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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter five, The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. When Dorothy awoke,
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  Speaker 1: the sun was shining through the trees, and Toto had
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  Speaker 1: long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels. She
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  Speaker 1: sat up and looked around her scarecrow still standing patiently
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  Speaker 1: in his corner waiting for her. We must go and
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  Speaker 1: search for water, she said to him. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: want water? He asked, to wash my face clean after
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  Speaker 1: the dust of the road, and to drink so the
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  Speaker 1: dry bread will not stick in my throat. It must
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  Speaker 1: be inconvenient to be made of flesh, said the scarecrow thoughtfully,
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  Speaker 1: for you must sleep and eat and drink. However, you
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  Speaker 1: have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother
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  Speaker 1: to be able to think properly. They left the cottage
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  Speaker 1: and walked through the trees until they found a little
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  Speaker 1: spring of clear water, where Dorothy drank and bathed and
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  Speaker 1: ate her breakfast. She saw there was not much bread
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  Speaker 1: left in the basket, and the girl was thankful the
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow did not have to eat anything, for there was
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  Speaker 1: scarcely enough for herself and Toto for the day. When
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  Speaker 1: she had finished her meal and was about to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the road of Yellow brick. She was startled
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  Speaker 1: to hear a deep groan near by. What was that,
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  Speaker 1: she asked timidly. I cannot imagine, replied the scarecrow, but
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  Speaker 1: we can go and see. Just then, another groan reached
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  Speaker 1: their ears, and the sound seemed to come from behind them.
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  Speaker 1: They turned and walked through the forest a few steps
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  Speaker 1: when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine
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  Speaker 1: that fell between the trees. She ran to the place,
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  Speaker 1: and then stopped short with a little cry of surprise.
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  Speaker 1: One of the big trees had been partially chopped through,
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  Speaker 1: and standing beside it with an uplifted axe in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: was a man made entirely of tin. His head and
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  Speaker 1: arms and legs were jointed upon his body, but he
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  Speaker 1: stood perfectly motionless, as if he could not stir at all.
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy looked at him in amazement, and so did the scarecrow,
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  Speaker 1: while Toto barked sharply and made a snap at the
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  Speaker 1: tin legs, which hurt his teeth. Did you groan, asked Dorothy, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: answered the tin man, I did. I've been groaning for
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  Speaker 1: more than a year, and no one has ever heard
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  Speaker 1: me before or come to help me. Can I do
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  Speaker 1: for you, she inquired softly, for she was moved by
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  Speaker 1: the sad voice in which the man spoke. Get an
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  Speaker 1: oil can and oil my joints, he answered. They are
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  Speaker 1: all rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all.
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  Speaker 1: If I am well oiled, I shall soon be all
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  Speaker 1: right again. You will find an oil can on a
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  Speaker 1: shelf in my cottage. Dorothy at once ran back to
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  Speaker 1: the cottage and found the oil can, and then she
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  Speaker 1: returned and asked anxiously, where are your joints? Oil my neck, first,
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  Speaker 1: replied the tin woodman. So she oiled it, and as
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  Speaker 1: it was quite badly rusted, the scarecrow took hold of
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  Speaker 1: the tin head and moved it gently from side to
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  Speaker 1: side until it worked freely, and then the man could
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  Speaker 1: turn it himself. Now, oil the joints in my arms,
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  Speaker 1: he said, and Dorothy oiled them, and the scarecrow bent
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  Speaker 1: them carefully until they were quite free from rust and
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  Speaker 1: as good as new. The tin woodman gave a sigh
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  Speaker 1: of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned against
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  Speaker 1: the tree. This is a great comfort, he said, I
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  Speaker 1: have been holding that axe in the air ever since
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  Speaker 1: I rusted and I'm glad to be able to put
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  Speaker 1: it down at last. Now, if you will oil the
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  Speaker 1: joints of my legs, I shall be all right once more.
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  Speaker 1: So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely,
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  Speaker 1: and he thanked them again and again for his release,
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  Speaker 1: for he seemed a very polite creature and very grateful.
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  Speaker 1: I might have stood there always if you had not
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  Speaker 1: come along, he said, So you have certainly saved my life.
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  Speaker 1: How did you happen to be here? We are on
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  Speaker 1: our way to the Emerald City to see the Great Oz,
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  Speaker 1: she answered, and we stopped at your cottage to pass
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  Speaker 1: the night. Why do you wish wish to see Oz?
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  Speaker 1: He asked. I want him to send me back to Kansas,
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  Speaker 1: And the Scarecrow wants him to put a few brains
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  Speaker 1: into his head, she replied. The tin Woodman appeared to
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  Speaker 1: think deeply for a moment. Then he said, do you
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  Speaker 1: suppose Oz could give me a heart? Why? I guess so,
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy answered, it would be as easy as to give
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow brains. True, the tin Woodman returned, So, if
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  Speaker 1: you will allow me to join your party, I will
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  Speaker 1: also go to the Emerald City and ask Oz to
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  Speaker 1: help me. Come along, said the scarecrow heartily, and Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: added that she would be pleased to have his company.
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  Speaker 1: So the tin woodman shouldered his axe, and they all
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  Speaker 1: passed through the forest until they came to the road
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  Speaker 1: that was paved with yellow brick. The tin woodman had
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  Speaker 1: asked Dorothy to put the oil can in her basket,
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  Speaker 1: for he said, if I should get caught in the
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  Speaker 1: rain the rust again, and I would need the oil
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  Speaker 1: canned badly. It was a bit of good luck to
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  Speaker 1: have their new comrade join the party, for soon after
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  Speaker 1: they had begun their journey again, they came to a
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  Speaker 1: place where the trees and branches grew so thick over
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  Speaker 1: the road that the travelers could not pass. But the
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  Speaker 1: tin woodman set to work with his axe and chopped
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  Speaker 1: so well that soon he cleared a passage for the
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  Speaker 1: entire party. Dorothy was thinking so earnestly as they walked
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  Speaker 1: along that she did not notice when the scarecrow stumbled
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  Speaker 1: into a hole and rolled over to the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. Indeed, he was obliged to call to her
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  Speaker 1: to help him up again. Why didn't you walk around
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  Speaker 1: the hole, asked the tin woodman. I don't know enough,
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  Speaker 1: replied the scarecrow cheerfully. My head is stuffed with straw,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that is why I am going to
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  Speaker 1: Oz to ask him for some brains. Oh, I see,
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  Speaker 1: said the tin woodman. But after all, brains are not
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  Speaker 1: the best things in the world. Have you any inquired
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty, answered the woodman.
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  Speaker 1: But once I had brains and a heart also, so
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  Speaker 1: having tried them both, I would much rather have a heart.
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  Speaker 1: And why is that, asked the scarecrow. I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you my story and then you will know. So. While
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  Speaker 1: they were walking through the forest, the tin woodman told
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  Speaker 1: the following story. I was born the son of a
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  Speaker 1: woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold
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  Speaker 1: the wood for a living. When I grew up, I
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  Speaker 1: too became a wood chopper, and after my father died,
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  Speaker 1: I took care of my old mother as long as
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  Speaker 1: she lived. Then I made up my mind that instead
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  Speaker 1: of living alone, I would marry so that I might
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  Speaker 1: not become lonely. There was one of the munchkin girls
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  Speaker 1: who was so beautiful that I soon grew to love
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  Speaker 1: her with all my heart. She, on her part, promised
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  Speaker 1: to marry me as soon as I could earn enough
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  Speaker 1: money to build a better house for her. So I
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  Speaker 1: set to work harder than ever. But the girl lived
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  Speaker 1: with an old woman who did not want her to
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  Speaker 1: marry anyone, for she was so lazy. She wished the
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  Speaker 1: girl to remain with her and do the cooking in
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  Speaker 1: the housework. So the old woman went to the wicked
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  Speaker 1: Witch of the East and promised her two sheep and
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  Speaker 1: a cow if she would prevent the marriage. Thereupon, the
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  Speaker 1: wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping
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  Speaker 1: away at my best one day, for I was anxious
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  Speaker 1: to get the new house and my wife as soon
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  Speaker 1: as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut
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  Speaker 1: off my left leg. This at first seemed a great misfortune,
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  Speaker 1: for I knew a one legged man could not do
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  Speaker 1: very well as a woodchopper. So I went to a
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  Speaker 1: tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out
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  Speaker 1: of ten The leg worked very well once I was
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  Speaker 1: used to it, But my action angered the wicked Witch
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  Speaker 1: of the East, for she had promised the old woman
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  Speaker 1: I should not marry the pretty munchkin girl. When I
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  Speaker 1: began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my
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  Speaker 1: right leg. Again, I went to the tinsmith, and again
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  Speaker 1: he made me a leg out of ten. After this,
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  Speaker 1: the enchanted axe cut off my arms one after the other,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing daunted, I had them replaced with ten ones.
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  Speaker 1: The wicked witch then made the axe slip and cut
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  Speaker 1: off my head, and at first I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: the end of me. But the tinsmith happened to come along,
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  Speaker 1: and he made me a new head out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I had beaten the wicked witch then, and
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  Speaker 1: I worked harder than ever, but I little knew how
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  Speaker 1: cruel my enemy could be. She thought of a new
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  Speaker 1: way to kill my love for the beautiful munchkin maiden,
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  Speaker 1: and made my axe slip again, so that it cut
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  Speaker 1: right through my body, splitting me into two halves. Once more.
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  Speaker 1: The tin smith came to my help and made me
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  Speaker 1: a body of ten, fastening my tin arms and legs
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  Speaker 1: and head to it by means of joints, so that
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  Speaker 1: I could move around as well as ever. But alas
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  Speaker 1: I had now no heart, so that I lost all
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  Speaker 1: my love for the munchkin girl, and did not care
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  Speaker 1: whether I married her or not. I suppose she is
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  Speaker 1: still living with the old woman waiting for me to
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  Speaker 1: come after her. My body shone so brightly in the
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  Speaker 1: sun that I felt very proud of it, and it
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  Speaker 1: did not matter to me now if my axe slipped,
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  Speaker 1: for it could not cut me. There was only one
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  Speaker 1: danger that my joints would rust. But I kept an
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  Speaker 1: oil can in my cottage and took care to oil
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  Speaker 1: myself whenever I needed it. However, there came a day
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  Speaker 1: when I forgot to do this, and being caught in
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  Speaker 1: a rainstorm before I thought of the danger, my joints
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  Speaker 1: had rusted, and I was left to stand in the
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  Speaker 1: woods until you came to help me. It was a
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  Speaker 1: terrible thing to undergo. During that year I stood there,
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  Speaker 1: I had time to think of the greatest loss I
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  Speaker 1: had known was loss of my heart. While I was
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  Speaker 1: in love, I was the happiest man on earth. But
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  Speaker 1: no one can love who has not a heart. And
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  Speaker 1: so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one.
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  Speaker 1: If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin
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  Speaker 1: Maiden and marry her. Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had
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  Speaker 1: been greatly interested in the story of the tin Woodman,
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  Speaker 1: and now they knew why he was so anxious to
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  Speaker 1: get a new heart. All the same, said the scarecrow,
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  Speaker 1: I shall ask for brains instead of a heart, for
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  Speaker 1: a fool would not know what to do with a
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  Speaker 1: heart if he had one. I shall take the heart
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  Speaker 1: returned the tin woodman, for brains do not make one happy,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness is the best thing in the world. Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: did not say anything, for she was puzzled to know
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  Speaker 1: which of her two friends was right, and she decided
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  Speaker 1: if she could only get back to Kansas and Aunt
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  Speaker 1: em it did not matter so much whether the woodman
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  Speaker 1: had no brains and the scarecrow no heart, or each
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  Speaker 1: got what they wanted. What worried her most was that
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  Speaker 1: the bread was nearly gone, and another meal for herself,
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  Speaker 1: and Toto would empty the basket. To be sure, neither
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  Speaker 1: the Woodman nor the scarecrow ever ate anything. But she
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  Speaker 1: was not made of tin nor straw, and she could
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  Speaker 1: not live unless she was fed. The end of chapter
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  Speaker 1: five