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19 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum · Adventure Books Library

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  Chapter nineteen, attacked by the fighting trees. The next morning, Dorothy kissed
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  the pretty green girl good bye, and they all shook hands with the soldier
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  with the green whiskers, who had walked with them as far as the gate.
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  When the guardian of the gate saw them again, he wondered greatly that
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  they could leave the beautiful city to get into new trouble. But he at
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  once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and
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  gave them many good wishes to carry with them. You are now our ruler,
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  he said to the scarecrow, so you must come back to us as
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  soon as possible. I certainly shall, if I am able, The scarecrow
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  replied, but I must help Dorothy get home first. As Dorothy bade the
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  good natured guardian Alas farewell, she said, I have been very kindly treated
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  in your lovely city, and everyone has been good to me. I cannot
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  tell you how grateful I am. Don't try, my dear, he answered,
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  we should like to keep you with us, but if it is your
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  wish to return to Kansas, I hope you will find a way. He
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  then opened the gate of the outer wall, and they walked forth and started
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  upon their journey. The sun shone brightly as our friends turned their faces toward
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  the land of the South. They were all in the best of spirits and
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  laughed and chatted together. Dorothy was once more filled with the hope of getting
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  home, and the scarecrow and the tin Woodman were glad to be of use
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  to her. As for the lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight
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  and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the
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  country again, while Toto ran around them and chased the moss and butterflies,
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  barking merrily all the time. City life does not agree with me at all,
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  remarked the lion, as they walked along at a brisk pace. I
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  have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious for
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  a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown. They now
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  turned and took a last look at the Emerald city. All they could see
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  was a massive tower and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above
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  everything the spires and dome of the Palace of oz Oz. Was not such
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  a bad wizard after all, said the tin Woodman, as he felt his
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  heart rattling around in his breast. He knew how to give me brains,
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  and very good brains too, said the scarecrow. If Oz had taken a
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  dose of the same courage he gave me, added the lion, he would
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  have been a brave man. Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the
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  promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave
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  him. As he said. He was a good man, even if he
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  was a bad wizard. The first day's journey was through the green fields and
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  bright flowers that stretched about the Emerald city on every side. They slept that
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  night on the grass with nothing but the stars over them, and they rested
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  very well. Indeed, in the morning they traveled on until they came to
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  a thick wood. There was no way of going around it, for it
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  seemed to extend to the right and left as far as they could see.
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  And besides, they did not dare change the direction of their journey for fear
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  of getting lost, so they looked for the place where it would be easiest
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  to get into the forest. The scarecrow, who was in the lead,
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  finally discovered a big tree with such wide spreading branches that there was room for
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  the party to pass underneath, so he walked forward to the tree. But
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  just as he came under the first branches, they bent down and twined around
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  him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong
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  among his fellow travelers. This did not hurt the scarecrow, but it surprised
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  him, and he looked rather dizzy when Dorothy picked him up. Is there
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  another space between the trees, called the lion. Let me try it first,
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  said the scarecrow, for it doesn't hurt me to get thrown about.
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  He walked up to another tree as he spoke, but its branches immediately seized
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  him and tossed him back again. This is strange, exclaimed Dorothy. What
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  shall we do? The trees seemed to have made up their mind to fight
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  us and stop our journey, remarked the lion. I believe I will try
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  it myself, said the woodman, and shouldering his axe, he marched up
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  to the first tree that had handled the scarecrow so roughly. When a big
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  branch bent down to seize him, the woodman chopped at it so fiercely that
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  he cut it in two at once. The tree began shaking all its branches
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  as if in pain, and the tid woodman passed safely under it. Come
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  on, he shouted to the others, be quick. They all ran forward
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  and passed under the tree without injury, except Toto, who was caught by
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  a small branch and shaken until he howled. But the woodman promptly chopped off
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  the branch and set the little dog free. The other trees of the forest
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  did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only
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  the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these
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  were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to
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  keep strangers out of it. The four travelers walked al along with ease through
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  the trees until they came to the far edge of the wood. Then,
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  to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be
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  made of white china. It was smooth like the surface of a dish,
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  and higher than their heads. What shall we do now, asked Dorothy.
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  I will make a ladder, said the tin woodman, for we certainly must
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  climb over the wall. End of Chapter nineteen