Toto had run into the crowd to bark at a kitten, and Dorothy at last found him. No one would think of biting such a little thing, except a coward like me,” continued the Lion sadly.“What makes you a coward?” asked Dorothy, looking at the great beast in wonder, for he was as big as a small horse.“It’s a mystery,” replied the Lion. He agreed to publish the book only when the manager of the Chicago Grand Opera House, Fred R. Hamlin, committed to making it into a musical stage play to publicize the novel.
“They could probably tell us the way to the Emerald City.”,“To be sure they could,” cried the Scarecrow. If you come in this yard, I will bite you.”.The reason the Lion did not have to do as the Witch wished was that every night, while the woman was asleep, Dorothy carried him food from the cupboard.

The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named,In January 1901, George M. Hill Company completed printing the first edition, a total of 10,000 copies, which quickly sold out. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”.“Won’t you tell me a story, while we are resting?” asked the child.The Scarecrow looked at her reproachfully, and answered:“My life has been so short that I really know nothing whatever. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.”,“They really are,” said the Lion, “but that doesn’t make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.”.So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion walking with stately strides at Dorothy’s side. “They seem so helpless and frail. So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the first branches they bent down and twined around him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers.This did not hurt the Scarecrow, but it surprised him, and he looked rather dizzy when Dorothy picked him up.“Here is another space between the trees,” called the Lion.“Let me try it first,” said the Scarecrow, “for it doesn’t hurt me to get thrown about.” He walked up to another tree, as he spoke, but its branches immediately seized him and tossed him back again.“This is strange,” exclaimed Dorothy. In spite of this favorable conjecture, Hill did not initially predict that the book would be phenomenally successful. But the first thing to do is to cross the desert, and then it should be easy to find your way home.”.“How can I cross the desert?” she inquired.“Well, I’ll tell you what I think,” said the little man. The Lion, although he was certainly afraid, turned to face the Kalidahs, and then he gave so loud and terrible a roar that Dorothy screamed and the Scarecrow fell over backward, while even the fierce beasts stopped short and looked at him in surprise.But, seeing they were bigger than the Lion, and remembering that there were two of them and only one of him, the Kalidahs again rushed forward, and the Lion crossed over the tree and turned to see what they would do next. She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf. “If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country.”,“But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!” cried the Scarecrow. She and Toto ate the last of their bread, and now she did not know what they would do for breakfast.“If you wish,” said the Lion, “I will go into the forest and kill a deer for you. After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape. He was dressed in a rich costume of pink silk and purple velvet, and my grandfather thought he would see what he could do. They were a long distance off, but the Wicked Witch was angry to find them in her country; so she blew upon a silver whistle that hung around her neck.At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves. The news spread rapidly throughout the city and everyone came to see the wonderful sight.Oz ordered the balloon carried out in front of the Palace, and the people gazed upon it with much curiosity. “If it required brains to figure it out, I never should have said it.”.After an hour or so the light faded away, and they found themselves stumbling along in the darkness. I cannot tell you how to use them, however; you must find that out for yourself.”,“Oh, thank you–thank you!” cried the Scarecrow.

They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them.
“After a time,” continued Oz, “I tired of that, and became a balloonist.”.“A man who goes up in a balloon on circus day, so as to draw a crowd of people together and get them to pay to see the circus,” he explained.“Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn’t come down again. But take care; for she is wicked and fierce, and may not allow you to destroy her. The Lion went back a third time and got the Tin Woodman, and then they all sat down for a few moments to give the beast a chance to rest, for his great leaps had made his breath short, and he panted like a big dog that has been running too long.They found the forest very thick on this side, and it looked dark and gloomy. There are worse things in the world than being a Scarecrow.”.After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass. I can imitate any kind of a bird or beast.” Here he mewed so like a kitten that Toto pricked up his ears and looked everywhere to see where she was. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.“You people with hearts,” he said, “have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.