Then they all looked at the river and saw the Scarecrow perched upon his pole in the middle of the water, looking very lonely and sad.
So the big bird flew into the air and over the water till she came to where the Scarecrow was perched upon his pole.
How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow When Dorothy was left alone she began to feel hungry.
They were all greatly pleased to see how easily he did it, and after the Scarecrow had got down from his back the Lion sprang across the ditch again.
I want him to give me some brains," said the Scarecrow eagerly.
When he was here he built for us this beautiful Emerald City, and now he is gone he has left the Wise Scarecrow to rule over us.
Others took the Scarecrowand the Woodman and the Lion, and one little Monkey seized Toto and flew after them, although the dog tried hard to bite him.
So the Scarecrow at last asked the green girl to take another message to Oz, saying if he did not let them in to see him at once they would call the Winged Monkeys to help them, and find out whether he kept his promises or not.
The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep.
I believe I will try it myself," said the Woodman, and shouldering his axe, he marched up to the first tree that had handled the Scarecrow so roughly.
But he had no arms at all, and, seeing this, the Scarecrow did not fear that so helpless a creature could prevent them from climbing the hill.
Scarecrow when he had stretched himself and yawned.
When they had seated themselves theScarecrow was the first to speak.
After breakfast Dorothy said to the Tin Woodman: "If you'll tell us which way to go we'll visit the Scarecrowon our way home.
Once the Scarecrow and I found the Tin Woodman in the woods, and he was just rusted still, that time, an' no mistake.
The Scarecrow came out to meet them and gave them all a hearty welcome.
The second story contained a fine banquet room, where the Scarecrow might entertain his guests, and the three stories above that were bed-chambers exquisitely furnished and decorated.
But the Scarecrow suspected what was in the King's mind and spoke a word to the Tin Woodman.
The Scarecrow found a seat in the wagon between Omby Amby and the Shaggy Man, and his weight did not add much to the load because he was stuffed with straw.
The Scarecrow is probably the wisest man in all Oz," remarked the Tin Woodman, when they had started upon their journey.
The Scarecrow once conquered all the Nome King's army with some of Billina's eggs.
So they went away and left the Scarecrow and Ozma alone; but Dorothy could not sleep a wink all night.
During her several visits this little girl had been the means of destroying two wicked witches who oppressed the people, and she had discovered a live scarecrow who was now one of the most popular personages in all the fairy country.
After counseling with the Scarecrow Ozma sent Omby Amby to the palace for the Magic Belt, and when the Captain General returned with it the Ruler of Oz at once clasped the precious Belt around her waist.
Upon the very top of the structure was perched a figure representing the Scarecrow himself, and upon his extended arms, as well as upon his head, were several crows carved out of ebony and having ruby eyes.
Ward told Mr. Chase that his father was an artist who was true to life, for he made a scarecrow so bad that the crows brought back the corn they had stolen two years before.
He seemed to be a ludicrous scarecrow rival of the great gentleman, scholar, and statesman, William H.
The scarecrow and Hosea Talked much of people and of farming--I Sat listening, and I gathered from the talk, And what Hosea told me as we drove, That once this field so level and so green The scarecrow owned.
Now having lost the field So many years ago, could be a scarecrow, And drive a scarecrow horse, yet laugh again And have no care, the sorrow healed.
Here we met A scarecrow man, driving a scarecrowhorse Hitched to a wobbly wagon.
And so this field Of waving wheat along which we were driving Was just the very field the scarecrowman Had failed to master, as that other man Had failed to master after him.
For in truth, The soil possessed a secret which the scarecrow Never went deep enough to learn about.
Why, I see you've got a scarecrowup on that liberty pole.
But, though a strict inquiry was made, no one was ever punished for the "scarecrow joke" as it came to be called, and it is now one of the traditions of Randall College.
Only if I was you I wouldn't put a scarecrowup so high.
Just then the Scarecrow proposed a race between the Sawhorse and the Cab-horse; and although all the others were delighted at the suggestion the Sawhorse drew back, saying: "Such a race would not be fair.
But you must remember you had the Scarecrowand the Tin Woodman to help you conquer those enemies," suggested the Wizard.
Following the chariot came the Scarecrow mounted on the Sawhorse, and the people cheered him almost as loudly as they did their lovely Ruler.
The Scarecrow is stuffed with straw, and you with hair, so I am still the Original and Only Cotton-Stuffed!
Does the Scarecrow admit that this overgrown frog is the wisest creature in the world?
After a time theScarecrow and the Tin Woodman came along and sat beneath the tree, paying no heed to the mutterings of the gray dove.
I do not know who theScarecrow is," answered Cayke the Cookie Cook.
While he was thus engaged the Scarecrow remarked: "I feel much better, dear comrade, since we found that heap of nice clean straw and you stuffed me anew with it.
I wish the Scarecrow was here," said Scraps, standing on her head on the Woozy's square back.
For, though the eye shone and glistened like a star as Scarecrow held it out, yet the Gray Women caught not the least glimpse of its light and were all three in utter darkness from too impatient a desire to see.
Quicksilver was so much tickled at beholding Shakejoint and Nightmare both groping for the eye, and each finding fault with Scarecrow and one another, that he could scarcely help laughing aloud.
But here the third sister, whose name was Shakejoint, began to complain, and said that it was her turn to have the eye, and that Scarecrow and Nightmare wanted to keep it all to themselves.
To end the dispute, old Dame Scarecrow took the eye out of her forehead and held it forth in her hand.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.
At last, however, it is completed, and the Scarecrow took possession of his new home just two days ago.
That was the time when the Scarecrow nearly frightened the Nome King into fits by throwing one of Billina's eggs at him, and Dorothy had captured King Roquat's Magic Belt and brought it away with her to the Land of Oz.
How They Drank at the Forbidden Fountain The Scarecrow had no need to sleep; neither had the Tin Woodman or Tiktok or Jack Pumpkinhead.
It seems," said the Tin Woodman, "that our dear Scarecrow cannot be contented with city life, however beautiful his surroundings might be.
So they went away and let the Scarecrow and Ozma alone; but Dorothy could not sleep a wink all night.
How the Scarecrow Displayed His Wisdom This amazing news had saddened every heart and all were now anxious to return to the Emerald City and share Ozma's fate.
How long he slept undisturbed, only the scarecrow outside knew.
I wouldn't 'a' thought it of a nice, friendly scarecrowlike that!
The rain had ceased, but the fields were still afloat, and Phelan waded ankle deep through the slush grass, to where the scarecrow raised his threatening arms against the twilight sky.
Up in the garden patch, the scarecrow flapped his empty sleeves.
A lean and threadbare scarecrow flapped his ragged coat-sleeves in the wind that swept across the barren garden patch farther up the slope,--this was the nearest approach to human life that came within the range of vision.
It was settled, therefore, in her own mind that the scarecrow should represent a fine gentleman of the period so far as the materials at hand would allow.
She was determined, therefore, to contrive as lifelike a scarecrow as ever was seen, and to finish it immediately from top to toe, so that it should begin its sentinel's duty that very morning.
Even had you stood by and seen the scarecrow made, you could scarcely have resisted the conviction that it perfectly understood the cunning counsels which the old witch poured into its counterfeit of an ear.
It was sorrowful to behold how the fine gentleman began to fade back into a scarecrow while Mother Rigby shook the ashes out of the pipe and proceeded to replenish it from her tobacco-box.
Thus threatened, the unhappy scarecrow had nothing for it but to puff away for dear life.
The token was neither more nor less than a single word, which Mother Rigby whispered to the scarecrow and which the scarecrow was to whisper to the merchant.
The scarecrow gasped, struggled, and at length emitted a murmur which was so incorporated with its smoky breath that you could scarcely tell whether it were indeed a voice or only a whiff of tobacco.
It was nothing, after all, but a scarecrow stuck upon two sticks.
Now Mother Rigby (as everybody must have heard) was one of the most cunning and potent witches in New England, and might with very little trouble have made a scarecrow ugly enough to frighten the minister himself.
In fear and trembling did this poor scarecrow puff.
At this rate, ere two more years are elapsed, you may strip the rags from your last beggar’s back, and hang them on the city gate as a scarecrow and a caution against a revival of the detestable trade.
What business could a wretched scarecrow like I am pursue?
A filthy little scarecrow of a man, trousers rolled about his knee, was standing in the sea, holding some one by the hand not ten yards away.
A neighbor suggests that I might put up a scarecrow near the vines, which would keep the birds away.
To-these I took good care not to attract the attention of the bird by any scarecrow whatever!
I left the old scarecrow conspicuously flaunting above the old vines; and by this means I hope to keep the attention of the birds confined to that side of the garden.
I tried thescarecrow plan, in a way which I thought would outwit the shrewdest bird.
The ragged scarecrow with the eye-glass nodded, somewhat shamefacedly, and once more made a pitiful effort to straighten his stooping shoulders.
The scarecrow with the eye-glass held out a slack hand to the old factor.
What I saw was a scarecrowsort of likeness of you, dear Richard; but, when he opened his eyes, there was our Maggie smiling at me.
The large man suddenly separated from his companions and approached the scarecrowat the helm.
As he gazed upon the scarecrow figure in the stern of the dory a sprightly interest beamed upon his mobile face.
Notwithstanding thescarecrow tradition the Korwas are, as a rule, better-looking than the Gonds and Oraons.
When the great spirit saw the scarecrow he hit on an expedient to save his votaries the trouble of reconstructing them.
The Scarecrow had never been much of a success in scaring crows, but he prided himself on being a superior man, because he could feel no pain, was never tired and did not have to eat or drink.
Suddenly theScarecrow glanced up and saw a big rock just ahead of them.
The Scarecrow tried to do this, but having only one eye he could not see the joints very clearly.
The Tin Woodman's joints were so rusted, however, that he was unable to move, while the thorns held the Scarecrow a fast prisoner.
The palace of the Scarecrow was not far distant, on the banks of a river, and this palace was in the shape of an immense ear of corn.
Immediately the Scarecrow threw out the anchor, so as to hold the boat in that place, and then he leaned over the side and through the clear water looked at his friend sorrowfully.
He smiled when he saw the one-eyed head of the Scarecrow sticking out of the bramble-bush, but he helped the poor straw man out of his prison.
No bait was needed, so the Scarecrow dropped the hook into the water till it touched the Woodman.
Then back they flew to the tin man, and while the Scarecrow carefully oiled each joint the little Wizard moved the joints gently back and forth until they worked freely.
A shriek of elfish laughter greeted this speech and looking up the Scarecrow found the trees full of black crows, who seemed much amused by the straw man's one-eyed countenance.
The Scarecrow now took off his hat and made a dive from the boat into the water; but he was so light in weight that he barely dented the surface of the stream, nor could he reach the Tin Woodman with his outstretched straw arms.
And with this the Scarecrow clapped his hands to his head, forgetting the anchor, which tumbled to the ground.
Looking upon the scarecrow more attentively, it struck him that, miserable as its wardrobe was, nevertheless here was a chance for getting rid of the unsuitable and perilous clothes of the Squire.
Then returning to the field of corn, sat down under the lee of a rock, about a hundred yards from where the scarecrow had stood, thinking which way he now had best direct his steps.
Mrs. Freke was so much incensed by his insolent interference, as she was pleased to call it, that she made an effigy of Mr. Moreton dressed in his canonicals, and hung the figure up as a scarecrow in a garden close by the high road.
