18.

Away to the South.
Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon.

And she also felt sorry at losing Oz, and so did her companions.
The Tin Woodman came to her and said: "Truly I should be ungrateful if I failed to mourn for the man who gave me my lovely heart.

I should like to cry a little because Oz is gone, if you will kindly wipe away my tears, so that I shall not rust." "With pleasure," she answered, and brought a towel at once.

Then the Tin Woodman wept for several minutes, and she watched the tears carefully and wiped them away with the towel.