The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

er to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove,

he family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.

the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until

her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter

nd did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard

not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on eit

ed anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual. Dorothy stood in the do

owed in waves before the coming storm. There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turn

ck." Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept. Aunt Em drop

she screamed. "Ru

the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to follow her aunt. When she was halfway

und two or three times and rose slowly through the a

air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was

riding quite easily. After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the ho

e, now there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite s

rl thought she had lost him. But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through t

and dragged him into the room again, afterward closin

At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolv

nd the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soo