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The Road to Oz - L Frank Baum · Classic Drama Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: The Road to Oz preface to my readers, Well, my DearS,
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  Speaker 1: here is what you have asked for, another OZ book
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  Speaker 1: about Dorothy's strange adventures. Toto is in this story because
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  Speaker 1: you wanted him to be there, and many other characters
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  Speaker 1: which you will recognize, are in the story too. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as
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  Speaker 1: carefully as possible. And if the story is not exactly
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  Speaker 1: as you would have written it yourselves, you must remember
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  Speaker 1: that a story has to be a story before it
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  Speaker 1: can be written down, and the writer cannot change it
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  Speaker 1: much without spoiling it. In the preface to Dorothy and
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  Speaker 1: the Wizard in Oz, I said I would like to
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  Speaker 1: write some stories that were not OZ stories, because I
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  Speaker 1: thought I had written about Oz long enough. But since
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  Speaker 1: that volume was published, I have been fairly deluged with
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  Speaker 1: letters from children imploring me to write more about Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: and more about And since I write only to please
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  Speaker 1: the children, I shall try to respect their wishes. There
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  Speaker 1: are some new characters in this book that ought to
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  Speaker 1: win your love. I am very fond of the Shaggy
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  Speaker 1: Man myself, and I think you will like him too.
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  Speaker 1: As for Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, and stupid Little Button Bright.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to have brought a new element of fun
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  Speaker 1: into these Oz stories, and I am glad I discovered them.
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  Speaker 1: Yet I am anxious to have you write and tell
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  Speaker 1: me how you like them. Since this book was written,
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  Speaker 1: I have received some very remarkable news from the Land
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  Speaker 1: of Oz, which has greatly astonished me. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: will astonish you too, my DearS, when you hear it.
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  Speaker 1: But it is such a long and exciting story that
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  Speaker 1: it must be saved for another book. And perhaps that
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  Speaker 1: book will be the last story that will ever be
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  Speaker 1: told about the Land of Oz. L. Frank baum corn Io,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen o nine, Chapter one. The Way to Butterfield, please, Miss,
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  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man. Can you tell me the road
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  Speaker 1: to Butterfield? Dorothy looked him over. Yes, he was shaggy,
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  Speaker 1: all right, but there was a twinkle in his eye
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  Speaker 1: that seemed pleasant. Oh, yes, she replied, I can tell you.
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  Speaker 1: But it isn't this road at all. No, you cross
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  Speaker 1: the ten acre lot, follow the lane to the highway,
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  Speaker 1: go north to the five branches, and take let me see.
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  Speaker 1: To be sure, Miss, see as far as Butterfield if
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  Speaker 1: you like, said the shaggy man, you take the branch
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  Speaker 1: next to the willow stump, I believe, or else the
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  Speaker 1: branch by the gopher holes, or else, won't any of
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  Speaker 1: em do, miss? Course not, shaggy man. You must take
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  Speaker 1: the right road to get to butterfield. And is that
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  Speaker 1: the one by the gopher stump? Or dear me, cried Dorothy,
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to show you the way. You're so stupid,
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute till I run in the house and
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  Speaker 1: get my son bonnet. The shaggy man waited. He had
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  Speaker 1: an oat straw in his mouth, which he chewed slowly
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  Speaker 1: as if it tasted good, but it didn't. There was
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  Speaker 1: an apple tree beside the house, and some apples had
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  Speaker 1: fallen to the ground. The shaggy man thought they would
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  Speaker 1: taste better than the oat straw, so he walked over
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  Speaker 1: to get some. A little black dog with bright brown
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  Speaker 1: eyes dashed out of the farmhouse and ran madly toward
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, who had already picked up three apples
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  Speaker 1: and put them in one of the big, wide pockets
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  Speaker 1: of his shaggy coat. The little dog barked and made
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  Speaker 1: a dive for the shaggy man's leg, but he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the dog by the neck and put it in his
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  Speaker 1: big pocket along with the apples. He took more apples afterward,
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  Speaker 1: for many were on the ground, and each one that
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  Speaker 1: he tossed into his pocket hit the little dog somewhere
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  Speaker 1: upon the head or back and made him growl. The
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  Speaker 1: little dog's name was Toto, and he was sorry he
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  Speaker 1: had been put in the shaggy Man's pocket. Pretty soon
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy came out of the house with her son, Bonnet,
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  Speaker 1: and she called out, come on, shaggy Man, if you
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  Speaker 1: want me to show you the road to Butterfield. She
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  Speaker 1: climbed the fence into the ten acre lot, and he
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  Speaker 1: followed her, walking slowly and stumbling over the little hillocks
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  Speaker 1: in the pasture as if he was thinking of something
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  Speaker 1: else and did not notice them. My but you're clumsy,
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  Speaker 1: said the little girl. Are your feet tired, No, miss,
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  Speaker 1: it's my whiskers. They tire very easily. This warm weather,
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  Speaker 1: said he. I wish it would snow, don't you course not,
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  Speaker 1: shaggy Man replied Dorothy, giving him a severe look. If
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  Speaker 1: it snowed in August, it would spoil the corn and
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  Speaker 1: the oats and the wheat. And then Uncle Henry wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have any crops, and that would make him poor. And
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  Speaker 1: never mind, said the shaggy man. It won't snow. I
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  Speaker 1: guess is this the lane, yes, replied Dorothy, climbing another fence.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go as far as the highway with you, thankee. Miss.
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  Speaker 1: You're very kind for your size, I'm sure, he said gratefully.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't everyone who knows the road to Butterfield, Dorothy remarked,
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  Speaker 1: as she tripped along the lane. But I've driven there
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  Speaker 1: many a time with Uncle Henry, and so I believe
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  Speaker 1: I could find it blindfolded. Don't do that, miss, said
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  Speaker 1: the shaphaggy man, earnestly. You might make a mistake. I won't,
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  Speaker 1: she answered, laughing. Here's the highway. Now, it's the second. No,
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  Speaker 1: the third, turn to the left, or else it's the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. The first one is by the elm tree,
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  Speaker 1: and the second is by the gopher holes. And then
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  Speaker 1: then what he inquired. Putting his hands in his coat pockets,
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  Speaker 1: Toto grabbed a finger and bit it. The shaggy man
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  Speaker 1: took his hand out of that pocket quickly and said, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy did not notice. She was shading her eyes from
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  Speaker 1: the sun with her arm, looking anxiously down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, she commanded. It's only a little way farther,
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  Speaker 1: so I may as well show you. After a while,
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  Speaker 1: they came to the place where five roads branched in
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  Speaker 1: different directions. Dorothy pointed to one and said, that's it,
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  Speaker 1: shaggy man. I'm much obliged, miss, he said, and started
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  Speaker 1: along another road, not that one. She cried, you're going wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped. I thought you said that other was the
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  Speaker 1: road to Butterfield, said, he, running his fingers through his
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  Speaker 1: shaggy whiskers in a puzzled way. So it is, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go to Butterfield, Miss, You don't,
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  Speaker 1: of course not. I wanted you to show me the road,
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  Speaker 1: so I shouldn't go there by mistake. Oh where do
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  Speaker 1: you want to go to? Then? I'm not particular, miss.
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  Speaker 1: This answer astonished the little girl, and it made her
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  Speaker 1: provoked too, to think she had taken all this trouble
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  Speaker 1: for nothing. There are a good many roads here, observed
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, turning slowly around like a human windmill.
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  Speaker 1: Seems to me a person could go most anywhere from
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  Speaker 1: this place. Dorothy turned around too, and gazed in surprise.
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  Speaker 1: There were a good many roads, more than she had
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  Speaker 1: ever seen before. She tried to count them, knowing there
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  Speaker 1: ought to be five, But when she had counted seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: she grew bewildered and stopped. For the roads were as
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  Speaker 1: many as the spokes of a wheel, and ran in
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  Speaker 1: every direction from the place where they stood, so if
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  Speaker 1: she kept on counting, she was likely to count some
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  Speaker 1: of the roads twice. Dear me, she exclaimed, there used
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  Speaker 1: to be only five roads, highway and all. And now,
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  Speaker 1: why where's the highway? Shaggy man can't say, miss, he responded,
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  Speaker 1: sitting down upon the ground as if tired with standing.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't it here a minute ago? I thought so, she answered,
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  Speaker 1: greatly perplexed. And I saw the gopher holes too, and
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  Speaker 1: the dead stump, But they're not here now. These roads
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  Speaker 1: are all strange, and what a lot of them there are.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you suppose they all go to? Roads? Observed
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, don't go anywhere. They stay in one
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  Speaker 1: place so folks can walk on them. He put his
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  Speaker 1: hand in his side pocket and drew out an apple
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  Speaker 1: quick before Toto could bite him again. The little dog
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  Speaker 1: got his head out this time and said oh Wow,
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  Speaker 1: so loudly that it made Dorothy jump. Oh Toto, she cried,
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  Speaker 1: where did you come from? I brought him along, said
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man. What she asked? To guard these apples
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  Speaker 1: in my pocket, miss, so no one would steal them.
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  Speaker 1: With one hand, the shaggy Man held the apple, which
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  Speaker 1: he began eating, while with the other hand he pulled
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  Speaker 1: Toto out of his pocket and dropped him to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Toto made for Dorothy at once, barking joyfully
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  Speaker 1: at his release from the dark pocket. When the child
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  Speaker 1: had patted his head lovingly, he sat down before her,
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  Speaker 1: his red tongue hanging out one side of his mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and looked up into her face with his bright brown eyes,
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  Speaker 1: as if asking her what they should do next. Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. She looked around her anxiously for some familiar landmark,
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  Speaker 1: but everything was strange. Between the branches of the many
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  Speaker 1: roads were green meadows and a few shrubs and trees,
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  Speaker 1: but she couldn't see anywhere the farmhouse from which she
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  Speaker 1: had just come, or anything she had ever seen before
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  Speaker 1: except the shaggy Man and Toto. Besides this, she had
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  Speaker 1: turned around and around so many times, trying to find
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  Speaker 1: out where she was. That now she couldn't even tell
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  Speaker 1: which direction the farmhouse ought to be in, and this
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  Speaker 1: began to worry her and make her feel anxious. I'm afraid,
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  Speaker 1: shaggy Man, she said, with a sigh, that we're lost.
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  Speaker 1: That's nothing to be afraid of, he replied, throwing away
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  Speaker 1: the core of his apple and beginning to eat another one.
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  Speaker 1: Each of these roads must lead somewhere, or it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be here, So what does it matter. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go home again, she said, Well why don't you? Said he.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know which road to take. That is too bad,
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  Speaker 1: he said, making his shaggy head gravely. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could help you, but I can't. I'm a stranger in
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  Speaker 1: these parts. Seems as if I were too, she said,
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  Speaker 1: sitting down beside him. It's funny. A few minutes ago,
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  Speaker 1: I was home, and I just came to show you
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  Speaker 1: the way to Butterfield, so I shouldn't make a mistake
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  Speaker 1: and go there. And now I'm lost myself and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to get home. Have an apple, suggested
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, handing her one with pretty red cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not hungry, said Dorothy, pushing it away. But you
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  Speaker 1: may be tomorrow, and then you'll be sorry you didn't
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  Speaker 1: eat the apple, said he. If I am, I'll eat
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  Speaker 1: the apple, then promised Dorothy, perhaps there won't be any apple.
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  Speaker 1: Then he returned, beginning to eat the red cheeked one himself.
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  Speaker 1: Dogs sometimes can find the way home better than people,
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  Speaker 1: He went on. Perhaps your dog can lead you back
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  Speaker 1: to the farm, will you, Toto asked Dorothy. Toto wagged
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  Speaker 1: his tail vigorously. All right, said the girl. Let's go home.
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  Speaker 1: Toto looked around a minute and dashed up one of
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  Speaker 1: the roads. Good Bye, shaggy Man, called Dorothy, and ran
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  Speaker 1: after Toto. The little dog pranced briskly along for some distance,
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  Speaker 1: when he turned around and looked at his mistress questioningly. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't spect me to tell you anything. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the way, she said, You'll have to find it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But Toto couldn't. He wagged his tail and sneezed and
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  Speaker 1: shook his ears, and trotted back where they had left
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man. From here he started along another road,
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  Speaker 1: then came back and tried another, but each time he
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  Speaker 1: found the way strange and decided it would not take
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  Speaker 1: them to the farmhouse. Finally, when Dorothy had begun to
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  Speaker 1: tire with chasing after him, Toto sat down, panting beside
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy man and gave up. Dorothy sat down too,
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  Speaker 1: very thoughtful. The little girl had encountered some queer adventures
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  Speaker 1: since she came to live at the farm, but this
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  Speaker 1: was the queerest of them all. To get lost in
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, so near to her home and in the
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  Speaker 1: unromantic state of Kansas was an experience that fairly bewildered her.
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  Speaker 1: Will your folks worry, asked the shaggy man, his eyes
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  Speaker 1: twinkling in a pleasant way. I suppose, so, answered Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: with a sigh. Uncle Henry says, there's always something happening
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  Speaker 1: to me, But I've always come home safe at the last,
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  Speaker 1: so perhaps he'll take comfort and think I'll come home
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  Speaker 1: safe this time. I'm sure you will, said the shaggy man, smilingly,
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  Speaker 1: nodding at her. Good little girls never come to any harm,
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  Speaker 1: you know. For my part, I'm good too, so nothing
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  Speaker 1: ever hurts me. Dorothy looked at him curiously. His clothes
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  Speaker 1: were shaggy, his boots were shaggy and full of holes,
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  Speaker 1: and his hair and whiskers were shaggy, but his smile
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  Speaker 1: was sweet and his eyes were kind. Why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: want to go to Butterfield, she asked, because a man
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  Speaker 1: lives there who owes me fifteen cents, and if I
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  Speaker 1: went to Butterfield and he saw me, he'd want to
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  Speaker 1: pay me the money. I don't want money, my dear,
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  Speaker 1: why not, she inquired? Money, declared the shaggy Man makes
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  Speaker 1: people proud and haughty. I don't want to be proud
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  Speaker 1: and haughty. All I want is to have people love me.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as I own the love Magnet, every
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  Speaker 1: one I meet is sure to love me dearly. The
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  Speaker 1: love magnet. Why what's that? I'll show you if you
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  Speaker 1: won't tell any one, he answered, in a low, mysterious voice.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't any one to tell, sept Toto, said the girl.
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  Speaker 1: The shaggy Man searched in one pocket carefully, and in
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  Speaker 1: another pocket, and in a third. At last, he drew
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  Speaker 1: out a small parcel wrapped in crumpled paper and tied
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  Speaker 1: with a cotton string. He unwound the string, opened the parcel,
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  Speaker 1: and took out a bit of metal shaped like a horseshoe.
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  Speaker 1: It was dull and brown and not very pretty. This,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, said he impressively, is the wonderful love magnet.
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  Speaker 1: It was given me by an eskimo in the Sandwich Islands,
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  Speaker 1: where there are no sandwiches at all, and as long
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  Speaker 1: as I carry it, every living thing I meet will
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  Speaker 1: love me dearly. Why didn't the eskimo keep it, she asked,
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  Speaker 1: looking at the magnet with interest. He got tired of
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  Speaker 1: being loved and longed for some one to hate him,
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  Speaker 1: so he gave me the magnet, and the very next
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  Speaker 1: day a grizzly bear ate him. Wasn't he sorry, then,
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  Speaker 1: she inquired. He didn't, say, replied the shaggy man, wrapping
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  Speaker 1: and tying the love magnet with great care and putting
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  Speaker 1: it away in another pocket. But the bear didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: sorry a bit, he added. Did you know the bear,
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  Speaker 1: asked Dorothy. Yes, we used to play ball together in
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  Speaker 1: the Caviare Islands. The bear loved me because I had
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  Speaker 1: the love magnet. I couldn't blame him for eating the esquimaux,
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  Speaker 1: because it was his nature to do so. Once, said Dorothy,
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  Speaker 1: I knew a hungry tiger who longed to eat fat
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  Speaker 1: babies because it was his nature to, but he never
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  Speaker 1: ate any because he had a conscience. This bear replied
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man with a sigh, had no conscience, you see.
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  Speaker 1: The shaggy Man sat silent for several minutes, apparently considering
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  Speaker 1: the cases of the bear and the tiger, while Toto
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  Speaker 1: watched him with an air of great interest. The little
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  Speaker 1: dog was doubtless thinking of his ride in the shaggy
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  Speaker 1: Man's pocket and planning to keep out of reach in
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  Speaker 1: the future. At last, the shaggy Man turned and inquired,
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  Speaker 1: what's your name, little girl? My name's Dorothy, said she,
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  Speaker 1: jumping up again. But what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 1: We can't stay here forever, you know. Let's take the
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  Speaker 1: seventh road, he suggested. Seven is a lucky number for
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  Speaker 1: little girls named Dorothy. The seventh from where from where
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  Speaker 1: you begin to count? So she counted seven roads, and
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  Speaker 1: the seventh looked just like all the others. But the
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  Speaker 1: shaggy Man got up from the ground where he had
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  Speaker 1: been sitting and started down this road as if sure
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  Speaker 1: it was the best way to go, and Dorothy and
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  Speaker 1: Toto followed him. End of chapter one, Chapter two Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: meets Button Bright. The seventh road was a good road
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  Speaker 1: and curved this way and that, winding through green meadows
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  Speaker 1: and fields covered with daisies and buttercups, and past groups
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  Speaker 1: of shady trees. There were no houses of any sort
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  Speaker 1: to be seen, and for some distance they met with
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  Speaker 1: no living creature at all. Dorothy began to fear they
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  Speaker 1: were getting a good way from the farmhouse, since here
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  Speaker 1: everything was strange to her. But it would do no
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  Speaker 1: good at all to go back where the other roads
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  Speaker 1: all met, because the next one they chose might lead
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  Speaker 1: her just as far from home. She kept on beside
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  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man, who whistled cheerful tunes to beguile the journey,
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  Speaker 1: until by and by they followed a turn in the
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  Speaker 1: road and saw before them a big chestnut tree making
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  Speaker 1: a shady spot over the highway. In the shade sat
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  Speaker 1: a little boy dressed in sailor clothes, who was digging
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  Speaker 1: a hole in the earth with a bit of wood.
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  Speaker 1: He must have been digging some time, because the hole
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  Speaker 1: was already big enough to drop a football in two.
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy and Toto and the shaggy Man came to a
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  Speaker 1: halt before the little boy, who kept on digging in
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  Speaker 1: a sober and persistent fashion. Who are you, asked the girl.
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  Speaker 1: He looked up at her calmly. His face was round
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  Speaker 1: and chubby, and his eyes were big, blue and earnest.
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  Speaker 1: I'm button Bright, said he. But what's your real name?
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  Speaker 1: She inquired, button Bright? That isn't a really truly name,
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  Speaker 1: she exclaimed, isn't it? He asked, still digging, course not,
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  Speaker 1: It's just a thing to call you by. You must
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  Speaker 1: have a name, must I to be sure? What does
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  Speaker 1: your mama call you? He paused in his digging and
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  Speaker 1: tried to think. Papa always said I was bright as
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  Speaker 1: a button, so mama always called me button bright? He said,
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  Speaker 1: what is your papa's name? Just papa? What else? Don't know?
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  Speaker 1: Never mind, said the shaggy man, smiling. We'll call the
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  Speaker 1: boy button bright as his mama does. That name is
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  Speaker 1: as good as any, and better than some. Dorothy watched
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  Speaker 1: the boy dig Where do you live? She asked? Don't know?
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Was the reply. How did you come here? Don't know?
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: He said? Again, don't you know where you came from? No,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: said he? Why he must be lost, she said to
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man. She turned to the boy once more,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do? She inquired dig, said he,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: but you can't dig forever? And what are you going
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to do? Then? She persisted, don't know, said the boy.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But you must know something, declared Dorothy, getting provoked. Must I?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: He asked, looking up in surprise. Of course you must? What?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Must I know? What's going to become of you? For
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: one thing? She answered? Do you know what's going to
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: become of me? He asked? No, not exactly, she admitted.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Do you know what's going to become of you? He
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: continued earnestly. I can't say I do, replied Dorothy, remembering
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: her present difficulties. The shaggy man laughed. No one knows everything, Dorothy,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: he said, But button Bright doesn't seem to know anything.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: She declared, do you, button Bright? He shook his head,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: which had pretty curls all over it, and replied, with
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: perfect calmness, don't know. Never before had Dorothy met with
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: anyone who could give her so little information. The boy
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: was evidently lost, and his people would be sure to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: worry about him. He seemed two or three years younger
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: than Dorothy, and was prettily dressed, as if someone loved
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: him dearly, and took much pains to make him. Look well,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: how then did he come to be in this lonely road,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: she wondered. Near button Bright on the ground lay a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: sailor hat with a g anchor on the band. His
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: sailor trousers were long and wide at the bottom, and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the broad collar of his blouse had gold anchors sewed
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: on its corners. The boy was still digging at his hole.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to sea, asked Dorothy to see what,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: answered button Bright? I mean, have you ever been where
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: there's water? Yes, said button Bright. There's a well in
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: our backyard. You don't understand, cried Dorothy. I mean, have
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you ever been on a big ship floating on a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: big ocean? Don't know? Said he. Then why do you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: wear sailor clothes? Don't know? He answered again. Dorothy was
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in despair. You're just awful, stupid, button Bright, she said,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: am I? He asked, yes, you are, why, looking up
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: at her with big eyes. She was going to say
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: don't know, but stopped herself in time. That's for you
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to answer, she replied. It's no use asking button Bright questions,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man, who had been eating another apple.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: But someone ought to take care of the poor little chap,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: don't you think so, he'd better come along with us.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Toto had been looking with great curiosity into the hole
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: which the boy was digging, and growing more and more
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: excited every minute, perhaps thinking that Button Bright was after
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: some wild animal. The little dog began barking loudly and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: jumped into the hole himself, where he began to dig
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: with his tiny paws, making the earth fly in all
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: her It spattered over the boy. Dorothy seized him and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: raised him to his feet, brushing his clothes with her hand.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Stop that, Toto, she called. There aren't any mice or
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: woodchucks in that hole, so don't be foolish. Toto stopped,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: sniffed at the hole suspiciously, and jumped out of it,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: wagging his tail as if he had done something important well,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man. Let's start on, or we won't
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: get anywhere before night comes. Where do you expect to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: get to, asked Dorothy. I'm like Button Bright. I don't know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: answered the shaggy man with a laugh. But I've learned
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: from long experience that every road leads somewhere, or there
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be any road, So it's likely that if we
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: travel long enough, my dear, we will come to some
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: place or another in the end. What place it will be,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to find out when we get there. Why, yes, said Dorothy,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that seems reasonable. Shaggy Man, end of chapter two, Chapter three,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a queer village. Button Bright took the shaggy Man's hand willingly,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: for the shaggy Man had the love magnet, you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: which was the reason button Bright had loved him at once.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: They started on, with Dorothy on one side and Toto
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: on the other, the little party trudging along more cheerfully
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: than you might have supposed. The girl was getting used
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to queer adventures, which interested her very much. Wherever Dorothy went,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Toto was sure to go. Like Mary's little lamb. Button
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Bright didn't seem a bit afraid or worried because he
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: was lost, and the shaggy Man had no home, perhaps,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and was as happy in one place as in another.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Before long they saw ahead of them a fine, big
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: arch spanning the road, And when they came nearer they
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: found that the arch was beautifully carved and decorated with
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: rich colors. A row of peacocks with spread tails ran
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: along the top of it, and all the feathers were
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: gorgeously painted. In the center was a large fox's head,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and the fox wore a shrewd and knowing expression, and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: had large spectacles over its eyes, and a small golden
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: crown with shiny points on top of its head. While
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the travelers were looking with curiosity at this beautiful arch,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: there suddenly marched out of it a company of soldiers.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Only the soldiers were all foxes, dressed in uniforms. They
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: wore green jackets and yellow pantaloons, and their little round
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: caps and their high boots were a bright red color. Also,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: there was a big red bow tied about the middle
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of each long bushy tail. Each soldier was armed with
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a wooden sword having an edge of sharp teeth set
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: in a row, and the sight of these teeth at
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: first caused Dorothy to shudder. A captain marched in front
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of the company of fox soldiers, his uniform embroidered with
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: gold braid to make it handsomer than the others. Almost
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: before our friends realized it, the soldiers had surrounded them
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on all sides, and the captain was calling out in
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a harsh voice, surrender. You are our prisoners. What's a prisoner,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: asked Button Bright. A prisoner is a captive, replied the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Fox captain, strutting up and down with much dignity. What's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a captive, asked Button Bright. You're one, said the captain,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: That made the shaggy Man laugh. Good afternoon, captain, he said,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: bowing politely to all the foxes and very low to
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: their commander. I trust you are in good health and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: that your families are all well. The fox captain looked
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: at the shaggy man, and his sharp features grew pleasant
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and smiling. We're pretty well, thank you, shaggy Man said.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: He and Dorothy knew that the love magnet was working,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and that all the foxes now loved the shaggy Man
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: because of it. But Toto didn't know this, for he
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: began barking angrily and tried to the captain's hairy leg,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: where it showed between his red boots and his yellow pantaloons. Stop, Toto,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: cried the little girl, seizing the dog in her arms.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: These are our friends. Why so we are, remarked the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: captain in tones of astonishment. I thought at first we
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: were enemies, but it seems you are friends instead. You
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: must come with me to see King Dox. Who's he
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: asked Button Bright, with earnest eyes, King Dox of Foxville,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the great and wise sovereign, who rules over our community?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: What's sovereign? And what's cuneity? Inquired Button Bright. Don't ask
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: so many questions, little boy? Why ah, why, indeed, exclaimed
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the captain, looking at button Bright, admiringly. If you don't
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: ask questions, you will learn nothing true enough. I was wrong.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: You are a very clever little boy, come to think
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of it, very clever indeed. But now, friends, please come
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: with me, for it is my duty to escort you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: at once to the royal palace. The soldiers marched back
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: through the arch again, and with them marched the shaggy Man,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Dorothy Toto and Button Bright. Once through the opening, they
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: found a fine, big city spread out before them, all
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the houses of carved marble in beautiful colors. The decorations
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: were mostly birds and other fowl, such as peacocks, pheasants, turkeys,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: prairie chickens, ducks, and geese. Over each doorway was carved
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: ahead representing the fox who lived in that house, this
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: effect being quite pretty and unusual, as our friends, marched along.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Some of the foxes came out on the porches and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: balconies to get a view of the strangers. These foxes
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: were all handsomely dressed, the girl foxes and women foxes,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: wearing gowns of feathers woven together effectively and colored in
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: bright hues, which Dorothy thought were quite artistic and decidedly attractive.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Button Bright stared until his eyes were big and round,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and he would have stumbled and fallen more than once
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: had not the shaggy man grasped his hand tightly. They
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: were all interested, and Toto was so excited he wanted
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to bark every minute, and to chase and fight every
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: fox he caught sight of. But Dorothy held his little
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: wiggling body fast in her arms and commanded him to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: be good and behave himself. So he finally quieted down
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: like a wise doggie, deciding that there were too many
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: foxes in Foxville to fight at one time. By and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: by they came to a big square, and in the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: center of the square stood the Royal Palace. Dorothy knew
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: it at once because it had over its great door
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the carved head of a fox, just like the one
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: she had seen on the arch, and this fox was
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the only one who wore a golden crown. There were
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: many fox soldiers guarding the door, but they bowed to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the captain and admitted him without question. The captain led
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: them through many rooms where richly dressed foxes were sitting
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: on beautiful chairs or sipping tea, which was being passed
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: around by fox servants in white aprons. They came to
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a big doorway covered with heavy curtains of cloth of gold.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Beside this doorway stood a huge drum. The fox captain
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: went to this drum and knocked his knees against it,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: first one knee and then the other, so that the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: drum said boom boom. You must all do exactly what
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I do, ordered the captain. So the shaggy man pounded
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the drum with his knees, and so did Dorothy, and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: so did Button Bright. The boy wanted to keep on
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: pounding it with his little fat knees because he liked
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the sound of it, but the captain stopped him. Toto
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: couldn't pound the drum with his knees, and he didn't
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: know enough to wag his tail against it. So Dorothy
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: pounded the drum for him, and that made him bark.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And when the little dog barked, the fox captain scowled.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: The golden curtains drew back far enough to make an
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: opening through which marched the captain with the others. The broad,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: long room they entered was decorated in gold, with stain
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: glass windows of splendid colors. In the center of the room,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: upon a richly carved golden throne, sat the fox King,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: surrounded by a group of other foxes, all of whom
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: wore great spectacles over their eyes, making them look solemn
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and important. Dorothy knew the king at once, because she
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: had seen his head carved on the arch and over
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the doorway of the palace. Having met with several other
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: kings in her travels, she knew what to do, and
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: at once made a low bow before the throne. The
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: shaggy man bowed too, and button Bright bobbed his head
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and said hello. Most wise and noble potentate of Foxville,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: said the captain, addressing the king in a pompous voice,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I humbly begged to report that I found these strangers
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: on the road leading to your foxy Majesty's dominions, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: have therefore brought them before you, as is my duty.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: So so said the King, looking at them keenly. What
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: brought you here, strangers our legs? May it please your
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: royal hairiness, replied the shaggy man. What is your business here?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Was the next question. To get away as soon as possible,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man. The King didn't know about the magnet,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of course, but it made him love the shaggy man
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: at once. Do just as you please about going away,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: he said, But I'd like to show you the sights
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: of my city and to entertain your party while you
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: are here. We feel highly honored to have Little Dorothy
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: with us, I assure you, and we appreciate her kindness
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in making us a visit. For whatever country Dorothy visits
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: is sure to become famous. This speech greatly surprised the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: little girl, who asked, how did your Majesty know my name?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Why everybody knows you, my dear, said the fox king.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Don't you realize that you are quite an important personage
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: since Princess Ozma of oz made you her friend. Do
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: you know Ozma? She asked, wondering. I regret to say
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: that I do not, he answered sadly, but I hope
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to meet her soon. You know, the Princess Ozma is
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to celebrate her birthday on the twenty first of this month, is,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: she said, Dorothy, I didn't know that. Yes, it is
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: to be the most brilliant royal ceremony ever held in
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: any city in Fairyland, and I hope you will try
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to get me invitation, Dorothy thought a moment. I'm sure
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Ozma would invite you if I asked her, she said,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: But how could you get to the land of Oz
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and the Emerald City. It's a good way from Kansas, Kansas,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed, surprised. Why, yes, we are in Kansas, now,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: aren't we? She returned, What a queer notion, cried the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Fox King, beginning to laugh. Whatever made you think this
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: is Kansas? I left Uncle Henry's farm only about two
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: hours ago, That's the reason, she said, rather perplexed. But
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: tell me, my dear, did you ever see so wonderful
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: a city as Foxville in Kansas? He questioned, No, your majesty,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And haven't you traveled from Oz to Kansas in less
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: than half a jiffy by means of the silver shoes
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and the magic belt, Yes, your majesty, she acknowledged. Then,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: why do you wonder that an hour or two could
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: bring you to Foxville, which is nearer to Oz than
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: it is to Kansas. Dear me, exclaimed Dorothy, Is this
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: another fairy adventure? It seems to be, said the fox king, smiling.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Dorothy turned to the shaggy Man, and her face was
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: grave and reproachful. Are you a magician or a fairy
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: in disguise? She asked? Did you enchant me when you
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: asked the way to Butterfield? The shaggy man shook his head.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Whoever heard of a shaggy fairy? He replied, No, Dorothy,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: my dear, I'm not to blame for this journey in
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: any way. I assure you there's been something strange about
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: me ever since I owned the Love Magnet, but I
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: don't know what it is any more than you do.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I didn't try to get you away from home at all.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: If you want to find your way back to the farm,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I'll go with you willingly and do my best to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: help you. Never mind, said the little girl thoughtfully. There
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: isn't so much to see in Kansas as there is here,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and I guess aunt em won't be very much worried.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: That is, if I don't stay away too long. That's right,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: declared the fox king, nodding approval. Be contented with your lot,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: whatever it happens to be, if you are wise, which
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: reminds me that you have a new companion on this adventure.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: He looks very clever and bright, he is, said Dorothy,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and the shaggy man added, that's his name, your royal foxiness,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Button Bright. End of Chapter three, Chapter four, King Dox.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: It was amusing to note the expression on the face
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: of King Dox as he looked the boy over from
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: his sailor hat to his stubby shoes, and it was
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: equally diverting to watch Button Bright stare at the king
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: in return. No fox ever beheld a fresher, fairer child's face,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and no child had ever before heard a fox talk,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: or met with one who dressed so handsomely and ruled
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: so big a city. I am sorry to say that
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: no one had ever told the little boy much about
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: fairies of any kind. This being the case, it is
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: easy to understand how much this strange experience startled and
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: astonished him. How do you like us, asked the King.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Don't know, said Button Bright, of course you don't, it's
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: too short. An acquaintance returned, his majesty, What do you
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: suppose my name is? Don't know? Said button Bright? How
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: should you? Well, I'll tell you My private name is Dox.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: But a king can't be called by his private name.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: He has to take one that is official. Therefore, my
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: official name is King Renard, the fourth Reynard with the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: accent on the wren. What's wren? Asked button Bright. How clever,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: exclaimed the king, turning a pleased face toward his counselor's.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: This boy is indeed remarkably bright. What's wren? He asks?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: And of course wren is nothing at all all by itself. Yes,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: he's very bright. Indeed, that question is what your majesty
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: might call foxy, said one of the counselors. An old
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: gray fox, so it is, declared the king. Turning again
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: to button Bright, he asked, having told you my name,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: what would you call me? King Dox? Said the boy? Why,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: cause rends nothing at all? Was the reply. Good, very good. Indeed,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: you certainly have a brilliant mind. Do you know why
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: two and two make four? No, said button Bright, clever clever, Indeed,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: of course you don't know. Nobody knows why. We only
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: know it so and can't tell why it's so, Button Bright,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: those curls and blue eyes do not go well with
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: so much wisdom. They make you look too youthful and
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: hide your real cleverness. Therefore, I will do you a
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: great favor. I will confer upon you the head of
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: a fox, so that you may hereafter look as bright
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: as you really are. As he spoke, the King waved
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: his paw toward the boy, and at once the pretty
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: curls and fresh round face and big blue eyes were gone,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: while in their place a fox's head appeared upon Button
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Bright's shoulders, a hairy head with a sharp nose, pointed ears,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and keen little eyes. Oh don't do that, cried Dorothy,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: shrinking back from her transformed companion with a shocked and
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: dismayed face. Too late, my dear, it's done. But you
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: also shall have a fox's head if you can prove
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: you're as clever as Button Bright. I don't want it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: It's dreadful, she exclaimed, and hearing this verdict, Button Bright
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: began to boo hoo, just as if he were still
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: a little boy. How can you call that lovely head. Dreadful,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: asked the king. It's a much prettier face than he
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: had before, to my notion, and my wife says, I'm
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: a good judge of beauty. Don't cry, little fox boy,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: laugh and be proud because you are so highly favored.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: How do you like the new head button Bright? Don't know,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: sobbed the child. Please please change him back again, your majesty,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: begged Dorothy King Renard the Fourth shook his head. I
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: can't do that, he said, I haven't the power even
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: if I wanted to. No, Button Bright must wear his
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: fox head, and he'll be sure to love it dearly
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: as soon as he gets used to it. Both the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: shaggy man and Dorothy looked grave and anxious, for they
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: were sorrowful that such a misfortune had overtaken their little companion.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Toto bark at the fox boy once or twice, not
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: realizing it was his former friend who now wore the
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: animal head, but Dorothy cuffed the dog and made him stop.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: As for the Foxes, they all seemed to think button
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Bright's new head very becoming, and that their king had
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: conferred a great honor on this little stranger. It was
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: funny to see the boy reach up to feel of
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: his sharp nose and wide mouth and wail afresh with grief.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: He wagged his ears in a comical manner, and tears
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: were in his little black eyes. But Dorothy couldn't laugh
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: at her friend just yet, because she felt so sorry.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Just then, three little fox princesses, daughters of the king,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: entered the room, and when they saw button Bright, one
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: exclaimed how lovely he is, and the next one cried
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: in delight how sweet he is, And the third princess
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: clapped her hands with pleasure and said how beautiful he is.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Button Bright stopped crying and asked, timidly, am I In
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: all the world there is not another face so pretty,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: declared the biggest fox princess. You must live with us
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: always and be our brother, said the next We shall
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: all love you dearly. The third said. This praise did
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: much to comfort the boy, and he looked around and
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: tried to smile. It was a pitiful attempt, because the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: fox face was new and stiff, and Dorothy thought his
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: expression more stupid than before the transformation. I think we
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: ought to be going now, said the shaggy man uneasily,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: for he didn't know what the King might take into
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: his head to do next. Don't leave us yet, I
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: beg of you, pleaded King Renard. I intend to have
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: several days of feasting and merry making in honor of
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: your visit. Have it after we're gone, for we can't wait,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy decidedly. But seeing this displeased the king, she added,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: if I'm going to get Ozma to invite you to
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: her party, I'll have to find her as soon as possible.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: You know, in spite of all the beauty of Foxville
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: and the gorgeous dresses of its inhabitants, both the girl
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and the shaggy man felt they were not quite safe
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: there and would be glad to see the last of it.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: But it is now evening, the king reminded them, and
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: you must stay with us until morning. Anyhow, Therefore, I
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: invite you to be my guests at dinner, and to
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: attend the theater afterward, and sit in the royal box
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. If you really insist upon it, you may
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: resume your journey. They consented to this, and some of
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the fox servants led them to a suite of lovely
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: rooms in the big Palace. Button Bright was afraid to
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: be left alone, so Dorothy took him into her own room,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: while a maid fox dressed the little girl's hair, which
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: was a bit tangled, and put some bright fresh ribbons
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: in it. Another maid fox combed the hair on poor
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: button Bright's face and head and brushed it carefully, tying
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: a pink bow to each of his pointed ears. The
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: maids wanted to dress the children in fine costumes of
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: woven feathers, such as all the foxes wore, but neither
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: of them consented to that. A sailor's suit and a
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: fox head do not go well together, said one of
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the maids. For no fox was ever a sailor that
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I can remember. I'm not a fox, cried button Bright.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Alas no, agreed the maid, But you've got a lovely
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: fox head on your skinny shoulders, and that's almost as
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: good as being a fox. The boy, reminded of his misfortune,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: began to cry again. Dorothy petted and comforted him, and
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: promised to find some way to restore him his own head.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: If we can manage to get to Ozma, she said,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: the princess will change you back to yourself in half
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: a second, so you just wear that fox head as
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: comfortably as you can, dear, and don't worry about it
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: at all. It isn't nearly as pretty as your own head,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: no matter what the foxes say. But you can get
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: along with it for a little while longer, can't, you
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: don't know, said button Bright doubtfully. But he didn't cry
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: any more after that. Dorothy let the maids pin ribbons
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: to her shoulders, after which they were ready for the
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: king's dinner. When they met the shaggy Man in the
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: splendid drawing room of the palace, they found him just
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: the same as before. He had refused to give up
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: his shaggy clothes for new ones, because if he did that,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: he would no longer be the shaggy man, he said,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: and he might have to get acquainted with himself all
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: over again. He told Dorothy he had brushed his shaggy
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: hair and whiskers, but she thought he must have brushed
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: them the wrong way, for they were quite as shaggy
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: as before. As for the company of foxes assembled to
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: dine with the strangers, they were most beautifully costumed, and
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: their rich dresses made Dorothy's simple gown and button Bright
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: sailor suit, and the shaggy man's shaggy clothes look commonplace.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: But they treated their guests with great respect, and the
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: king's dinner was a very good dinner. Indeed, foxes, as
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: you know, are fond of chicken and other fowl. So
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: they served chicken soup, and roasted turkey, and stewed duck,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: and fried grouse, and broiled and goose pie. And as
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the cooking was excellent, the king's guests enjoyed the meal
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: and ate heartily of the various dishes. The party went
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: to the theater, where they saw a play acted by
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: foxes dressed in costumes of brilliantly colored feathers. The play
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: was about a fox girl who was stolen by some
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: wicked wolves and carried to their cave, And just as
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: they were about to kill her and eat her, a
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: company of fox soldiers marched up, saved the girl, and
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: put all the wicked wolves to death. How do you
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: like it, the king asked Dorothy, pretty well, she answered,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: it reminds me of one of mister Aesop's fables. Don't
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: mention Aesop to me. I beg of you, exclaimed King Dox.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I hate that man's name. He wrote a good deal
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: about foxes, but always made them out cruel and wicked,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: whereas we are gentle and kind, as you may see.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: But his fables showed you to be wise and clever
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: and more shrewd than other animals, said the shaggy man thoughtfully.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: So we are there is no question about our knowing
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: more than men do, replied the king proudly. But we
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: employ our wisdom to do good instead of harm. So
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: that Horrid Aesop did not know what he was talking about,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: they did not like to contradict him, because they felt
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: he ought to know the nature of foxes better than
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: men did. So they sat still and watched the play,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: and button Bright became so interested that for a time
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: he forgot he wore a fox head. Afterward, they went
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: back to the palace and slept in soft beds stuffed
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: with feathers, for the foxes raised many fowl for food,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and used their feathers for clothing and to sleep upon.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Dorothy wondered why the animals living in Foxville did not
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: wear just their own hairy skins, as wild foxes do.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: When she mentioned it to King Dox, he said they
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: clothe themselves because they were civilized, But you were born
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: without clothes, she observed, and you don't seem to me
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: to need them. So were human beings born without clothes,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: he replied, and until they became civilized, they wore only
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: their natural skins. But to become civilized means to dress
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: And for that reason, both civilized foxes and civilized humans
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: spend most of their time dressing themselves. I don't, declared
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man. That is true, said the king, looking
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: at him carefully, but perhaps you are not civilized. After
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: a sound sleep and a good knight's rest, they had
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: their breakfast with the king and then bade his majesty
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: good bye. You've been kind to us, sept poor button Bright,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy, and we've had a nice time in Foxville,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: then said King Dox. Perhaps you'll be good enough to
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: get me an invitation to Princess Ozma's birthday celebration. I'll try,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: she promised, if I see her in time. It's on
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: the twenty first, remember, he continued, And if you'll just
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: see that, I'm invited I'll find a way to cross
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: the dreadful desert into the marvelous land of oz I've
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: always wanted to visit the Emerald City, so I'm sure
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: it was fortunate you arrived here just when you did,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: you being Princess Ozma's friend and able to assist me
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: in getting the invitation. If I see Ozma, I'll ask
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: her to invite you, she replied. The Fox king had
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: a delightful luncheon put up for them, which the shaggy
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Man shoved in his pocket, and the Fox Captain escorted
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: them to an arch at the side of the village,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: opposite the one by which they had entered. Here, they
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: found more soldiers guarding the road. Are you afraid of enemies,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: asked Dorothy. No, because we are watchful and able to
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: protect ourselves, answered the captain. But this road leads to
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: another village peopled by big, stupid beasts who might cause
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: us trouble if they thought we were afraid of them.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: What beasts are they asked the shaggy man. The captain
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: hesitated to answer. Finally, he said, you will learn all
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: about them when you arrive at their city, but do
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: not be afraid of them. Button Bright is so wonderfully clever,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: and has now such an intelligent face that I am
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: sure he will manage to find a way to protect you.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: This made Dorothy and the Shaggy Man rather uneasy, for
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: they had not so much confidence in the fox boy's
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: wisdom as the captain seemed to have. But as their
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: escort would say no more about the beasts, they bade
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: him good bye and proceeded on their journey. End of
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: chapter four, Chapter five. The Rainbow's daughter Toto, now allowed
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: to run about as he pleased, was glad to be
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: free again and able to bark at the birds and
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: chase the butterflies. The country around them was charming, Yet
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: in the pretty fields of wild flowers and groves of
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: leafy trees were no houses whatever or any sign of inhabitants.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Birds flew through the air, and cunning white rabbits darted
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: amongst the tall grasses and green bushes. Dorothy noticed even
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the ants toiling busily along the roadway, bearing gigantic loads
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: of cloverseed, but of people there were none at all.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: They walked briskly on for for an hour or two,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: for even little button Bright was a good walker and
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: did not tire easily at length. As they turned a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: curve in the road, they beheld just before them a
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: curious sight. A little girl, radiant and beautiful, shapely as
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: a fairy, and exquisitely dressed, was dancing gracefully in the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: middle of the lonely road, whirling slowly this way and that,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: her dainty feet twinkling in sprightly fashion. She was clad
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: in flowing, fluffy robes of soft material that reminded Dorothy
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: of woven cobwebs, only it was colored in soft tintings
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: of violet, rose, topaz olive, azure, and white, mingled together
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: most harmoniously in stripes which melted one into the other
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: with soft blendings. Her hair was like spun gold and
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: floated around her in a cloud, no strand being fastened
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: or confined by either pin or ornament or ribbon. Filled
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: with wonder and admiration, our friends approached and stood watching
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: this fascinating dance. The girl was no taller than Dorothy,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: although more slender, nor did she seem any older than
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: our little heroine. Suddenly, she paused and abandoned the dance,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: as if for the first time, observing the presence of
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: strangers as she faced them, shy as a frightened fawn,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: poised upon one foot as if to fly the next instant.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Dorothy was astonished to see tears flowing from her violet
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: eyes and trickling down her lovely, rose hued cheeks. That
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: the Dainty Maiden should dance and weep at the same
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: time was indeed surprising, so Dorothy asked, in a soft,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: sympathetic voice, are you unhappy? Little girl? Very was the reply.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I am lost, Why so are we, said Dorothy, smiling.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: But we don't cry about it, don't you? Why not
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: cause I've been lost before and always got found again,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: answered Dorothy simply. But I've never been lost before, murmured
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: the dainty Maiden. And I'm worried and afraid. You were dancing,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: remarked Dorothy in a puzzled tone of voice. Oh that
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: was just to keep warm, explained the maiden quickly. It
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: was not because I felt happy or gay, I assure you.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Dorothy looked at her closely. Her gauzy, flowing robes might
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: not be very warm, yet the weather wasn't at all chilly,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: but rather mild and balmy, like a spring day. Who
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: are you dear, she asked gently, I'm Polychrome, was the reply,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Polly whom Polychrome? I'm the daughter of the Rainbow, oh,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy with a gasp. I didn't know the Rainbow
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: had children, but I might have known it before you spoke.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: You couldn't really be anything else, why not, inquired Polychrome,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: as if surprised. Because you're so lovely and sweet, The
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: little maiden smiled through her tears, came up to Dorothy
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: and placed her slender fingers in the Kansas girl's chubby hand.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: You'll be my friend, won't you, she said, pleadingly, of course?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: And what is your name? I'm Dorothy, and this is
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: my friend shaggy Man, who owns the Love Magnet. And
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: this is button Bright, only you don't see him as
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: he really is because the fox King carelessly changed his
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: head into a fox head. But the real button Bright
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: is good to look at, and I to get him
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: changed back to himself sometime. The Rainbow's daughter nodded cheerfully,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: no longer afraid of her new companions. But who is this,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: she asked, pointing to Toto, who was sitting before her,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: wagging his tail in the most friendly manner, and admiring
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: the pretty maid with his bright eyes? Is this also
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: some enchanted person? Oh no, Polly, I may call you Polly,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: mayn't I? Your whole name's awful hard to say. Call
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: me Polly if you wish Dorothy, Well, Polly. Toto's just
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: a dog, but he has more sense than button bright
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: to tell the truth, and I'm very fond of him,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: so am I said Polychrome, bending gracefully to pat Toto's head.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: But how did the Rainbow's daughter ever get on this
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: lonely road and become lost? Asked the shaggy man, who
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: had listened wonderingly to all this. Why my father stretched
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: his rainbow over here this morning, so that one end
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: of it touched this road, was the reply. And I
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: was dancing upon the pretty rays as I loved to do,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: and never noticed I was getting too far over the
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: bend in the circle. Suddenly I began to slide, and
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: I went faster and faster, until at last I bumped
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: on the ground at the very end. Just then Father
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: lifted the rainbow again, without noticing me at all, And
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: though I tried to seize the end of it and
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: hold fast, it melted away entirely. And I was left
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: alone and helpless on the cold, hard earth. It doesn't
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: seem cold to me, Polly, said Dorothy, But perhaps you're
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: not so warmly dressed. I'm so used to living nearer
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: the sun, replied the Rainbow's daughter that at first I
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: feared I would freeze down here, but my dance has
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: warmed me some, and now I wonder how I am
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: ever to get home again. Won't your father miss you
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: and look for you and let down another rainbow for you?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Perhaps so, but he's busy just now because it rains
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: in so many parts of the world at this season,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: and he has to set his rainbow in a lot
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: of different places. What would you advise me to do, Dorothy,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Come with us, was the answer. I'm going to try
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: to find my way to the Emerald City, which is
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: in the fairy land of oz The Emerald City is
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: ruled by a friend of mine, the Princess Ozma, and
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: if we can manage to get there, I'm sure she
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: will know a way to send you home to your
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: father again. Do you really think so, asked Polychrome anxiously.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, then I'll go with you, said the
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: little Maid, for travel will help keep me warm, and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: father can find me in one part of the world
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: as well as another if he gets time to look
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: for me. Come along, then, said the shaggy Man cheerfully,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: and they started on once more. Polly walked beside Dorothy
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: a while holding her new friend's hand as if she
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: feared to let it go. But her nature seemed as
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: light and buoyant as her fleecy robes. For suddenly she
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: darted ahead and whirled round in a giddy dance. Then
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: she tripped back to them with sparkling eyes and smiling cheeks,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: having regained her usual happy mood and forgotten all her
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: worry about being lost. They found her a charming companion,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: and her dancing and laughter, for she laughed at times
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: like the tinkling of a silver bell, did much to
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: enliven their journey and keep them contented. End of Chapter five,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, The City of Beasts. When noon came, they
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: opened the fox King's basket of luncheon and found a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: nice roasted turkey with cranberry sauce and some slices of
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: bread and butter. As they sat on the grass by
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the roadside, the shaggy Man cut up the turkey with
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: his pocket knife and passed slices of it around. Haven't
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: you any dewdrops or mist cakes or cloud buns, asked
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Polychrome longingly. Course not, replied Dorothy. We eat solid things
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: down here on the earth. But there's a bottle of
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: cold tea. Try some, won't you. The Rainbow's daughter watched
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: button Bright devour one leg of the turkey. Is it good,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: she asked? He nodded. Do you think I could eat it? Not? This,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: said button Bright, But I mean another piece, don't know,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: he replied. Well, I'm going to try for I'm very hungry.
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  Speaker 1: She decided, and took a thin slice of the white
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: breast of turkey, which the shaggy Man cut for her,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: as well as a bit of bread and butter. When
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: she tasted it, Polychrome thought the turkey was good, better
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: even than mist cakes. But a little satisfied her hunger,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: and she finished with a tiny sip of cold tea.
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  Speaker 1: That's about as much as a fly would eat, said Dorothy,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: who was making a good meal herself. But I know
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: some people in oz who eat nothing at all. Who
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: are they, inquired the shaggy man. One is a scarecrow
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: who stuffed with straw, and the other a woodman made
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: out of tin. They haven't any appetites inside of em,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: you see, so they never eat anything at all. Are
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: they alive, asked Button Bright. Oh yes, replied Dorothy. And
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: they're very clever and very nice too. If we get
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: to Oz, i'll introduce them to you. Do you really
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: expect to get to Oz, inquired the shaggy Man, taking
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: a drink of cold tea. I don't know just what
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: to expect, answered the child seriously, but I've noticed if
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: I happen to get lost, I'm almost sure to come
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: to the land of Oz in the end somehow or other.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: So I may get there this time, but I can't promise,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: you know. All I can do is wait and see.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: Will a scarecrow scare me? Asked Button Bright. No, cause
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: you're not a crow, she returned. He has the loveliest
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: smile you ever saw, only it's painted on and he
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: can't help it. Luncheon being over, they started again upon
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: their journey, the shaggy Man, Dorothy and Button Bright walking
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: soberly along side by side, and the Rainbow's daughter dancing
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: merrily before them. Sometimes she darted along the road so
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: swiftly that she was nearly out of sight. Then she
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: came tripping back to greet them with her silvery laughter.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: But once she came back more sedately to say, there's
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: a city a little way off. I expected that, returned Dorothy.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: For the fox people warned us there was one on
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: this road. It's filled with stupid beasts of some sort.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: But we mustn't be afraid of em, cause they won't
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: hurt us. All right, said button Bright, But Polychrome didn't
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: know whether it was all right or not. It's a
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: big city, she said, and the road runs straight through it.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Never mind, said the shaggy Man. As long as I
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: carry the love magnet, every living thing will love me,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: and you may be sure I sha'n't allow any of
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: my friends to be harmed in any way. This comforted
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: them somewhat, and they moved on again. Pretty soon they
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: came to a sign post that read half a mile
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: to Duncton. Oh, said the shaggy Man. If they're donkeys,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: we've nothing to fear at all. They may kick, said
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Dorothy doubtfully. Then we'll cut some switches and make em behave,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: he replied. At the first tree he cut himself a long,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: slender switch from one of the branches, and shorter switches
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: for the others. Don't be afraid to order the beasts around,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: he said, They're used to it. Before long, the road
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: brought them to the gates of the city. There was
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: a high wall all around which had been whitewashed, and
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: the gate just before our travelers was a mere opening
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: in the wall, with no bars across it. No towers
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: or steeples or domes showed above the enclosure, nor was
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: any living thing to be seen. As our friends drew near. Suddenly,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: as they were about to boldly enter through the opening,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: there arose a harsh clamor of sound that swelled and
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: echoed on every side, until they were nearly deafened by
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: the racket, and had to put their fingers to their
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: ears to keep the noise out. It was like the
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: firing of many cannon only there were no cannon balls
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: or other missiles to be seen. It was like the
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: rolling of mighty thunder, only not a cloud was in
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: the sky. It was like the roar of countless breakers
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: on a rugged sea shore, only there was no sea
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: or other water anywhere about. They hesitated to advance, but
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: as the noise did no harm. They entered through the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: white washed wall and quickly discovered the cause of the turmoil.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: Inside were suspended many sheets of tin or thin iron,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: and against these metal sheets a row of donkeys were
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: pounding their heels with vicious kicks. The shaggy man ran
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: up to the nearest donkey and gave the beast a
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: sharp blow with his switch. Stop that noise, he shouted,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: and the donkey stopped kicking the metal sheet and turned
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: its head to look with surprise at the shaggy Man.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: He switched the next donkey and made him stop, and
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: then the next, so that gradually the rattling of heels
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: ceased and the awful noise subsided. The donkeys stood in
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: a group and eyed the strangers with and trembling. What
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: do you mean by making such a racket, asked the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: shaggy man. Sternly. We were scaring away the foxes, said
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: one of the donkeys, meekly. Usually they run fast enough
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: when they hear the noise, which makes them afraid. There
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: are no foxes here, said the shaggy Man. I beg
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: to differ with you. There's one, anyhow, replied the donkey
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: sitting upright on its haunches and waving a hoof toward
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: button Bright. We saw him coming and thought the whole
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: army of foxes was marching to attack us. Button Bright
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: isn't a fox, explained the shaggy man. He's only wearing
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: a fox head for a time until he can get
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: his own head back. Oh, I see, remarked the donkey,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: waving its left ear reflectively. I'm sorry we made such
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: a mistake and had all our work and worry for nothing.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: The other donkey by this time were sitting up and
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: examining the strangers with big glassy eyes. They made a
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: queer picture, indeed, for they wore wide white collars around
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: their necks, and the collars had many scallops and points.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: The gentlemen donkeys wore high pointed caps set between their
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: great ears, and the lady donkeys wore sunbonnets with holes
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: cut in the top for the ears to stick through.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: But they had no other clothing except their hairy skins,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: although many wore gold and silver bangles on their front
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: wrists and bands of different metals on their rear ankles.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: When they were kicking, they had braced themselves with their
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: front legs But now they all stood or sat upright
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: on their hind legs, and used their front ones as arms,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: having no fingers or hands. The beasts were rather clumsy,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: as you may guess, but Dorothy was surprised to observe
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: how many things they could do with their stiff, heavy hoofs.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Some of the donkeys were white, some were brown or gray,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: or black or spotted. But their hair was sleek and smooth,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: and their broad collars and caps gave them a neat,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: if whimsical appearance. This is a nice way to welcome visitors,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: I must say, remarked the shaggy man, in a reproachful tone.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Oh we did not mean to be impolite, replied a
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: gray donkey, which had not spoken before. But you were
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: not expected, nor did you send in your visiting cards
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: as it is proper to do. There is some truth
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: in that, admitted the shaggy man. But now you are
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: informed that we are important and distinguished travelers, I trust
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: you will accord us proper consideration. These big words delighted
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the donkeys and made them bow to the shaggy man
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: with great respect. Said the gray one. You shall be
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: taken before his great and glorious majesty King Kikibrae, who
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: will greet you as becomes your exalted stations. That's right,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: answered Dorothy. Take us to someone who knows something. Oh
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: we all know something, my child, or we shouldn't be donkeys,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: asserted the Gray One with dignity. The word donkey means clever.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: You know. I didn't know it, she replied. I thought
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: it meant stupid, not at all, my child. If you
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: will look in the encyclopedia Donkaniara, you will find I'm correct.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: But come, I will myself lead you before our splendid,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: exalted and most intellectual ruler. All donkeys love big words,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: so it is no wonder the Gray One used so
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: many of them. End of chapter six, Chapter seven, The
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man's Transformation, They found the houses of the town
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: all low and square and built of bricks, neatly whitewashed
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: inside and out. The houses were not set in rows
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: forming regular streets, but placed here and there in a
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: haphazard manner, which made it puzzling for a stranger to
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: find his way. Stupid people must have streets and numbered
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: houses in their cities to guide them where to go,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: observed the gray donkey as he walked before the visitors
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: on his hind legs in an awkward but comical manner.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: But clever donkeys know their way about without such absurd marks. Moreover,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: a mixed city is much prettier than one with straight streets.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: Dorothy did not agree with this, but she said nothing
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: to contradict it. Presently, she saw a sign on a
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: house that read Madame de fayke hoofist, and she asked
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: their conductor, what's a hoofist? Please? One who reads your
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: fortune in your hoofs, replied the gray donkey. Oh, I see,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: said the little girl. You are quite civilized here. Dunketon,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: he replied, is the center of the world's highest civilization.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: They came to a house where two youthful donkeys were
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: whitewashing the wall, and Dorothy stopped a moment to watch them.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: They dipped the ends of their tails, which were much
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: like paint brushes, into a pail of whitewash, backed up
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: against the house, and wagged their tails right and left
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: until the whitewash was rubbed on the wall, after which
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: they dipped these funny brushes in the pail again and
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: repeated the performance that must be fun, said button Bright. No,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: it's work, replied the old donkey. But we make our
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: youngsters do all the whitewashing to keep them out of mischief.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Don't they go to school, asked Dorothy. All donkeys are
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: born wise, was the reply. So the only school we
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: need is the school of experience. Books are only fit
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: for those who know nothing, and so are obliged to
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: learn things from other people. In other words, the more
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows, observed
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man. The gray donkey paid no attention to
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: this speech because he had just stopped before a house
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: which had painted over the doorway a pair of hoofs
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: with a donkey tail between them, and a rude crown
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: and scepter above. I'll see if his magnificent Majesty King
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Kickibray is at home, said he. He lifted his head
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: and called Hui haw whui ha, whuei ha three times
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: in a shocking voice, turning about and kicking with his
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: heat against the panel of the door. For a time
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: there was no reply. Then the door opened far enough
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: to permit a donkey's head to stick out and look
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: at them. It was a white head with big awful
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: ears and round solemn eyes. Have the foxes gone, it
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: asked in a trembling voice. They haven't been here, most
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: stupendous Majesty, replied the gray one. The new arrivals proved
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: to be travelers of distinction, Oh, said the king, in
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: a relieved tone of voice. Let them come in. He
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: opened the door wide, and the party marched into a
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: big room, which Dorothy thought looked quite unlike a king's palace.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: There were mats of woven grasses on the floor, and
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: the place was clean and neat, But his Majesty had
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: no other furniture at all, perhaps because he didn't need it.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: He squatted down in the center of the room, and
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: a little brown donkey ran and brought a big gold crown,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: which it placed on the monarch's head, and a golden
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: staff with a jeweled ball at the end of it,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: which the king held between his front hoofs as he
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: sat upright now, then, said his Majesty, waving his long
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: ears gently to and fro, tell me why you are
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: here and what you expect me to do for you.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: He eyed button bright, rather sharply, as if afraid of
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: the little boy's queer head, though it was the shaggy
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Man who undertook to reply, most Noble and supreme ruler
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: of Duncton. He said, trying not to laugh in the
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: solemn King's face, we are strangers traveling through your dominions,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: and have entered your magnificent city because the road led
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: through it and there was no way to go around.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: All we desire is to pay our respects to your Majesty,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: the cleverest king in all the world, I'm sure, and
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: then to continue on our way. This polite speech pleased
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: the King very much. Indeed, it pleased him so much
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: that it proved an unlucky speech for the shaggy Man.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the love magnet helped to win his Majesty's affection
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: as well as the flattery. But however this may be.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: The white donkey looked kindly upon the speaker and said,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: only a donkey should be able to use such fine
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: big words, and you are too wise and admirable in
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: all ways to be a mere man. Also, I feel
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: that I love you as well as I do my
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: own favored people, so I will bestow upon you the
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: greatest gift within my power, a donkey's head as he spoke,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: he waved his jeweled staff. Although the shaggy Man cried
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: out and tried to leap backward and escape, it proved
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: of no use. Suddenly his own head was gone, and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: a donkey head appeared in its place, a brown, shaggy
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: head so absurd and droll that Dorothy and Polly both
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: broke into merry laughter, and even Button Bright's fox face
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: wore a smile. Dear me, dear me, cried the shaggy man,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: feeling of his shaggy new head and his long ears.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: What a misfortune, What a great misfortune. Give me back
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: my own head, you stupid king, if you love me
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: at all, don't you like it? Asked the king, surprised. Heehaw,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: I hate it. Take it away quick, said the shaggy man.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: But I can't do that, was the reply. My magic
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: works only one way. I can do things, but I
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: can't undo them. You'll have to find the truth pond
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: and bathe in its water in order to get back
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: your own head. But I advise you not to do that.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: This head is much more beautiful than the old one.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: That's a matter of taste, said Dorothy. Where's the truth
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Pond asked the shaggy Man earnestly somewhere in the Land
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: of Oz, but just the exact location of it I
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: cannot tell, was the answer. Don't worry, shaggy Man, said Dorothy,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: smiling because her friend wagged his new ears so comically.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: If the truth Pond is in Oz, we'll be sure
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: to find it when we get there. Oh are you
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: going to the Land of Oz, asked King Kikobray. I
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: don't know, she replied, but we've been told we are
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: nearer the Land of Oz than to Kansas. And if
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: that's so, the quickest way for me to get home
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: is to find Ozma. Heehaw. Do you know the mighty
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: Princess Ozma, asked the king, his tone both surprised and eager.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Course I do. She's my friend, said Dorothy. Then perhaps
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: you'll do me a favor, continued the White Donkey, much excited.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: What is it, she asked, Perhaps you can get me
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: an invitation to Princess Ozma's birthday celebration, which will be
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: the grandest royal function ever held in Fairyland. I'd love
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: to go, he haw. You deserve punishment rather than reward
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: for giving me this dreadful head said the shaggy man sorrowfully.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: I wish you wouldn't say he haw so much, Polychrome
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: begged him. It makes cold chills run down my back,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: but I can't help it, my dear, My donkey head
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: wants to bray continually, he replied. Doesn't your fox head
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: want to yelp every minute? He asked, Button Bright, don't know,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: said the boy, still staring at the shaggy man's ears.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: These seemed to interest him greatly, and the sight also
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: made him forget his own foxhead, which was a comfort.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: What do you think, Polly, shall I promise the donkey
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: king an invitation to Ozma's party, asked Dorothy of the
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Rainbow's daughter, who was flitting about the room like a
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: sunbeam because she could never keep still. Do as you please, dear,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: answered Polychrome. He might help to amuse the guests of
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: the princess. Then if you will give us some supper
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: and a place to sleep tonight and let us get
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: started on our journey early tomorrow morning, said Dorothy to
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: the King. I'll ask Ozma to invite you if I
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: happened to get to oz good hehaw excellent, cried Kikibray
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: much pleased, you shall all have fine suppers and goods.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: What food would you prefer? A bran mash or ripe
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: oats in the shell? Neither one, replied Dorothy promptly. Perhaps
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: plain hay or some sweet, juicy grass would suit you better,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: suggested kick Abray, musingly, is that all you have to eat?
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: Asked the girl? What more do you desire? Well, you see,
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  Speaker 1: we're not donkeys, she explained, and so we're used to
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  Speaker 1: other food. The foxes gave us a nice supper in Foxville.
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  Speaker 1: We'd like some dewdrops and mist cakes, said Polychrome. I'd
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  Speaker 1: prefer apples and a ham sandwich, declared the shaggy Man.
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  Speaker 1: For although I've a donkey head, I still have my
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  Speaker 1: own particular stomach. I want pie, said Button Bright. I
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  Speaker 1: think some beef steak and chocolate layer cake would taste best,
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  Speaker 1: said Dorothy. Heihaw I declare, exclaimed the king. It seems
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  Speaker 1: each one of you wants a different food. How queer
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  Speaker 1: all living creatures are, except donkeys, and donkeys like you
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  Speaker 1: are queerest of all, laughed Polychrome. Well, decided the king,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose my magic staff will produce the things you crave.
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  Speaker 1: If you are lacking in good taste. It is not
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  Speaker 1: my fault with this. He waved his staff with the
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  Speaker 1: jeweled ball, and before them instantly appeared a tea table,
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  Speaker 1: set with linen and pretty dishes. And on the table
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  Speaker 1: were the very things each had wished for. Dorothy's beefsteak
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: was smoking hot, and the shaggy Man's apples were plump
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  Speaker 1: and rosy cheeked. The king had not thought to provide chairs,
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  Speaker 1: so they all stood in their places around the table
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  Speaker 1: and ate with good appetite. Being hungry, the Rainbow's daughter
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  Speaker 1: Fell found three tiny dewdrops on a crystal plate, and
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  Speaker 1: Button Bright had a big slice of apple pie, which
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: he devoured eagerly. Afterward, the king called the brown donkey,
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  Speaker 1: which was his favorite servant, and bade it lead his
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  Speaker 1: guests to the vacant house where they were to pass
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  Speaker 1: the night. It had only one room and no furniture
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  Speaker 1: except beds of clean straw and a few mats of
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: woven grasses. But our travelers were contented with these simple things,
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  Speaker 1: because they realized it was the best the donkey king
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  Speaker 1: had to offer them. As soon as it was dark,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: they lay down on the mats and slept comfortably until morning.
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  Speaker 1: At daybreak there was a dreadful noise throughout the city.
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  Speaker 1: Every donkey in the place brayed. When he heard this,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: The shaggy Man woke up and called out hehaw as
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: loud as he could stop that, said button Bright in
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: a cross voice. Both Dorothy and Polly looked at the
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: shaggy man reproachfully. I couldn't help it, my DearS, he said,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: as if ashamed of his bray. But I'll try not
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: to do it again. Of course they forgave him, for
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: as he still had the love magnet in his pocket,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: they were all obliged to love him as much as ever.
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  Speaker 1: They did not see the king again, but kik a
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  Speaker 1: bray remembered them, for a table appeared again in their room,
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  Speaker 1: with the same food upon it as on the night before.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want pie for breakfast, said button Bright. I'll give
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: you some of my beefsteak, proposed Dorothy. There's plenty for us.
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  Speaker 1: All that suited the boy better, but the shaggy Man
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: said he was content with his apples and sandwiches, although
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: he ended the meal by eating button Bright's pie. Polly
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: liked her dewdrops and mist cakes better than any other food,
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: so they all enjoyed an excellent breakfast. Toto had the
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: scraps left from the beefsteak, and he stood up nicely
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: on his hind legs while Dorothy fed them to him.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: Breakfast ended, they passed through the village to the side
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: opposite that by which they had entered, the brown servant
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  Speaker 1: donkey guiding them through the maze of scattered houses. There
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: was the road again, leading far away into the unknown
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: country beyond King Kikibrae says, you must not forget his invitation,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: said the brown donkey, as they passed through the opening
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: in the wall. I shan't, promised Dorothy. Perhaps no one
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: ever beheld a more strangely assorted group than the one
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: which now walked along the road through pretty green fields
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: and past groves of feathery pepper trees and fragrant Mimosa polychrome.
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  Speaker 1: Her beautiful gauze robes floating around her like a rainbow cloud,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: went first dancing back and forth and darting, now here
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  Speaker 1: to pluck a wild flower, or there to watch a
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: beetle crawl across the path. Toto ran after her, at
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: times barking joyously, the while only to become sober again
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: and trot along at Dorothy's heels. The little Kansas girl
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: walked holding button Bright's hand clasped in her own, and
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: the wee boy, with his fox head covered by the
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: sailor hat, presented an odd appearance. Strangest of all perhaps
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: was the shaggy man with his shaggy donkey head, who
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: shuffled along in the rear with his hands thrust deep
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: in his big pockets. None of the party was really unhappy.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: All were straying in an unknown land and had suffered
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: more or less annoyance and discomfort. But they realized they
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: were having a fairy adventure in a fairy country, and
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: were much interested in finding out what would happen next.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: End of chapter seven. Chapter eight the Musicer. About the
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: middle of the forenoon, they began to go up a
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: long hill by and by this hill suddenly dropped down
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: into a pretty valley, where the travelers saw, to their surprise,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: a small house standing by the roadside. It was the
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: first house they had seen, and they hastened into the
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: valley to discover who lived there. No one was in
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: sight as they approached, but when they began to get nearer,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: the house, they heard queer sounds coming from it. They
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: could not make these out at first, but as they
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: became louder, our friends thought they heard a sort of music,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: like that made by a wheezy hand organ. The music
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: fell upon their ears in this way. Tittle wittle, iddle,
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  Speaker 1: um pom pom um pom pom um pom pom tittle,
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  Speaker 1: little little um pom pom um pom pom Pah. What
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: is it a band or a mouth organ, asked Dorothy.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: Don't know, said Button. Bright. Sounds to me like a
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: played out phonograph, said the shaggy man, lifting his enormous
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: ears to listen. Oh, there just couldn't be a phonograph
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: in fairy land, cried Dorothy. It's rather pretty, isn't it,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: asked Polychrome, trying to dance to the strains. Tiddlewiddle, little
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: um pom pom um pom pom um pom pom came
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: the music to their ears more distinctly. As they drew
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: nearer the house. Presently they saw a little fat man
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: sitting on a bench before the door. He wore a
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: red braided jacket that reached to his waist, a blue waistcoat,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: and white trousers with gold stripes down the sides. On
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: his bald head was perched a little round red cap,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: held in place by a rubber elastic underneath his chin.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: His face was round, his eyes a faded blue, and
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: he wore white cotton gloves. The man leaned on a
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: stout gold headed cane, bending forward on his seat to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: watch his visitor's approach. Singularly enough, the musical sounds they
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: had heard seemed to come from the inside of the
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: fat man himself, for he was playing no instrument, nor
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: was any to be seen near him. They came up
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: and stood in a row, staring at him, and he
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: stared back, while the queer sounds came from him as before. Tiddle,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: little little um pom pom um pom pom um pompum,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: tittle little little um pom pom um pompompa. Why he's
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: a regular musicer, said Button Bright. What's a musicer, asked
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: Dorothy him, said the boy. Hearing this, the fat man
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: sat up a little stiffer than before, as if he
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: had received a compliment, and still came the sounds tittlewittle
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: lum pom pom um pom pom um. Stop it cried
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man. Earnestly, Stop that dreadful noise. The fat
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: man looked at him sadly and began his reply. When
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: he spoke, the music changed, and the words seemed to
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: accompany the notes. He said, or rather sang. It isn't
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: a noise that you hear, but music, harmonic and clear.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: My breath makes me play like an organ all day.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: That bass note is in my left ear. How funny,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Dorothy. He says his breath makes the music. That's
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: all nonsense, declared the shaggy Man. But now the music
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: began again, and they all listened carefully. My lungs are
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: full of reeds, like those in organs. Therefore, I suppose
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: if I breathe in or out my nose, the reeds
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: are bound to play. So as I breathe to live,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: you know, I squeeze out music as I go. I'm
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: very sorry this is so forgive my piping, pray, poor man,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: said Polychrome. He can't help it. What a great misfortune
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: it is, yes, replied the shaggy Man. We are only
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: obliged to hear this music a short time until we
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: leave him and go away. But the poor fellow must
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: listen to himself as long as he lives, and that
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: is enough to drive him crazy, don't you think so,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: don't know, said Button Bright. Toto said bow wow, and
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: the others laughed. Perhaps that's why he lives all alone,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: suggested Dorothy. Yes, if he had neighbors, they might do
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: him an injury, responded the shaggy Man. All this while
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: the little fat musicer was breathing the notes tittle tittle
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: lil umbbompo, and they had to speak loud in order
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: to hear themselves. The shaggy Man said, who are you, sir?
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: The reply came in the shape of this sing song.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a leg Rowdacappo, a very famous man. Just find
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: another high or low to match me if you can.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: Some people try but can't to play and have to
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: practice every day. But I've been musical alway since first
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: my life began. Why I believe he's proud of it,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Dorothy, And seems to me I've heard worse music
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: than he makes. Where, asked Button Bright. I've forgotten just now,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: But mister Dacappo is certainly a strange person, isn't he,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: And perhaps he's the only one of his kind in
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: all the world. This praise seemed to please the fat
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: little musker, for he swelled at his chest, looked important,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: and sang as follows, I I wear no band around me,
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: and yet I am a band. I do not strain
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: to make my strains. But on the other hand, my
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: toot is always destitute of flats and other errors. To
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: see sharp and be natural are for me, but minor terrors.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: I don't quite understand that, said Polychrome with a puzzled look.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: But perhaps it's because I'm accustomed only to the music
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: of the spheres. What's that, asked Button Bright. Oh. Polly
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: means the atmosphere and hemisphere, I suppose, explained Dorothy. Oh,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: said Button bright. Bow Wow, said Toto. But the musicer
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: was still breathing his constant um pom pom um pom pom,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: and it seemed to jar on the shaggy man's nerves.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Stop it, can't you, he cried angrily. Or breathe in
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: a whisper, or put a clothes pin on your nose,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: do something anyhow. But the fat one with a sad
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: look sang this answer. Music hath charms, and it may
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: soothe even the savage, they say, so if savage you feel,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: just listen to my reel for sooth to say that's
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: the real way. The shaggy Man had to laugh at this,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: and when he laughed, he stretched his donkey mouth wide open.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Said Dorothy. I don't know how good his poetry is,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: but it seems to fit the notes, so that's all
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: that can be expected. I like it, said button Bright,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: who was staring hard at the musicer his little legs
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: spread wide. Apart to the surprise of his companions, the
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: boy asked this long question. If I swallowed a mouth
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: organ what would I be an organette, said the shaggy man.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: But come, my DearS, I think the best thing we
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: can do is to continue on our journey. Before button
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: Bright swallows anything, we might try to find that Land
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: of Oz, you know. Hearing this speech, the musker sang quickly,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: if you go to the land of Oz, please take
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: me along, because on Ozma's birthday, I'm anxious to play
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: the loveliest song ever was no thank you, said Dorothy.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: We prefer to travel alone, but if I see Ozma,
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: I'll tell her you want to come to her birthday party.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: Let's be going, urged the Shaggy Man anxiously. Polly was
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: already dancing along the road far in advance, and the
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: others turned to follow her. Toto did not like the
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: fat musicker and made a grab for his chubby leg.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: Dorothy quickly caught up the growling little dog and hurried
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: after her companions, who were walking faster than usual. In
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: order to get out of hearing, they had to climb
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: a hill, and until they got to the top they
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: could not escape the musicker's monotonous piping um pom pom
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: um pum pump tittle little wil um pum pump um
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: pom pom pah. As they passed the brow of the hill, however,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: and descended on the other side, the sounds gradually died away,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: whereat they all felt much relieved. I'm glad I don't
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: have to live with the organ man, aren't you, Polly,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy, Yes, indeed, answered the Rainbow's daughter. He's nice,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: declared Button Bright soberly. I hope your Princess Ozma won't
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: invite him to her birthday celebration, remarked the shaggy Man,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: for the fellow's music would drive her guests all crazy.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: You've given me an idea, button Bright, I believe the
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: musiker must have swallowed an accordion in his youth. What's cordion,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: asked the boy. It's a kind of pleating, explained Dorothy,
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: putting down the dog. Bow. Wow, said Toto, and ran
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: away at a mad gallop to chase a bumblebee. End
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: of chapter eight, Chapter nine, Facing the Scoodlers, the country
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't so pretty now. Before the travelers appeared a rocky
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: plain covered with hills on which grew nothing green. They
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: were nearing some low mountains, too, and the road, which
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: before had been smooth and pleasant to walk upon, grew
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: rough and uneven. Button Bright's little feet stumbled more than once,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: and Polychrome ceased her dancing because the walking was now
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: so difficult that she had no trouble to keep warm.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: It had become afternoon, yet there wasn't a thing for
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: their luncheon except two apples, which the shaggy man had
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: taken from the breakfast table. He divided these into four
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: pieces and gave a portion to each of his companions.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: Dorothy and button Bright were glad to get theirs, but
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Polly was satisfied with a small bite and Toto did
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: not like apples. Do you know, asked the Rainbow's daughter
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: if this is the right road to the Emerald City. No,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: I don't, replied Dorothy. But it's the only road in
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: this part of the country, so we may as well
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: go to the end of it. It looks now as
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: if it might end pretty soon, remarked the shaggy Man.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: And what shall we do if it does? Don't know,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: said Button Bright. If I had my magic belt, replied
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: Dorothy thoughtfully, it could do us a lot of good.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: Just now, what is your magic belt, asked Polychrome. It's
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: a thing I captured from the Nome King one day,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: and it can do most any wonderful thing. But I
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: left it with Ozma, you know, cause magic won't work
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: in Kansas, but only in fairy countries. Is this a
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: fairy country, asked Button Bright. I should think you'd know,
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: said the little girl gravely. If it wasn't a fairy country,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: you couldn't have a fox head, and the shaggy Man
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: couldn't have a donkey head, and the Rainbow's daughter would
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: be invisible. What's that, asked the boy. You don't seem
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: to know anything, Button Bright. Invisible is a thing you
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: can't see then Toto's invisible, declared the boy, and Dorothy
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: found he was right. Toto had disappeared from view, but
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: they could hear him barking furiously among the heaps of
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: gray rock ahead of them. They moved forward a little
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: faster to see what the dog was barking at, and
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: found perched upon a point of rock by the roadside
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: a curious creature. It had the form of a man,
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: middle sized, and rather slender and graceful. But as it
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: sat silent and motionless upon the peak, they could see
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: that its face was black as ink, and it wore
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: a black cloth costume, made like a union suit and
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: fitting tight to its skin. Its hands were black, too,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: and its toes curled down like a bird's. The creature
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: was black all over, except its hair, which was fine
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: and yellow and banged in front across the black forehead
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: and cut close at the sides. The eyes, which were
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: fixed steadily upon the barking dog, were small and sparkling,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: and looked like the eyes of a weasel. What in
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: the world you spose that is, asked Dorothy in a
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: hushed voice. As the little group of travelers stood watching
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: the strange creature. Don't know, said Button Bright. The thing
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: gave a jump and turned half around, sitting in the
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: same place, but the other side of its body facing them.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: Instead of being black, it was now pure white, with
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: a face like that of a clown in a circus
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: and hair of a brilliant purple. The creature could bend
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: either way, and its white toes now curled the same
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: way the black ones on the other side had done.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: It has a face both front and back, whispered Dorothy, wonderingly.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: Only there's no back at all, but two fronts. Having
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: made the turn, the being sat motionless as before, while
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: Toto barked louder at the white man than he had
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: done it. The black one once said the shaggy man,
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  Speaker 1: I had a jumping jack like that with two faces.
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  Speaker 1: Was it alive, asked Button Bright. No, replied the shaggy man.
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  Speaker 1: It worked on strings and was made of wood. Wonder
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: if this works with strings, said Dorothy. But Polychrome cried,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: look for another creature just like the first had suddenly appeared,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: sitting on another rock, its black side toward them. The
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: two twisted their heads around and showed a black face
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: on the white side. Of one, and a white face
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: on the black side of the other. How curious, said Polychrome,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: And how loose their heads seemed to be. Are they
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: friendly to us? Do you think can't tell? Polly, replied Dorothy.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: Let's ask em. The creatures flopped first one way and
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: then the other, showing black or white by turns, and
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: now another joined them, appearing on another rock. Our friends
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: had come to a little hollow in the hills, and
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: the place where they now stood was surrounded by jagged
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: peaks of rock, except where the road ran through. Now
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: there are four of them, said the shaggy Man. Five
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: declared Polychrome, Six said Dorothy. Lots of em, cried Button Bright,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: and so there were quite a row of the two
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: sided black and white creatures sitting on the rocks all around.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: Toto stopped barking and ran between Dorothy's feet, where he
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: crouched down, as if afraid. The creatures did not look
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: pleasant or friendly to be sure, and the shaggy Man's
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: donkey face became solemn. Indeed, ask em who they are
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: and what they want, whispered Dorothy. So the shaggy Man
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: called out in a loud voice, who are you scootlers?
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: They yelled in chorus, their voices sharp and shrill. What
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: do you want, called the shaggy man. You, they yelled,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: pointing their thin fingers at the group, and they all
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: flopped around so they were white, and then all flopped
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: back again, so they were black. But what do you
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: want us for, asked the shaggy Man, uneasily. Soup, they
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: all shouted, as if with one voice. Goodness me, said Dorothy,
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: trembling a little. The schoolers must be regular cannibals. Don't
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: want to be soup, protested Button Bright, beginning to cry. Hush, dear,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: said the little girl, trying to comfort him. We don't
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: any of us want to be soup. But don't worry.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: The shaggy Man will take care of us, will he
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: asked Polychrome, who did not like the schoolers at all
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: and kept close to Dorothy. I'll try, promised the shaggy Man,
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: but he looked worried. Happening just then to feel the
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: love magnet in his pocket, he said to the creatures
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: with more confidence. Don't you love me? Yes, they shouted altogether.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Then you mustn't harm me or my friends, said the
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man firmly. We love you, in soup, they yelled,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: and in a flash turned their white sides to the front.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: How dreadful, said Dorothy. This is a time, shaggy Man,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: when you get loved too much. Don't want to be soup,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: wailed Button bright again, and Toto began to whine dismally,
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: as if he didn't want to be soup either. The
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: only thing to do, said the shaggy Man to his friends,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: in a low tone, is to get out of this
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: pocket in the rocks as soon as we can, and
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: leave the scoodlers behind us. Follow me, my DearS, and
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: don't any attention to what they do or say. With this,
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: he began to march along the road to the opening
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: in the rocks ahead, and the others kept close behind him.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: But the scoodlers closed up in front as if to
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: bar their way, And so the shaggy Man stooped down
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: and picked up a loose stone, which he threw at
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: the creatures to scare them from the path. At this,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: the scoodlers raised a howl. Two of them picked their
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: heads from their shoulders and hurled them at the shaggy
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: Man with such force that he fell over in a heap.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: Greatly astonished, the two now ran forward with swift leaps,
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: caught up their heads and put them on again, after
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: which they sprang back to their positions on the rocks.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter nine. Chapter ten, Escaping the soup Kettle,
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man got up and felt of himself to
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: see he was hurt, But he was not. One of
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: the heads had struck his breast, and the other his
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: left shoulder. Yet though they had knocked him down, the
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: heads were not hard enough to bruise him. Come on,
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: he said firmly, we've got to get out of here
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: some way, and forward he started again. The scoodlers began
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: yelling and throwing their heads in great numbers at our
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: frightened friends. The shaggy Man was knocked over again, and
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: so was Button Bright, who kicked his heels against the
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: ground and howled as loud as he could, although he
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: was not hurt a bit. One head struck Toto, who
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: first yelped and then grabbed the head by an ear
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: and started running away with it. The schoolers who had
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: thrown their heads began to scramble down and run to
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: pick them up with wonderful quickness, But the one whose
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: head Toto had stolen found it hard to get it
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: back again. The head couldn't see the body with either
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: pair of its eyes because the dog was in the way,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: so the headless scoodler stumbled around over the rocks and
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: tripped on them more than once in its effort to
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: regain its top. Toto was trying to get outside the
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: rocks and roll the head down the hill, but some
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: of the other schoolers came to the rescue of their
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: unfortunate comrade and pelted the dog with their own heads
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: until he was obliged to drop his burden and hurry
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: back to Dorothy. The little girl and the Rainbow's daughter
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: had both escaped the shower of heads, but they saw
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: now that it would be useless to try to run
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: away from the dreadful schoolers. We may as well submit,
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: declared the shaggy man in a rueful voice. As he
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: got upon his feet again, he turned toward their foes
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: and asked, what do you want us to do? Come?
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: They cried in a triumphant chorus, and at once sprang
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: from the rocks and surrounded their captives on all sides.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: One funny thing about the schoolers was they could walk
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: in either direction, coming or going without turning around, because
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: they had two faces and, as Dorothy said, two front sides,
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: and their feet were shaped like the letter T turned
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: upside down. They moved with great rapidity, and there was
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: something about their glittering eyes and contrasting colors and removable
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: heads that inspired the poor prisoners with horror and made
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: them long to escape. But the creatures led their captives
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: away from the rocks and the road down the hill
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: by a side path until they came before a low
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: mountain of rock that looked like a huge bowl turned
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: upside down. At the edge of this mountain was a
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: deep gulf, so deep that when you looked into it,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: there was nothing but blackness. Below. Across the gulf was
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: a narrow bridge of rock, and at the other end
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: of the bridge was an arched opening that led into
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: the mountain. Over this bridge, the scoodlers led their prisoners
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: through the opening into the mountain, which they found to
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: be an immense hollow dome, lighted by several holes in
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: the roof. All around the circular space were built rock
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: houses set close together, each with a door in the
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: front wall. None of these houses was more than six
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: feet wide, but the scoodlers were thin people sidewise and
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: did not need much room. So vast was the dome
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: that there was a large space in the middle of
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: the cave, in front of all these houses, where the
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: creatures might congregate, as in a great hall. It made
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: Dorothy shudder to see a huge iron kettle suspended by
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: a stout chain in the middle of the place, and
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: underneath the kettle a great heap of kindling wood and
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: shavings ready to light. What's that, asked the shaggy man,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: drawing back as they approached this place, so that they
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: were forced to push him forward. The soup kettle, yelled
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: the Scoodlers, and then they shouted in the next breath,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: we're hungry. Button Bright, holding Dorothy's hand in one chubby
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: fist and Polly's hand in the other, was so affected
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: by this shout that he began to cry again, repeating
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: the protest. Don't want to be soup. I don't never mind,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man consolingly. I ought to make enough
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: soup to feed them all. I'm so big, so I'll
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: ask them to put me in the kettle first, all right,
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: said Button Bright more cheerfully. But the Scoodlers were not
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: ready to make soup. Yet they led the captives into
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: a house at the farthest side of the cave, a
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: house somewhat wider than the others. Who lives here, asked
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: the Rain's daughter. The Scoodlers nearest her, replied the queen.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: It made Dorothy hopeful to learn that a woman ruled
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: over these fierce creatures. But a moment later they were
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: ushered by two or three of the escort into a gloomy,
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: bare room, and her hope died away. For the Queen
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: of the Scoodlers proved to be much more dreadful in
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: appearance than any of her people. One side of her
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: was fiery red, with jet black hair and green eyes,
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: and the other side of her was bright yellow, with
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: crimson hair and black eyes. She wore a short skirt
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: of red and yellow, and her hair, instead of being banged,
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: was a tangle of short curls, upon which rested a
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: circular crown of silver, much dented and twisted because the
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: queen had thrown her head at so many things, so
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: many times. Her form was lean and bony, and both
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: her faces were deeply wrinkled. What have we here, asked
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: the queen, sharply as our friends were made to stand
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: before her, soup, cried the guard of schoodlers, speaking together.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: We are not, said Dorothy indignantly. We are nothing of
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: the sort ah, but you will be soon, retorted the Queen,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: a grim smile, making her look more dreadful than before.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: Pardon me, most beautiful vision, said the shaggy man, bowing
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: before the Queen politely. I must request your serene highness
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: to let us go our way without being made into soup.
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: For I own the love magnet, and whoever meets me
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: must love me and all my friends. True, replied the Queen.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: We love you very much, so much that we intend
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: to eat your broth with real pleasure. But tell me,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: do you think I am so beautiful? You won't be
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: at all beautiful if you eat me, he said, shaking
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: his head sadly, handsome is as handsome? Does you know?
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: The queen turned to Button Bright. Do you think I'm beautiful?
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: She asked, No, said the boy. You're ugly. I think
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: you're a fright, said Dorothy. If you could see yourself,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: you'd be terribly scared, added Polly. The queen scowled at
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: them and flopped from her red side to her yellow side.
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: Take them away, she commanded the guard, and at six
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: o'clock run them through the meat chopper, and start the
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: soup kettle boiling, and put plenty of salt in the
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: broth this time, or I'll punish the cook's severely. Any onions,
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: your majesty, asked one of the guard. Plenty of onions
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: and garlic and a dash of red pepper, now go.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: The scoodlers led the captives away and shut them up
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: in one of the houses, leaving only a single scoodler
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: to keep guard. The place was a sort of storehouse,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: containing bags of potatoes and baskets of carrots, onions, and turnips. These,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: said their guard, pointing to the vegetables we used to
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: flavor our soups with. The prisoners were rather disheartened by
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: this time, for they saw no way to escape, and
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: did not know how soon it would be six o'clock
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: and time for the meat chopper to begin work. But
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man was brave and did not intend to
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: submit to such a horrid fate without a struggle. I
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: am going to fight for our lives, he whispered to
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: the children. For if I fail, we will be no
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: worse off than before, and to sit here quietly until
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: we are made into soup would be foolish and cowardly.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: The scoodler on guard stood near the door, turning first
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: his white side toward them, and then his black side,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: as if he wanted to show to all of his
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: greedy four eyes the sight of so many fat prisoners.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: The captives sat in a sorrowful group at the other
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: end of the room, except Polychrome, who danced back and
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: forth in the little place to keep herself warm, for
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: she felt the chill of the cave. Whenever she approached
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man, he would whisper something in her ear,
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: and Polly would nod her pretty head as if she understood.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: The shaggy Man told Dorothy and button Bright to stand
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: before him while he emptied the potatoes out of one
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: of the sacks. When this had been secretly done, little Polychrome,
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: dancing near to the guard, suddenly reached out her hand
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: and slapped his face. The next instant, whirling away from
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: him quickly to rejoin her friends. The angry schoodler at
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: once picked off his head and hurled it at the
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: Rainbow's daughter, But the shaggy Man was expecting that, and
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: caught the head very neatly, putting it in the sack,
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: which he tied at the mouth. The body of the guard,
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: not having the eyes of its head to guide it,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: ran here and there in an aimless manner, and the
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man easily dodged it and opened the door. Fortunately,
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: there was no one in the big cave at that moment,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: so he told Dorothy and Polly to run as fast
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: as they could for the entrance and out across the
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: narrow bridge. I'll carry button Bright, he said, for he
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: knew the little boy's legs were too short to run fast.
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: Dorothy picked up Toto and then seized Polly's hand and
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: ran swiftly toward the entrance to the cave. The shaggy
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: Man perched button Bright on his shoulders and ran after them.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: They moved so quickly, and their escape was so wholly unexpected,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: that they had almost reached the bridge when one of
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: the scoodlers looked out of his house and saw them.
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: The creature raised a shrill cry that brought all it
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: fellows bounding out of the numerous doors, and at once
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: they started in chase. Dorothy and Polly had reached the
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: bridge and crossed it. When the Scoodlers began throwing their heads.
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: One of the queer missiles struck the shaggy Man on
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: his back and nearly knocked him over. But he was
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: at the mouth of the cave now, so he set
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: down button bright and told the boy to run across
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: the bridge to Dorothy. Then the shaggy Man turned around
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: and faced his enemies standing just outside the opening, and
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: as fast as they threw their heads at him, he
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: caught them and tossed them into the black gulf below.
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: The headless bodies of the foremost scoodlers kept the others
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: from running close up, but they also threw their heads
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: in an effort to stop the escaping prisoners. The shaggy
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: Man caught them all and sent them whirling down into
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: the black gulf. Among them, he noticed the crimson and
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: yellow head of the queen, and this he tossed after
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: the others with right good will. Presently every schooler of
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: the lot had thrown its head, and every head was
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: down in the deep gulf. And now the helpless bodies
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: of the creatures were mixed together in the cave and
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: wriggling around in a vain attempt to discover what had
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: become of their heads. The shaggy Man laughed and walked
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: across the bridge to rejoin his companions. It's lucky I
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: learned to play baseball when I was young, he remarked,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: for I caught all those heads easily and never missed one.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: But come along, little ones, the schoolers will never bother
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: us or any one else any more. Button Bright was
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: still frightened and kept insisting, I don't want to be soup,
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: for the victory had been gained so suddenly that the
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: boy could not realize they were free and safe. But
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man assured him that all danger of their
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: being made into soup was now past, as the Scoodlers
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: would be unable to eat soup for some time to come. So,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: now anxious to get away from the horrid, gloomy cave
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: as soon as possible, they hastened up the hillside and
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: regained the road just beyond the place where they had
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: first met the Scoodlers. And you may be sure they
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: were glad to find their feet on the old familiar
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: path again. End of chapter ten. Chapter eleven, Johnny dooit
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: does it. It's getting awful rough walking, said Dorothy. As
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: they trudged along, button Bright gave a deep sigh and
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: said he was hungry. Indeed, all were hungry and thirsty
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: two for they had eaten nothing but the apples since breakfast.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: So their steps lagged, and they grew silent and weary.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: At last they slowly passed over the crest of a
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: barren hill and saw before them a line of green trees,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: with a strip of grass at their feet. An agreeable
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: fragrance was swafted toward them. Our travelers, h and tired,
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: ran forward on beholding this refreshing sight, and were not
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: long in coming to the trees. Here they found a
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: spring of pure, bubbling water, around which the grass was
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: full of wild strawberry plants, their pretty red berries ripe
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: and ready to eat. Some of the trees bore yellow
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: oranges and some russet pears. So the hungry adventurers suddenly
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: found themselves provided with plenty to eat and to drink.
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: They lost no time in picking the biggest strawberries and
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: ripest oranges, and soon had feasted to their hearts content.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: Walking beyond the line of trees, they saw before them
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: a fearful, dismal desert everywhere gray sand. At the edge
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: of this awful waste was a large sign with black
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: letters neatly painted upon it, and the letters made these words.
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  Speaker 1: All persons are warned not to venture upon this desert,
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: for the deadly these sands will turn any living flesh
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: to dust in an instant. Beyond this barrier is the
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: land of Oz, But no one can reach that beautiful
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: country because of these destroying sands. Oh, said Dorothy, when
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man had read this sign aloud. I've seen
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: this desert before, and it's true. No one can live
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: who tries to walk upon the sands. Then we mustn't
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: try it, answered the shaggy man thoughtfully. But as we
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: can't go ahead and there's no use going back, what
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: shall we do next? Don't know, said Button Bright. I'm
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: sure I don't know, either, added Dorothy, despondently. I wish
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: Father would come for me, sighed the pretty Rainbow's daughter.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: I would take you all to live upon the rainbow,
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: where you could dance along its rays from morning till
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: night without a care or worry of any sort. But
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: I suppose Father's too busy just now to search the
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: world for me. Don't want to dance, said Button Bright,
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: sitting down wearily upon the soft grass. It's very good
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: of you, Polly, said Dorothy, but there are other things
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: that would suit me better than dancing on rainbows. I'm
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: afraid they'd be kind of soft and squenchy underfoot anyhow,
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: although they're so pretty to look at. This didn't help
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: to solve the problem, and they all fell silent and
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: looked at one another questioningly. Really, I don't know what
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: to do, muttered the shaggy man, gazing hard at Toto,
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: and the little dog wagged his tail and said bow wow.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: Just as if he could not tell either what to do.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: Button Bright got a stick and began to dig in
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: the earth, and the others watched him for a while
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: in deep thought. Finally, the shaggy man said, it's nearly
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: evening now, so we may as I'll sleep in this
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: pretty place and get rested. Perhaps by morning we can
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: decide what is best to be done. There was little
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: chance to make beds for the children, but the leaves
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: of the trees grew thickly and would serve to keep
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: off the night dews. So the shaggy man piled soft
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: grasses in the thickest shade, and when it was dark,
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: they lay down and slept peacefully until morning. Long after
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: the others were asleep. However, the shaggy man sat in
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: the starlight by the spring, gazing thoughtfully into its bubbling waters.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: Suddenly he smiled and nodded to himself, as if he
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: had found a good thought, after which he too laid
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: himself down under a tree, and was soon lost in
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: slumber in the bright morning sunshine. As they ate of
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: the strawberries and sweet juicy pears, Dorothy said, Polly, can
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: you do any magic, No, dear, answered Polychrome, shaking her
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: dainty head. You ought to know some magic, being the
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: Rainbow's daughter, continued Dorothy earnestly. But we who live on
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: the Rainbow among the fleecy clouds, have no use for magic,
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: replied Polychrome. What I'd like, said Dorothy, is to find
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: some way to cross the desert to the land of
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: oz and its emerald city. I've crossed it already, you know,
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: more than once. First a cyclone carried my house over,
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: and some silver shoes brought me back again in half
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: a second. Then Ozma took me over on her magic carpet,
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: and the nome King's magic belt took me home that time.
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: You see, it was magic that did it every time
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: except the first. And we can't expect a cyclone to
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: happen along and take us to the Emerald City now no, indeed,
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: returned Polly with a shudder. I hate cyclones anyway. That's
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: why I wanted to find out if you could do
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: any magic, said the little Kansas girl. I'm sure I can't,
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure Button Bright can't. And the only magic
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man has is the love Magnet, which won't
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: help us much. Don't be too sure of that, my dear,
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: spoke the shaggy Man a smile on his donkey face.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: I may not be able to do magic myself, but
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: I can call to us a powerful friend who loves me,
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: because I own the love magnet, and this friend surely
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: will be able to help us. Who is your friend,
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: asked Dorothy, Johnny do it? What can Johnny do anything?
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: Answered the shaggy Man with confidence. Ask him to come,
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: she exclaimed eagerly. The shaggy Man took the love magnet
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: from his pocket and unwrapped the paper that surrounded it,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: holding the charm in the palm of his hand. He
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: looked at it steadily and said these words, Dear Johnny,
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: do it come to me? I need you bad as
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: bad can be. Well, here I am, said a cheery
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: little voice. But you shouldn't say you need me bad,
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: because I'm always always good at this. They quickly whirled
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: around to find a funny little man sitting on a
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: big copper chest, puffing smoke from a long pipe. His
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: hair was gray, his whiskers were gray, and these whiskers
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: were so long that he had wound the ends of
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: them around his waist and tied them in a hard
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: knot underneath the leather apron that reached from his chin
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: nearly to his feet, and which was soiled and scratched,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: as if it had been used a long time. His
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: nose was broad and stuck up a little, but his
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: eyes were twinkling and merry. The little man's hands and
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: arms were hard and tough as the leather in his apron,
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: and Dorothy thought, Johnny dooit looked as if he had
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: done a lot of hard work in his lifetime. Good morning, Johnny,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man. Thank you for coming to me
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: so quickly. I never waste time, said the newcomer promptly,
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: But what's happened to you? Where did you get that
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: donkey head? Really, I wouldn't have known you at all,
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man, if I hadn't looked at your feet. The
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man introduced Johnny Dooit to Dorothy and Toto and
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: Button Bright and the Rainbow's daughter, and told him the
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: story of their adventures, adding that they were anxious now
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: to reach the Emerald City in the Land of Oz,
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: where Dorothy had friends who would take care of them
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: and send them safe home again. But said he, we
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: find that we can't cross this desert, which turns all
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: living flesh that it touches into dust. So I have
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: asked you to come and help us. Johnny Dooit puffed
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: his pipe and looked carefully at the dreadful desert in
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: front of them, stretching so far away they could not
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: see its end. You must ride, he said, briskly. What in,
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: asked the shaggy Man. In a sand boat, which has
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: runners like a sled and sails like a ship. The
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: wind will blow you swiftly across the desert, and the
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: sand cannot touch your flesh. To turn it into dust. Good,
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: cried Dorothy, clapping her hands delightedly. That was the way
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: the magic carpet took us across. We didn't have to
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: touch the horrid sand at all. But where is the
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: sand boat, asked the shaggy man, looking all round him.
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: I'll make you one, said Johnny Dooit. As he spoke.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: He knocked the ashes from his pipe and put it
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: in his pocket. Then he unlocked the copper chest and
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: lifted the lid, and Dorothy saw it was full of
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: shining tools of all sorts and shapes. Johnny Dooit moved quickly,
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: now so quickly that they were astonished at the work
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: he was able to accomplish. He had in his chest
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: a tool for everything he wanted to do. And these
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: must have been magic tools, because they did their work
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: so fast and so well. The man hummed a little
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: song as he worked, and Dorothy tried to listen to it.
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: She thought the words were something like these. The only
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: way to do a thing is do it when you can,
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: and do it cheerfully, and sing, and work and think
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: and plan. The only real unhappy one is he who
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: dares to shirk. The only really happy one is he
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: who cares to work. Whatever Johnny Dooit was singing, he
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: was certainly doing things, and they all stood by and
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: watched him in amazement. He seized an axe and in
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: a couple of chops felled a tree. Next, he took
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: a saw and in a few minutes sawed the tree
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: trunk into broad long boards. He then nailed the boards
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: together into the shape of a boat about twelve feet
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: long and four feet wide. He cut from another tree
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: a long slender pole, which, when trimmed of its branches
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: and fastened upright in the center of the boat, served
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: as a mast. From the chest he drew a coil
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: of rope and a big bundle of canvas, and with these,
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: still humming his song, he rigged up a sail, arranging
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: it so it could be raised or lowered upon the mast.
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: Dorothy fairly gasped with wonder to see the thing grow
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: so speedily before her eyes, and both button Bright and
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: Polly looked on with the same absorbed interest. It ought
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: to be painted, said Johnny Dooit, tossing his tools back
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: into the chest, for that would make it look prettier.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: But though I can paint it for you in three seconds.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: It would take an hour to dry, and that's a
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: waste of time. We don't care how it looks, said
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: the shaggy Man. If only it will take us across
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: the desert, it will do that, declared Johnny Dooit. All
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 1: you need worry about is tipping over. Did you ever
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: sail a ship? I've seen one sailed, said the shaggy man.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: Good sail this boat the way you've seen a ship sailed,
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: and you'll be across the sands before you know it.
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: With this, he slammed down the lid of the chest,
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: and the noise made them all wink. While they were winking,
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: the workmen disappeared, tools and all. End of chapter eleven.
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, the deadly desert crossed. Oh that's too bad,
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: cried Dorothy. I wanted to thank Johnny Dooit for all
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: his kindness to us. He hasn't time to listen to thanks,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: replied the shaggy Man. But I'm sure he knows we
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: are grateful. I suppose he is already at work in
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: some other part of the world. They now looked more
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: carefully at the sand boat and saw that the bottom
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: was modeled with two sharp runners, which would glide through
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: the sand. The front of the sand boat was pointed
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: like the bow of a ship, and there was a
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: rudder at the stern to steer by. It had been
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: built just at the edge of the desert, so that
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: all its length lay upon the gray sand, except the
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: after part, which still rested on the strip of grass.
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: Get in, my DearS, said the shaggy man. I'm sure
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: I can manage this boat as well as any sailor.
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: All you need do is sit still in your places.
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: Dorothy got in Toto in her arms and sat on
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the boat, just in front of the mast.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: Button Bright sat in front of Dorothy, while Polly leaned
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: over the bow. The shaggy Man knelt behind the mast.
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: When all were ready, he raised the sail half way.
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: The wind caught it at once. The sand boat started
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: forward slowly at first, then with added speed, the shaggy
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: Man pulled the sail way up, and they flew so
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: fast over the deadly desert that every one held fast
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: to the sides of the boat and scarcely dared to breathe.
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: The sand lay in billows and was in places very uneven,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: so that the boat rocked dangerously from side to side,
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: but it never quite tipped over, and the speed was
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: so great that the shaggy Man himself became frightened and
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: began to wonder how he could make the ship go slower.
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: If we're spilled in this sand in the middle of
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: the desert, Dorothy thought to herself, we'll be nothing but
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: dust in a few minutes, and that will be the
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: end of us. But they were not spilled, and by
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: and by Polychrome, who was clinging to the bow and
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: looking straight ahead, saw a dark line before them and
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: wondered what it was. It grew plainer every second until
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: she discovered it to be a row of jagged rocks
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: at the end of the desert. While high above these
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: rocks she could see a table land of green grass
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: and beautiful trees. Look out, she screamed to the shaggy man,
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: go slowly, or we shall smash into the rocks. He
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: heard her and tried to pull down the sail, but
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: the wind would not let go of the broad canvas,
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: and the ropes had become tangled. Nearer and nearer they
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: drew to the great rocks, and the shaggy Man was
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: in despair because he could do nothing to stop the
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: wild rush of the sand boat. They reached the edge
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: of the desert and bumped squarely into the rocks. There
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: was a crash as Dorothy, button Bright, Toto, and Polly
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: flew up in the air in a curve like a
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: sky rocket's, one after another, landing high upon the grass,
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: where they rolled and tumbled for a time before they
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: could stop themselves. The shaggy Man flew after them, head
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: first and lighted in a heap beside Toto, who, being
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: much excited at the time, seized one of the donkey
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: ears between his teeth and shook and worried it as
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: hard as he could, growling angrily. The shaggy Man made
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: the little dog let go and sat up to look
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: around him. Dorothy was feeling one of her front teeth,
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: which was loosened by knocking against her knee as she fell.
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: Polly was looking sorrowfully at a rent in her pretty
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: gauze gown, and button Bright's fox head had stuck fast
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: in a gopher hole, and he was wiggling his little
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: fat legs frantically in an effort to get free. Otherwise,
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: they were unhurt by the adventure, so the shaggy Man
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: stood up and pulled button Bright out of the hole
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: and went to the edge of the desert to look
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: at the sand boat. It was a mere mass of splinters,
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: now crushed out of shape against the rocks. The wind
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: had torn away the sail and carried it to the
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: top of a tall tree, where the fragments of it
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: fluttered like a white flag. Well, he said, cheerfully, we're here.
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: But where the here is I don't know. It must
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: be some part of the land of Oz, observed Dorothy,
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: coming to his side. Must it, course it must. We're
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: across the desert, aren't we, And somewhere in the middle
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: of Oz is the Emerald city, to be sure, said
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, nodding, Let's go there. But I don't
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: see any people about to show us the way, she continued.
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: Let's hunt for them, he suggested. There must be people somewhere,
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: but perhaps they did not expect and so are not
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: at hand to give us a welcome end of chapter twelve,
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: and halfway through the book chapter thirteen, the Truth Pond,
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: They now made a more careful examination of the country
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: around them. All was fresh and beautiful after the sultriness
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: of the desert, and the sunshine and sweet crisp air
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: were delightful to the wanderers. Little mounds of yellowish green
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: were away at the right, while on the left waved
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: a group of tall leafy trees bearing yellow blossoms that
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: looked like tassels and pomp palms. Among the grasses carpeting
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: the ground were pretty buttercups and cowslips and marigolds. After
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: looking at these a moment, Dorothy said reflectively, we must
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: be in the country of the winkies, for the color
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: of that country is yellow. And you will notice that
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: most everything here is yellow, that has any color at all.
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: But I thought this was the land of Oz, replied
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, as if greatly disappointed. So it is,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: she declared, But there are four parts to the land
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: of Oz. The north country is purple, and it's the
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: country of the Gillikins. The East country is blue, and
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: that's the country of the munchkins. Down at the south
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: is the red country of the quadlings. And here in
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: the west the yellow country of the winkies. This is
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: the part that is ruled by the tin Woodman. You
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: know who's he asked Button Bright. Why he's the tin
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: man I told you about. His name is Nick Chopper,
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: and he has a lovely heart given him by the
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: wonderful Wizard. Where does he live, asked the boy the Wizard. Oh,
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: he lives in the Emerald City, which is just in
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: the middle of Oz, where the corners of the four
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: countries meet. Oh, said Button, puzzled by this explanation. We
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: must be some distance from the Emerald City, remarked the
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man. That's true, she replied, so we'd better start
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: on and see if we can find any of the Winkies.
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 1: They're nice people, she continued, as the little party began
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: walking toward the group of trees. And I came here
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: once with my friends, the Scarecrow and the tin Woodman
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: and the Cowardly Lion, to fight a wicked witch who
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: had made all the Winkies her slaves. Did you conquer her,
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: asked Polly. Why. I melted her with a bucket of water,
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: and that was the end of her, replied Dorothy. After
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: that the people were free, you know, and they made
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: Nick Chopper. That's the tin Woodman their emperor. What's that,
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: asked Button. Bright Emperor, Oh, it's something like an alderman.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, oh, said the boy. But I thought Princess
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: Ozma ruled oz said the shaggy man. So she does.
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  Speaker 1: She rules the Emerald City and all the four countries
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: of oz. But each country has another little ruler, not
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: so big as Ozma. It's like the officers of an army,
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: you see. The little rulers are all captains, and Ozma's
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: the general. By this time they had reached the trees,
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: which stood in a perfect circle, and just far enough
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: so that their thick branches touched or shook hands. As
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: button Bright remarked, under the shade of the trees, they
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: found in the center of the circle a crystal pool.
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: It's water as still as glass. It must have been deep, too,
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  Speaker 1: for when Polychrome bent over it, she gave a little
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: sigh of pleasure. Why it's a mirror, she cried, for
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: she could see all her pretty face and fluffy, rainbow
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: tinted gown reflected in the pool, as natural as life.
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: Dorothy bent over too, and began to arrange her hair,
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: blown by the desert wind, into straggling tangles. Button Bright
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: leaned over the edge next, and then began to cry
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: for the sight of his fox head frightened the poor
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: little fellow. I guess I won't look, remarked the shaggy
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: Man sadly, for he didn't like his donkey head either.
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: While Polly and Dorothy tried to comfort button Bright, the
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: shaggy man sat down near the edge of the pool,
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: where his image could not be reflected, and stared at
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: the water thoughtfully. As he did this, he noticed a
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: silver plate fastened to a rock just under the surface
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: of the water, and on the silver plate was engraved
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: these words the truth pond, ah, cried the shaggy Man,
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: springing to his feet with eager joy. We've found it,
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: at last found what, asked Dorothy, running to him, the
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: truth pond. Now at last I may get rid of
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: this frightful head. For we were told you, remember that
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: only the truth pond could restore to me my proper face.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: Me too, shouted Button Bright, trotting up to them. Of course,
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy, it will cure you both of your bad heads.
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: I guess, isn't it lucky we found it? It is, indeed,
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: replied the shaggy Man. I hated dreadfully to go to
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: Princess Ozma looking like this, and she's to have a
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: birthday celebration too. Just then a splash startled them, for
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: Button Bright, in his anxiety to see the pool that
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: would cure him, had stepped too near the edge and
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: tumbled heels over head into the water. Down. He went
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: out of sight entirely, so that only his sailor hat
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: floated on the top of the truth pond. He soon
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: bobbed up, and the shaggy man seized him by his
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: sailor collar and dragged him to the shore, Dripping and
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 1: gasping for breath. They all looked upon the boy wonderingly,
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: for the fox head with its sharp nose and pointed ears,
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: was gone, and in its place appeared the chubby, round
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: face and blue eyes and pretty curls that had belonged
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: to Button Bright before King Dox of Foxville transformed him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a darling, cried Polly, and would have hugged
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: the little one had he not been so wet. Their
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: joyful exclamations made the child rub the water out of
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: his eyes and look at his friend's questioningly. You're all
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: right now, dear, said Dorothy, Come and look at yourself.
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: She led him to the pool, and although there were
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: still a few ripples on the surface of the water.
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: He could see his reflection plainly. It's me, he said,
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: in a pleased yet awed whisper. Course it is, replied
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: the girl, and we're all as glad as you are.
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: Button Bright Well announced the shaggy man. It's my turn next.
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: He took off his shaggy coat and laid it on
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: the grass, and dived headfirst into the truth pond. When
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: he came up, the donkey head had disappeared, and the
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man's own shaggy head was in its place, with
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: the water dripping in little streams from his shaggy whiskers.
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 1: He scrambled ashore and shook himself to get off some
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: of the wet, and then leaned over the pool to
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: look admiringly at his reflected face. I may not be
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: strictly beautiful even now, he said to his companions, who
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 1: watched him with smiling faces. But I'm so much handsomer
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: than any donkey that I feel as proud as I
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: can be. You're all right, shaggy Man declared Dorothy, and
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 1: Button bright is all right too. So let's thank the
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: truth Pond for being so nice and start on our
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: journey to the Emerald City. I hate to leave it,
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: murmured the shaggy man, with a sigh. A truth pond
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be a bad thing to carry around with us,
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: But he put on his coat and started with the
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: others in search of some one to direct them on
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 1: their way. End of Chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen, Tik Tok
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 1: and Billina. They had not walked far across the flower
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: strewn meadows when they came upon a fine road leading
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: toward the northwest and winding gracefully among the pretty yellow hills.
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: That way, said Dorothy, must be the direction of the
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: Emerald City. We'd better follow the road until we meet
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 1: some one or come to a house. The sun soon
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: dried button bright sailor suit and the shaggy man's shaggy clothes,
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: And so pleased were they at regaining their own heads
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: that they did not mind at all the brief discomfort
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: of getting wet. It's good to be able to whistle again,
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: remarked the shaggy man, For those donkey lips were so thick,
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: I could not whistle a note with them. He warbled
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: a tune as merrily as any bird. You'll look more
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: natural at the birthday celebration too, said Dorothy, happy in
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 1: seeing her friends so happy. Polychrome was dancing ahead in
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: her usual sprightly manner, whirling gaily along the smooth level
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: road until she passed from sight around the curve of
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: one of the mounds. Suddenly they heard her exclaim oh,
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: and she appeared again, running toward them at full speed.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: What's the matter, Polly asked Dorothy, perplexed, there was no
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: need for the Rainbow's daughter to answer for turning the
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: bend in the road. There came, advancing slowly toward them,
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 1: a funny round man made of burnished copper gleaming brightly
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: in the sun. Perched on the copper man's shoulder sat
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: a yellow hen with fluffy feathers and a pearl necklace
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: around her throat. Oh tik tok, cried Dorothy, running forward.
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: When she came to him, the copper man lifted the
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: little girl in his copper arms and kissed her cheek
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: with his copper lips. Oh Billina, cried Dorothy in a
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: glad voice, and the yellow hen flew to her arms
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: to be hugged and petted by Turns. The others were
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: curiously crowding around the group and the girl said to them,
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: it's tik Tok and Billina, and oh, I'm so glad
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: to see them again. Welcome to Oz, said the copper
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: man in a monotonous voice. Dorothy sat right down in
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: the road, the yellow hen in her arms and began
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: to stroke Billina's back, said the hen, Dorothy, dear, I've
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: some wonderful news to tell you. Tell it quick, Billina,
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: said the girl. Just then, Toto, who had been growling
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: to himself in a cross way, gave a sharp bark
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: and flew at the yellow hen, who ruffled her feathers
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: and let out such an angry screech that Dorothy was startled.
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: Stop Toto, stop that this minute, she commanded, can't you
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: see that Billina is my friend? In spite of this warning,
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: had she not grabbed Toto quickly by the neck, the
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: little dog would have done the yellow hen a mischief.
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: And even now he struggled madly to escape Dorothy's grasp.
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: She slapped his ears once or twice and told him
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: to behave, and the fellow hen flew to TikTok's shoulder
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: again or she was safe. What a brute, croaked Billina,
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: glaring down at the little dog Toto isn't a brute,
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: replied Dorothy. But at home Uncle Henry has to whip
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: him sometimes for chasing the chickens. Now, look here, Toto,
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 1: she added, holding up her finger and speaking sternly to him.
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: You've got to understand that Billina is one of my
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: dearest friends and mustn't be hurt now or ever. Toto
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: wagged his tail as if he understood. The miserable thing.
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: Can't talk, said Billina with a sneer. Yes he can,
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: replied Dorothy. He talks with his tail, and I know
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: everything he says. If you could wag your tail, Billina,
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't need words to talk with nonsense, said Billina.
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: It isn't nonsense at all. Just now, Toto says he sorry,
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: and that he'll try to love you for my sake,
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: don't you Toto? Bow wow, said Toto, wagging his tail again.
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: But I've such wonderful news for you, Dorothy, cried the
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: yellow hen I've wait a minute, dear, interrupted the little girl.
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: I've got to introduce you all first. That's manners, Billina. This,
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: turning to her traveling companions, is mister Tik Tok, who
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: works by machinery, cause his thoughts wind up, and his
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: talk winds up, and his action winds up like a clock.
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: Do they all wind up together, asked the shaggy Man. No,
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: each one separate. But he works just lovely. And tik
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: Tok was a good friend to me once and saved
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: my life and Billina's life too. Is he alive, asked
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: Button Bright, looking hard at the copper Man. Oh no,
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: but his machinery makes him just as goodde is alive.
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: She turned to the copper Man and said politely, mister
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: tik Tok. These are my new friends, the Shaggy Man
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: and Polly the Rainbow's daughter, and Button Bright and Toto.
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: Only Toto isn't a new friend, cause he's been to
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: Oz before. The copper Man bowed low, removing his copper
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: hat as he did so. I'm very pleased to meet
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: Dorothee's fur here. He stopped short. Oh, I guess his
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: speech needs winding, said the little girl. Running behind the
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: copper man to get the key off a hook at
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: his back, she wound him up at a place under
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: his right arm, and he went on to say, pardon
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: me for running down. I was about to say, I
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: am pleased to meet Dorothy's friends. Who must be my friends.
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: The words were somewhat jerky, but plain to understand. And
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: this is Billina, continued Dorothy, introducing the yellow hen, and
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: they all bowed to her in turn. I've such wonderful news,
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 1: said the hen, turning her head so that one bright
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: eye looked full at Dorothy. What is it, dear, asked
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: the girl. I've hatched out ten of the loveliest chicks
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: you ever saw. Oh, how nice? And where are they, Billina?
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 1: I left them at home, But they're beauties, I assure you,
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: and all wonderfully clever. I've named them Dorothy, which one,
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 1: asked the girl. All of them replied Billina. That's funny.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: Why did you name them all with the same name?
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: It was so hard to tell them apart, explained the hen.
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: Now when I call Dorothy, they all come running to
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: me in a bunch. It's much easier, after all, than
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: having a separate name for each I'm just dying to
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: see em, Billina, said Dorothy eagerly. But tell me, my friends,
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: how did you happen to be here in the country
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: of the Winkies, the first of all to meet us.
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, answered tik Tok in his monotonous voice,
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: all the sounds of his words being on one level.
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 1: Princess Ozma saw you in her magic picture and knew
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: you were coming here, so she sent Billina and me
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: to welcome you, as she could not come herself, so
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: that Phizidigal comesoluting hibergobble into zibik. Good, gracious, whatever's the
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: matter now, cried Dorothy, as the copper Man continued to
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: babble these unmeaning words, which no one could understand at
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: all because they had no sense. Don't know, said Button Bright,
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: who was half scared. Polly whirled away to a distance
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: and turned to look at the copper Man in a fright.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: His thoughts have run down this time, remarked Billina composedly,
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: as she sat on tik Tok's shoulder and pruned her
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: sleek feathers. When he can't think, he can't talk properly
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: any more than you can. You'll have to wind up
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: his thoughts, Dorothy, or else I'll have to finish his
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: story myself. Dorothy ran around and got the key again
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: and wound up tik Tok under his left arm, after
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: which he could speak plainly again pardon me, he said,
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: but when my thoughts run down, my speech has no meaning,
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: for words are formed only by thought. I was about
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: to say that Ozma sent us to welcome you and
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: invite you to come straight to the Emerald City. She
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: was too busy to come herself, for she is preparing
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: for her birthday celebration, which is to be a grand affair.
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: I've heard of it, said Dorothy, and I'm glad we've
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: come in time to attend. Is it far from here
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: to the Emerald City? Not very far, answered tik Tok,
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: and we have plenty of time. To night, we will
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 1: stop at the palace of the tin Woodman, and tomorrow
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: night we will arrive at the Emerald City. Goody, cried Dorothy.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see dear nick Chopper again. How's his heart?
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: It's fine, said Billina. The tin Woodman says it gets
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: softer and kindlier every day. He's waiting at his castle
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: to welcome you, Dorothy, But he couldn't come with us
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: because he is getting polished as bright as possible for
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: Ozma's party. Well, then, said Dorothy, Let's start on and
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 1: we can talk more as we go. They proceeded on
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: their journey, a friendly group for Polychrome had discovered that
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: the copper Man was harmless and was no longer afraid
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: of him. Button Bright was also reassured and took quite
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: a fancy to tik Tok. He wanted the clockwork man
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: to open himself so that he might see the wheels
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: go round, but that was a thing tik Tok could
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: not do. Button Bright then wanted to wind up the
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 1: copper Man, and Dorothy promised he should do so as
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 1: soon as any part of the machinery ran down. This
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: pleased button Bright, who held fast to one of tik
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: Tok's copper hands as he trudged along the road, while
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: Dorothy walked on the other side of her old friend,
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: and Billina perched by turns upon his shoulder or his
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 1: copper hat. Polly once more joyously danced ahead, and Toto
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: ran after her, barking with glee. The shaggy Man was
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: left to walk behind, but he didn't seem to mind
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: that a bit, and whistled merrily or looked curiously upon
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 1: the pretty scenes they passed. At last, they came to
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: a hilltop from which the tin castle of Nick Chopper
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: could plainly be seen. Its towers glistening magnificently under the
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: rays of the declining sun. How pretty, exclaimed Dorothy. I've
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: never seen the Emperor's new house before he built it,
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: because the old castle was damp and likely to rust
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 1: his tin body, said Billina. All those towers and steeples
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: and domes and gables took a lot of tin. As
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: you can see, is it a toy, asked Button bright softly. No, dear,
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 1: answered Dorothy, It's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 1: of a fairy prince. End of Chapter fourteen. Chapter fifteen,
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: The Emperor's Tin Castle. The grounds around nick Chopper's new
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: house were laid out in pretty flower beds, with fountains
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: of crystal water and statues of tin representing the emperor's
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: personal friends. Dorothy was astonished and delighted to find a
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: tin statue of herself standing on a tin pedestal at
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: a bend in the avenue leading up to the entrance.
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 1: It was life size and showed her in her sunbonnet
• 2:46:24
  Speaker 1: with her basket on her arm, just as she had
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 1: first appeared in the land of oz oh Toto. You're
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: there too, she exclaimed, and sure enough there was the
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: tin figure of Toto lying at the tin Dorothy's feet. Also,
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 1: Dorothy saw figures of the Scarecrow and the Wizard, and Ozma,
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 1: and of many others, including Tik Tok. They reached the
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 1: grand tin entrance to the Tin Castle, and the tin
• 2:46:54
  Speaker 1: Woodman himself came running out of the door to embrace
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 1: little Dorothy and give her a glad welcome. He welcomed
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 1: her friends as well, and the Rainbow's daughter. He declared
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 1: to be the loveliest vision his tin eyes had ever beheld.
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: He patted button Bright's curly head tenderly, for he was
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 1: fond of children, and turned to the Shaggy Man and
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: shook both his hands at the same time. Nick Chopper,
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 1: the Emperor of the Winkies, who was also known throughout
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: the land of Oz as the Tin Woodman, was certainly
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 1: a remarkable person. He was neatly made all of tin,
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 1: nicely soldered at the joints, and his various limbs were
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 1: cleverly hinged to his body, so that he could use
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: them nearly as well as if they had been common flesh.
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 1: Once he told the Shaggy Man he had been made
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: all of flesh and bones, as other people are, And
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: then he chopped wood in the forests to earn his living.
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 1: But the axe slipped so often and cut off parts
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: of him which he had replaced with tin, that finally
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: there was no flesh left, nothing but tin. So he
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: became a real tin woodman. The wonderful Wizard of Oz
• 2:48:07
  Speaker 1: had given him an excellent heart to replace his old one,
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: and he didn't at all mind being tin. Everyone loved him,
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: He loved every one, and he was therefore as happy
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: as the day was long. The Emperor was proud of
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 1: his new tin castle, and showed his visitors through all
• 2:48:25
  Speaker 1: the rooms. Every bit of the furniture was made of
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 1: brightly polished tin. The tables, chairs, beds, and all even
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: the floors and walls were of tin. I suppose, said he,
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: that there are no cleverer tinsmiths in all the world
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: than the Winkies. It would be hard to match this
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 1: castle in Kansas, wouldn't it, Little Dorothy very hard, replied
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: the child gravely. It must have cost a lot of money,
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 1: remarked the shaggy man, money money in Oz, cried the
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: tin woodman. What a queer idea? Do you suppose? We
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: are so vulgar? As to use money here, Why not,
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: asked the shaggy Man. If we used money to buy
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: things with instead of love and kindness and the desire
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 1: to please one another, then we should be no better
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: than the rest of the world, declared the tin Woodman. Fortunately,
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 1: money is not known in the land of Oz at all.
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 1: We have no rich and no poor. For what one wishes,
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: the others all try to give him in order to
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: make him happy. And no one in all Oz cares
• 2:49:38
  Speaker 1: to have more than he can use. Good, cried the
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: shaggy Man, greatly pleased to hear this, I also despise money.
• 2:49:49
  Speaker 1: A man in Butterfield owes me fifteen cents, and I
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 1: will not take it from him. The land of Oz
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: is surely the most favored land in all the world,
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: and its people the happy. I should like to live
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: here always. The tin woodman listened with respectful attention. Already
• 2:50:08
  Speaker 1: he loved the shaggy Man, although he did not yet
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: know of the love magnet. So he said, if you
• 2:50:14
  Speaker 1: can prove to the Princess Ozma that you are honest
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: and true and worthy of our friendship, you may indeed
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: live here all your days and be as happy as
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: we are. I'll try to prove that, said the shaggy
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: man earnestly, and now continued the Emperor, you must all
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: go to your rooms and prepare for dinner, which will
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: presently be served in the Grand tin dining hall. I
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: am sorry, shaggy Man, that I cannot offer you a
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: change of clothing. But I dress only in tin myself,
• 2:50:49
  Speaker 1: and I suppose that would not suit you. I care
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: little about dress, said the shaggy man, indifferently, so I
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: should imagine, replied the Emperor, with true politeness. They were
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: shown to their rooms and permitted to make such toilets
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: as they could, and soon they assembled again in the
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: Grand tin dining hall. Even Toto, being present for the emperor,
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 1: was fond of Dorothy's little dog, and the girl explained
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: to her friends that in Oz all animals were treated
• 2:51:23
  Speaker 1: with as much consideration as the people, if they behaved themselves.
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: She added, Toto behaved himself and sat in a tin
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: high chair beside Dorothy and ate his dinner from a
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: tin platter. Indeed, they all ate from tin dishes. But
• 2:51:40
  Speaker 1: these were of pretty shapes and brightly polished. Dorothy thought
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: they were just as good as silver button. Bright looked
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: curiously at the man who had no appetite inside him
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: for the tin Woodman, although he had prepared so fine
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: a feast for his guests, ate not a mouthful himself,
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: sitting patiently in his place to see that all built
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: so they could eat, were well and plentifully served. What
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: pleased Button Bright most about the dinner was the tin
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: orchestra that played sweet music while the company ate. The
• 2:52:16
  Speaker 1: players were not tin, being just ordinary winkies, but the
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: instruments they played upon were all tin. Tin trumpets, tin fiddles,
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 1: tin drums, and cymbals, and flutes and horns, and all
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: they played so nicely. The Shining Emperor Waltz, composed expressly
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: in honor of the tin Woodman by mister H. M.
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: Wogglebug t e that Polly could not resist dancing to it.
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: After she had tasted a few dewdrops freshly gathered for her,
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 1: she danced gracefully to the music while the others finished
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: their repast. And when she whirled until her fleecy draperies
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: of rainbow hues enveloped her like a club, the tin
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: Woodman was so delighted that he clapped his tin hands
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 1: until the noise of them drowned the sound of the cymbals. Altogether,
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: it was a merry meal, although polychrome ate little and
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 1: the host nothing at all. I'm sorry the Rainbow's daughter
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: missed her mist cakes, said the tin Woodman to Dorothy.
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: But by a mistake, Miss Polly's mist cakes were mislaid
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: and not missed until now. I'll try to have some
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 1: for her breakfast. They spent the evening telling stories, and
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: the next morning left the splendid tin castle and set
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: out upon the road to the Emerald City. The tin
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: Woodman went with them, of course, having by this time
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: been so brightly polished that he sparkled like silver. His axe,
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 1: which he always carried with him, had a steel blade
• 2:53:55
  Speaker 1: that was tin plated, and a handle covered with tin plait,
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: beautifully engraved and set with diamonds. The Winkies assembled before
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: the castle gates and cheered their emperor as he marched away,
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: and it was easy to see that they all loved him.
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: Dearly end of chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen, visiting the pumpkin Field,
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: Dorothy let button Bright wind up the clockwork in the
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: copper man this morning his thinking machine first, then his speech,
• 2:54:33
  Speaker 1: and finally his action so he would doubtless run perfectly
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: until they had reached the Emerald City. The copper Man
• 2:54:42
  Speaker 1: and the tin man were good friends, and not so
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: much alike as you might think, for one was alive
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: and the other moved by means of machinery. One was
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: tall and angular and the other short and round. You
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 1: could love the tin woodman because he had a fine nature,
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 1: kindly and simple, But the machine man you could only
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: admire without loving, since to love such a thing as
• 2:55:08
  Speaker 1: he was as impossible as to love a sewing machine
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 1: or an automobile. Yet tik Tok was popular with the
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: people of Oz because he was so trustworthy, reliable, and true.
• 2:55:21
  Speaker 1: He was sure to do exactly what he was wound
• 2:55:23
  Speaker 1: up to do at all times and in all circumstances.
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: its duty than a flesh and blood person who will not,
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: About noon, the travelers reached a large field of pumpkins,
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: a vegetable quite appropriate to the yellow country of the Winkies,
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: and some of the pumpkins which grew there were of
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 1: remarkable size. Just before they entered upon this field, they
• 2:55:55
  Speaker 1: saw three little mounds that looked like graves with a
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: pretty headstone to eat one of them. What is this,
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: asked Dorothy in wonder. It's Jack Pumpkinhead's private graveyard, replied
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: the tin Woodman. But I thought nobody ever died in Oz,
• 2:56:13
  Speaker 1: she said, Nor do they, although if one is bad,
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 1: he may be condemned and killed by the good citizens.
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: He answered. Dorothy ran over to the little graves and
• 2:56:26
  Speaker 1: read the words engraved upon the tombstones. The first one said,
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: here lies the mortal part of Jack Pumpkinhead, which spoiled
• 2:56:36
  Speaker 1: April ninth. She then went to the next stone, which read,
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: here lies the mortal part of Jack Pumpkinhead, which spoiled
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 1: October second. On the third stone were carved these words,
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: here lies the mortal part of Jack Pumpkinhead, which spoiled
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: January twenty fourth. Poor Jack, sighed Dorothy. I'm sorry he
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: had to die in three parts, for I hoped to
• 2:57:06
  Speaker 1: see him again. So you shall, declared the tin Woodman.
• 2:57:12
  Speaker 1: Since he is still alive, come with me to his house,
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 1: for Jack is now a farmer and lives in this
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: very pumpkin field. They walked over to a monstrous, big
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: hollow pumpkin, which had a door and windows cut through
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: the rind. There was a stovepipe running through the stem,
• 2:57:31
  Speaker 1: and six steps had been built leading up to the
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: front door. They walked up to this door and looked in.
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: Seated on a bench was a man clothed in a
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: spotted shirt, a red vest, and faded blue trousers, whose
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: body was merely sticks of wood jointed clumsily together. On
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: his neck was set a round yellow pumpkin with a
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: face carved on it, such as a boy often carves
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: on a jack lantern. This queer man was engaged in
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 1: snapping slippery pumpkin seeds with his wooden fingers, trying to
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: hit a target on the other side of the room
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: with them. He did not know he had visitors until
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 1: Dorothy exclaimed, why it's Jack pumpkinhead himself. He turned and
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: saw them, and at once came forward to greet the
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: Little Kansas Girl and Nick Chopper and to be introduced
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: to their new friends. Button Bright was at first rather
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: shy with the quaint pumpkinhead, but Jack's face was so
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 1: jolly and smiling, being carved that way, that the boy
• 2:58:42
  Speaker 1: soon grew to like him. I thought a while ago
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: that you were buried in three parts, said Dorothy. But
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: now I see you're just the same as ever, not
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: quite the same, my dear, for my mouth is a
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: little more one sided and it used to be, but
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 1: pretty nearly the same. I've a new head, and this
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 1: is the fourth one I've owned since Ozma first made
• 2:59:08
  Speaker 1: me and brought me to life by sprinkling me with
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: the magic powder. What became of the other heads, Jack?
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: They spoiled and I buried them, for they were not
• 2:59:20
  Speaker 1: even fit for pies. Each time Ozma has carved me
• 2:59:24
  Speaker 1: a new head just like the old one. And as
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 1: my body is by far the largest part of me,
• 2:59:29
  Speaker 1: I am still Jack pumpkinhead, no matter how often I
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: change my upper end. Once we had a dreadful time
• 2:59:36
  Speaker 1: to find another pumpkin, as they were out of season,
• 2:59:39
  Speaker 1: and so I was obliged to wear my old head
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 1: a little longer than was strictly healthy. But after this
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: sad experience, I resolved to raise pumpkins myself so as
• 2:59:50
  Speaker 1: never to be caught again without one handy. And now
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 1: I have this fine field that you see before you.
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: Some grow pretty big, too big to be used for heads,
• 3:00:01
  Speaker 1: So I dug out this one and use it for
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: a house. Isn't it damp, asked Dorothy, not very. There
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: isn't much left but the shell, you see, and it
• 3:00:13
  Speaker 1: will last a long time. Yet, I think you are
• 3:00:18
  Speaker 1: brighter than you used to be, Jack, said the tin woodman.
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 1: Your last head was a stupid one. The seeds in
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 1: this one are better, was the reply. Are you going
• 3:00:30
  Speaker 1: to Ozma's party, asked Dorothy, Yes, said he. I wouldn't
• 3:00:35
  Speaker 1: miss it for anything. Ozma's my parent, you know, because
• 3:00:39
  Speaker 1: she built my body and carved my pumpkin head. I'll
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 1: follow you to the Emerald City tomorrow, where we shall
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 1: meet again. I can't go to day because I have
• 3:00:49
  Speaker 1: to plant fresh pumpkin seeds and water the young vines.
• 3:00:53
  Speaker 1: But give my love to Ozma and tell her I'll
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: be there in time for the jubilation we will, she promised,
• 3:01:02
  Speaker 1: and then they all left him and resumed their journey.
• 3:01:08
  Speaker 1: End of chapter sixteen. Chapter seventeen, the royal chariot arrives.
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: The neat yellow houses of the Winkies were now to
• 3:01:20
  Speaker 1: be seen standing here and there along the roadway, giving
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 1: the country a more cheerful and civilized look. They were farmhouses, though,
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 1: and set far apart, for in the land of oz
• 3:01:33
  Speaker 1: there were no towns or villages except for the magnificent
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: Emerald city in its center. Hedges of evergreen or of
• 3:01:43
  Speaker 1: yellow roses bordered the broad highway, and the farms showed
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 1: the care of their industrious inhabitants. The nearer the travelers
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: came to the great city, the more prosperous the country became,
• 3:01:56
  Speaker 1: and they crossed many bridges over the sparkling streams and
• 3:02:00
  Speaker 1: rivulets that watered the lands. As they walked leisurely along,
• 3:02:06
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man said to the tin woodman, what sort
• 3:02:10
  Speaker 1: of a magic powder was it that made your friend
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 1: the pumpkin head live? It was called the powder of Life,
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 1: was the answer, and it was invented by a crooked
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 1: sorcerer who lived in the mountains of the north country.
• 3:02:26
  Speaker 1: A witch named Mumby got some of this powder from
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 1: the crooked sorcerer and took it home with her. Ozma
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: lived with the witch then, for it was before she
• 3:02:36
  Speaker 1: became our princess, while Mumby had transformed her into the
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: shape of a boy. Well, while Mamby was gone to
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 1: the crooked sorcerer's the boy made this pumpkin headed man
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 1: to amuse himself and also with the hope of frightening
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 1: the witch with it when she returned. But Mombi was
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: not scared, and she sprinkled the pumpkin head with her
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: magic powder of life to see if the powder would work.
• 3:03:03
  Speaker 1: Ozma was watching and saw the pumpkin had come to life,
• 3:03:07
  Speaker 1: so that night she took the pepper box containing the
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: powder and ran away with it and with Jack in
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: search of adventures. Next day, they found a wooden saw
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: horse standing by the roadside and sprinkled it with the powder.
• 3:03:23
  Speaker 1: It came to life at once, and Jack Pumpkin had
• 3:03:26
  Speaker 1: rode the saw horse to the Emerald City. What became
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: of the saw horse afterward, asked the shaggy Man, much
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: interested in this story. Oh, it's alive yet, and you
• 3:03:39
  Speaker 1: will probably meet it presently in the Emerald City. Afterward,
• 3:03:43
  Speaker 1: Ozma used the last of the powder to bring the
• 3:03:46
  Speaker 1: flying Gump to life, but as soon as it had
• 3:03:49
  Speaker 1: carried her away from her enemies, the gump was taken apart,
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't exist any more. It's too bad the
• 3:03:57
  Speaker 1: powder of life was all used up, remarked the shaggy Man.
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: It would be a handy thing to have around. I
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: am not so sure of that, sir, answered the tin Woodman.
• 3:04:10
  Speaker 1: A while ago, the crooked sorcerer who invented the magic
• 3:04:14
  Speaker 1: powder fell down a precipice and was killed. All his
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: possessions went to a relative, an old woman named Dinah,
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 1: who lives in the Emerald City. She went to the
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 1: mountains where the sorcerer had lived and brought away everything
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: she thought of value. Among them was a small bottle
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 1: of the powder of life. But of course Dinah didn't
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: know it was a magic powder at all. It happened.
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: She had once had a big blue bear for a pet,
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: But the bear choked to death on a fishbone one day,
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 1: and she loved it so dearly that Dinah made a
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: rug of its skin, leaving the head and four paws
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: on the hide. She kept the rug on the floor
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: of her front parlor. I've seen rugs like that, said
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: the Shaggy Man, nodding, but never one made from a
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: blue bear. Well, continued the tin Woodman. The old woman
• 3:05:08
  Speaker 1: had an idea that the powder in the bottle must
• 3:05:10
  Speaker 1: be moth powder, because it smelled something like moth powder.
• 3:05:14
  Speaker 1: So one day she sprinkled it on her bare rug
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: to keep the moths out of it. She said, looking
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: lovingly at the skin. I wish my dear bear were
• 3:05:24
  Speaker 1: alive again. To her horror, the bare rug at once
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: came to life having been sprinkled with the magic powder.
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 1: And now this live bear rug is a great trial
• 3:05:36
  Speaker 1: to her and makes her a lot of trouble. Why,
• 3:05:41
  Speaker 1: asked the shaggy man. Well, it stands up on its
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: four feet and walks all around and gets in the way,
• 3:05:49
  Speaker 1: and that spoils it for a rug. It can't speak,
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: although it is alive, for while its head might say words,
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: it has no breath in a solid body to push
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: the words out of its mouth. It's a very slimpsy
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: affair altogether, that bear rug. And the old woman is
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: sorry it came to life. Every day she has to
• 3:06:11
  Speaker 1: scold it and make it lie down flat on the
• 3:06:13
  Speaker 1: parlor floor to be walked upon. But sometimes when she
• 3:06:17
  Speaker 1: goes to market, the rug will hump up its back
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: skin and stand on its forefeet and trot along after her.
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 1: I should think Dinah would like that, said Dorothy. Well
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: she doesn't, because everyone knows it isn't a real bear,
• 3:06:34
  Speaker 1: but just a hollow skin, and so of no actual
• 3:06:37
  Speaker 1: use in the world except for a rug, answered the
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: tin woodman. Therefore, I believe it is a good thing
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 1: that all the magic powder of life is now used up,
• 3:06:48
  Speaker 1: as it cannot cause any more trouble. Perhaps you're right,
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 1: said the shaggy man thoughtfully. At noon, they stopped at
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: a farm house, where it delighted the farmer and his
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 1: wife to be able to give them a good luncheon.
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: The farm people knew Dorothy, having seen her when she
• 3:07:09
  Speaker 1: was in the country before, and they treated the little
• 3:07:12
  Speaker 1: girl with as much respect as they did the emperor,
• 3:07:15
  Speaker 1: because she was a friend of the powerful Princess Ozma.
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: They had not proceeded far after leaving this farmhouse before
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: coming to a high bridge over a broad river. This river,
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 1: the tin woodman informed them, was the boundary between the
• 3:07:31
  Speaker 1: country of the Winkies and the territory of the Emerald City.
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: The city itself was still a long way off, but
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 1: all around it was a green meadow as pretty as
• 3:07:42
  Speaker 1: a well kept lawn, and in this were neither houses
• 3:07:46
  Speaker 1: nor farms to spoil the beauty of the scene. From
• 3:07:51
  Speaker 1: the top of the high bridge, they could see far
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: away the magnificent spires and splendid domes of the superb city,
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: sparkling like brilliant jewels as they towered above the emerald walls.
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  Speaker 1: The shaggy man drew a deep breath of awe and amazement,
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  Speaker 1: for never had he dreamed that such a grand and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful place could exist, even in the fairyland of oz.
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  Speaker 1: Polly was so pleased that her violet eyes sparkled like amethysts,
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  Speaker 1: and she danced away from her companions across the bridge
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  Speaker 1: and into a group of feathery trees lining both the roadsides.
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  Speaker 1: These trees she stopped to look at with pleasure and surprise,
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  Speaker 1: for their leaves were shaped like ostrich plumes, their feather
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  Speaker 1: edges beautifully curled, and all the plumes were tinted in
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  Speaker 1: the same dainty rainbow hues that appeared in Polychrome's own
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  Speaker 1: pretty gauze gown. Father ought to see these trees, she murmured,
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  Speaker 1: they are almost as lovely as his own rainbows. Then
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: she gave a start of terror, for beneath the trees
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  Speaker 1: came stalking two great beasts, either one big enough to
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  Speaker 1: crush the little daughter of the Rainbow with one blow
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  Speaker 1: of his paws or to eat her up with one
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  Speaker 1: snap of his enormous jaws. One was a tawny lion
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  Speaker 1: as tall as a horse nearly the other a striped
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  Speaker 1: tiger almost the same size. Polly was too frightened to
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  Speaker 1: scream or to stir. She stood still with a wildly
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  Speaker 1: beating heart, until Dorothy rushed past her and with a
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  Speaker 1: glad cry, threw her arms around the huge lion's neck,
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  Speaker 1: hugging and kissing the beast with evident joy. Oh I'm
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  Speaker 1: so glad to see you again, cried the little Kansas girl,
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 1: and the hungry tiger too. How fine you're both looking.
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  Speaker 1: Are you well and happy? We certainly are, Dorothy, answered
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  Speaker 1: the lion in a deep voice that sounded pleasant and kind.
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  Speaker 1: And we are greatly pleased that you have come to
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  Speaker 1: Ozma's party. It's going to be a grand affair. I
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: promise you. There will be lots of fat babies at
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 1: the celebration, I hear remarked the hungry tiger, yawning so
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: that his mouth opened dreadfully wide and showed all his
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: big sharp teeth. But of course I can't eat any
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 1: of em. Is your conscience still in good order? Asked
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: Dorothy anxiously. Yes, it rules me like a tyrant, answered
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: the tiger sorrowfully. I can imagine nothing more unpleasant than
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: to own a conscience, and he winked slyly at his friend,
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: the lion. You're fooling me, said Dorothy, with a laugh.
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you'd eat a baby if you lost
• 3:10:54
  Speaker 1: your conscience. Come here, Polly, she called, and be introduced
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  Speaker 1: to my friends. Polly advanced, rather shyly. You have some
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 1: queer friends, Dorothy, she said. The queerness doesn't matter, so
• 3:11:12
  Speaker 1: long as they're friends, was the answer. This is the
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 1: cowardly lion, who isn't a coward at all, but just
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 1: thinks he is. The wizard gave him some courage once,
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: and he has part of it left. The lion bowed
• 3:11:28
  Speaker 1: with great dignity to Polly. You are very lovely, my dear,
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: said he. I hope we shall be friends when we
• 3:11:36
  Speaker 1: are better acquainted. And this is the hungry tiger, continued Dorothy.
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 1: He says he longs to eat fat babies, But the
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: truth is he is never hungry at all, cause he
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: gets plenty to eat. And I don't suppose he'd hurt
• 3:11:52
  Speaker 1: anybody even if he was hungry. Hush, Dorothy, whispered the tiger,
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  Speaker 1: you'll ruin my reputation if you are not more discreet.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't what we are, but what folks think we
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 1: are that counts in this world. And come to think
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 1: of it, Miss Polly would make a fine variegated breakfast,
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. End of chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen, the Emerald City.
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: The others now came up, and the tin woodman greeted
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: the lion and the tiger cordially. Button Bright yelled with
• 3:12:33
  Speaker 1: fear when Dorothy first took his hand and led him
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 1: toward the great beasts, but the girl insisted they were
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 1: kind and good, and so the boy mustered up courage
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  Speaker 1: enough to pat their heads. After they had spoken to
• 3:12:46
  Speaker 1: him gently, and he had looked into their intelligent eyes,
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 1: his fear vanished entirely, and he was so delighted with
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 1: the animals that he wanted to keep close to them
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 1: and stroke their soft fur every minute. As for the
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 1: shaggy man, he might have been afraid if he had
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: met the beasts alone or in any other country, but
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: so many were the marvels in the land of Oz
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: that he was no longer easily surprised, and Dorothy's friendship
• 3:13:15
  Speaker 1: for the lion and tiger was enough to assure him
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 1: they were safe companions. Toto barked at the cowardly lion
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 1: in joyous greeting, for he knew the beast of old
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: and loved him, and it was funny to see how
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 1: gently the lion raised his huge paw to pat Toto's head.
• 3:13:34
  Speaker 1: The little dog smelled of the tiger's nose, and the
• 3:13:37
  Speaker 1: tiger politely shook paws with him, so they were quite
• 3:13:41
  Speaker 1: likely to become firm friends. Tik Tok and Billina knew
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 1: the beasts well, so merely bade them good day and
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 1: asked after their healths and inquired about the Princess Ozma.
• 3:13:57
  Speaker 1: Now it was seen that the cowardly lion and the
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: hung tiger were drawing behind them a splendid golden chariot,
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 1: to which they were harnessed by golden cords. The body
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 1: of the chariot was decorated on the outside with designs
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 1: in clusters of sparkling emeralds, while inside it was lined
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 1: with a green and gold satin, and the cushions of
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 1: the seats were of green plush embroidered in gold with
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: a crown underneath, which was a monogram. Why it's Ozma's
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: own royal chariot, exclaimed Dorothy. Yes, said the cowardly lion.
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 1: Ozma sent us to meet you here, for she feared
• 3:14:39
  Speaker 1: you would be weary with your long walk, and she
• 3:14:42
  Speaker 1: wished you to enter the city in a style becoming
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: your exalted rank. What cried Polly, looking at Dorothy curiously,
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: do you belong to the nobility just in oz I do,
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 1: said the child, cause Ozma made me a princess, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But when I'm home in Kansas, I'm only a country
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 1: girl and have to help with the churning and wipe
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: the dishes while Aunt Em washes em. Do you have
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: to help wash dishes on the rainbow Polly? No, dear,
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  Speaker 1: answered Polychrome, smiling. Well, I don't have to work any
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 1: in oz either, said Dorothy. It's kind of fun to
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 1: be a princess once in a while, don't you think so?
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: Dorothy and Polychrome and button Bright are all to ride
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: in the chariot, said the lion. So get in, my DearS,
• 3:15:34
  Speaker 1: and be careful not to mar the gold or put
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: your dusty feet on the embroidery. Button Bright was delighted
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 1: to ride behind such a superb team, and he told
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: Dorothy it made him feel like an actor in a circus.
• 3:15:50
  Speaker 1: As the strides of the animals brought them nearer to
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: the Emerald City, everyone bowed respectfully to the children, as
• 3:15:57
  Speaker 1: well as to the tin woodman tik Tok and the
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: shaggy man, who were following behind. The yellow hen had
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 1: perched upon the back of the chariot, where she could
• 3:16:08
  Speaker 1: tell Dorothy more about her wonderful chickens as they rode.
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: And so the grand chariot came finally to the high
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 1: wall surrounding the city and paused before the magnificent jewel
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 1: studded gates. These were opened by a cheerful looking little
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: man who wore green spectacles over his eyes. Dorothy introduced
• 3:16:31
  Speaker 1: him to her friends as the guardian of the gates,
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: and they noticed a big bunch of keys suspended on
• 3:16:38
  Speaker 1: the golden chain that hung around his neck. The chariot
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: passed through the outer gates into a fine arched chamber
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: built in the thick wall, and through the inner gates
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: into the streets of the Emerald City. Polychrome exclaimed in
• 3:16:56
  Speaker 1: rapture at the wondrous beauty that met her eyes on
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 1: every side as they rode through this stately and imposing city,
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: the equal of which has never been discovered even in fairyland.
• 3:17:09
  Speaker 1: Button Bright could only say, my, so amazing was the sight.
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 1: But his eyes were wide open, and he tried to
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: look in every direction at the same time so as
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: not to miss anything. The shaggy man was fairly astounded
• 3:17:27
  Speaker 1: at what he saw, for the graceful and handsome buildings
• 3:17:30
  Speaker 1: were covered with plates of gold and set with emeralds
• 3:17:34
  Speaker 1: so splendid and valuable that in any other part of
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: the world any one of them would have been worth
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: a fortune to its owner. The sidewalks were superb marble slabs,
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: polished as smooth as glass, and the curbs that separated
• 3:17:50
  Speaker 1: the walks from the broad street were also set thick
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 1: with clustered emeralds. There were many people on these walks, men, women,
• 3:17:59
  Speaker 1: and children, all dressed in handsome garments of silk or
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: satin or velvet, with beautiful jewels. Better even than this,
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: all seemed happy and contented, for their faces were smiling
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 1: and free from care, and music and laughter might be
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 1: heard on every side. Don't they work at all? Asked
• 3:18:24
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man. To be sure they work, replied the
• 3:18:28
  Speaker 1: tin woodman. This fair city could not be built or
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 1: cared for without labor, nor could the fruit and vegetables
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 1: and other food be provided for the inhabitants to eat.
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 1: But no one works more than half his time, and
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 1: the people of oz enjoy their labors as much as
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: they do their play. It's wonderful, declared the shaggy man.
• 3:18:51
  Speaker 1: I do hope Ozma will let me live here. The chariot,
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 1: winding through many charming streets, paused before a building so
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: vast and noble and elegant that even button Bright guessed
• 3:19:06
  Speaker 1: at once that it was the Royal Palace. Its gardens
• 3:19:10
  Speaker 1: and ample grounds were surrounded by a separate wall, not
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 1: so high or thick as the wall around the city,
• 3:19:17
  Speaker 1: but more daintily designed and built, all of green marble.
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: The gates flew open as the chariot appeared before them,
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: and the cowardly lion and hungry tiger trotted up a
• 3:19:30
  Speaker 1: jeweled driveway to the front door of the palace and
• 3:19:33
  Speaker 1: stopped short. Here we are, said Dorothy Gaily, and helped
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 1: Button Bright from the chariot. Polychrome leaped out lightly after them.
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: And they were greeted by a crowd of gorgeously dressed servants,
• 3:19:50
  Speaker 1: who bowed low as the visitors mounted the marble steps.
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 1: At their head was a pretty little maid with dark
• 3:19:57
  Speaker 1: hair and eyes, dressed all in green embroidered with silver.
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: Dorothy ran up to her with evident pleasure and exclaimed, Oh,
• 3:20:07
  Speaker 1: Julia jamb I'm so glad to see you again. Where's
• 3:20:11
  Speaker 1: Ozma in her room, your highness, replied the little maid demurely,
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 1: For this was Ozma's favorite attendant. She wishes you to
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: come to her as soon as you have rested and
• 3:20:24
  Speaker 1: changed your dress. Princess Dorothy and you and your friends
• 3:20:28
  Speaker 1: are to dine with her this evening. When is her birthday,
• 3:20:34
  Speaker 1: Julia asked the girl, Day after tomorrow, your highness. And
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: where's the scarecrow. He's gone into the Munchkin country to
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: get some fresh straw to stuff himself with in honor
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: of Ozma's celebration, replied the maid. He returns to the
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 1: Emerald City tomorrow, he said. By this time Tik Tok,
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: the tin Woodman, and the Shaggy Man had arrived, and
• 3:21:04
  Speaker 1: the chariot had gone around to the back of the palace.
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: Billina going with the Lion and Tiger to see her
• 3:21:09
  Speaker 1: chickens after her absence from them, but Toto stayed close
• 3:21:14
  Speaker 1: beside Dorothy. Come in, please, said Jelia jamb. It shall
• 3:21:21
  Speaker 1: be our pleasant duty to escort all of you to
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: the rooms prepared for your use. The shaggy Man hesitated.
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 1: Dorothy had never known him to be ashamed of his
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 1: shaggy looks before, but now that he was surrounded by
• 3:21:36
  Speaker 1: so much magnificence and splendor, the shaggy Man felt sadly
• 3:21:40
  Speaker 1: out of place. Dorothy assured him that all her friends
• 3:21:45
  Speaker 1: were welcome at Ozma's palace, so he carefully dusted his
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 1: shaggy shoes with his shaggy handkerchief and entered the grand
• 3:21:53
  Speaker 1: hall after the others. Tik Tok lived at the royal Palace,
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 1: and the tin Woodman always had the same room whenever
• 3:22:03
  Speaker 1: he visited Ozma, so these two went at once to
• 3:22:06
  Speaker 1: remove the dust of the journey from their shining bodies.
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 1: Dorothy also had a pretty suite of rooms which she
• 3:22:14
  Speaker 1: always occupied when in the Emerald City, but several servants
• 3:22:18
  Speaker 1: walked ahead politely to show the way. Although she was
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 1: quite sure she could find the rooms herself. She took
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 1: Button Bright with her, because he seemed too small to
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 1: be left alone in such a big palace. But Jelia
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 1: jamb herself ushered the beautiful daughter of the Rainbow to
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 1: her apartments, because it was easy to see that polychrome
• 3:22:38
  Speaker 1: was used to splendid palaces, and was therefore entitled to
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: special attention. End of Chapter eighteen, Chapter nineteen, The shaggy
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 1: Man's Welcome. The shaggy man stood in the great Hall,
• 3:22:58
  Speaker 1: his shaggy hat in his hands, wondering what would become
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 1: of him. He had never been a guest in a
• 3:23:06
  Speaker 1: fine palace before. Perhaps he had never been a guest
• 3:23:10
  Speaker 1: anywhere in the big, cold outside world. People did not
• 3:23:15
  Speaker 1: invite shaggy men to their homes, and this shaggy man
• 3:23:19
  Speaker 1: of ours had slept more in hay lofts and stables
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 1: than in comfortable rooms. When the others left the great hall,
• 3:23:28
  Speaker 1: he eyed the splendidly dressed servants of the Princess Ozma
• 3:23:32
  Speaker 1: as if he expected to be ordered out. But one
• 3:23:35
  Speaker 1: of them bowed before him as respectfully as if he
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 1: had been a prince, and said, permit me, sir, to
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 1: conduct you to your apartments. The shaggy man drew a
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: long breath and took courage very well, he answered, I'm ready.
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 1: Through the big hall. They went up the ground and
• 3:24:00
  Speaker 1: staircase carpeted thick with velvet, and so along a wide
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 1: corridor to a carved doorway. Here the servant paused, and,
• 3:24:10
  Speaker 1: opening the door, said, with polite deference, be good enough
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 1: to enter, sir, and make yourself at home in the
• 3:24:18
  Speaker 1: rooms our Royal Ozma has ordered prepared for you. Whatever
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: you see is for you to use and enjoy as
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: if your own. The Princess dines at seven, and I
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 1: shall be here in time to lead you to the
• 3:24:32
  Speaker 1: drawing room, where you will be privileged to meet the
• 3:24:36
  Speaker 1: lovely ruler of oz Is there any command in the
• 3:24:40
  Speaker 1: meantime with which you desire to honor me? No, said
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: the shaggy man, but I'm much obliged. He entered the
• 3:24:51
  Speaker 1: room and shut the door, and for a time stood
• 3:24:55
  Speaker 1: in bewilderment, admiring the grandeur before him. He had been
• 3:25:02
  Speaker 1: given one of the handsomest apartments in the most magnificent
• 3:25:06
  Speaker 1: palace in the world, and you cannot wonder that his
• 3:25:09
  Speaker 1: good fortune astonished and awed him until he grew used
• 3:25:12
  Speaker 1: to his surroundings. The furniture was upholstered in cloth of gold,
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: with the royal crown embroidered upon it in scarlet. The
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 1: rug upon the marble floor was so thick and soft
• 3:25:27
  Speaker 1: that he could not hear the sound of his own footsteps.
• 3:25:30
  Speaker 1: And upon the walls were splendid tapestries woven with scenes
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: from the land of Oz. Books and ornaments were scattered
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: about in profusion, and the shaggy Man thought he had
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: never seen so many pretty things in one place before.
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 1: In one corner played a tinkling fountain of perfumed water,
• 3:25:54
  Speaker 1: and in another was a table bearing a golden tray
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: loaded with freshly gathered fruit, including several of the red
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: cheeked apples that the shaggy Man loved. At the farther
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 1: end of this charming room was an open doorway, and
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 1: he crossed over to find himself in a bedroom containing
• 3:26:13
  Speaker 1: more comforts than the shaggy Man had ever before imagined.
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: The bedstead was of gold and set with many brilliant diamonds,
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 1: and the coverlet had designs of pearls and rubies sewn
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 1: upon it. At one side of the bedroom was a
• 3:26:32
  Speaker 1: dainty dressing room with closets containing a large assortment of
• 3:26:36
  Speaker 1: fresh clothing. And beyond this was the bath, a large
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: room having a marble pool big enough to swim in,
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: with white marble steps leading down to the water. Around
• 3:26:50
  Speaker 1: the edge of the pool were set rows of fine
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: emeralds as large as door knobs, while the water of
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: the bath was clear as crystal. For a time, the
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: shaggy man gazed upon all this luxury with silent amazement.
• 3:27:07
  Speaker 1: Then he decided, being wise in his way, to take
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: advantage of his good fortune. He removed his shaggy boots
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 1: and his shaggy clothing and bathed in the pool with
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: rare enjoyment. After he had dried himself with the soft towels,
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: he went into the dressing room and took fresh linen
• 3:27:27
  Speaker 1: from the drawers and put it on. Finding that everything
• 3:27:30
  Speaker 1: fitted him exactly, he examined the contents of the closets
• 3:27:36
  Speaker 1: and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 1: about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 1: he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now
• 3:27:49
  Speaker 1: be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man. His
• 3:27:55
  Speaker 1: coat was of rose colored velvet, trimmed with shags and bobtails,
• 3:28:00
  Speaker 1: with buttons of blood red rubies and golden shags around
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 1: the edges. His vest was a shaggy satin of a
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 1: delicate cream color, and his knee breeches of rose velvet,
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: trimmed like the coat. Shaggy creamy stockings of silk, and
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: shaggy slippers of rose leather with ruby buckles completed his costume.
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 1: And when he was thus attired, the shaggy man looked
• 3:28:27
  Speaker 1: at himself in a long mirror with great admiration. On
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: a table he found a mother of pearl chest decorated
• 3:28:36
  Speaker 1: with delicate silver vines and flowers of clustered rubies, and
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: on the cover was a silver plate engraved with these words.
• 3:28:46
  Speaker 1: The shaggy Man his box of ornaments. The chest was
• 3:28:52
  Speaker 1: not locked, so he opened it and was almost dazzled
• 3:28:56
  Speaker 1: by the brilliance of the rich jewels it contained. After
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 1: admiring the pretty things, he took out a fine golden
• 3:29:04
  Speaker 1: watch with a big chain, several handsome finger rings, and
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 1: an ornament of rubies to pin upon the breast of
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: his shaggy shirt bosom. Having carefully brushed his hair and
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 1: whiskers all the wrong way to make them look as
• 3:29:19
  Speaker 1: shaggy as possible. The shaggy man breathed a deep sigh
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  Speaker 1: of joy and decided he was ready to meet the
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  Speaker 1: royal Princess as soon as she sent for him. While
• 3:29:31
  Speaker 1: he waited, he returned to the beautiful sitting room and
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  Speaker 1: ate several of the red cheeked apples to pass away
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  Speaker 1: the time. Meanwhile, Dorothy had dressed herself in a pretty
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  Speaker 1: gown of soft gray embroidered with silver, and put a
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  Speaker 1: blue and gold suit of satin upon little Button Bright,
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  Speaker 1: who looked as sweet as a cherub in it, followed
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  Speaker 1: by the boy and Toto the dog, with a new
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  Speaker 1: green ribbon around his neck. She hastened down to the
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  Speaker 1: splendid drawing room of the palace, where seated upon an
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  Speaker 1: exquisite throne of carved malachite, and nestled amongst its green
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  Speaker 1: satin cushions, was the lovely Princess Ozma, waiting eagerly to
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  Speaker 1: welcome her friend. End of Chapter nineteen, Chapter twenty, Princess
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  Speaker 1: Ozma of Oz. The royal historians of Oz, who are
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  Speaker 1: fine writers and know any number of big words, have
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 1: often tried to describe the rare beauty of Ozma, and
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 1: failed because the words were not good enough. So, of
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: course I cannot hope to tell you how great was
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  Speaker 1: the charm of this little princess, or how her loveliness
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  Speaker 1: put to shame all the sparkling jewels and magnificent luxury
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  Speaker 1: that surrounded her in this her royal palace. Whatever else
• 3:31:02
  Speaker 1: was beautiful or dainty or delightful of itself faded to
• 3:31:06
  Speaker 1: dullness when contrasted with Ozma's bewitching face. And it has
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 1: often been said by those who know, that no other
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  Speaker 1: ruler in all the world can ever hope to equal
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  Speaker 1: the gracious charm of her manner. Everything about Ozma attracted one,
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 1: and she inspired love and the sweetest affection rather than
• 3:31:29
  Speaker 1: awe or ordinary admiration. Dorothy threw her arms around her
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: little friend and hugged and kissed her rapturously, and Toto
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 1: barked joyfully, and Button Bright smiled a happy smile, and
• 3:31:44
  Speaker 1: consented to sit on the soft cushions close beside the princess.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you send me word you were going to
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  Speaker 1: have a birthday party, asked the little Kansas girl when
• 3:31:56
  Speaker 1: the first greetings were over. Didn't I asked Ozma, her
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  Speaker 1: pretty eyes dancing with merriment. Did you, replied Dorothy, trying
• 3:32:09
  Speaker 1: to think. Who do you imagine, Dear mixed up those
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 1: roads so as to start you wandering in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of oz inquired the princess. Oh. I never suspected you
• 3:32:23
  Speaker 1: of that, cried Dorothy. I've watched you in my magic
• 3:32:29
  Speaker 1: picture all the way here, declared Ozma. And twice I
• 3:32:34
  Speaker 1: thought I should have to use the magic belt to
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 1: save you and transport you to the Emerald City. Once
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 1: was when the Schoodlers caught you, and again when you
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: reached the Deadly desert. But the Shaggy Man was able
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: to help you out both times, so I did not interfere.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know who Button Bright is? Asked Dorothy. No,
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  Speaker 1: I never saw him until you found him in the road,
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  Speaker 1: and then only in my magic picture. And did you
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  Speaker 1: send Polly to us? No, Dear, the Rainbow's daughter slid
• 3:33:11
  Speaker 1: from her father's pretty arch just in time to meet you, well,
• 3:33:17
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy. I've promised King Dox of Foxville and King
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  Speaker 1: kick Abrae of Duncanon that i'd ask you to invite
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  Speaker 1: them to your party. I have already done that, returned Ozma,
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  Speaker 1: because I thought it would please you to favor them.
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  Speaker 1: Did you invite the musicer, asked button Bright. No, because
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 1: he would be too noisy and might interfere with the
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  Speaker 1: comfort of others. When music is not very good and
• 3:33:50
  Speaker 1: is indulged in all the time, it is better that
• 3:33:53
  Speaker 1: the performer should be alone, said the princess. I like
• 3:33:59
  Speaker 1: the musicer music, declared the boy gravely. But I don't,
• 3:34:05
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy. Well, there will be plenty of music at
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 1: my celebration, promised Ozma. So I've an idea button Bright
• 3:34:14
  Speaker 1: won't miss the musicer at all. Just then, Polychrome danced in,
• 3:34:20
  Speaker 1: and Ozma rose to greet the Rainbow's daughter in her
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 1: sweetest and most cordial manner. Dorothy thought she had never
• 3:34:28
  Speaker 1: seen two prettier creatures together than these lovely maidens. But
• 3:34:34
  Speaker 1: Polly knew at once her own dainty beauty could not
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: match that of Ozma, yet was not a bit jealous
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: because this was so. The Wizard of oz was announced,
• 3:34:45
  Speaker 1: and a dried up little old man clothed all in
• 3:34:49
  Speaker 1: black entered the drawing room. His face was cheery and
• 3:34:53
  Speaker 1: his eyes twinkling with humor, so Polly and button Bright
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 1: were not at all afraid of the wonderful personage whose
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 1: fame as a humbug magician had spread throughout the world.
• 3:35:06
  Speaker 1: After greeting Dorothy with much affection, he stood modestly behind
• 3:35:10
  Speaker 1: Ozma's throne and listened to the lively prattle of the
• 3:35:14
  Speaker 1: young people. Now the shaggy Man appeared, and so startling
• 3:35:20
  Speaker 1: was his appearance, all clad in shaggy new raiment that
• 3:35:25
  Speaker 1: Dorothy cried oh and clasped her hands impulsively as she
• 3:35:30
  Speaker 1: examined her friend with pleased eyes. He's still shaggy, all right,
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 1: remarked Button bright and Ozma nodded brightly, because she had
• 3:35:41
  Speaker 1: meant the shaggy Man to remain shaggy when she provided
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 1: his new clothes for him. Dorothy led him toward the throne,
• 3:35:50
  Speaker 1: as he was shy in such fine company, and presented
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: him gracefully to the princess, saying, this, your Highness, is
• 3:36:00
  Speaker 1: my friend, the shaggy man who owns the love magnet.
• 3:36:06
  Speaker 1: You are welcome to oz said the girl ruler, in
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 1: gracious accents. But tell me, sir, where did you get
• 3:36:14
  Speaker 1: the love magnet which you say you own. The shaggy
• 3:36:19
  Speaker 1: man grew red and looked downcast, as he answered in
• 3:36:23
  Speaker 1: a low voice, I stole it, your majesty, Oh shaggy man,
• 3:36:31
  Speaker 1: cried Dorothy, how dreadful. And you told me the Esquimaux
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: gave you the love magnet. He shuffled, first on one
• 3:36:40
  Speaker 1: foot and then on the other, much embarrassed. I told
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: you a falsehood, Dorothy, he said. But now having bathed
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 1: in the truth pond, I must tell nothing but the truth.
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 1: Why did you steal it, asked Ozma gently. Because no
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: one loved me or cared for me, said the shaggy man,
• 3:37:05
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to be loved a great deal. It
• 3:37:08
  Speaker 1: was owned by a girl in Butterfield, who was loved
• 3:37:11
  Speaker 1: too much, so that the young men quarreled over her,
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 1: which made her unhappy. After I had stolen the magnet
• 3:37:18
  Speaker 1: from her, only one young man continued to love the girl,
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  Speaker 1: and she married him and regained her happiness. Are you
• 3:37:27
  Speaker 1: sorry you stole it, asked the princess. No, your highness,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad, he answered, for it has pleased me to
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 1: be loved. And if Dorothy had not cared for me,
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  Speaker 1: I could not have accompanied her to this beautiful land
• 3:37:41
  Speaker 1: of oz Or met its kind hearted ruler now that
• 3:37:46
  Speaker 1: I'm here. I hope to remain and to become one
• 3:37:49
  Speaker 1: of your Majesty's most faithful subjects. But in oz we
• 3:37:56
  Speaker 1: are loved for ourselves alone, and for our kindness to
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 1: one another, and for our good deeds. She said, I'll
• 3:38:05
  Speaker 1: give up the love magnet, said the shaggy Man eagerly.
• 3:38:08
  Speaker 1: Dorothy shall have it. But everyone loves Dorothy, already, declared
• 3:38:14
  Speaker 1: the wizard. Then Button Bright shall have it. Don't want it,
• 3:38:20
  Speaker 1: said the boy promptly. Then I'll give it to the Wizard,
• 3:38:24
  Speaker 1: for I'm sure the lovely Princess Ozma does not need it.
• 3:38:29
  Speaker 1: All my people love the wizard too, announced the princess, laughing.
• 3:38:34
  Speaker 1: So we will hang the love magnet over the gates
• 3:38:36
  Speaker 1: of the Emerald City, that whoever shall enter or leave
• 3:38:40
  Speaker 1: the gates may be loved and loving. That is a
• 3:38:45
  Speaker 1: good idea, said the shaggy Man. I agree to it
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 1: most willingly. Those assembled now went in to dinner, which
• 3:38:55
  Speaker 1: you may imagine was a grand affair, and afterward Ozma
• 3:38:59
  Speaker 1: asked the Wizard to give them an exhibition of his magic.
• 3:39:04
  Speaker 1: The wizard took eight tiny white piglets from an inside
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 1: pocket and set them on the table one was dressed
• 3:39:11
  Speaker 1: like a clown and performed funny antics, and the others
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: leaped over the spoons and dishes, and ran around the
• 3:39:18
  Speaker 1: table like race horses, and turned hand springs, and were
• 3:39:22
  Speaker 1: so sprightly and amusing that they kept the company in
• 3:39:26
  Speaker 1: one roar of merry laughter. The wizard had trained these
• 3:39:31
  Speaker 1: pets to do many curious things, and they were so
• 3:39:34
  Speaker 1: little and so cunning and soft that Polychrome loved to
• 3:39:38
  Speaker 1: pick them up as they passed near her place and
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 1: fondle them as if they were kittens. It was late
• 3:39:46
  Speaker 1: when the entertainment ended, and they separated to go to
• 3:39:49
  Speaker 1: their rooms. Tomorrow, said Ozma. My invited guests will arrive,
• 3:39:56
  Speaker 1: and you will find among them some interesting and curious people.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you. The next day will be my birthday,
• 3:40:05
  Speaker 1: and the festivities will be held on the broad Green,
• 3:40:09
  Speaker 1: just outside the gates of the city, where all my
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 1: people can assemble without being crowded. I hope the scarecrow
• 3:40:17
  Speaker 1: won't be late, said Dorothy anxiously. Oh, he is sure
• 3:40:22
  Speaker 1: to return tomorrow, answered Ozma. He wanted new straw to
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 1: stuff himself with, so he went to the Munchkin country,
• 3:40:30
  Speaker 1: where straw is plentiful. With this, the princess bade her
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 1: guests good night and went to her own room. End
• 3:40:40
  Speaker 1: of chapter twenty Chapter twenty one, Dorothy receives the guests.
• 3:40:50
  Speaker 1: Next morning, Dorothy's breakfast was served in her own pretty
• 3:40:54
  Speaker 1: sitting room, and she sent to invite Polly and the
• 3:40:57
  Speaker 1: Shaggy Man to join her and Button bright at the men.
• 3:41:01
  Speaker 1: They came gladly, and Toto also had breakfast with them,
• 3:41:05
  Speaker 1: so that the little party that had traveled together to
• 3:41:08
  Speaker 1: Oz was once more reunited. No sooner had they finished
• 3:41:13
  Speaker 1: eating than they heard the distant blast of many trumpets
• 3:41:17
  Speaker 1: and the sound of a brass band playing martial music.
• 3:41:21
  Speaker 1: So they all went out upon the balcony. This was
• 3:41:25
  Speaker 1: at the front of the palace and overlooked the streets
• 3:41:27
  Speaker 1: of the city, Being higher than the wall that shut
• 3:41:31
  Speaker 1: in the palace grounds. They saw approaching down the street
• 3:41:35
  Speaker 1: a band of musicians playing as hard and loud as
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 1: they could, while the people of the Emerald City crowded
• 3:41:42
  Speaker 1: the sidewalks and cheered so lustily that they almost drowned
• 3:41:46
  Speaker 1: the noise of the drums and horns. Dorothy looked to
• 3:41:51
  Speaker 1: see what they were cheering at, and discovered that behind
• 3:41:55
  Speaker 1: the band was the famous Scarecrow, riding proudly upon the
• 3:41:59
  Speaker 1: back of a wooden saw horse, which pranced along the
• 3:42:03
  Speaker 1: street almost as gracefully as if it had been made
• 3:42:06
  Speaker 1: of flesh. Its hoofs, or rather the ends of its
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 1: wooden legs, were shod with plates of solid gold, and
• 3:42:15
  Speaker 1: the saddle strapped to the wooden body was richly embroidered
• 3:42:19
  Speaker 1: and glittered with jewels. As he reached the palace, the
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: scarecrow looked up and saw Dorothy, and at once waved
• 3:42:29
  Speaker 1: his peaked hat at her in greeting. He rode up
• 3:42:32
  Speaker 1: to the front door and dismounted, and the band stopped
• 3:42:35
  Speaker 1: playing and went away, and the crowds of people returned
• 3:42:39
  Speaker 1: to their dwellings. By the time Dorothy and her friends
• 3:42:45
  Speaker 1: had re entered her room, the Scarecrow was there, and
• 3:42:48
  Speaker 1: he gave the girl a hearty embrace and shook hands
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 1: of the others with his own squashy hands, which were
• 3:42:55
  Speaker 1: white gloves filled with straw. The shaggy man, button bright
• 3:43:00
  Speaker 1: and polychrome, stared hard at this celebrated person, who was
• 3:43:05
  Speaker 1: acknowledged to be the most popular and most beloved man
• 3:43:08
  Speaker 1: in all the land of Oz. Why your face has
• 3:43:13
  Speaker 1: been newly painted, exclaimed Dorothy, when the first greetings were over.
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 1: I had it touched up a bit by the munchkin
• 3:43:21
  Speaker 1: farmer who first made me, answered the scarecrow pleasantly. My
• 3:43:26
  Speaker 1: complexion had become a bit gray and faded, you know,
• 3:43:29
  Speaker 1: and the paint had peeled off one end of my mouth,
• 3:43:32
  Speaker 1: so I couldn't talk quite straight. Now I feel like
• 3:43:35
  Speaker 1: myself again, and I may say, without immodesty, that my
• 3:43:39
  Speaker 1: body is stuffed with the loveliest oat straw in all
• 3:43:42
  Speaker 1: oz He pushed against his chest. Hear me crunkle, he asked, Yes,
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy, you sound fine. Button Bright was wonderfully attracted
• 3:43:57
  Speaker 1: by the straw man, and so was Polly. The shaggy
• 3:44:01
  Speaker 1: man treated him with great respect because he was so
• 3:44:04
  Speaker 1: queerly made. Jelia jamb now came to say that Ozma
• 3:44:10
  Speaker 1: wanted Princess Dorothy to receive the invited guests in the
• 3:44:14
  Speaker 1: throne room as they arrived. The ruler was herself busy
• 3:44:18
  Speaker 1: ordering the preparations for the morrow's festivities, so she wished
• 3:44:22
  Speaker 1: her friend to act in her place. Dorothy willingly agreed,
• 3:44:28
  Speaker 1: being the only other princess in the Emerald City, so
• 3:44:32
  Speaker 1: she went to the great throne room and sat in
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 1: Ozma's seat, placing Polly on one side of her and
• 3:44:38
  Speaker 1: Button Bright on the other. The Scarecrow stood at the
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 1: left of the throne and the tin Woodman at the right,
• 3:44:45
  Speaker 1: while the Wonderful Wizard and the Shaggy Man stood behind.
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: The Cowardly Lion and the hungry Tiger came in with
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: bright new bows of ribbon on their collars and tails.
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 1: After greeting Dorothy affectionately, the huge beasts lay down at
• 3:45:01
  Speaker 1: the foot of the throne. While they waited. The scarecrow,
• 3:45:06
  Speaker 1: who was near the little boy, asked, why are you
• 3:45:10
  Speaker 1: called Button Bright? Don't know? Was the answer. Oh, yes
• 3:45:17
  Speaker 1: you do, dear, said Dorothy. Tell the scarecrow how you
• 3:45:20
  Speaker 1: got your name. Papa always said I was bright as
• 3:45:25
  Speaker 1: a button, so Mama always called me Button Bright, announced
• 3:45:29
  Speaker 1: to the boy. Where is your mama, asked the scarecrow.
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: Don't know, said Button Bright. Where is your home, asked
• 3:45:40
  Speaker 1: the scarecrow. Don't know, said Button Bright. Don't you want
• 3:45:46
  Speaker 1: to find your mamma again, asked the scarecrow. Don't know,
• 3:45:51
  Speaker 1: said Button Bright. Calmly. The scarecrow looked, thoughtful, your Papa
• 3:45:58
  Speaker 1: may have been right observed. But there are many kinds
• 3:46:02
  Speaker 1: of buttons. You see. There are silver and gold buttons,
• 3:46:06
  Speaker 1: which are highly polished and glitter brightly. There are pearl
• 3:46:11
  Speaker 1: and rubber buttons, and other kinds with surfaces more or
• 3:46:15
  Speaker 1: less bright. But there is still another sort of button
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: which is covered with dull cloth. And that must be
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: the sort your papa meant when he said you were
• 3:46:23
  Speaker 1: bright as a button. Don't you think so? Don't know,
• 3:46:28
  Speaker 1: said button bright Jack Pumpkinhead arrived wearing a pair of
• 3:46:34
  Speaker 1: new white kid gloves, and he brought a birthday present
• 3:46:37
  Speaker 1: for Ozma, consisting of a necklace of pumpkin seeds. In
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 1: each seed was set a sparkling carolite, which is considered
• 3:46:45
  Speaker 1: the rarest and most beautiful gem that exists. The necklace
• 3:46:50
  Speaker 1: was in a plush case, and Julia Jamb put it
• 3:46:53
  Speaker 1: on a table with Princess Ozma's other presents. Next came
• 3:46:58
  Speaker 1: a tall, beautiful woman clothed in a splendid trailing gown
• 3:47:03
  Speaker 1: trimmed with exquisite lace as fine as cobweb. This was
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: the important sorceress known as Glinda the Good, who had
• 3:47:12
  Speaker 1: been of great assistance to both Ozma and Dorothy. There
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 1: was no humbug about her magic, you may be sure,
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 1: and Glinda was as kind as she was powerful. She
• 3:47:24
  Speaker 1: greeted Dorothy most lovingly and kissed Button Bright and Polly,
• 3:47:29
  Speaker 1: and smiled upon the shaggy man, after which Julia jamb
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 1: led the sorceress to one of the most magnificent rooms
• 3:47:36
  Speaker 1: of the Royal Palace and appointed fifty servants to wait
• 3:47:40
  Speaker 1: upon her. The next arrival was mister h M. Wogglebug
• 3:47:46
  Speaker 1: t E, the h M meaning highly magnified and the
• 3:47:52
  Speaker 1: t e meaning thoroughly educated. The woggle Bug was head
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: professor at the Royal College of oz and he had
• 3:48:00
  Speaker 1: composed a fine ode in honor of Ozma's birthday. This
• 3:48:05
  Speaker 1: he wanted to read to them, but the scarecrow wouldn't
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 1: let him. Soon they heard a clucking sound and a
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 1: chorus a cheap cheap, and a servant threw open the
• 3:48:17
  Speaker 1: door to allow Billina and her ten fluffy chicks to
• 3:48:21
  Speaker 1: enter the throne room. As the yellow hen marched proudly
• 3:48:25
  Speaker 1: at the head of her family, Dorothy cried, oh, you
• 3:48:29
  Speaker 1: lovely things, and ran down from her seat to pet
• 3:48:33
  Speaker 1: the little yellow downy balls. Billina wore a pearl necklace,
• 3:48:38
  Speaker 1: and around the neck of each chicken was a tiny
• 3:48:41
  Speaker 1: gold chain holding a locket with the letter D engraved
• 3:48:45
  Speaker 1: upon the outside. Open the locket's, Dorothy, said Billina. The
• 3:48:53
  Speaker 1: girl obeyed and found a picture of herself in each locket.
• 3:48:58
  Speaker 1: They were named after you, my dear, continued the yellow hen.
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 1: So I wanted all my chickens to wear your picture. Cluck, cluck,
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 1: come here, Dorothy, this minute, she cried. For the chickens
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: were scattered and wandering all around the big room. They
• 3:49:15
  Speaker 1: obeyed the call at once and came running as fast
• 3:49:18
  Speaker 1: as they could, fluttering their fluffy wings in a laughable way.
• 3:49:24
  Speaker 1: It was lucky that Billina gathered the little ones under
• 3:49:26
  Speaker 1: her soft breast. Just then, for tik Tok came in
• 3:49:30
  Speaker 1: and tramped up to the throne on his flat copper feet.
• 3:49:34
  Speaker 1: I am all wound up and working finely, said the
• 3:49:38
  Speaker 1: clockwork man to Dorothy. I can hear him, tick, declared,
• 3:49:43
  Speaker 1: Button bright, you are quite the polished gentleman, said the
• 3:49:48
  Speaker 1: tin woodman. Stand up here beside the shaggy man tik Tok,
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 1: and help receive the company. Dorothy placed soft cushions in
• 3:49:57
  Speaker 1: a corner for Billina and her chicks, and had just
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: returned to the throne and seated herself when the playing
• 3:50:04
  Speaker 1: of the Royal band outside the palace announced the approach
• 3:50:07
  Speaker 1: of distinguished guests. And my, how they did stare when
• 3:50:14
  Speaker 1: the High Chamberlain threw open the doors and the visitors
• 3:50:17
  Speaker 1: entered the throne room. First walked a gingerbread man, neatly
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 1: formed and baked to a lovely brown tint. He wore
• 3:50:28
  Speaker 1: a silk hat and carried a candy cane prettily striped
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 1: with red and yellow. His shirt front and cuffs were
• 3:50:35
  Speaker 1: white frosting, and the buttons on his coat were licorice drops.
• 3:50:41
  Speaker 1: Behind the gingerbread man came a child with flaxen hair
• 3:50:45
  Speaker 1: and merry blue eyes, dressed in white pajamas with sandals
• 3:50:50
  Speaker 1: on the soles of its pretty bare feet. The child
• 3:50:53
  Speaker 1: looked around, smiling and thrust its hands into the pockets
• 3:50:57
  Speaker 1: of the pajamas. Close after it came a big rubber bear,
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  Speaker 1: walking erect on its hind feet. The bear had twinkling
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  Speaker 1: black eyes, and its body looked as if it had
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  Speaker 1: been pumped full of air. Following these curious visitors were
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: two tall, thin men and two short, fat men, all
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  Speaker 1: four dressed in gorgeous uniforms. Ozma's High Chamberlain now hurried
• 3:51:25
  Speaker 1: forward to announce the names of the new arrivals, calling
• 3:51:28
  Speaker 1: out in a loud voice, his gracious and most edible
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  Speaker 1: Majesty King Doe, the first ruler of the two kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of Highland and Lowland, also the head booleywag of his Majesty,
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  Speaker 1: known as Chick the Cherub, and their faithful friend Para
• 3:51:47
  Speaker 1: Brewin the Rubber Bear. These great personages bowed low as
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  Speaker 1: their names were called, and Dorothy hastened to introduce them
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  Speaker 1: to the assembled company. They were the first foreign arrivals,
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  Speaker 1: and the friends of Princess Ozma were polite to them
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  Speaker 1: and tried to make them feel that they were welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Chick the Cherub shook hands with every one, including Billina,
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  Speaker 1: and was so joyous and frank and full of good
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  Speaker 1: spirits that John Doe's head bullywag at once became a
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  Speaker 1: prime favorite. Is it a boy or a girl? Whispered Dorothy,
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  Speaker 1: don't know, said Button. Bright goodness me, what a queer
• 3:52:35
  Speaker 1: lot of people you are, exclaimed the Rubber Bear, looking
• 3:52:38
  Speaker 1: at the assembled company. So are you, said Button, bright
• 3:52:43
  Speaker 1: gravely is King Doe good to eat? He's too good
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  Speaker 1: to eat, laughed Chick the cherub. I hope none of
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  Speaker 1: you are fond of gingerbread, said the king rather anxiously.
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  Speaker 1: We shall never think of eating our visitors if we
• 3:53:02
  Speaker 1: were declared the scarecrow, So please do not worry, for
• 3:53:06
  Speaker 1: you will be perfectly safe while you remain in oz
• 3:53:11
  Speaker 1: Why do they call you chick the yellow hen, asked
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  Speaker 1: the child, Because I'm an incubator baby and never had
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  Speaker 1: any parents, replied the head boolly wag. My chicks have
• 3:53:24
  Speaker 1: a parent, and i'm it, said Billina. I'm glad of that,
• 3:53:30
  Speaker 1: answered the cherub, because they'll have more fun worrying you
• 3:53:34
  Speaker 1: than if they were brought up in an incubator. The
• 3:53:37
  Speaker 1: incubator never worries, you know. King John Doe had brought
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  Speaker 1: for Ozma's birthday present a lovely gingerbread crown with rows
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  Speaker 1: of small pearls around it and a fine big pearl
• 3:53:50
  Speaker 1: in each of its five points. After this had been
• 3:53:54
  Speaker 1: received by Dorothy with proper thanks and placed on the
• 3:53:58
  Speaker 1: table with the other presents, the visitors from high Land
• 3:54:01
  Speaker 1: and Lowland were escorted to their rooms by the High Chamberlain.
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  Speaker 1: They had no sooner departed than the band before the
• 3:54:10
  Speaker 1: Palace began to play again, announcing more arrivals, and as
• 3:54:14
  Speaker 1: these were doubtless from foreign parts, the High Chamberlain hurried
• 3:54:18
  Speaker 1: back to receive them in his most official manner end
• 3:54:24
  Speaker 1: of Chapter twenty one. Chapter twenty two. Important arrivals first
• 3:54:35
  Speaker 1: entered a band of Rills from the Happy Valley, all merry,
• 3:54:39
  Speaker 1: little sprites like fairy elves. A dozen crooked nooks followed
• 3:54:44
  Speaker 1: from the great forest of Burzee. They had long whiskers
• 3:54:48
  Speaker 1: and pointed caps and curling toes, yet were no taller
• 3:54:52
  Speaker 1: than button Bright's shoulder. With this group came a man
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  Speaker 1: so easy to recognize, and so important and dearly bel
• 3:55:00
  Speaker 1: loved throughout the known world, that all present rose to
• 3:55:03
  Speaker 1: their feet and bowed their heads in respectful homage. Even
• 3:55:07
  Speaker 1: before the High Chamberlain knelt to announce his name, the
• 3:55:13
  Speaker 1: most mighty and loyal friend of children, his Supreme Highness,
• 3:55:18
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus, said the Chamberlain in an awed voice. Well well, well,
• 3:55:26
  Speaker 1: glad to see you, Glad to meet you all, cried
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  Speaker 1: Santa Claus briskly, as he trotted up the long room.
• 3:55:34
  Speaker 1: He was round as an apple, with a fresh rosy face,
• 3:55:38
  Speaker 1: laughing eyes, and a bushy beard as white as snow.
• 3:55:42
  Speaker 1: A red cloak trimmed with beautiful ermine hung from his shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and upon his back was a basket filled with pretty
• 3:55:49
  Speaker 1: presents for the Princess Ozma. Hello, Dorothy, still having adventures,
• 3:55:56
  Speaker 1: he asked in his jolly way, as he took the
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  Speaker 1: girl's hand in book with his own. How did you
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  Speaker 1: know my name? Santa? She replied, feeling more shy in
• 3:56:07
  Speaker 1: the presence of this immortal saint than she ever had
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  Speaker 1: before in her young life. Why don't I see you
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  Speaker 1: every Christmas Eve when you're asleep? He rejoined, pinching her
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  Speaker 1: blushing cheek. Oh do you? And here's button Bright, I declare,
• 3:56:26
  Speaker 1: cried Santa Claus, holding up the boy to kiss him.
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  Speaker 1: What a long way from home you are, dear me.
• 3:56:34
  Speaker 1: Do you know Button Bright, too, questioned Dorothy eagerly. Indeed
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 1: I do. I've visited his home several Christmas Eves. And
• 3:56:45
  Speaker 1: do you know his father? Asked the girl. Certainly, my dear,
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  Speaker 1: who else do you suppose brings him his Christmas neckties
• 3:56:55
  Speaker 1: and stockings? With a sly wink at the wizard, then
• 3:57:01
  Speaker 1: where does he live? We're just crazy to know, cause
• 3:57:04
  Speaker 1: Button Bright's lost, she said. Santa laughed and laid his
• 3:57:10
  Speaker 1: finger aside of his nose, as if thinking what to reply.
• 3:57:14
  Speaker 1: He leaned over and whispered something in the wizard's ear,
• 3:57:17
  Speaker 1: at which the wizard smiled and nodded as if he understood. Now,
• 3:57:24
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus spied Polychrome and trotted over to where she stood.
• 3:57:30
  Speaker 1: Seems to me the Rainbow's daughter is farther from home
• 3:57:33
  Speaker 1: than any of you, he observed, looking at the pretty
• 3:57:36
  Speaker 1: maiden admiringly. I'll have to tell your father where you are, Polly,
• 3:57:41
  Speaker 1: and send him to get you. Please do, dear Santa Claus,
• 3:57:46
  Speaker 1: implored the little maid, beseechingly. But just now, we must
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 1: all have a jolly good time at Ozma's party, said
• 3:57:55
  Speaker 1: the old gentleman, turning to put his presents on the
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  Speaker 1: table with the others already there. It isn't often I
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: find time to leave my castle, as you know, but
• 3:58:05
  Speaker 1: Ozma invited me, and I just couldn't help coming to
• 3:58:08
  Speaker 1: celebrate the happy occasion. I'm so glad, exclaimed Dorothy. These
• 3:58:16
  Speaker 1: are my rills, pointing to the little sprites squatting around him.
• 3:58:22
  Speaker 1: Their business is to paint the colors of the flowers
• 3:58:24
  Speaker 1: when they bud and bloom. But I brought the merry
• 3:58:27
  Speaker 1: fellows along to see oz and they've left their paint
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 1: pots behind them. Also, I brought these crooked knooks, whom
• 3:58:35
  Speaker 1: I love, my DearS. The knooks are much nicer than
• 3:58:39
  Speaker 1: they look. For their duty is to water and care
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 1: for the young trees of the forest, and they do
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 1: their work faithfully and well. It's hard work, though, and
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 1: it makes my nooks crooked and gnarled like the trees themselves.
• 3:58:53
  Speaker 1: But their hearts are big and kind, as are the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of all who do good in our beautiful world.
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  Speaker 1: I've read of the rills and knooks, said Dorothy, looking
• 3:59:05
  Speaker 1: upon these little workers with interest. Santa Claus turned to
• 3:59:10
  Speaker 1: talk with the scarecrow and the tin woodman, and he
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: also said a kind word to the shaggy man, and
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 1: afterward went away to ride the saw horse around the
• 3:59:19
  Speaker 1: Emerald city. Four, said he, I must see all the
• 3:59:24
  Speaker 1: grand sights while I am here and have the chance.
• 3:59:27
  Speaker 1: And Ozma has promised to let me ride the saw horse,
• 3:59:30
  Speaker 1: because I'm getting fat and short of breath. Where are
• 3:59:35
  Speaker 1: your reindeer, asked Polychrome, I left them at home, for
• 3:59:40
  Speaker 1: it is too warm for them in this sunny country.
• 3:59:44
  Speaker 1: He answered, they're used to winter weather when they travel.
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  Speaker 1: In a flash, he was gone, and the rills and
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  Speaker 1: nooks with him, But they could all hear the golden
• 3:59:56
  Speaker 1: hooves of the saw horse ringing on the marble pavement outside,
• 3:59:59
  Speaker 1: as he pranced away with his noble rider. Presently, the
• 4:00:04
  Speaker 1: band played again, and the High Chamberlain announced her Gracious Majesty,
• 4:00:11
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Merryland. They looked earnestly to discover whom
• 4:00:17
  Speaker 1: this Queen might be, and saw advancing up the room
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  Speaker 1: an exquisite wax doll, dressed in dainty fluffs and ruffles
• 4:00:25
  Speaker 1: and spangled gown. She was almost as big as button bright,
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  Speaker 1: and her cheeks and mouth and eyebrows were prettily painted
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 1: in delicate colors. Her blue eyes stared a bit, being
• 4:00:39
  Speaker 1: of glass, Yet the expression upon her Majesty's face was
• 4:00:43
  Speaker 1: quite pleasant and decidedly winning. With the Queen of Merryland
• 4:00:49
  Speaker 1: were four wooden soldiers, two stalking ahead of her with
• 4:00:53
  Speaker 1: much dignity, and two following behind like a royal bodyguard.
• 4:00:59
  Speaker 1: The soldiers were painted in bright colors and carried wooden guns.
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  Speaker 1: And after them came a fat little man who attracted
• 4:01:06
  Speaker 1: attention at once, although he seemed modest and retiring, for
• 4:01:12
  Speaker 1: he was made of candy and carried a tin sugar
• 4:01:16
  Speaker 1: sifter filled with powdered sugar with which he dusted himself frequently,
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  Speaker 1: so that he wouldn't stick to things if he touched them.
• 4:01:25
  Speaker 1: The High Chamberlain had called him the candy Man of Merryland,
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  Speaker 1: and Dorothy saw that one of his thumbs looked as
• 4:01:34
  Speaker 1: if it had been bitten off by someone who was
• 4:01:37
  Speaker 1: fond of candy and couldn't resist the temptation. The wax
• 4:01:43
  Speaker 1: doll queen spoke prettily to Dorothy and the others, and
• 4:01:47
  Speaker 1: sent her loving greetings to Ozma. Before she retired to
• 4:01:50
  Speaker 1: the rooms prepared for her. She had brought a birthday present,
• 4:01:54
  Speaker 1: wrapped in tissue paper and tied with pink and blue ribbons,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the wooden soldiers placed it on the
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  Speaker 1: table with the other gifts. But the candy Man did
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  Speaker 1: not go to his room, because he said he preferred
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  Speaker 1: to stay and talk with the Scarecrow and tik Tok
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  Speaker 1: and the Wizard and tin woodman, whom he declared the
• 4:02:15
  Speaker 1: queerest people he had ever met. Button Bright was glad
• 4:02:20
  Speaker 1: the candy man stayed in the throne room, because the
• 4:02:23
  Speaker 1: boy thought this guest smelled deliciously of winter green and
• 4:02:27
  Speaker 1: maple sugar. The braided man now entered the room, having
• 4:02:33
  Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to receive an invitation to the Princess
• 4:02:36
  Speaker 1: Ozma's party. He was from a cave half way between
• 4:02:41
  Speaker 1: the Invisible Valley and the country of the Gargoyles, and
• 4:02:45
  Speaker 1: his hair and whiskers were so long that he was
• 4:02:49
  Speaker 1: obliged to plait them into many braids that hung to
• 4:02:52
  Speaker 1: his feet, and every braid was tied with a bow
• 4:02:55
  Speaker 1: of colored ribbon. I've brought Princess Ozma a box of
• 4:02:59
  Speaker 1: flutters for her birthday, said the braided man earnestly. And
• 4:03:04
  Speaker 1: I hope she will like them, for they are the
• 4:03:06
  Speaker 1: finest quality I have ever made. I am sure she
• 4:03:12
  Speaker 1: will be greatly pleased, said Dorothy, who remembered the braided
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  Speaker 1: man well. And the Wizard introduced the guest to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the company and made him sit down in
• 4:03:22
  Speaker 1: a chair and keep quiet, for if aloud, he would
• 4:03:25
  Speaker 1: talk continually about his flutters. The band then played a
• 4:03:31
  Speaker 1: welcome to another set of guests, and into the throne
• 4:03:35
  Speaker 1: room swept the handsome and stately Queen of Ev. Beside
• 4:03:40
  Speaker 1: her was young King Evardo, and following them came the
• 4:03:44
  Speaker 1: entire royal family of five princesses and four Princes of Ev.
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  Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Ev lay just across the deadly desert
• 4:03:55
  Speaker 1: to the north of oz And. Once Ozma and her
• 4:03:58
  Speaker 1: people had rescued the Queen of Ev and her ten
• 4:04:01
  Speaker 1: children from the Nome king who had enslaved them, Dorothy
• 4:04:06
  Speaker 1: had been present on this adventure, so she greeted the
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  Speaker 1: royal family cordially, and all the visitors were delighted to
• 4:04:13
  Speaker 1: meet the little Kansas girl again. They knew tik Tok
• 4:04:18
  Speaker 1: and Billina too, and the Scarecrow and tin Woodman, as
• 4:04:22
  Speaker 1: well as the Lion and tiger, so there was a
• 4:04:24
  Speaker 1: joyful reunion, as you may imagine, and it was fully
• 4:04:28
  Speaker 1: an hour before the Queen and her train retired to
• 4:04:31
  Speaker 1: their rooms. Perhaps they would not have gone then had
• 4:04:36
  Speaker 1: not the band begun to play to announce new arrivals.
• 4:04:40
  Speaker 1: But before they left the great throne Room, King Evardo
• 4:04:43
  Speaker 1: added to Ozma's birthday presence a diadem of diamonds set
• 4:04:48
  Speaker 1: in radium. The next comer proved to be King Renard
• 4:04:54
  Speaker 1: of Foxville, or King Dox, as he preferred to be called.
• 4:05:00
  Speaker 1: He was magnificently dressed in a new feather costume and
• 4:05:04
  Speaker 1: wore white kid mittens over his paws and a flower
• 4:05:08
  Speaker 1: in his button hole, and had his hair parted in
• 4:05:11
  Speaker 1: the middle. King Dox thanked Dorothy fervently for getting him
• 4:05:16
  Speaker 1: the invitation to come to Oz, which he had all
• 4:05:19
  Speaker 1: his life longed to visit. He strutted around rather absurdly
• 4:05:25
  Speaker 1: as he was introduced to all the famous people assembled
• 4:05:28
  Speaker 1: in the throne room, and when he learned that Dorothy
• 4:05:32
  Speaker 1: was a Princess of Oz, the Fox King insisted on
• 4:05:35
  Speaker 1: kneeling at her feet, and afterward retired backward, a dangerous
• 4:05:40
  Speaker 1: thing to do, as he might have stubbed his paw
• 4:05:43
  Speaker 1: and tumbled over. No sooner was he gone than the
• 4:05:47
  Speaker 1: blasts of bugles and clatter of drums and cymbals announced
• 4:05:51
  Speaker 1: important visitors, and the High Chamberlain assumed his most dignified
• 4:05:56
  Speaker 1: tone as he threw open the door and said proudly,
• 4:06:01
  Speaker 1: her sublime and resplendent Majesty, Queen Zixie of Is, his
• 4:06:08
  Speaker 1: serene and tremendous Majesty, King Bud of no Land, her
• 4:06:13
  Speaker 1: Royal Highness, the Princess Fluff. That three such high and
• 4:06:20
  Speaker 1: mighty royal personages should arrive at once was enough to
• 4:06:24
  Speaker 1: make Dorothy and her companions grow solemn and assume their
• 4:06:28
  Speaker 1: best company manners. But when the exquisite beauty of Queen
• 4:06:33
  Speaker 1: Zixi met their eyes, they thought they had never beheld
• 4:06:36
  Speaker 1: anything so charming. Dorothy decided that Zixie must be about
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 1: sixteen years old, but the wizard whispered to her that
• 4:06:46
  Speaker 1: this wonderful queen had lived thousands of years but knew
• 4:06:49
  Speaker 1: the secret of remaining always fresh and beautiful. King Bud
• 4:06:55
  Speaker 1: of Noland and his dainty, fair haired sister, the Princess
• 4:06:59
  Speaker 1: Fluff were friends of Zixi as their kingdoms were adjoining,
• 4:07:03
  Speaker 1: so they had traveled together from their far off domains
• 4:07:07
  Speaker 1: to do honor to Ozma of oz on the occasion
• 4:07:10
  Speaker 1: of her birthday. They brought many splendid gifts, so the
• 4:07:15
  Speaker 1: table was now fairly loaded down with presents. Dorothy and
• 4:07:21
  Speaker 1: Polly loved the Princess Fluff the moment they saw her,
• 4:07:25
  Speaker 1: and little King Bud was so frank and boyish that
• 4:07:29
  Speaker 1: button Bright accepted him as a chum at once and
• 4:07:32
  Speaker 1: did not want him to go away. But it was
• 4:07:36
  Speaker 1: afternoon now, and the royal guests must prepare their toilets
• 4:07:40
  Speaker 1: for the grand banquet at which they were to assemble
• 4:07:43
  Speaker 1: that evening to meet the reigning Princess of this Fairyland.
• 4:07:47
  Speaker 1: So Queen ZIXI was shown to her room by a
• 4:07:49
  Speaker 1: troop of maidens led by Julia, jamb and Bud and
• 4:07:53
  Speaker 1: Fluff presently withdrew to their own apartments. My what a
• 4:07:59
  Speaker 1: big party Ozma is going to have, exclaimed Dorothy. I
• 4:08:03
  Speaker 1: guess the palace will be chalk full, button Bright, don't
• 4:08:06
  Speaker 1: you think. So? Don't know, said the boy. But we
• 4:08:12
  Speaker 1: must go to our rooms pretty soon to dress for
• 4:08:15
  Speaker 1: the banquet, continued the girl. I don't have to dress,
• 4:08:20
  Speaker 1: said the candy man from Merryland. All I need do
• 4:08:24
  Speaker 1: is to dust myself with fresh sugar. Tik tok. And
• 4:08:28
  Speaker 1: I always wear the same suits of clothes, said the
• 4:08:31
  Speaker 1: tin woodman, And so does our friend the scarecrow. My
• 4:08:37
  Speaker 1: feathers are good enough for any occasion, cried Billina from
• 4:08:40
  Speaker 1: her corner. Then I shall leave you four to welcome
• 4:08:45
  Speaker 1: any new guests that come, said Dorothy, for button bright
• 4:08:49
  Speaker 1: and I must look our very best at Ozma's banquet.
• 4:08:55
  Speaker 1: Who is still to come, asked the Scarecrow. Well, there's
• 4:09:00
  Speaker 1: King Kikibray of Duncton, and Johnny Dooit and the good
• 4:09:05
  Speaker 1: Witch of the North. But Johnny Dooit may not get
• 4:09:08
  Speaker 1: here until late. He's so very busy. We will receive
• 4:09:13
  Speaker 1: them and give them a proper welcome, promised the Scarecrow.
• 4:09:17
  Speaker 1: So run along, little Dorothy, and get yourself dressed. End
• 4:09:24
  Speaker 1: of Chapter twenty two, Chapter twenty three, The Grand Banquet.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you how fine the company
• 4:09:36
  Speaker 1: was that assembled that evening at Ozma's royal banquet, a
• 4:09:41
  Speaker 1: long table was spread in the center of the great
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 1: dining hall of the palace, and the splendor of the
• 4:09:47
  Speaker 1: decorations and the blaze of lights and jewels was acknowledged
• 4:09:52
  Speaker 1: to be the most magnificent sight that any of the
• 4:09:55
  Speaker 1: guests had ever seen. The jolliest per present, as well
• 4:10:01
  Speaker 1: as the most important, was, of course, Old Santa Claus,
• 4:10:05
  Speaker 1: so he was given the seat of honor at one
• 4:10:08
  Speaker 1: end of the table, while at the other end sat
• 4:10:10
  Speaker 1: Princess Ozma the hostess, John Doe, Queen Zixi, King Bud,
• 4:10:18
  Speaker 1: the Queen of ev and her son Evardo, and the
• 4:10:22
  Speaker 1: Queen of Maryland had golden thrones to sit in, while
• 4:10:25
  Speaker 1: the others were supplied with beautiful chairs. At the upper
• 4:10:31
  Speaker 1: end of the banquet room was a separate table provided
• 4:10:34
  Speaker 1: for the animals. Toto sat at one end of this
• 4:10:38
  Speaker 1: table with a bib tied around his neck and a
• 4:10:41
  Speaker 1: silver platter to eat from. At the other end was
• 4:10:45
  Speaker 1: placed a small stand with a low rail around the
• 4:10:48
  Speaker 1: edge of it for Billina and her chicks. The rail
• 4:10:52
  Speaker 1: kept the ten little dorothys from falling off the stand,
• 4:10:55
  Speaker 1: while the yellow hen could easily reach over and take
• 4:10:58
  Speaker 1: her food from her tray upon the table. At other
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: places sat the hungry Tiger, the cowardly Lion, the sawhorse,
• 4:11:08
  Speaker 1: the rubber bear, the fox King, and the donkey King.
• 4:11:12
  Speaker 1: They made quite a company of animals. At the lower
• 4:11:17
  Speaker 1: end of the great room was another table, at which
• 4:11:20
  Speaker 1: sat the rills and knooks who had come with Santa Claus,
• 4:11:24
  Speaker 1: the wooden soldiers who had come with the Queen of Maryland,
• 4:11:28
  Speaker 1: and the Highlanders and Lowlanders who had come with John Doe.
• 4:11:33
  Speaker 1: Here were also seated the officers of the royal Palace
• 4:11:37
  Speaker 1: and of Ozma's army. The splendid costumes of those at
• 4:11:42
  Speaker 1: the three tables made a gorgeous and glittering display that
• 4:11:46
  Speaker 1: no one present was ever likely to forget. Perhaps there
• 4:11:50
  Speaker 1: has never been in any part of the world, at
• 4:11:53
  Speaker 1: any time another assemblage of such wonderful people as that
• 4:11:58
  Speaker 1: which gathered this evening to eyes under the birthday of
• 4:12:01
  Speaker 1: the Ruler of oz When all the members of the
• 4:12:06
  Speaker 1: company were in their places, an orchestra of five hundred
• 4:12:10
  Speaker 1: pieces in a balcony overlooking the banquet room began to
• 4:12:14
  Speaker 1: play sweet and delightful music. Then a door draped with
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  Speaker 1: royal green opened, and in came the fair and girlish
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  Speaker 1: Princess Ozma, who now greeted her guests in person for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. As she stood by her throne at
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  Speaker 1: the head of the banquet table, every eye was turned
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  Speaker 1: eagerly upon the lovely princess, who was as dignified as
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  Speaker 1: she was bewitching, and who smiled upon all her old
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  Speaker 1: and new friends in a way that touched their hearts
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  Speaker 1: and brought an answering smile to every face. Each guest
• 4:12:52
  Speaker 1: had been served with a crystal goblet filled with la cassa,
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  Speaker 1: which is a sort of nectar famous in oz and Nas,
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  Speaker 1: nicer to drink than soda, water or lemonade. Santa now
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  Speaker 1: made a pretty speech in verse, congratulating Ozma on having
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  Speaker 1: a birthday, and asking every one present to drink the
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  Speaker 1: health and happiness of their dearly beloved hostess. This was
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  Speaker 1: done with great enthusiasm by those who were made so
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  Speaker 1: they could drink at all, and those who could not
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  Speaker 1: drink politely touched the rims of their goblets to their lips.
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  Speaker 1: All seated themselves at the tables, and the servants of
• 4:13:33
  Speaker 1: the princess began serving the feast. I am quite sure
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  Speaker 1: that only in Fairyland could such a delicious repast be prepared.
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  Speaker 1: The dishes were of precious metals, set with brilliant jewels,
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  Speaker 1: and the good things to eat which were placed upon
• 4:13:52
  Speaker 1: them were countless in number and of exquisite flavor. Several
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  Speaker 1: present such as the candy Man, the rubber bear, tik Tok,
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  Speaker 1: and the scarecrow, were not made so they could eat,
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  Speaker 1: and the Queen of Merryland contented herself with a small
• 4:14:09
  Speaker 1: dish of sawdust. But these enjoyed the pomp and glitter
• 4:14:13
  Speaker 1: of the gorgeous scene as much as did those who feasted.
• 4:14:18
  Speaker 1: The woggle Bug read his ode to Ozma, which was
• 4:14:23
  Speaker 1: written in very good rhythm and was well received by
• 4:14:27
  Speaker 1: the company. The Wizard added to the entertainment by making
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  Speaker 1: a big pie appear before Dorothy, and when the little
• 4:14:35
  Speaker 1: girl cut the pie, the nine tiny piglets leaped out
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  Speaker 1: of it and danced around the table while the orchestra
• 4:14:43
  Speaker 1: played a merry tune. This amused the company very much,
• 4:14:49
  Speaker 1: but they were even more pleased when Polychrome, whose hunger
• 4:14:52
  Speaker 1: had been easily satisfied, rose from the table and performed
• 4:14:57
  Speaker 1: her graceful and bewildering rainbow dawn as for them. When
• 4:15:02
  Speaker 1: it was ended, the people clapped their hands and the
• 4:15:05
  Speaker 1: animals clapped their paws, while Billina cackled and the donkey
• 4:15:10
  Speaker 1: king brayed approval. Johnny dooit was present, and of course
• 4:15:15
  Speaker 1: he proved he could do wonders in the way of eating,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in everything else that he undertook to do.
• 4:15:22
  Speaker 1: The tin Woodman sang a love song, everyone joining in
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  Speaker 1: the chorus, and the wooden soldiers from Merryland gave an
• 4:15:30
  Speaker 1: exhibition of a lightning drill with their wooden muskets. The
• 4:15:35
  Speaker 1: Rills and knooks danced the fairy circle, and the rubber
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 1: bear bounced himself all around the room. There was laughter
• 4:15:43
  Speaker 1: and merriment on every side, and everybody was having a
• 4:15:47
  Speaker 1: royal good time. Button Bright was so excited and interested
• 4:15:52
  Speaker 1: that he paid little attention to his fine dinner and
• 4:15:55
  Speaker 1: a great deal of attention to his queer companions. And
• 4:15:59
  Speaker 1: perhaps he was wise to do this, because he could
• 4:16:02
  Speaker 1: eat at any other time. The feasting and merrymaking continued
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  Speaker 1: until late in the evening, when they separated to meet
• 4:16:11
  Speaker 1: again the next morning and take part in the birthday celebration,
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  Speaker 1: to which this royal banquet was merely the introduction end
• 4:16:22
  Speaker 1: of chapter twenty three, Chapter twenty four. The birthday celebration,
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  Speaker 1: a clear, perfect day with a gentle breeze and a
• 4:16:35
  Speaker 1: sunny sky, greeted Princess Ozma as she wakened next morning,
• 4:16:40
  Speaker 1: the anniversary of her birth. While it was yet early,
• 4:16:45
  Speaker 1: all the city was astir and crowds of people came
• 4:16:48
  Speaker 1: from all parts of the land of oz to witness
• 4:16:51
  Speaker 1: the festivities in honor of their girl rulers birthday. The
• 4:16:57
  Speaker 1: noted visitors from foreign countries, who had all been transported
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  Speaker 1: to the Emerald City by means of the Magic Belt,
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  Speaker 1: were as much a show to the Ozites as were
• 4:17:08
  Speaker 1: their own familiar celebrities, and the streets leading from the
• 4:17:12
  Speaker 1: royal Palace to the jeweled gates were thronged with men,
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  Speaker 1: women and children to see the procession as it passed
• 4:17:20
  Speaker 1: out to the green fields where the ceremonies were to
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  Speaker 1: take place. And what a great procession it was. First
• 4:17:30
  Speaker 1: came a thousand young girls, the prettiest in the land,
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  Speaker 1: dressed in white muslin with green sashes and hair ribbons,
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  Speaker 1: bearing great baskets of red roses. As they walked, they
• 4:17:44
  Speaker 1: scattered these flowers upon the marble pavements, so that the
• 4:17:48
  Speaker 1: whey was carpeted thick with roses for the procession to
• 4:17:51
  Speaker 1: walk upon. Then came the rulers of the four kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of Oz, the Emperor of the Winkies, the Monarch of
• 4:18:00
  Speaker 1: the Munchkins, the King of the Quadlings, and the Sovereign
• 4:18:05
  Speaker 1: of the Gillikins, each wearing a long chain of emeralds
• 4:18:09
  Speaker 1: around his neck to show that he was a vassal
• 4:18:11
  Speaker 1: of the ruler of the Emerald City next march to
• 4:18:16
  Speaker 1: the Emerald City cornet band, clothed in green and gold
• 4:18:20
  Speaker 1: uniforms and playing the Ozma two step. The Royal Army
• 4:18:27
  Speaker 1: of oz followed, consisting of twenty seven officers, from the
• 4:18:32
  Speaker 1: Captain general down to the lieutenants. There were no privates
• 4:18:37
  Speaker 1: in Ozma's army because soldiers were not needed to fight battles,
• 4:18:41
  Speaker 1: but only to look important, and an officer always looks
• 4:18:44
  Speaker 1: more imposing than a private. While the people cheered and
• 4:18:50
  Speaker 1: waved their hats and handkerchiefs, there came walking the Royal
• 4:18:54
  Speaker 1: Princess Ozma, looking so pretty and sweet that it is
• 4:18:59
  Speaker 1: no wonder her people love her so dearly. She had
• 4:19:04
  Speaker 1: decided she would not ride in her cherryot that day,
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  Speaker 1: as she preferred to walk in the procession with her
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  Speaker 1: favored subjects and her guests. Just in front of her
• 4:19:14
  Speaker 1: trotted the living blue bear rug owned by Old Dinah,
• 4:19:18
  Speaker 1: which wobbled clumsily on its four feet because there was
• 4:19:21
  Speaker 1: nothing but the skin to support them, with a stuffed
• 4:19:24
  Speaker 1: head at one end and a stubby tail at the other.
• 4:19:28
  Speaker 1: But whenever Ozma paused in her walk, the bare rug
• 4:19:31
  Speaker 1: would flop down flat upon the ground for the princess
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  Speaker 1: to stand upon until she resumed her progress. Following, the
• 4:19:40
  Speaker 1: princess stalked her two enormous beasts, the cowardly Lion and
• 4:19:45
  Speaker 1: the hungry Tiger, and even if the army had not
• 4:19:48
  Speaker 1: been there, these two would have been powerful enough to
• 4:19:52
  Speaker 1: guard their mistress from any harm. Next marched the invited guests,
• 4:19:58
  Speaker 1: who were loudly cheered by the people of Oz along
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  Speaker 1: the road and were therefore obliged to bow to right
• 4:20:04
  Speaker 1: and left almost every step of the way. First was
• 4:20:09
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus, who, because he was fat and not used
• 4:20:12
  Speaker 1: to walking, rode the wonderful saw horse. The merry old
• 4:20:18
  Speaker 1: gentleman had a basket of small toys with him, and
• 4:20:21
  Speaker 1: he tossed the toys one by one to the children
• 4:20:24
  Speaker 1: as he passed by. His Rills and Knooks marched close
• 4:20:28
  Speaker 1: behind him. Queen ZIXI of ix came after, Then John
• 4:20:35
  Speaker 1: Doe and the cherub with the rubber bear named Parra
• 4:20:39
  Speaker 1: Brewin strutting between them on its hind legs. Then the
• 4:20:43
  Speaker 1: Queen of Merryland, escorted by her wooden soldiers. Then King
• 4:20:47
  Speaker 1: Bud of Noland and his sister, the Princess Fluff. Then
• 4:20:52
  Speaker 1: the Queen of ev and her ten royal children. Then
• 4:20:56
  Speaker 1: the Braided Man and the Candy Man side by side.
• 4:21:00
  Speaker 1: Then King Dox of Foxville and King Kikibray of Dunciton,
• 4:21:05
  Speaker 1: who by this time had become good friends, and finally
• 4:21:09
  Speaker 1: Johnny Dooit in his leather apron smoking his long pipe.
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  Speaker 1: These wonderful personages were not more heartily cheered by the
• 4:21:19
  Speaker 1: people than were those who followed after them in the procession.
• 4:21:24
  Speaker 1: Dorothy was a general favorite, and she walked arm in
• 4:21:27
  Speaker 1: arm with the Scarecrow, who was beloved by all. Then
• 4:21:32
  Speaker 1: came Polychrome and Button Bright, and the people loved the
• 4:21:36
  Speaker 1: Rainbow's pretty daughter and the beautiful blue eyed boy as
• 4:21:40
  Speaker 1: soon as they saw them. The Shaggy Man in his
• 4:21:44
  Speaker 1: shaggy new suit attracted much attention because he was such
• 4:21:47
  Speaker 1: a novelty. With regular steps, tramped the machine Man tik tok,
• 4:21:53
  Speaker 1: and there was more cheering when the Wizard of Oz
• 4:21:56
  Speaker 1: followed in the procession. The walk Go Bug and Jack
• 4:22:01
  Speaker 1: Pumpkinhead were next, and behind them Glinda the Sorceress and
• 4:22:05
  Speaker 1: the good Witch of the North. Finally came Billina with
• 4:22:10
  Speaker 1: her brood of chickens, to whom she clucked anxiously to
• 4:22:13
  Speaker 1: keep them together and to hasten them along so they
• 4:22:16
  Speaker 1: would not delay the procession. Another band followed, this time
• 4:22:22
  Speaker 1: the tin Band of the Emperor of the Winkies, playing
• 4:22:26
  Speaker 1: a beautiful march called There's no Plate like Tin. Then
• 4:22:32
  Speaker 1: came the servants of the Royal Palace in a long line,
• 4:22:35
  Speaker 1: and behind them all the people joined the procession and
• 4:22:39
  Speaker 1: marched away through the emerald gates and out upon the
• 4:22:43
  Speaker 1: broad green. Here had been erected a splendid pavilion with
• 4:22:48
  Speaker 1: a grand stand big enough to seat all the Royal
• 4:22:51
  Speaker 1: Party and those who had taken part in the procession.
• 4:22:56
  Speaker 1: Over the pavilion, which was of green silk and cloth
• 4:22:59
  Speaker 1: of gold. Countless banners waved in the breeze. Just in
• 4:23:05
  Speaker 1: front of this, and connected with it by a runway,
• 4:23:08
  Speaker 1: had been built a broad platform, so that all the
• 4:23:11
  Speaker 1: spectators could see plainly the entertainment provided for them. The
• 4:23:17
  Speaker 1: Wizard now became master of ceremonies, as Ozma had placed
• 4:23:22
  Speaker 1: the conduct of the performance in his hands. After the
• 4:23:26
  Speaker 1: people had all congregated about the platform, and the Royal
• 4:23:30
  Speaker 1: Party and the visitors were seated in the grand stand,
• 4:23:34
  Speaker 1: the Wizard skillfully performed some feats of juggling glass balls
• 4:23:38
  Speaker 1: and lighted candles. He tossed a dozen or so of
• 4:23:42
  Speaker 1: them high in the air and caught them one by
• 4:23:45
  Speaker 1: one as they came down, without missing any Then he
• 4:23:51
  Speaker 1: introduced the scarecrow, who did a sword swallowing act that
• 4:23:55
  Speaker 1: aroused much interest. After this, the tin woman gave an
• 4:24:00
  Speaker 1: exhibition of swinging the axe, which he made to whirl
• 4:24:04
  Speaker 1: around him so rapidly that the eye could scarcely follow
• 4:24:07
  Speaker 1: the motion of the gleaming blade. Glinda the Sorceress, then
• 4:24:13
  Speaker 1: stepped upon the platform and by her magic, made a
• 4:24:16
  Speaker 1: big tree grow in the middle of the space, made
• 4:24:19
  Speaker 1: blossoms appear upon the tree, and made the blossoms become
• 4:24:23
  Speaker 1: delicious fruit called tamornas. And so great was the quantity
• 4:24:28
  Speaker 1: of fruit thus produced that when the servants climbed the
• 4:24:31
  Speaker 1: tree and tossed it down to the crowd, there was
• 4:24:34
  Speaker 1: enough to satisfy every person present. Para Brewin, the rubber
• 4:24:40
  Speaker 1: bear climbed to a limb of the big tree, rolled
• 4:24:44
  Speaker 1: himself into a ball, and dropped to the platform, whence
• 4:24:47
  Speaker 1: he bounded up again to the limb. He repeated this
• 4:24:51
  Speaker 1: bouncing act several times to the great delight of all
• 4:24:55
  Speaker 1: the children present. After he had finished and bowed and
• 4:25:00
  Speaker 1: returned to his seat, Glinda waved her wand and the
• 4:25:04
  Speaker 1: tree disappeared, but its fruit still remained to be eaten.
• 4:25:10
  Speaker 1: The good Witch of the North amused the people by
• 4:25:13
  Speaker 1: transforming ten stones into ten birds, the ten birds into
• 4:25:18
  Speaker 1: ten lambs, and the ten lambs into ten little girls,
• 4:25:22
  Speaker 1: who gave a pretty dance and were then transformed into
• 4:25:25
  Speaker 1: ten stones again just as they were in the beginning.
• 4:25:30
  Speaker 1: Johnny Dooit next came on the platform with his tool
• 4:25:33
  Speaker 1: chest and in a few minutes built a great flying machine.
• 4:25:38
  Speaker 1: Then put his chest in the machine, and the whole
• 4:25:41
  Speaker 1: thing flew away together Johnny and all. After he had
• 4:25:44
  Speaker 1: bid good bye to those present and thanked the princess
• 4:25:48
  Speaker 1: for her hospitality, the Wizard then announced the last act
• 4:25:53
  Speaker 1: of all, which was considered really wonderful. He had invented
• 4:25:58
  Speaker 1: a machine to blow hue huge soap bubbles as big
• 4:26:02
  Speaker 1: as balloons, and this machine was hidden under the platform,
• 4:26:06
  Speaker 1: so that only the rim of the big clay pipe
• 4:26:09
  Speaker 1: to produce the bubbles showed above the flooring. The tank
• 4:26:13
  Speaker 1: of soap SuDS, and the air pumps to inflate. The
• 4:26:16
  Speaker 1: bubbles were out of sight beneath, so that when the
• 4:26:19
  Speaker 1: bubbles began to grow upon the floor of the platform,
• 4:26:22
  Speaker 1: it really seemed like magic to the people of Oz,
• 4:26:25
  Speaker 1: who knew nothing about even the common soap bubbles that
• 4:26:28
  Speaker 1: our children blow with a penny clay pipe and a
• 4:26:31
  Speaker 1: basin of soap and water. The Wizard had invented another thing. Usually,
• 4:26:38
  Speaker 1: soap bubbles are frail and burst easily, lasting only a
• 4:26:41
  Speaker 1: few moments as they float in the air. But the
• 4:26:44
  Speaker 1: wizard added a sort of glue to his soap SuDS,
• 4:26:47
  Speaker 1: which made his bubbles tough, and as the glue dried
• 4:26:51
  Speaker 1: rapidly when exposed to the air, the Wizard's bubbles were
• 4:26:55
  Speaker 1: strong enough to float for hours without breaking. He began
• 4:27:00
  Speaker 1: by blowing, by means of his machinery and air pumps,
• 4:27:04
  Speaker 1: several large bubbles, which he allowed to float upward into
• 4:27:08
  Speaker 1: the sky, where the sunshine fell upon them and gave
• 4:27:11
  Speaker 1: them iridescent hues that were most delightful. This aroused much
• 4:27:17
  Speaker 1: wonder and delight because it was a new amusement to
• 4:27:20
  Speaker 1: every one present, except perhaps Dorothy and Button Bright, and
• 4:27:25
  Speaker 1: even they had never seen such big, strong bubbles before.
• 4:27:30
  Speaker 1: The wizard then blew a bunch of small bubbles, and
• 4:27:34
  Speaker 1: afterward blew a big bubble around them, so they were
• 4:27:37
  Speaker 1: left in the center of it. Then he allowed the
• 4:27:40
  Speaker 1: whole mass of pretty globes to float into the air
• 4:27:44
  Speaker 1: and disappear in the far distant sky. That is really fine,
• 4:27:50
  Speaker 1: declared Santa Claus, who loved toys and pretty things. I think,
• 4:27:55
  Speaker 1: mister wizard, I shall have you blow a bubble around me.
• 4:27:59
  Speaker 1: Then I can float away home and see the country
• 4:28:02
  Speaker 1: spread out beneath me as I travel. There isn't a
• 4:28:05
  Speaker 1: spot on Earth that I haven't visited. But I usually
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 1: go in the night time, riding behind my swift reindeer.
• 4:28:13
  Speaker 1: Here is a good chance to observe the country by
• 4:28:15
  Speaker 1: daylight while I am riding slowly and at my ease.
• 4:28:21
  Speaker 1: Do you think you will be able to guide the bubble,
• 4:28:23
  Speaker 1: asked the wizard. Oh yes, I know enough magic to
• 4:28:27
  Speaker 1: do that. Replied Santa Claus. You blow the bubble with
• 4:28:31
  Speaker 1: me inside of it, and I'll be sure to get
• 4:28:33
  Speaker 1: home in safety. Please send me home in a bubble, too,
• 4:28:39
  Speaker 1: begged the Queen of Merryland. Very well, Madam, you shall
• 4:28:44
  Speaker 1: try the journey first, politely answered Old Santa the pretty
• 4:28:50
  Speaker 1: wax doll bade good bye to the Princess Ozma and
• 4:28:53
  Speaker 1: the others, and stood on the platform while the Wizard
• 4:28:56
  Speaker 1: blew a big soap bubble around her. When come pleaded,
• 4:29:00
  Speaker 1: he allowed the bubble to float slowly upward, and there
• 4:29:03
  Speaker 1: could be seen the little Queen of Merryland standing in
• 4:29:06
  Speaker 1: the middle of it and blowing kisses from her fingers
• 4:29:09
  Speaker 1: to those below. The bubble took a southerly direction, quickly
• 4:29:14
  Speaker 1: floating out of sight. That's a very nice way to travel,
• 4:29:19
  Speaker 1: said Princess Fluff. I'd like to go home in a
• 4:29:22
  Speaker 1: bubble too, So the Wizard blew a big bubble around
• 4:29:26
  Speaker 1: Princess Fluff, and another around King Bud, her brother, and
• 4:29:31
  Speaker 1: a third one around Queen Zixi, And soon these three
• 4:29:35
  Speaker 1: bubbles had mounted into the sky and were floating off
• 4:29:38
  Speaker 1: in a group in the direction of the Kingdom of
• 4:29:40
  Speaker 1: no Land. The success of these ventures induced the other
• 4:29:46
  Speaker 1: guests from foreign lands to undertake bubble journeys also, so
• 4:29:50
  Speaker 1: the Wizard put them one by one inside his bubbles,
• 4:29:53
  Speaker 1: and Santa Claus directed the way they should go, because
• 4:29:56
  Speaker 1: he knew exactly where everybody lived. Finally, Button Bright said,
• 4:30:03
  Speaker 1: I want to go home too. Why so you shall,
• 4:30:07
  Speaker 1: cried Santa, for I'm sure your father and mother will
• 4:30:11
  Speaker 1: be glad to see you again. Mister Wizard, please blow
• 4:30:15
  Speaker 1: a big fine bubble for button Bright to ride in,
• 4:30:18
  Speaker 1: and I'll agree to send him home to his family
• 4:30:20
  Speaker 1: as safe as safe can be. I'm sorry, said Dorothy
• 4:30:26
  Speaker 1: with a sigh, for she was fond of her little comrade,
• 4:30:29
  Speaker 1: But perhaps it's best for button Bright to get home,
• 4:30:32
  Speaker 1: cause his folks must be worrying, just dreadful. She kissed
• 4:30:37
  Speaker 1: the boy, and Ozma kissed him too, and all the
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 1: others waved their hands and said good bye and wished
• 4:30:44
  Speaker 1: him a pleasant journey. Are you glad to leave us, dear,
• 4:30:49
  Speaker 1: asked Dorothy, a little wistfully. Don't know, said button Bright.
• 4:30:56
  Speaker 1: He sat down cross legged on the platform with his
• 4:30:59
  Speaker 1: sailor hat tipped back on his head, and the Wizard
• 4:31:03
  Speaker 1: blew a beautiful bubble all around him. A minute later,
• 4:31:08
  Speaker 1: it had mounted into the sky, sailing toward the west,
• 4:31:12
  Speaker 1: and the last they saw of button Bright, he was
• 4:31:15
  Speaker 1: still sitting in the middle of the shining globe and
• 4:31:18
  Speaker 1: waving his sailor hat at those below. Will you ride
• 4:31:23
  Speaker 1: in a bubble, or shall I send you and Toto
• 4:31:26
  Speaker 1: home by means of the magic belt? The princess asked Dorothy.
• 4:31:32
  Speaker 1: Guess I'll use the belt, replied the little girl. I'm
• 4:31:35
  Speaker 1: sort of afraid of those bubbles. Bow wow, said Toto approvingly.
• 4:31:41
  Speaker 1: He loved to bark at the bubbles as they sailed away,
• 4:31:44
  Speaker 1: but he didn't care to ride in one. Santa Claus
• 4:31:49
  Speaker 1: decided to go next. He thanked Ozma for her hospitality
• 4:31:53
  Speaker 1: and wished her many happy returns of the day. Then
• 4:31:57
  Speaker 1: the wizard blew a bubble around his chubby little body,
• 4:32:01
  Speaker 1: and smaller bubbles around each of his rills and nooks.
• 4:32:06
  Speaker 1: As the kind and generous friend of children mounted into
• 4:32:09
  Speaker 1: the air, The people all cheered at the top of
• 4:32:12
  Speaker 1: their voices, for they loved Santa Claus dearly, and the
• 4:32:16
  Speaker 1: little man heard them through the walls of the bubble
• 4:32:19
  Speaker 1: and waved his hands in return as he smiled down
• 4:32:22
  Speaker 1: upon them. The band played bravely while everyone watched the
• 4:32:26
  Speaker 1: bubble until it was completely out of sight. How about you, Polly,
• 4:32:33
  Speaker 1: Dorothy asked her friend, Are you afraid of bubbles too? No,
• 4:32:38
  Speaker 1: answered Polychrome, smiling, But Santa Claus promised to speak to
• 4:32:43
  Speaker 1: my father as he passed through the sky, so perhaps
• 4:32:46
  Speaker 1: I shall get home an easier way. Indeed, the little
• 4:32:51
  Speaker 1: maid had scarcely made this speech when a sudden radiance
• 4:32:55
  Speaker 1: filled the air, and while the people looked on in wonder,
• 4:32:58
  Speaker 1: the end of a gorgeous rainbow slowly settled down upon
• 4:33:02
  Speaker 1: the platform. With a glad cry, the rainbow's daughter sprang
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  Speaker 1: from her seat and danced along the curve of the bow,
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  Speaker 1: mounting gradually upward, while the folds of her gauzy gown
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  Speaker 1: whirled and floated around her like a cloud and blended
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  Speaker 1: with the colors of the rainbow itself. Good Bye Ozma,
• 4:33:25
  Speaker 1: good bye Dorothy, cried a voice they knew belonged to Polychrome.
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  Speaker 1: But now the little Maiden's form had melted wholly into
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  Speaker 1: the rainbow, and their eyes could no longer see her. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: the end of the rainbow lifted, and its collars slowly
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  Speaker 1: faded like mist before a breeze. Dorothy sighed deeply and
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  Speaker 1: turned to Ozma. I'm sorry to lose Polly, she said,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess she's better off with her father, cause
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  Speaker 1: even the land of oz couldn't be like home to
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  Speaker 1: a cloud. Fairy, No, indeed, replied the princess. But it
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  Speaker 1: has been delightful for us to know Polychrome for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, and who knows, perhaps we may meet the
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  Speaker 1: Rainbow's daughter again some day. The entertainment being now ended,
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  Speaker 1: all left the pavilion and formed their gay procession back
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  Speaker 1: to the Emerald City again. Of Dorothy's recent traveling companions,
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  Speaker 1: only Toto and the Shaggy Man remained, and Ozma had
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  Speaker 1: decided to allow the latter to live in oz for
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  Speaker 1: a time, at least if he proved honest and true.
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  Speaker 1: She promised to let him live there always, and the
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  Speaker 1: Shaggy Man was anxious to earn this reward. They had
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  Speaker 1: a nice, quiet dinner together and passed a pleasant evening
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  Speaker 1: with the Scarecrow, the tin Woodman, Tik Tok, and the
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  Speaker 1: Yellow hen for company. When Dorothy bade them good night,
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  Speaker 1: she kissed them all good bye at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: for Ozma had agreed that while Dorothy slept, she and
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  Speaker 1: Toto should be transported by means of the Magic Belt
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  Speaker 1: to her own little bed in the Kansas farmhouse. And
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  Speaker 1: the little girl laughed as she thought how astonished Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Henry and Aunt em would be when she came down
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  Speaker 1: to breakfast with them next morning. Quite content to have
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  Speaker 1: had so pleasant an adventure, and a little tired by
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  Speaker 1: all the day's busy scenes, Dorothy clasped Toto in her
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  Speaker 1: arms and lay down upon the pretty white bed in
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  Speaker 1: her room in Ozma's royal Palace. Presently she was sound
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  Speaker 1: asleep the end