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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. Next morning,
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow said to his friends, congratulate me. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to Oz to get my brains at last. When
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  Speaker 1: I return, I shall be as other men are. I
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  Speaker 1: have always liked you as you were, said Dorothy. Simply.
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  Speaker 1: It is kind of you to like a scarecrow. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: but surely you will think more of me when you
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  Speaker 1: hear the splendid thoughts my new brain is going to
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  Speaker 1: turn out. Then he said good bye to them all
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  Speaker 1: in a cheerful voice, and went to the throne room,
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  Speaker 1: where he rapped upon the door. Come in, said Oz.
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  Speaker 1: The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting
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  Speaker 1: down by the window, engaged in deep thought. I have
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  Speaker 1: come for my brains, remarked the scarecrow, a little uneasily.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, sit down in that chair, please, replied Oz.
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  Speaker 1: You must excuse me for taking your head off, but
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to do it in order to put
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  Speaker 1: your brains in their proper place. That's all right, said
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow. You are quite welcome to take my head off,
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  Speaker 1: as long as it will be a better one when
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  Speaker 1: you put it on again. So the wizard unfastened his
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  Speaker 1: head and emptied out the straw. Then he entered the
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  Speaker 1: back room and took up a measure of bran, which
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  Speaker 1: he mixed with a great many pins and needles, Having
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  Speaker 1: shaken them together thoroughly, he filled the top of the
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow's head with the mixture, and stuffed the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the space with straw to hold it in place. When
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  Speaker 1: he fastened the scarecrow's head on his body again, he
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  Speaker 1: said to him hereafter you will be a great man,
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  Speaker 1: for I have given you a lot of bran new brains.
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  Speaker 1: The scarecrow was both pleased and proud at the fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: of his greatest wish, and having thanked Oz warmly, he
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  Speaker 1: went back to his friends. Dorothy looked at him curiously.
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  Speaker 1: His head was quite bulged out at the top with brains.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel, she asked, I feel wise, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: he answered earnestly. When I get used to my brains,
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  Speaker 1: I shall know everything. Why are those needles and pins
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  Speaker 1: sticking out of your head, asked the tin woodman. That
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  Speaker 1: is proof that he is sharp, remarked the lion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I must go to Oz and get my heart, said
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  Speaker 1: the woodman. So he walked to the throne room and
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  Speaker 1: knocked at the door. Come in, called Oz, and the
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  Speaker 1: woodman entered and said, I have come for my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, answered the little man. But I shall have
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  Speaker 1: to cut a hole in your breast so I can
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  Speaker 1: put your heart in the right place. I hope it
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  Speaker 1: won't hurt you. Oh no, answered the woodman, I shall
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  Speaker 1: not feel it at all. So Oz brought a pair
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  Speaker 1: of ten smith's shears and cut a small square hole
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  Speaker 1: in the left side of the tin woodman's breast. Then,
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  Speaker 1: going to a chest of drawers, he took out a
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  Speaker 1: pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it a beauty? He asked? It is, indeed, replied
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  Speaker 1: the woodman, who was greatly pleased. But is it a
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  Speaker 1: kind heart? Oh? Very answered Oz. He put the heart
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  Speaker 1: in the woodman's breast, and then replaced the square of tins,
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  Speaker 1: soldering it neatly together where it had been cut there.
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  Speaker 1: He said, now you have a heart that any man
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  Speaker 1: might be proud of. I am sorry that I had
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  Speaker 1: to put a patch on your breast, but it really
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be helped. Never mind the patch, exclaimed the happy woodman.
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  Speaker 1: I am very grateful to you and shall never forget
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  Speaker 1: your kindness. Don't speak of it, replied Oz. Then the
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  Speaker 1: tad Woodman went back to his friends, who wished him
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  Speaker 1: every joy on account of his good fortune. The lion
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  Speaker 1: now walked to the throne room and knocked at the door.
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  Speaker 1: Come in, said Oz, I have come for my courage,
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  Speaker 1: announced the lion, entering the room. Very well, answered the
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  Speaker 1: little man, I will get it for you. He went
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  Speaker 1: to a cupboard, and, reaching up to a high shelf,
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  Speaker 1: took down a square green bottle, the contents of which
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  Speaker 1: he poured into a green gold dish beautifully carved, placing
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  Speaker 1: this before the cowardly lion, who sniffed at it as
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  Speaker 1: if he did not like it. The wizard said, drink
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Asked the lion, well, answered Oz. If
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  Speaker 1: it were inside of you, it would be courage. You know,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that courage is always inside one, so that
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  Speaker 1: this really cannot be called courage until you have swallowed it. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I advise you to drink it as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 1: The lion hesitated no longer, but drank till the dish
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  Speaker 1: was empty. How do you feel now, asked Oz full
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  Speaker 1: of courage, replied the lion, who went joyfully back to
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  Speaker 1: his friends to tell them of his good fortune. Oz
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  Speaker 1: left to himself, smiled to think of his success and
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  Speaker 1: giving the scarecrow and the tin Woodman and the lion
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they thought they wanted. How can I help
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  Speaker 1: being a humbug, he said, when all these people make
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  Speaker 1: me do things that everybody knows can't be done. It
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  Speaker 1: was easy to make the scarecrow and the lion and
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  Speaker 1: the woodman happy because they imagined I could do anything.
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  Speaker 1: But it will take more than just imagination to carry
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy back to Kansas, and I'm sure I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how it can be done. End of Chapter sixteen