[The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tin Woodman of Oz CHAPTER Twenty-One 5/7
You're welcome to use my burrow in any way you choose." "But this is all nonsense!" declared Woot the Wanderer.
"We are every one too big to crawl through a rabbit's burrow." "We are too big now," agreed the Scarecrow, "but you must remember that Polychrome is a fairy, and fairies have many magic powers." Woot's face brightened as he turned to the lovely Daughter of the Rainbow. "Could you make us all as small as that rabbit ?" he asked eagerly. "I can try," answered Polychrome, with a smile.
And presently she did it--so easily that Woot was not the only one astonished.
As the now tiny people grouped themselves before the rabbit's burrow the hole appeared to them like the entrance to a tunnel, which indeed it was. "I'll go first," said wee Polychrome, who had made herself grow as small as the others, and into the tunnel she danced without hesitation. A tiny Scarecrow went next and then the two funny little tin men. "Walk in; it's your turn," said the Blue Rabbit to Woot the Wanderer. "I'm coming after, to see how you get along.
This will be a regular surprise party to Nimmie Amee." So Woot entered the hole and felt his way along its smooth sides in the dark until he finally saw the glimmer of daylight ahead and knew the journey was almost over.
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