1. Seated on the edge of her little bed in the morning sunshine, Dorothy pulls the Witch's silver shoe onto her raised foot while Toto watches from the floor.

    Trying on silver

    She took off her old leather shoes and tried on the silver ones, which fitted her as well as if they had been made for her.

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  2. Dorothy strides briskly along the yellow brick road in her silver shoes, with Toto trotting at her heels, toward the distant Emerald City.

    Tinkling on yellow brick

    There were several roads nearby, but it did not take her long to find the one paved with yellow bricks. Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed. The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl would who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land.

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  3. At golden evening Dorothy and Toto reach the edge of a Munchkin celebration, with dancers, fiddlers and a loaded table before Boq's blue-domed house.

    Dancing on Boq's lawn

    Toward evening, when Dorothy was tired with her long walk and began to wonder where she should pass the night, she came to a house rather larger than the rest. On the green lawn before it many men and women were dancing. Five little fiddlers played as loudly as possible, and the people were laughing and singing, while a big table near by was loaded with delicious fruits and nuts, pies and cakes, and many other good things to eat.

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  4. In Boq's round blue house, the courteous Munchkin points at Dorothy's silver shoes and declares her a great sorceress, while Dorothy looks up, puzzled, and Toto dozes at her feet.

    "You must be a sorceress"

    When Boq saw her silver shoes he said, “You must be a great sorceress.”

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  5. Dorothy, chin on hand, watches the painted Scarecrow slowly close one eye in a wink, and the straw man comes to life.

    The wink

    While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.

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  6. Standing on tiptoe in the cornfield, Dorothy lifts the light, straw-stuffed Scarecrow off his tall pole while Toto watches from the yellow road below.

    Lifting him down

    Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.

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  7. The Scarecrow confesses he knows nothing because his head is stuffed with straw

    No brains at all

    “No, indeed. I don’t know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all,” he answered sadly.

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  8. On the yellow brick road beside the blue fence, the straw-stuffed man takes the girl's basket and leans in to share a secret.

    Carrying the basket

    “What is that?” asked Dorothy; “the Munchkin farmer who made you?”

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  9. Chapter 3

    Dorothy Frees the Scarecrow

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