Dorothy Meets the Scarecrow
orothy was feeling hungry. She went into the house and
found some bread. She gave some bread to Toto and ate some herself. Then she picked some fruit and drank some water from the stream.
A clean blue and white dress was hanging by Dorothy’s bed. The girl washed herself carefully and put on the dress. Then she put some more bread in her basket. She picked some more fruit and put that in the basket too.
Dorothy looked down at her shoes. They were old and dirty. Then she looked at the Wicked Witch’s Silver Shoes.
“1 will wear them if they will fit me,” she said to herself, and she put them on. Toto barked21 loudly and wagged22 his tail.
“Come along, Toto,” Dorothy said. “We will go to the Emerald City and see the Wizard of Oz. This is a beautiful country, but I must get back home to Kansas.”
The brave girl picked up her basket and shut the door of the house behind her. Then they started on their journey.
Soon they found the yellow brick road and walked along it happily. There were fields on both sides of the road. All the houses that Dorothy saw were painted blue-the Munchkins’ color.
In the evening, Dorothy was very tired and she wanted somewhere to sleep. Then she saw a large Munchkin house. It was painted blue, like the other Munchkin houses. But this house belonged to a very rich Munchkin. He had invited his friends to supper and the food was on two long tables in
front of the house. Music was playing and the Munchkin: were all dancing on the grass.