General Jinjur

"'I am General Jinjur,' was the brief reply.

'Oh!' said the boy surprised. 'What sort of a General?'

'I command the Army of Revolt in this war,' answered the General, with unnecessary sharpness.

'Oh!' he again exclaimed. 'I didn't know there was a war.'

'You were not supposed to know it, 'she returned, 'for we have kept it a secret; and considering that our army is composed entirely of girls," she added, with some pride, "it is surely a remarkable thing that our Revolt is not yet discovered."'
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Tip thought this strange Army bore no weapons whatever; but in this he was wrong. For each girl had stuck through the knot of her back hair two long, glittering knitting-needles." - General Jinjur's Army of Revolt", The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum. 1904.