The Scarecrow of Oz

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se body shook with the force of his sobs. He was dressed in a long brown smock and had sandals on his feet, betokening one in

ares,

bs to roll over, face upward, that he might see

nother one?" ask

nother!" wailed

ived at the spot and the girl leaned

ubles and perhaps

eet, but still kept wringing his hands as he tried to choke down his so

he began. "I'm t

he King is your father,

but my master,

ers. And it was not my fault, in the least, t

lly?" asked t

marked Button-Bright,

incess Gloria be?"

my tasks, I used to cast down my eyes as Gloria passed me; but one day I glanced up and found her gazing at me with a very tender look in her eyes. The next day she dismissed her attendants and, coming to my side, began to talk with me. She said I had touc

ul!" gasped Tr

r named Googly-Goo, who is old enough to be Gloria's father. She has refused Googly-Goo thirty-nine times, but he still persists and has brought many rich presents to bribe the King. On that account King Krewl has commanded his niece to marry the old man, but the Princess has assured me, time and

must be a mons

than that," sai

ay not be so much to blame, after all. Kings are proud folks, because they're so high an

d Button-Bright. "A Princ

had my rights I would be the King instead of Krewl. As i

t come?" aske

threw in a mass of heavy stones, which so weighted down my poor father that his body could not rise again to the surface. It is impossible to kill anyone in this land, as perhaps you know, but when my father was pressed down into the mud at the bottom of the deep pool and the stones held him so he could never escape, he was of no more use to hims

y!" said Trot, drawing a long breath. "B

ing Kynd fell into the Great Gulf that lies just this side of the mountains-the same mountains that separate Jinxland from the rest of the Land of

at if Gloria had her rights s

equal rank, although she's a great lady and I'm a humble gardener's boy. I can'

p'n Bill. "But we are on our way to visit King Krewl, and if

ase!" be

got that broke your heart

to break it, of

tossing a pebble at a chipmunk in a tree. "You ought

y left the gardener's boy standing beside the pa