The Magic of Oz

Rith Metic

Rith Metic is a walled kingdom of living Figure Heads devoted to arithmetic.

First named in Kabumpo in Oz, ch. 5

You have no heads,” announced the Ruler calmly, “or you would have known that this is Rith Metic.

Where this is

  • placed In Oz worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

    Reached in the same Gillikin forest journey from Pumperdink, which Kabumpo ch4 calls one of 'the small Kingdoms on the outskirts of Oz.'

What the books say it is

  • shape oblong, set in rows 1 chapter
    • The air was dry and choky and the houses were dull, oblong affairs, set in rows and rows with never a garden in sight.
      Kabumpo in Oz, ch. 5
  • appearance deserted streets and black iron gate 1 chapter
    • Before they could return, Kabumpo snatched up Pompa and tore through the deserted streets of Rith Metic till he came to the black iron gate at the other end of the city.
      Kabumpo in Oz, ch. 5
  • appearance dull 1 chapter
    • The air was dry and choky and the houses were dull, oblong affairs, set in rows and rows with never a garden in sight.
      Kabumpo in Oz, ch. 5

Appearances

Kabumpo in Oz (1 of 22 chapters)

Seen here