The next morning the Scarecrow told his friends he was going to Oz to get his brains. “I will come back like other men.”
“I like you the way you are,” Dorothy said.When he got to the Throne Room, Oz said, “Come in.”
“I’ve come for my brains,” the Scarecrow said.
Oz told him to sit down. “Excuse me for taking your head off, but I have to do it to put your brains in the right place.”
The Wizard took off the Scarecrow’s head and emptied out the straw. He went into a back room and measured out some bran that he mixed with pins and needles. He shook them together and filled the top of the Scarecrow’s head. Then he stuffed a little straw in to hold it all in place.
He put the Scarecrow’s head back on his body. “Now you will be a great man, because I have given you a lot of bran-new brains.”
The Scarecrow was proud that he got his greatest wish. He thanked Oz and went back to his friends.
“How do you feel?” Dorothy asked.
“I feel very wise,” he answered.
“I must get my heart,” the Tin Woodman said.
At the Throne Room, Oz said, “Come in.”
The Woodman said, “I’ve come for my heart.”
“I will have to cut a hole in your chest so I can put your heart in the right place,” Oz said. He brought a pair of special scissors and cut a small hole in the left side of the Woodman’s chest. He took a pretty heart of silk stuffed with sawdust.
“Is it a kind heart?” the Woodman asked.
“Very!” answered Oz.
When he had put the heart in the hole and repaired the hole, he said, “Now you have a heart any man would be proud of.”
The Woodman thanked him and went back to his friends.
The Lion went to the Throne Room.
“Come in,” Oz said.
“I have come for my courage,” the Lion said.
The little man went to a cupboard and took down a square green bottle. He poured what was inside into a green-gold dish. He told the Lion, “Drink. Once it is inside you, it will be courage.”The Lion quickly drank it all.
“How do you feel?” Oz asked.
“Full of courage,” the Lion said. He went back to his friends.
Oz was happy with how he made the three. “It was easy because they imagined I could do anything. But it will take more than imagination to take Dorothy back to Kansas. I don’t know how I can do it.”
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