Guardian of the Emerald City said to Dorothy, No one has destroyed the wicked witch. Whoever tried to destroy her she made them slaves. Same thing can be happened to you. So be careful. Lead the road towards the West and you will reach there." The started there further journey of West to destroy the wicked witch of West. They thanked to guardian of city and bade him goodbye. They were walking over field of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. Dorothy still wore the pretty silk dress she had put on in the palace, but now to her surprise, she found it was no longer green, but pure white. The ribbon around Toto's neck had also lost its green colour and as white as Dorothy' dress. Now the road they were following became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West. Wicked witch of West had one eye, she had a powerful telescope, and could see everywhere. So she saw Dorothy and her party coming towards her palace. She immediately blew upon a silver whistle that hung around her neck. At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves. They had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth. She ordered them to kill Dorothy and her friends. The Leader of the Wolves asked the witch whether she wants to make slaves, she denied so they went to kill and eat all of them. The Tin Woodman killed all the forty wolves by his axe. Now she send forty wide crows to the strangers and peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces, but the Scarecrow killed them all.
When the wicked witch looked out again and saw all her crows lying in a heap, she got into a terrible rage and blew three times upon her silver whistle. Soon their was buzzing in the air and a swarm of black bees came flying towards her. She ordered them to go to the strangers and sting them All Dorothy's friend hide under the dry leaves and tin woodman was standing in their ways. All the bees sting tin man so harshly and broke off all their stings without hurting tin man . Without stings bees can not live they all died. Witch was now so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teech. She called dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them. hey were not brave people, but the have to obeyed their master. The Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor winkies were so frightened and ran back as fast as they could. . In Castle they were beaten by the wicked witch. She was a powerful witch so she was determined to destroy these strangers. In her cupboard, there was a golden cap with a circle of diamonds and rubies running around it. This golden cap had a charm. Whoever owned it could call three times upon the winged monkeys, who would obey any order they were given. But no person could command these strange creatures more than three times. She had already it two times. At one time when she made winkies her slaves and second time she fought against the great Wizard of Oz. She took the golden cap from the cupboard and placed it upon her head, stood upon her left foot and said slowly "Ep-pe, pep-pe. kak-ke!" then she stood on her right leg and said slowly "Hil-lo, hol-lo, hel-lo" after this she stood upon both the feet and cried in a loud voice,
"Ziz-zy, zuz-zy, zik". Charm begin to work, the sky darkened and a low rumbling sound was heard in the air. So many winged monkeys chattering and laughing started coming down to earth from sky. They asked to wicked witch, "this is last charm, tell us what do you want "? Witch said "go to the strangers who are within my land and destroy them all except the Lion, bring that beast to me for I have a mind to harness him like a horse, and make him work,"! These winged monkeys destroy the Scarecrow and through it on the top of a long tree and tin woodman was damaged badly but they could not touch the Dorothy, as she had kiss mark on her forehead. However they caught them brought them and handed over to wicked witch who made them slaves. Lion disobeyed her command to allow her to make him a horse, but dorothy was doing her kitchen work and secretly feeding the Lion. One day the wicked witch treat Dorothy very roughly, by her trick she stole her one silver shoe, so in rage Dorothy brought a bucket full of water and dashed it over the wicked witch wetting her from head to foot. The witch instantly gave a loud cry of fear and began to shrink and fall away. . Surprisingly the wicked witch's body started converting into liquid form and flowing into the ditch. She finally destroyed. Now Dorpthy, opened the cage door where put and freed him. She took the golden cap and put it on her head. Now she ordered the winkies to search her companion and repaired the. They brought the scarecrow's remaining from the tree and made him again in the form of scarecrow and found tin woodman, with the help of tin smith he was also given his original shape. Now they started their journey back to Emerald City. Before their journey Tin Woodman was crowned the king of the Yellow land of West. Though the winkies don't want to leave Dorothy and her friend but due to their urgency they gave them a nice fare well.
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