The Scarecrow looked at her reproachfully, and answered: “Won’t you tell me a story, while we are resting?” asked the child. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.” “If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. “Of course I cannot understand it,” he said. “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. “That is because you have no brains” answered the girl. The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, “I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas.”

So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz. “Tell me something about yourself and the country you came from,” said the Scarecrow, when she had finished her dinner. “I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”ĭorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went on eating her bread. She offered a piece to the Scarecrow, but he refused. There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.Īt noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy opened her basket and got out some bread. The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back. It never hurt him, however, and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap. As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks. Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped across and Dorothy walked around. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!Īfter a few hours the road began to be rough, and the walking grew so difficult that the Scarecrow often stumbled over the yellow bricks, which were here very uneven. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.

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