Chapter XIII.
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The RescueTHE COWARDLY LION WAS much pleased to hear that the Wicked Witch had beeed by a bucket of water, and Dorothy at onlocked the gate of his prison a him free. They went in together to the castle, where Dorothys first act was to call all the Wiogether ahem tha..hey were no longer slaves.
There was great rejoig among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cru- elty. They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time iing and dang.
"If our friends, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, were only with us," said the Lion, "I should be quite happy.”
"Dont you suppose we could rescue them?" asked the girl anxiously.
"We try," answered the Lion.
So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help to rescue their friends, and the Winkies said that they would be delighted to do all in their power for Dorothy, who had set them free from bondage. So she chose a number of the Winkies who looked as if they khe most, <var></var>and they all started away. They traveled that day and part of the until they came to the rocky plaihe Tin Woodman lay, all battered a. His axe was near him, but the blade was rusted and the handle broken off short.
The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry. When they reached the castle Dorothy said to the Winkies:
"Are any of your people tinsmiths?”
"Oh, yes. Some of us are very good tinsmiths," they told her.
"Then bring them to me," she said. And wheinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she in- quired, " you straighten out those dents iin Wood- man, and bend him bato shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?”
The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so<mark>藏书网</mark> he would be as good as ever. So they set to work in one of the big yel- low rooms of the castle and worked for three days and fhts, hammering and twisting and bending and s and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever. To be sure, there were several patches on him, but the tinsmiths did a good job, and as the Woodman was not a vain man he did not mind the patches at all.
When, at last, he walked into Dorothys room and thanked her for resg him, he was so pleased that he wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to wipe every tear carefully from his face with her apron, so his joints would not be rusted. At the same time her own tears fell thid fast at the joy of meet- ing her old friend again, and these tears did not o be wiped away. As for the Lion, he wiped his eyes so often with the tip of his tail that it became quite wet, and he was obliged to go out into the courtyard and hold it in the sun till it dried.
"If we only had the Scarecrow with us again," said the Tin Woodman, when Dorothy had fielling him everything that had happened, "I should be quite happy.”
"We must try to find him," said the girl.
So she called the Wio help her, and they walked all that day and part of the until they came to the tall tree in the branches of which the Winged Monkeys had tossed the carecrows clothes.
It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one could climb it; but the Woodman said at once, "Ill chop it down, and then we get the Scarecrows clothes.”
Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a gold- smith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodmans axe, instead of the old broken hahers polished the blade until all the rust was removed and it glis- tened like burnished silver.
As soon as he had spoken, the Tin Woodman began to chop, and in a short time the tree fell over with a crash, whereupon the Scarecrows clothes fell out of the branches and rolled off on the ground.
Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, straw; and behold! here was the Scarecrow, as good as ever, thanking them over and ain for saving him.
Now that they were reunited, Dorothy and her friends spent a fey days at the Yellow Castle, where they found ev- erything they o make them fortable.
But one day the girl thought of Aunt Em, and said, "We must go back to Oz, and claim his promise.”
"Yes," said the Woodman, "at last I shall get my heart.”
"And I shall get my brains," added the Scarecrow joyfully.
"And I shall get my ce," said the Lion thoughtfully.
"And I shall get back to Kansas," cried Dorothy, clapping her hands. "Oh, let us start for the Emerald City tomorrow!”
This they decided to do. The day they called the Wiogether and bade them good-bye. The Winkies were sorry to have them go, and they had grown so fond of the Tin Woodman that they begged him t<s>?99lｉｂ?</s>o stay and rule over them and the Yellow Land of the West. Finding they were deter- mio go, the Winkies gave Toto and the Lion each a golden collar; and to Dorothy they presented a beautiful bracelet studded with diamonds; and to the Scarecrow they gave a gold-headed walking stick, to keep him from stum- bling; and to the Tin Woodman they offered a silver oil-, inlaid with gold a with precious jewels.
Every one of the travelers made the Winkies a pretty spee return, and all shook hands with them until their arms ached.
Dorothy went to the Witchs cupboard to fill her basket with food for the journey, and there she saw the Golden Cap.
She tried it on her own head and found that it fitted her ex- actly. She did not know anything about the charm of the Golden Cap, but she saw that it retty, so she made up her mind to wear it and carry her sunbo in the basket.
Then, being prepared for the jourhey all started for the Emerald City; and the Winkies gave them three cheers and many good wishes to carry with them.
L. Frank Baum
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