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23 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty three, Glinda, the good Witch, grants Dorothy's wish.
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  Speaker 1: Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken
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  Speaker 1: to a room of the castle, where Dorothy washed her
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  Speaker 1: face and combed her hair, and the lion shook the
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  Speaker 1: dust out of his mane, and the scarecrow patted himself
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  Speaker 1: into his best shape, and the woodman polished his tin
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  Speaker 1: and oiled his joints. When they were all quite presentable,
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  Speaker 1: they followed the soldier girl into a big room where
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  Speaker 1: the witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies. She
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  Speaker 1: was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair
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  Speaker 1: was a rich red in color and fell in flowing
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  Speaker 1: ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white, but
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  Speaker 1: her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the
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  Speaker 1: little girl. What can I do for you, my child,
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  Speaker 1: she asked. Dorothy told the witch all her story, how
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  Speaker 1: the cyclone had brought her to the land of Oz,
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  Speaker 1: how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: adventures they had met with. My greatest wish now, she added,
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  Speaker 1: is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt em will
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  Speaker 1: surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that
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  Speaker 1: will make her put on mourning, and unless the crops
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  Speaker 1: are better this year than they were last, I am
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  Speaker 1: sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it. Glinda leaned forward and
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  Speaker 1: kissed the sweet, upturned face of the loving little girl.
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  Speaker 1: Bless your dear heart, she said. I am sure I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: She added, but if I do, you must give me
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  Speaker 1: the golden Cap. Willingly, exclaimed Dorothy. Indeed it is of
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  Speaker 1: no use to me now, And when you have it,
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  Speaker 1: you can command the wing monkeys three times, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I shall need their services just those three times,
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  Speaker 1: answered Glinda, smiling. Dorothy then gave her the golden cap,
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  Speaker 1: and the witch said to the scarecrow, what will you
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  Speaker 1: do when Dorothy has left us? I will return to
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  Speaker 1: the Emerald City, he replied, for Oz has made me
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  Speaker 1: its ruler, and the people like me. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: that worries me is how to cross the Hill of
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  Speaker 1: the Hammerheads. By means of the Golden Cap. I shall
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  Speaker 1: command the wing monkeys to carry you to the gates
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  Speaker 1: of the Emerald City, said Glinda, for it would be
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  Speaker 1: a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler.
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  Speaker 1: AM I really wonderful, asked the scarecrow. You are unusual,
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  Speaker 1: replied Glinda. Turning to the tin woodman, she asked, what
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  Speaker 1: will become of you when Dorothy leaves this country. He
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  Speaker 1: leaned on his axe and thought a moment. Then he said,
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  Speaker 1: the winkies were very kind to me and wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to rule over them. After the wicked Witch died, I
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  Speaker 1: am fond of the winkies, and if I could get
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  Speaker 1: back again to the country of the West, I should
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  Speaker 1: like nothing better than to rule over them forever. My
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  Speaker 1: second command to the wing monkeys, said Glinda, will be
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  Speaker 1: that they carry you safely to the land of the Winkies.
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  Speaker 1: Your brain may not be so large to look at
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  Speaker 1: as those of the scarecrow, but you really brighter than
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  Speaker 1: he is when you are well polished, and I am
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  Speaker 1: sure you will rule the winkies wisely and well. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Witch looked at the big shaggy lion and asked,
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  Speaker 1: when Dorothy has returned to her own home, what will
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  Speaker 1: become of you. Over the hill of the Hammerheads, he answered,
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  Speaker 1: lies a grand old forest, and all the beasts that
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  Speaker 1: live there have made me their king. If I could
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  Speaker 1: only get back to this forest. I would pass my
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  Speaker 1: life very happily there. My third command to the winged monkeys,
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  Speaker 1: said Glinda, shall be to carry you to the forest. Then,
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  Speaker 1: having used up the powers of the golden cap, I
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  Speaker 1: shall give it to the king of the monkeys, that
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  Speaker 1: he and his band may thereafter be free forevermore. The
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow and the tin Woodman and the lion now thanked
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  Speaker 1: the good witch earnestly for her kindness. And Dorothy exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: you are certainly as good as you are beautiful. But
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  Speaker 1: you have not yet told me how to get back
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas. Your silver shoes will carry you over the desert,
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  Speaker 1: replied Glinda. If you had known their power, you could
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  Speaker 1: have gone back to your aunt em the very first
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  Speaker 1: day you came to this country. But then I should
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  Speaker 1: not have had my wonderful brains, cried the scarecrow. I
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  Speaker 1: might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield,
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  Speaker 1: and I should not have had my lovely heart, said
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  Speaker 1: the tin woodman. I might have stood and rusted in
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  Speaker 1: the forest till the end of the world, and I
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  Speaker 1: should have lived a coward forever, declared the lion. And
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  Speaker 1: no beast in all the forest would have had a
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  Speaker 1: good word to say to me. This is all true,
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  Speaker 1: said Dorothy, and I am glad I was of use
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  Speaker 1: to these good friends, but now that each of them
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  Speaker 1: has had what he most desired, and each is happy
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  Speaker 1: in having a kingdom to rule. Besides, I think I
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  Speaker 1: should like to go back to Kansas. The silver shoes,
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  Speaker 1: said the good witch have wonderful powers, and one of
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  Speaker 1: the most curious things about them is that they can
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  Speaker 1: carry you to any place in the world in three steps,
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  Speaker 1: and each step will be made in the wink of
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  Speaker 1: an eye. All you have to do is knock the
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  Speaker 1: heels together three times and command the shoes to carry
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  Speaker 1: you wherever you wish to go. If that is so,
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  Speaker 1: said the child joyfully, I will ask them to carry
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  Speaker 1: me back to Kansas. At once, she threw her arms
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  Speaker 1: around the lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big
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  Speaker 1: head tenderly. Then she kissed the tin woodman, who was
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  Speaker 1: weeping and away most dangerous to his joints. But she
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  Speaker 1: hugged the soft stuffed body of the scarecrow in her
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  Speaker 1: arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she
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  Speaker 1: was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
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  Speaker 1: Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to
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  Speaker 1: give the little girl a goodbye kiss, and Dorothy thanked
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  Speaker 1: her for all the kindness she had shown to her
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  Speaker 1: friends and herself. Dorothy now took Toto up solemnly in
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  Speaker 1: her arms, and having said one last good bye, she
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  Speaker 1: clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying
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  Speaker 1: take me home to aunt em. Instantly she was whirled
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  Speaker 1: through the air so swiftly that all she could see
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  Speaker 1: or feel was the wind whistling past her ears. The
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  Speaker 1: silver shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped
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  Speaker 1: so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several
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  Speaker 1: times before she knew where she was. At length, however,
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  Speaker 1: she sat up and looked about her good gracious, she cried,
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  Speaker 1: for she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and
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  Speaker 1: just before her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built
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  Speaker 1: after the cyclone had carried away the old one. Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto
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  Speaker 1: had jumped out of her arms and was running towards
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  Speaker 1: the barn, barking furiously. Dorothy stood up and found she
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  Speaker 1: was in her stocking feet for the silver shoes had
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  Speaker 1: fallen off in her flight through the air and were
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  Speaker 1: lost forever in the desert. End of chapter twenty three,