Trot (Oz)
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Trot is a fictional character in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz. She initially appears in Baum's The Sea Fairies (1911), intended as the first in an alternate children's fantasy series. Following her appearance in Sky Island (1912) (which includes crossover appreances by Button-Bright and Polychrome, Trot and her friend Cap'n Bill were introduced to the Land of Oz in "The Scarecrow of Oz" (1915) Trot is a little girl with big solemn eyes and an earnest, simple manner. Her real name is Mayre Griffiths. It was said that she had been marked on the forehead at birth by fairies with their invisible mystic signs. She and Cap'n Bill are the closest of friends, where they live at her mother's boarding house on the California coast. They get trapped by way of a whirlpool that deposits them in a cavern deep under the sea, and meet a strange flying creature called the Ork, that carries them to Jinxland, a country on the other side of the Deadly Desert. Trot and Cap'n Bill have many wonderful adventure in the Land of Oz including getting their feet "rooted" while searching for a gift for Princess Ozma's birthday. Trot is one of Dorothy Gale and Princess Ozma's best friends.
