The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Volume 1 Chapter 4

有声英语儿童童话故事 绿野仙踪 第1卷 第4章

Toto jumped out of Dorothy’s armsand hide under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badlyfrightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladderinto the small, dark hole. Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to followher aunt. When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek fromthe wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat downsuddenly upon the floor.

Then a strange thing happened.

The house whirled around two orthree times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were goingup in a balloon.

The north and south winds metwhere the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone. In themiddle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of thewind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was atthe very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles andmiles away as easily as you could carry a feather.