Wonderful Wizard of Oz part XIII

They started their onward journey. They came to a forest. They travelled until they came to a thick wood. There was no way of going around it,  for it seemed to extend to the right and left but didn't change their direction. Finally they discovered a big tree with such wide spreading  branches but there was room for the party to pass underneath. So he walked forward to the tree, but just he came  under the first branches  they bent down and twined  around him and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travellers. It didn't hurt the scarecrow , but it surprised him. However, the tin woodman cut the branch and they easily came out from these wonderful trees. They found before them  a high wall, which seemed to be white china. It was smooth like the surface of a dish, and higher then their heads. Tin woodman made ladder, they three claimed on the ladder and cross over the other side. There they saw the little people. Here many small houses, made of china and panted in  the brightest  colours, pretty little barns, with china fences around them. The  small animals cows, sheep, horse, pigs. They called it "The Dainty China Country".  As the their cloths, they were common people as well as prince, princess. princess dressed with most gorgeous frocks of silver, gold and purple. A Jolly little clown came walking towards them, Dorothy  saw that inspire of his pretty clothes of red, yellow and green.  he was completely   covered with cracks, 

running every  which way and showing  plainly that he had been mended in many places.Dorothy bade goodbye to these china people including joker (completely mended), prince and princess, they walked carefully through the china  country. The little animals and all the people scramered out of their way, fearing the  strangers would break  them, and after an hour  they reached  the other side  of the country  and came to another china wall. This was not so high as the previous one. The Lion jumped and came another side but just as he jumped he upset a china church with  his tail and smashed it all to pieces. Scarecrow was happy that he is made of stuff and cannot be easily damaged. There are worse things in the world than being a Scarecrow.

THE LION BECOMES THE KING OF THE BEASTS

After surpassing the wall they found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass. It was difficult to walk, there were muddy holes. Very carefully  they got safely out of the dangerous area and reached on solid ground. They entered to another big forest, where they saw, bigger and old trees. Lion was happy to see this delightful forest. He was willing to live here all his life. Here they brake their journey and lay down  to sleep. In the morning they started again. While going they heard a low rumble, as of the growling of many wild animals. They were on and on without any fear. There they saw hundred of beasts of every variety, i.e. tigers, elephants, bears, wolfs,  foxes and so many others in the natural history.  They were holding a meeting, it seems that they are in trouble. Several of the beasts  caught sight of him (Lion) and at once  the great assemblage hushed as if  by magic . The biggest of the tigers came up  to the Lion  and bowed saying, "Welcome, O king of beasts ! You have come  in good time  to fight our  enemy and  bring peace  to all the animals  of the forest once more," "What is your trouble", asked the Lion. 

" We are all threatened  by a fierce  enemy that  has lately come into this forest. It is most tremendous monster, like a great  spider, with a body  as big as  an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk. It has eight of these long legs  and as the monster crawls through the forest  he seizes an animal with a leg  and drags it  to his mouth, where he eats it  as a spider does a fly. Not one of us is safe while this fierce  creature is alive, and we had called a meeting to decide how to take care of ourselves when you came among us." answered the tiger.  There was no another Lion in the forest. The Tiger  also asked the  Lion, if you" will killed the monster, we all will bow down  and obey you as a King of the Forest" . Leaving behind his friends under their protection,  and went to fight the monster. The great spider was lying asleep when the Lion found him, it was looked so ugly hat its foe turned up his nose i disgust. Its legs  were quite  as long as  the tiger had said, its body covered with coarse black hair, It had a great mouth, sharp teeth, head was  joined to the pudgy body by a neck  as slender as a wasp's waist. This gave  the Lion a hint of the best  way to attack the creature and as he knew it was easier to fight it asleep than awake, he gave a great spring and landed directly upon the monster's back. Then, with one  blow of his heavy paw' all armed with sharp claws, he knocked the spider's head from its body. Jumping down, he watched it until the long  legs stopped wiggling, when  he knew it was quite dead. The LION WENT BACK TO THE OPENING WHERE THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST WERE  WAITING FOR HIM AND SAID, PROUDLY, and gave them the messaGE OF KILLING THE MONSTER.  The beasts made him their King and bow before him with a request to rule them. He said, " first I will help the Dorothy to send her Kansas, her uncle's house, than I wll come back to rule."