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

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