“When there is occasion for my brains to think, they think, but I would be ashamed of my brains if they kept shooting out thoughts that were merely fears and imaginings, such as do no good, but are likely to do harm.”

–The one Scarecrow, speaking for myself

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“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. But he is my husband, and I must make the best of him.”

–says the wife, Amee with a perceptible sigh about her life’s lot, in A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, Who is of course the Rainbow’s Daughter

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Meanwhile there are the musings of the Shaggy Man, also of my self,

A boy, a man of tin or not, a Lady, a Gump, or a fairy witch

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can dream of it.