The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

been out chasing birds around him and squirrels. She sat up and looked arou

search for water,

u want wate

t of the road, and to drink, so the d

oughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have

drank and bathed and ate her breakfast. She saw there was not much bread left in the basket, and the girl was tha

ut to go back to the road of yellow brick, s

hat?" she as

eplied the Scarecrow;

and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshin

lifted axe in his hands, was a man made entirely of tin. His head and arms and legs were

the Scarecrow, while Toto barked sharply and m

groan?" as

en groaning for more than a year, and no one

red softly, for she was moved by th

rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall

d found the oilcan, and then she returned a

quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently

y oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully un

atisfaction and lowered his axe,

air ever since I rusted, and I'm glad to be able to put it down at last. N

; and he thanked them again and again for his release,

ot come along," he said; "so you have certainl

see the Great Oz," she answered, "and we

wish to see O

, and the Scarecrow wants him to put a

ppeared to think d

you suppose Oz cou

swered. "It would be as easy a

will allow me to join your party, I will also

eased to have his company. So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all pass

her basket. "For," he said, "if I should get caught in

in they came to a place where the trees and branches grew so thick over the road that the travelers could not pass.

notice when the Scarecrow stumbled into a hole and rolled over to the sid

k around the hole?"

gh," replied the Sc

ou know, and that is why I am goin

an. "But, after all, brains are

y?" inquired

quite empty," ans

t also; so, having tried them both,

that?" asked

my story, and th

hrough the forest, the Tin Woo

I grew up, I too became a woodchopper, and after my father died I took care of my old mother as long as she

y me as soon as I could earn enough money to build a better house for her; so I set to work harder than ever. But the girl lived with an old

he marriage. Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I wa

legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper. So I

my axe slipped and cut off my right leg. Again I went to the tinsmith, and again he made me a leg out of tin. After this the enchanted axe cut off my arms, one after the other; but, nothing daunted, I had them

my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves. Once more the tinsm

lost all my love for the Munchkin girl, an

ng with the old woman, waiti

wever, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me. It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had t

nterested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now

k for brains instead of a heart; for a fool woul

Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy,

t, and she decided if she could only get back to Kansas and Aunt Em, it did not matter so mu

d was nearly gone, and another meal for

w ever ate anything, but she was not made of tin