The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

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Chapter Five: The Old Man from Kansas

The little green man opened the door.

He gave them all glasses.

Then he took them through the city to the Wizard's house.

There,in the long green room, the friends waited and waited and waited.

After three hours, the Scarecrow said, 'I'm tired of waiting.'

He called the green man, 'We want to see the Wizard now, or we're going to call the magic monkeys. Please tell the Wizard that.'

The green man went away to speak to the Wizard through the door.

The Wizard knew about the magic monkeys, and he was very afraid of them.

So he said to the green man, 'These people can come and see me at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.'

At nine o'clock, the green man took the friends to the Wizard's room.

They went in and looked all round, but they could not see anybody.

Then a voice said, 'I am the Wizard of Oz. Who are you and what do you want?'

'Where are you?' asked Dorothy.

'Ah,I am everywhere, but you can't see me. Now, answer me. Who are you and what do you want?'

'You know us all,' said the scarecrow, 'You said to me, “help Dorothy to kill the Witch of the West, and you can have some brains.” Well, the Witch is dead. And now I want my brains.'

'And I want my heart,' said the Tin Man.

'And I want to be brave,' said the Cowardly Lion.

'And I want to go home to Kansas,' said Dorothy.

'Is the witch truly dead?' asked the voice.

'Yes,'said Dorothy, 'I threw a bucket of water over her, and she disappeared. '

'Very well,' said the voice, 'Come again tomorrow. I must think about things first and…'

'No,'said the Tin Man, 'I want my heart now.'

'I'm not going to wait another minute,' said the Scarecrow.

'And I'm going to eat you,' the Lion shouted very angrily.

Toto was afraid, he jumped away from the Lion and hit a screen near the wall.

The screen fell over, and behind it, the friends saw an old man with no hair.

The Tin Man looked angry and picked up his axe.

'Who are you?' he said.

'Please don't hurt me,' said the old man in a quiet little voice, 'I'm the Wizard of Oz.'

'But the Wizard of Oz is a big head without body,' said Dorothy.

'No,he's a beautiful woman,' said the Scarecrow.

'You're wrong,' said the tin man, 'The Wizard of Oz is a big animal with two heads.'

'No,'said the lion, 'The Wizard is a ball of fire.'

'You're all wrong,' said the old man, 'I am the Wizard. Well, I'm not a true Wizard.Oh, I know a lot of tricks, but I don't know any true magic. You see, I'm from Kansas too. I went from town to town and did magic tricks, and I went up in a big balloon. The balloon was always on a rope. But one day something went wrong,the rope broke and the balloon blew away. For a long time, the wind carried my balloon across the sky. Then I came down here in the country of Oz. The people saw my balloon and said, “This man is a Wizard. He comes out of the sky.” They were afraid of me and wanted to work for me. So they built this city for me,and I called it the Emerald city. Well, emeralds are green, so I made green glasses for everybody. That's why everything in the city looks green.'

The Scarecrow took off his glasses.

'Oh,'he said, 'Now I understand the Emerald city isn't green. It just looks Green.'

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