【英】《绿野仙踪》第16集：Glinda Grants Dorothy's Wish

The next morning, the Guardian at the Gate unlocked their glasses. “You are ruler now,” he said to the Scarecrow. “Come back to us soon.”

They walked out of the Emerald City and began their journey. They traveled for many days through forests, bogs, and fields. At last, they arrived in the land of the Good Witch.

The country of the Quadlings was beautiful and full of fields, brooks, fences, houses, and bridges. All were painted red. The Quadlings were short and heavy and looked friendly. They were dressed in red.

The travelers walked up to a nearby farmhouse and knocked at the door. The farmer’s wife opened it and gave them all a good dinner.

“How far to the castle of Glinda?” Dorothy asked.

“Not far,” the woman answered. “Go down the road to the South.”

They thanked her and walked across the pretty bridges until they saw a beautiful castle. In front of the gates were three young girls. They were dressed in red uniforms.

They asked, “Why have you come to the South Country?”

“To see the Good Witch,” Dorothy said.

“Let me have your name,” one of the girls said. 

“I will ask Glinda if she will see you.” Soon she came back to say that Dorothy and the others were to come in at once.

They were first taken to a room at the castle to get ready to see Glinda. Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair. The Lion shook the dust out of his mane. The Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape. The Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.

They followed the soldier girl into a big room. Glinda sat on a throne of rubies. She was young and beautiful. Her hair was red and dress pure white. Her eyes were blue and looked kindly on Dorothy.

“What can I do for you?” Glinda asked. 

Dorothy told her their story. “My great wish now is to get back to Kansas. Aunt Em will think something horrible has happened to me and she will be sad. Uncle Henry needs our help with the crops.”

Glinda said, “Bless your heart, I am sure I can tell you how to get home. If I do, you must give me the Golden Cap.”

“Gladly,” Dorothy said. “I cannot use it now. You can only command the Winged Monkeys three times.”

“I will need them just those times,” Glinda said.

Dorothy gave her the Golden Cap. The Witch said to the Scarecrow, “What will you do when Dorothy has left?”

The Scarecrow said, “I will return to the Emerald City. Oz has made me ruler and the people like me. But I don’t know how to cross the hill of the Hammer-Heads.”

“I will command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the Emerald City,” Glinda said. “It would be sad if they did not have such a wonderful ruler.”

To the Tin Woodman she said, “What will happen to you when Dorothy leaves?”

“The Winkies were kind to me. They wanted me to rule them. If I could get back to the Country of the West, I would be happy to rule them forever.”

“My second command to the Monkeys will be to carry you to the land of the Winkies. You will rule them wisely and well,” Glinda said.

Then the Witch looked at the Lion. “When Dorothy returns home, what will become of you?”

“Over the hill of the Hammer-Heads is a wonderful old forest. The beasts there made me their king. If I could get there, I would live my life there happily,” the Lion said.

Glinda said, “My third command to the Winged Monkeys will be to carry you to your forest. Then I will give the Golden Cap to the King of the Monkeys so they can be free forever.”

Dorothy said, “You are as good as you are beautiful. But how will you get me back to Kansas?”

“Your silver shoes will carry you over the desert. If you had known their power, you could have gone home the first day you came here.”

“But I would not have had my wonderful brains! I would have spent my life in the cornfield,” the Scarecrow said.

“And I would not have my lovely heart,” the Tin Woodman said. “I would have been rusted in the forest till the end of the world.”

“And I would have been a coward forever,” the Lion said. “No beast in the forest would have a good word to say to me.”

Dorothy said she was happy that she had helped her friends. “But you all have what you want most. I would like to go back to Kansas.”

Glinda said, “The silver shoes can carry you to any place in three steps, like the wink of an eye. Knock the heels together three times and tell the shoes to carry you where you want to go.”

Dorothy hugged the Lion’s neck and patted his head gently. She kissed the Tin Woodman, who cried in a way that was dangerous to his joints. Then she hugged the stuffed Scarecrow in her arms. She cried over leaving her new friends.

Glinda the Good stepped from her throne to give Dorothy a good-bye kiss.

Dorothy took Toto in her arms and said one last good-bye. She clapped the heels of her shoes together three times.

“Take me home to Aunt Em!” she said. 

she whirled through the air. All she could see and feel was the wind whistling past her ears. The silver shoes took only three steps. Then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled on the grass several times.

She sat up and said, “Good gracious!”

She was sitting on the Kansas prairie. In front of her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone carried the old one away. He was milking the cows in the barnyard. Toto jumped out of her arms and ran to the barn, barking happily.

Dorothy stood and found that the silver shoes had fallen off in her flight and were lost forever in the desert.

Aunt Em just came out of the house to water the cabbages. She looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.

“My darling child!” she cried. She hugged Dorothy and covered her face with kisses. “Where in the world did you come from?”

Dorothy said, “From the Land of Oz. And here is Toto. And oh, Aunt Em, I am so glad to be home again!”