapter
    • Grampa, though long since discharged from active service, had stuck to his post like the gallant old soldier he was, and as there were no battles to fight, he tended the furnace, weeded the gardens and helped King Fumbo and Mrs Sew-and-Sew bring up their son to as fine a young Prince as any in Oz.
      Grampa in Oz, ch. 1

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