Oz said, "I am everywhere, but to the eyes of common mortals I am invisible."
Dorothy said, "WEe have come to claim our promise, O Oz", "What promise," Oz asked.
Dorothy,"you promise me to send back to Kansas, brains to Scarecrow, Heart to Tin Woodman and courage to the cowardly Lion , when the Wicked Witch was destroyed and we destroyed her. I melted her and converted into liquid. "
"Dear me, how sudden, come to me tomorrow, and I must have time to thinks it over."
At this the Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar that was so fierce and dreadful that the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. They saw , standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little, old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were. Tin Woodman rush towards little old man with his axe. The Oz said in a trembling voice, "please don't strike me, I will do any thing you want me to,". He said ,"Hush my dear, don't speak so loud, you will be overheard and I should be ruined I am suppose to be a Great Wizard, but in reality I am just a common man, on the other word I am humbug. I have fooled everyone so long that I thought I should never be found out. It was my great mistake let you into the throne room. Usually I will not see even my subjects, and so thry believe I am some thing terrible."
HE RELATED HIS STORY TO THEM AND THEY LISTENED.
"I was born in Omaha, when I grew up I became a ventriloquist, and at that I was very well trained by a great master. I can imitate any kind of bird or beat. After a time, I tired of that and became a balloonist. A man who goes up in a balloon on circus day to draw a crowed of people together and get them to pay to see the circus is called balloonist. One day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I travelled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country. It came down gradually, and I was not hurt a bit. But I found myself in the midst of a strange people, who, seeing me come from the clouds, thought I was a great Wizard. Of course I let them think so, because they were afraid of me and promised to do anything I wished them to.. Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this city and my palace, and they did it all willingly and well. The country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that every thing , they saw was green. Even any visitors come to this city has to put the green spectacles. This city was built so many years ago, at that time I was a young man when the balloon brought me here and now I am very old man. My people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long they think it really is an Emerald City and is certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy, I have been good to the people, and they like me, but ever since this Palace was built I have shut myself up and would not see any of them. One of my greatest fears was the Wicked witches, as I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the witches were really able to do wonderful things. The four witches were in the country ruling, north, south (good witches) and East and West (wicked). Now in all the four country all the witches are good. "
However the Oz has given brains to Scarecrow, heart to Tin Woodman and courage to cowardly Lion. But he could not send Dorothy to her aunty's house. The Wizard of Oz handed over the charge of Emerald City to Scarecrow. He made scarecrow ruler, made a wonderful balloon and left the Emerald City forever.
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