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The Tin Woodman of Oz

CHAPTER Eighteen
14/19

It occurred to me to piece together the odds and ends of you two people, which of course were just as good as ever, and see if I couldn't make a man out of them.

If I succeeded, I would have an assistant to help me with my work, and I thought it would be a clever idea to put to some practical use the scraps of Nick Chopper and Captain Fyter.

There were two perfectly good heads in my cupboard, and a lot of feet and legs and parts of bodies in the barrel, so I set to work to see what I could do.
"First, I pieced together a body, gluing it with the Witch's Magic Glue, which worked perfectly.

That was the hardest part of my job, however, because the bodies didn't match up well and some parts were missing.

But by using a piece of Captain Fyter here and a piece of Nick Chopper there, I finally got together a very decent body, with heart and all the trimmings complete." "Whose heart did you use in making the body ?" asked the Tin Woodman anxiously.
"I can't tell, for the parts had no tags on them and one heart looks much like another.


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