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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, the search for the Wicked Witch. The soldier
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  Speaker 1: with the green whiskers led them through the streets of
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  Speaker 1: the Emerald City until they reached the room where the
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  Speaker 1: Guardian of the Gates lived. This officer unlocked their spectacles
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  Speaker 1: to put them back in his great box, and then
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  Speaker 1: he politely opened the gate for our friends. Which road
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  Speaker 1: leads to the wicked Witch of the west, asked Dorothy.
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  Speaker 1: There is no road, answered the Guardian of the Gates.
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  Speaker 1: No one ever wishes to go that way. How then,
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  Speaker 1: are we to find her, inquired the girl. That will
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  Speaker 1: be easy, replied the man, for when she knows you
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  Speaker 1: are in the country of the winkies, she will find
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  Speaker 1: you and make you all her slaves. Perhaps not, said
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow, for we mean to destroy her. Oh that
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  Speaker 1: is different, said the Guardian of the Gates. No one
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  Speaker 1: has ever destroyed her before, So naturally I thought she
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  Speaker 1: would make slaves of you, as she has of the rest.
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  Speaker 1: But take care, for she is wicked and fierce and
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  Speaker 1: may not allow you to destroy her. Keep to the
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  Speaker 1: west where the sun sets, and you cannot fail to
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  Speaker 1: find her. They thanked him and bade him goodbye, and
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  Speaker 1: turned toward the west, walking over fields of soft grass
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  Speaker 1: dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. Dorothy still
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  Speaker 1: wore the pretty silk dress she had put on in
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  Speaker 1: the palace, but now to her surprise, she found it
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  Speaker 1: was no longer green, but pure white. Ribbon around Toto's
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  Speaker 1: neck had also lost its green color and was as
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  Speaker 1: white as Dorothy's dress. The Emerald city was soon left
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  Speaker 1: far behind. As they advanced, the ground became rougher and hillier,
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  Speaker 1: for there was no farms nor houses in this country
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  Speaker 1: of the West, and the ground was untilled. In the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were
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  Speaker 1: no trees to offer them shade, so that before night
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy and Toto and the lion were tired and lay
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  Speaker 1: down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the woodman
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  Speaker 1: and the scarecrow keeping watch. Now, the wicked Witch of
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  Speaker 1: the West had but one eye, yet that was as
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  Speaker 1: powerful as a telescope, and she could see everywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: as she sat in the door of her castle, she
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  Speaker 1: happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep with
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  Speaker 1: her friends all about. They were a long distance off,
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  Speaker 1: but the wicked Witch was angry to find them in
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  Speaker 1: her country. So she blew upon a silver whistle that
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  Speaker 1: hung around her neck. At once there came running to
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  Speaker 1: her from all directions a pack of great wolves. They
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  Speaker 1: had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth. Go
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  Speaker 1: to those people, said the witch, and tear them to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Are you not going to make them your slaves, asked
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the wolves, No, she answered, One is
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  Speaker 1: of tin and one of straw, One is a girl,
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  Speaker 1: and another a lion. None of them is fit to work,
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  Speaker 1: so you may tear them into small pieces. Very well,
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  Speaker 1: said the wolf, and he dashed away full speed, followed
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  Speaker 1: by the others. It was lucky. The scarecrow and the
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  Speaker 1: woodman were wide awake and heard the wolves coming. This
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  Speaker 1: is my fight, said the woodman, So get behind me
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  Speaker 1: and I will meet them as they come. He seized
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  Speaker 1: his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the wolves came on, the tin Woodman
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  Speaker 1: swung his arm and chopped the wolf's head from its body,
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  Speaker 1: so that it immediately died. As soon as he could
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  Speaker 1: raise his axe, another wolf came up, and he also
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  Speaker 1: fell under the sharp edge of the tin Woodman's weapon.
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  Speaker 1: There were forty wolves and forty times a wolf was killed,
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  Speaker 1: so that at last they all lay dead in a
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  Speaker 1: heap before the woodman. He put down his axe and
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  Speaker 1: sat beside the scarecrow, who said it was a good fight. Friend.
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  Speaker 1: They waited until Dorothea woke the next morning. The little
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  Speaker 1: girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile
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  Speaker 1: of shaggy wolves, but the tin woodman told her all.
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  Speaker 1: She thanked him for saving them, and sat down to breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: after which they started again upon their journey. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: same morning, the wicked witch came to the door of
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  Speaker 1: her castle and looked out with her one eye that
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  Speaker 1: could see far off. She saw all her wolves lying dead,
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  Speaker 1: and the strangers still traveling through her country. This made
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  Speaker 1: her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle
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  Speaker 1: twice straightway. A great flock of wild crows came flying
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  Speaker 1: toward her, enough to darken the sky, and the wicked
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  Speaker 1: Witch said to the king crow, fly at once to
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  Speaker 1: the strangers, peck out their eyes, and tear them to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: The wild crows flew in one great flock toward Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: and her companions. When the little girl saw them coming,
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  Speaker 1: she was afraid, but the scarecrow said, this is my battle,
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  Speaker 1: so lie down beside me, and you will not be harmed.
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  Speaker 1: So they all lay upon the ground except the scarecrow,
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  Speaker 1: and he stood up and stretched out his arms. And
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  Speaker 1: when the crows saw him, they were frightened, as these
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  Speaker 1: birds always by scarecrows, and did not dare to come
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  Speaker 1: any nearer. But the king crow said, it is only
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  Speaker 1: a stuffed man. I will peck his eyes out. The
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  Speaker 1: king crow flew at the scarecrow, who caught it by
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  Speaker 1: the head and twisted its neck until it died. And
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  Speaker 1: then another crow flew at him, and the scarecrow twisted
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  Speaker 1: its neck. Also. There were forty crows, and forty times
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow twisted a neck, until at last all were
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  Speaker 1: lying dead beside him. Then he called to his companions
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  Speaker 1: to rise, and again they went upon their journey. When
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  Speaker 1: the wicked witch looked out again and saw all her
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  Speaker 1: crows lying in a heap, she got into a terrible
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  Speaker 1: rage and blew three times upon her silver whistle. Forthwith,
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  Speaker 1: there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and
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  Speaker 1: a swarm of black bees came flying toward her, go
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  Speaker 1: to the strangers and sting them to death, commanded the witch,
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  Speaker 1: and the bees turned and flew rapidly until they came
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  Speaker 1: to wear. Dorothy and her friends were walking, but the
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  Speaker 1: woodman had seen them coming, and the scarecrow had decided
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Take out my straw and scatter it
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  Speaker 1: over the little girl and the dog and the lion,
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  Speaker 1: he said to the woodman, and the bees cannot sting them.
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  Speaker 1: This the woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside
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  Speaker 1: the lion and held Toto in her arms, the straw
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  Speaker 1: covered them entirely. The bees came and found no one
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  Speaker 1: but the woodman to sting, so they flew at him
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  Speaker 1: and broke off all their stings against the tin, without
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  Speaker 1: hurting the woodman at all. And as bees cannot live
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  Speaker 1: when their stings are broken, that was the end of
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  Speaker 1: the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the woodman,
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  Speaker 1: like little heaps of fine coal. Then Dorothy and the
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  Speaker 1: lion got up, and the girl helped the tin woodman
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  Speaker 1: put the straw back into the scarecrow again until he
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  Speaker 1: was as good as ever, so they started upon their
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  Speaker 1: journey once more. The wicked witch was so angry when
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  Speaker 1: she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine
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  Speaker 1: coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair
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  Speaker 1: and gnashed her teeth. And then she called a dozen
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  Speaker 1: of her slaves, who were the winkies, and gave them
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  Speaker 1: sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and
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  Speaker 1: destroy them. The winkies were not a brave people, but
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  Speaker 1: they had to do as they were told, so they
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  Speaker 1: marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the
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  Speaker 1: lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and
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  Speaker 1: the poor winkies were so frightened that they ran back
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  Speaker 1: as fast as they could. When they returned to the castle,
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  Speaker 1: the wicked witch beat them well with a strap and
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  Speaker 1: sent them back to their work, after which she sat
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  Speaker 1: down to think what she would do next. She could
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  Speaker 1: not understand how all her plans to destroy these strangers
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  Speaker 1: had failed, but she was a powerful witch as well
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  Speaker 1: as a wicked one, and she soon made up her
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  Speaker 1: mind how to act. There was in her cupboard a
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  Speaker 1: golden cap with a circle of diamonds and rubies running
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  Speaker 1: round it. This golden cap had a charm. Whoever owned
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  Speaker 1: it could call three times upon the wind monkeys, who
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  Speaker 1: would obey any order they were given. But no person
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  Speaker 1: could command these strange creatures more than three times. Twice already,
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  Speaker 1: the wicked Witch had used the charm of the cap.
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  Speaker 1: Once was when she had made the Winkies her slaves
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  Speaker 1: and set herself to rule over their country. The winged
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  Speaker 1: monkeys had helped her do this. The second time was
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  Speaker 1: when she had fought against the Great Oz himself and
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  Speaker 1: had driven him out of the land of the west.
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  Speaker 1: The winged monkeys had also helped her in doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Only once more could she use this golden cap, for
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  Speaker 1: which reason she did not like to do so until
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  Speaker 1: all her other powers were exhausted. But now that her
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  Speaker 1: fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees
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  Speaker 1: were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by
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  Speaker 1: the cowardly lion, she saw that there was only one
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  Speaker 1: way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends. So the
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  Speaker 1: wicked Witch took the golden cap from her cupboard and
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  Speaker 1: placed it upon her head. Then she stood upon her
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  Speaker 1: left foot and said slowly Epi peppi khaki. Then she
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  Speaker 1: stood upon her right foot and said hillo hello Hello.
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  Speaker 1: After this she stood upon both feet and cried in
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  Speaker 1: a loud voice, zizzi zuzi, zick Now the charm began
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  Speaker 1: to work. The sky was darkened, and a low rumbling
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  Speaker 1: sound was heard in the air. There was a rushing
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  Speaker 1: of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the
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  Speaker 1: sun came out of the dark sky to show the
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  Speaker 1: wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with
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  Speaker 1: a pair of immense and powerful wings on its shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: One much bigger than the others, seemed to be their leader.
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  Speaker 1: He flew close to the witch and said, you have
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  Speaker 1: called us for the third and last time. What do
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  Speaker 1: you command? Go to the strangers who are within my
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  Speaker 1: land and destroy them all except the lion, said the
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  Speaker 1: wicked Witch. Bring that beast to me, for I have
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  Speaker 1: a mind to harness him like a horse and make
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  Speaker 1: him work. Your command shall be obeyed, said the leader. Then,
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  Speaker 1: with a great deal of chattering and noise, the winged
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  Speaker 1: monkeys flew away to the place where Dorothy and her
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  Speaker 1: friends were walking. Some of the monkeys seized the tin
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  Speaker 1: woodman and carried him through the air until they were
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  Speaker 1: over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks. Here they
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  Speaker 1: dropped the poor woodman, who fell a great distance to
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  Speaker 1: the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that
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  Speaker 1: he could neither move nor groan. Others of the monkeys
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  Speaker 1: caught the scarecrow, and with their long fingers pulled all
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  Speaker 1: of the straw out of his clothes and head. They
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  Speaker 1: made his hat and boots and closed into a small
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  Speaker 1: bundle and threw it on to the top branches of
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  Speaker 1: a tall tree. The remaining monkeys threw pieces of stout
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  Speaker 1: rope around the lion and wound many coils around his
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  Speaker 1: body and head and legs until he was unable to
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  Speaker 1: bite or scratch or struggle in it anyway. Then they
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  Speaker 1: lifted him up and flew away with him to the
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  Speaker 1: witch's castle, where he was placed in a small yard
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  Speaker 1: with a high iron fence around it so that he
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  Speaker 1: could not escape. But Dorothy they did not harm at all.
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  Speaker 1: She stood with Toto in her arms, watching the sad
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  Speaker 1: fate of her comrades, and thinking it would soon be
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  Speaker 1: her turn. The leader of the winged monkeys flew up
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  Speaker 1: to her, his long, hairy arms stretched out and his
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  Speaker 1: ugly face grinning terribly. But he saw the mark of
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  Speaker 1: the good Witch's kiss upon her forehead and stopped short,
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  Speaker 1: motioning to the others not to touch her. We dare
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  Speaker 1: not harm this little girl, he said to them, for
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  Speaker 1: she is protected by the power of good, and that
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  Speaker 1: is greater than the power of evil. All we can
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  Speaker 1: do is to carry her to the castle of the
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Witch and leave her there. So carefully and gently
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  Speaker 1: they lifted Dorothy in their arms and carried her swiftly
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  Speaker 1: through the air until they came to the castle, where
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  Speaker 1: they set her down upon the front doorstep. Then the
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  Speaker 1: leader said to the witch, we have obeyed you as
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  Speaker 1: far as we were able. The tin woodman and the
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow are destroyed, and the lion is tied up in
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  Speaker 1: your yard. The little girl we dare not harm, nor
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  Speaker 1: the dog she carries in her arms. Your power over
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  Speaker 1: our band is now ended, and you will never see
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  Speaker 1: us again. Then all the winged monkeys, with much laughing
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  Speaker 1: and chattering and noise, flew into the air and were
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  Speaker 1: soon out of sight. The wicked Witch was both surprised
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  Speaker 1: and worried when she saw the mark on Dorothy's forehead,
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  Speaker 1: for she knew well that neither the winged monkeys nor
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  Speaker 1: she herself dare hurt the girl in any way. She
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  Speaker 1: looked down at Dorothy's feet, and seeing the silver shoes
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  Speaker 1: began to tremble with fear, for she knew that a
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  Speaker 1: powerful charm belonged to them. At first, the witch was
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  Speaker 1: tempted to run away from Dorothy, but she happened to
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  Speaker 1: look into the child's eyes and saw how simple the
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  Speaker 1: soul behind them was, and that the little girl did
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  Speaker 1: not know of the wonderful power the silver shoes gave her.
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  Speaker 1: So the wicked witch laughed to herself and thought, I
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  Speaker 1: can still make her my slave, for she does not
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  Speaker 1: know how to use her power. Then she said to Dorothy,
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  Speaker 1: harshly and severely, come with me, and see that you
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  Speaker 1: mind everything I tell you, for if you do not,
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  Speaker 1: I will make an end of you, as I did
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  Speaker 1: of the tin woodman and the scarecrow. Dorothy followed her
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  Speaker 1: through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle until
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  Speaker 1: they came to the kitchens, where the witch bade her
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  Speaker 1: clean the pots and kettles, and sweep the floor, and
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  Speaker 1: keep the fire fed with wood. Dorothy went to work meekly,
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  Speaker 1: with her mind made up to work as hard as
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  Speaker 1: she could, for she was glad the wicked Witch had
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  Speaker 1: decided not to kill her. With Dorothy hard at work,
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  Speaker 1: the witch thought she would go into the courtyard and
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  Speaker 1: harness the cowardly lion like a horse. It would amuse her.
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  Speaker 1: She was sure to make him draw her chariot whenever
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  Speaker 1: she wished to go to drive. But as she opened
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  Speaker 1: the gate, the lion gave a loud roar and bounded
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  Speaker 1: at her so fiercely that the witch was afraid and
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  Speaker 1: ran out and shut the gate again. If I cannot
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  Speaker 1: harness you, said the witch to the lion, speaking through
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  Speaker 1: the bars of the gate, I can starve you. You shall
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  Speaker 1: have nothing to eat until you do as I wish.
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  Speaker 1: So after that she took no food to the imprisoned lion,
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  Speaker 1: But every day she came to the gate at noon
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  Speaker 1: and asked, are you ready to be harnessed like a horse,
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  Speaker 1: And the lion would answer no. If you come in
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  Speaker 1: this yard, I will bite you. The reason the lion
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  Speaker 1: did not have to do is the witch wished, was
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  Speaker 1: that every night, while the woman was asleep, Dorothy carried
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  Speaker 1: him food from the cupboard. After he had eaten, he
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  Speaker 1: would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy
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  Speaker 1: would lie down beside him and put her head in
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  Speaker 1: his soft, shaggy mane while they talked of their troubles
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  Speaker 1: and tried to plan some way to escape, but they
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  Speaker 1: could find no way to get out of the castle,
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  Speaker 1: for it was constantly guarded by the yellow Winkies, who
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  Speaker 1: the slaves of the wicked Witch and were too afraid
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  Speaker 1: of her not to do as she told them. The
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  Speaker 1: girl had to work hard during the day, and often
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  Speaker 1: the witch threatened to beat her with the same old
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  Speaker 1: umbrella she always carried in her hand, but in truth
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  Speaker 1: she did not dare to strike Dorothy because of the
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  Speaker 1: mark upon her forehead. The child did not know this
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  Speaker 1: and was full of fear for herself and Toto. Once
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  Speaker 1: the witch struck Toto a blow with her umbrella, and
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  Speaker 1: the brave little dog flew at her and bit her
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  Speaker 1: leg in return. The witch did not bleed where she
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  Speaker 1: was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood
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  Speaker 1: in her had dried up many years before. Dorothy's life
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  Speaker 1: became very sad as she grew to understand that it
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  Speaker 1: would be harder than ever to get back to Kansas
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  Speaker 1: and aunt em again. Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours,
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  Speaker 1: with Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her face,
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  Speaker 1: whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his
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  Speaker 1: little mistress. Toto did not really care whether he was
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy was with him. But he knew the little girl
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  Speaker 1: was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too. Now the
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  Speaker 1: wicked witch had a great longing to have for her
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  Speaker 1: own the silver shoes which the girl always wore. Her
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  Speaker 1: bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in
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  Speaker 1: heaps and drying up, and she had used up all
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  Speaker 1: the power of the golden cap. But if she could
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  Speaker 1: only get a hold of the silver shoes, they would
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  Speaker 1: give her more power than all the other things she
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  Speaker 1: had lost. She watched Dorothy carefully to see if she
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  Speaker 1: ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them.
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  Speaker 1: But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes
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  Speaker 1: that she never took them off, except at night when
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  Speaker 1: she took her bath. The witch was too much afraid
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  Speaker 1: of the dark to dare go into Dorothy's room at
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  Speaker 1: night to take the shoes, and her dread of water
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  Speaker 1: was greater than her fear of the dark, so she
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  Speaker 1: never came near when Dorothy was bathing. Indeed, the old
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  Speaker 1: witch never touched water, nor ever let water touch her
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  Speaker 1: in any way. But the wicked creature was very cunning,
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  Speaker 1: and she finally thought of a trick that would give
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  Speaker 1: her what she wanted. She placed a bar of iron
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then, by
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  Speaker 1: her magic arts, made the iron invisible to human eyes,
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  Speaker 1: so that when Dorothy walked across the floor, she stumbled
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  Speaker 1: over the bar, not being able to see it, and
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  Speaker 1: fell at full length. She was not much hurt, but
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  Speaker 1: in her fall one of the silver shoes came off,
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  Speaker 1: and before she could reach it, the witch had snatched
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  Speaker 1: it away and put it on her own skinny foot.
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  Speaker 1: The wicked woman was greatly pleased with the success of
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  Speaker 1: her trick, for as long as she had one of
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  Speaker 1: the shoes, she owned half the power of their charm,
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  Speaker 1: and Dorothy could not use it against her, even had
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  Speaker 1: she known how to do so. The little girl, seeing
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  Speaker 1: she had lost one of her pretty shoes, grew angry
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  Speaker 1: and said to the witch, give me back my shoe.
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  Speaker 1: I will not, retorted the witch, for it is now
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  Speaker 1: my shoe and not yours. You are a wicked creature,
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  Speaker 1: cried Dorothy. You have no right to take my shoe
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  Speaker 1: from me. I shall keep it just the same, said
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the witch, laughing at her, and someday I shall get
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the other one from you too. This made Dorothy so
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: very angry that she picked up the bucket of water
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that stood near and dashed it over the witch, wetting
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: her from head to foot. Instantly. The wicked woman gave
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a loud cry of fear, and then, as Dorothy looked
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: at her in wonder, the witch began to shrink and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: fall away. See what you have done, she screamed. In
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a minute, I shall melt away. I'm very sorry, indeed,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the witch
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you know water would be the end of me?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Asked the witch in a wailing, despairing voice. Of course, not,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: answered Dorothy. How should I Well, in a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I shall be all melted, and you will have the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: castle to yourself. I have been wicked in my day,
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  Speaker 1: but I have never thought a little girl like you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: would ever be able to melt me. And in my
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: wicked deeds, look out here I go. With these words,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass,
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  Speaker 1: and began to spread over the clean boards of the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: kitchen floor. Seeing that she had really melted away into nothing,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Dorothy drew another bucket of water and threw it over
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the mess. She then swept it all out the door.
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  Speaker 1: After picking out the silver shoe, which was all that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: was left of the old woman, she cleaned and dried
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: it with a cloth, and put it on her foot again. Then,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: being at last free to do as she chose, she
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the wicked Witch of the West had come to an end,
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  Speaker 1: and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twelve.