So the old woman went to the Wicked Witch of the East, and promised her two sheep and a cow if she would prevent the marriage.
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
"This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper.

So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out of tin.

The leg worked very well, once I was used to it.

But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.

When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg.