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am made  of tin  and  so  I  have                                       you courage," the Wizard said. "What do you think of that?"
            no  heart.  Please  give  me  a                                            The  Cowardly  Lion was  too  afraid  to  answer.  He  ran  back
            heart,  Great  Oz.  Then  I  can                                         to his friends  and told them everything.
            love and be happy."                                                         "What can we do now?" Dorothy asked sadly.
                                                                                        "We  must  find  the  Wicked  Witch  and  kill  her,"  the
                                                                                     Cowardly Lion said. "If we don't, I will never have courage."
                                                                                        "And  I will never have brains,"  said  the  Scarecrow.
                                                                                        "And  I will never have  a heart,"  said the  Tin Man.
                                                                                        "And I will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry again,"
                                                                                     said  Dorothy.  And  her  tears  fell  onto  her  beautiful  green
                                                                                     dress.
                                                                                        "Don't cry, you'll spoil your dress,"  the Tin Man told her.
                                                                                        So Dorothy stopped crying and  said,
                                            "First  you  must  kill  the                "We  must find  the Witch, but  I  don't want to kill her."
                                         Wicked    Witch   of  the                      "I'll go with you, but I am a coward," the Lion replied.
                                         West,"  the  Huge  Animal                      "I have  no brains, but I will go with you," the Scarecrow
                                         roared.  "Then  I  will  give               said.
                                         you a heart."                                  "I don't want to kill anyone, but  I will go with you too,"
                                            "Well, it will be my turn                the  Tin Man said.  "We'll  all go together and find the Wicked
                                         tomorrow,"  the  Cowardly                   Witch."
           Lion  said  when  the  Tin  Man  had  returned  to  his  friends.  "I        "We'll  go  tomorrow,"  Dorothy  said,  and  Toto  barked
           am  ready  for  the  Head,  the  Green  Woman  or  the  Huge              loudly.
           Animal.  I  will  roar  and  the  Great  Oz will  be  afraid  of me."
              But  when  the  Cowardly  Lion  saw  Oz,  he  had  a  surprise.
           This  time,  the  Great  Wizard  was  a  Ball  of  Fire,  hot  and                                  11
           bright.  The  Cowardly  Lion  was  very  afraid.
              "I  am  Oz,  the  Great  and  the  Terrible,"  the  Ball  of  Fire           The    Wicked     Witch of the      West
           roared.  "Who are you and why are you here?"
              "I'm  the  Cowardly  Lion  and  I'm  always  afraid,"  the  Lion           he friends got up early  the next morning and had a good
           said.  "Please  give  me  courage  so  I  can  be  King  of  the          Tbreakfast.   The  green  girl  filled  Dorothy's  basket  with
           animals."                                                                 food. Then the green soldier took them back to the gate.
              The  Ball  of  Fire  became  hotter  and  hotter  and  the                "Which  road  will  take  us  to  the  Wicked  Witch  of  the
           Cowardly  Lion  had  to  move  further  away.                             West?" Dorothy asked the Guardian of the Gate.
              "When the Wicked Witch of the West is dead,  I will give                  "There isn't a road," he replied.  "No one goes that way."

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