[The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tin Woodman of Oz CHAPTER Twenty-Two 5/8
He even had a tin arm, and that reminded me of you the more. "No wonder!" remarked the Scarecrow. "But, listen, Nimmie Amee!" said the astonished Woot; "he really is both of them, for he is made of their cast-off parts." "Oh, you're quite wrong," declared Polychrome, laughing, for she was greatly enjoying the confusion of the others.
"The tin men are still themselves, as they will tell you, and so Chopfyt must be someone else." They looked at her bewildered, for the facts in the case were too puzzling to be grasped at once. "It is all the fault of old Ku-Klip," muttered the Tin Woodman.
"He had no right to use our castoff parts to make another man with." "It seems he did it, however," said Nimmie Amee calmly, "and I married him because he resembled you both.
I won't say he is a husband to be proud of, because he has a mixed nature and isn't always an agreeable companion.
There are times when I have to chide him gently, both with my tongue and with my broomstick.
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