. The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz . THE grounds around Nick Choppers new house were laidout in pretty flower-beds, with fountains of crystal water andstatues of tin representing the Emperors personal was astonished and delighted to find a tin statueof herself standing on a tin pedestal at a bend in the avenueleading up to the entrance. It was life-size and showedher in her sunbonnet with her basket
. The road to Oz; in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz . THE grounds around Nick Choppers new house were laidout in pretty flower-beds, with fountains of crystal water andstatues of tin representing the Emperors personal was astonished and delighted to find a tin statueof herself standing on a tin pedestal at a bend in the avenueleading up to the entrance. It was life-size and showedher in her sunbonnet with her basket on her arm, just as shehad first appeared in the Land of Oz. Oh, Toto — you re there too! she exclaimed; and sureenough there was the tin figure of Toto lying at the tin Dor-othys feet. 162 The Emperors Tin Castle Also Dorothy saw figures of the Scarecrow, and the Wiz-ard, and Ozma, and of many others, including Tik-tok. Theyreached the grand tin entrance to the tin castle, and the TinWoodman himself came running out of the door to embrace. little Dorothy and give her a glad welcome. He welcomedher friends as well, and the Rainbows Daughter he declaredto be the loveliest vision his tin eyes had ever beheld. Hepatted Button-Brights curly head tenderly, for he was fond of children, and turned to the shaggy man and shook both hishands at the same time. Nick Chopper, the Emperor of the Winkies, who wasalso known throughout the Land of Oz as the Tin Wood-man, was certainly a remarkable person. He was neatly 163 The Road to Oz made, all of tin, nicely soldered at the joints, and his variouslimbs were cleverly hinged to his body so that he could usethem nearly as well as if they had been common flesh. Once,he told the shaggy man, he had been made all of flesh andbones, as others people are, and then he chopped wood in theforests to earn his living. But the axe slipped so often andcut off parts of him — which he had replaced with tin —that finally there was no flesh left, nothing
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