And then I should get no brains,” said the Scarecrow. “And I should get no courage,” said the Cowardly Lion. “And I should get no heart,” said the Tin Woodman. “And I should never get back to Kansas,” said Dorothy.
Please make yourselves at home here for a few minutes, while I attend to an errand,” said the Nome King, getting up from the throne. “I shall return pretty soon, when I hope to find you pieceful – ha, ha, ha! – that’s a joke you can’t appreciate now but will later. Be pieceful – that’s the idea. Ho, ho, ho! How funny.” Then he waddled from the cavern, closing the door behind him.
Exactly so!” declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. “I am a humbug.” “But.
There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.
He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man.
The generals commanded the colonels and the colonels commanded the majors and the majors commanded the captains and the captains commanded the private, who marched with an air of proud importance because it required so many officers to give him his orders.
Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.
Scarecrow declared he could see as well as by day. So she took hold of his.
We are all vegetable, in this country. Are you not vegetable, also?” “No,” answered the Wizard. “People on top of the earth are all meat. Will.
The North Country is purple, and it’s the Country of the Gillikins. The East Country is blue, and that’s the Country of the Munchkins. Down at the South is the red Country of the Quadlings, and here, in the West, the yellow Country of the Winkies.
Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum.
Fat babies! Don’t they sound delicious? But I’ve never eaten any, because my conscience tells me it is wrong. If I had no conscience I would probably eat the babies and then get hungry again, which would mean that I had sacrificed the poor babies for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I’ll not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for.
But I was raised in the United States, and I won’t allow any one-horse chicken of the Land of Ev to run over me and put on airs, as long as I can lift a claw in self-defense.
With Dorothy hard at work, the.
I have heard, my dear friend, that a person can become over-educated; and although I have a high respect for brains, no matter how they may be arranged or classified, I begin to suspect that yours are slightly tangled. In any event, I must beg you to restrain your superior education while in our society.
All the magic isn’t in fairyland,” he said gravely. “There’s lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the United States, where you and I once lived, as you can here.
Si caminamos lo suficiente, alguna vez llegaremos a alguna parte.
This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.
Do not, I beg of you, dampen today’s sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.
Oz, the Great and Terrible.