Chapter 12
The Witch's attacks, capture and melting
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1 Tiny travelers stand at the open gate of the green city glittering in morning light
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2 The one-eyed Witch watches the far plain from her doorstep, hand on her silver whistle
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3 The Tin Woodman swings his axe at the leaping lead wolf as the pack presses in at dusk
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4 Sunlight reveals the Witch on her doorstep, ringed by winged monkeys and their huge king
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7 The Winged Monkey leader halts his long reaching arms a hand's breadth from Dorothy's glowing kiss-mark, held back by the Power of Good.
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8 Seen from above, the one-eyed Witch stares down at the Silver Shoes on Dorothy's feet.
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11 Crossing the castle kitchen, Dorothy trips over the unseen iron bar and sprawls forward as a silver shoe spins from her foot.
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14 In the castle kitchen, the furious girl hauls the full wooden bucket back behind her hip while the cackling one-eyed Witch, wearing the stolen silver shoe, does not see the splash coming.
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17 In the castle kitchen, the drenched old Witch screams as her black dress begins to collapse in folds, while the wide-eyed girl stands frozen with the empty bucket and splash drops hang in the air between them.
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18 The Wicked Witch of the West wails as water melts her into a brown puddle
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21 Dorothy, both silver shoes restored, races across the swept castle kitchen toward the sunlit door with Toto bounding at her side, eager to tell the Lion they are free.
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