Identifier: dorothywizardino00baum2 (find matches)
Title: Dorothy and the wizard in Oz
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 Neill, John R. (John Rea), ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Fantasy
Publisher: Chicago : Reilly & Britton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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e revolvers can merely succeed indamaging a few of their wooden bodies, and after that we willbe at their mercy. But why fight at all, in that case? asked the girl. So I may die with a clear conscience, returned theWizard, gravely. Its every mans duty to do the best heknows how; and Im going to do it. Wish I had an axe, said Zeb, who by now had unhitchedthe horse. If we had known we were coming we might have broughtalong several other useful things, responded the Wizard.But we dropped into this adventure rather unexpectedly. The Gargoyles had backed away a distance when theyheard the sound of talking, for although our friends hadspoken in low tones their words seemed loud in the silencesurrounding them. But as soon as the conversation ceasedthe grinning, ugly creatures arose in a flock and flew swiftlytoward the strangers, their long arms stretched out beforethem like the bowsprits of a fleet of sail-boats. The horse hadespecially attracted their notice, because it was the biggest 138
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THE WIZARD FIRED INTO THE THRONG. They Meet the Wooden Gargoyles and strangest creature they had ever seen; so it became thecenter of their first attack. But Jim was ready for them, and when he saw them com-ing he turned his heels toward them and began kicking outas hard as he could. Crack! crash I bang! went his iron-shodhoofs against the wooden bodies of the Gargoyles, and theywere battered right and left with such force that they scat-tered like straws in the wind. But the noise and clatterseemed as dreadful to them as Jims heels, for all who wereable swiftly turned and flew away to a great distance. Theothers picked themselves up from the ground one by one andquickly rejoined their fellows, so for a moment the horsethought he had won the fight with ease. But the Wizard was not so confident. Those wooden things are impossible to hurt, he said,and all the damage Jim has done to them is to knock a fewsplinters from their noses and ears. That cannot make themlook any uglier, Im sure,

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