Chapter 1
The cyclone carries the house away
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1 A small gray farmhouse and its sheds stand alone on the cracked, sun-burned Kansas plain
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2 A small girl stands in the farmhouse doorway and looks out over the flat gray prairie
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3 Uncle Henry calls out that a cyclone is coming and runs toward the sheds
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4 A gust throws Dorothy, Toto in her arms, to the floor just short of the cellar door
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5 Beneath a vast spiral of dark cloud, the gray farmhouse lifts from the Kansas prairie
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7 In the swaying house, Toto hangs in the open trap door, held up by the rushing air
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