There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also. Aunt Em was washing the dishes.įrom the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too. Uncle Henry sat upon the door–step and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly. Toto was not gray he was a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled, now. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. It was reached by a trap–door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. There was no garret at all, and no cellar-except a small hole, dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. PDF ePub Kindle Excerpt from 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'ĭorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Download for ereaders (below donate buttons) This book has 121 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1900. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful story out of such familiar items as a cornfield scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard. One of the true classics of American literature, it has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the first book in the Oz series by L. See the front cover of this book (image will open in new tab) Description Skip down page to downloads.Ĭategories » All ebooks » Fiction » Childrens » Fantasy Fiction Frank Baumįree download available in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. This offer will be for a limited time only. Notice: For only £40 (down from £60), you can get the entire collection of over 3,000 ebooks, including around 900 that are no longer on the site.
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