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He knows that, if he growls, he will scare others and they will never know that he is a coward. Everyone puts in their two cents trying to diagnose him. They tell him their problems and their cure (the wizard). He decides to go and ask for courage. They set off again, but Toto disapproves of their new companion. The tinman steeped on a beetle and cried. They had to stop and give him oil. Then they start again.

A lion growled and jumped out. He pawed the scarecrow and knocked him to the ground. He scratched the tinman who fell down. Toto started barking and the lion turned to him until Dorothy bashed the lion in the nose and shamed him. The lion denied everything but then he has a pity party and cries because he knows he’s a coward. He’s supposed to be the King of the Beasts but he’s really a scaredy cat.

Lady Lucas is kind but not clever enough to be too far above Mrs. Bennet. She had many children and Charlotte, the eldest girl, seemed unmarriable at 27. Mrs. Bennet compliments her as Mr. Bingley’s first choice but she’s really fishing for comments about Jane. Mrs. B dangles Mr. Robinson hopeing to hear what he said about Jane. Charlotte repeats it for her but changes the subject to what Darcy said about Lizzie.

He’s had a whole year to reflect on his situation and now he really wants to get the girl so he needs a new heart. The scarecrow wants a heart because a fool would not know what to do with a heart. The tinman wants a heart because brains does not make one happy. Dorothy can’t decide who is right. She just knows she wants to go home. She’s also worried about the bread situation.

Once he was given a tin heart, he no longer loved the girl and his problems were solved. Bless Baum’s heart. Isn’t this the tripartite soul? He doesn’t have a heart and a brain but he is all body. The same is true for the scarecrow but he would rather have a brain. The tinman was proud of his new body and took care of himself by always carrying around the oil can. One day he forgot it and became stuck after a rain.

She didn’t want to let go of slave labor. She barted with the Wicked Witch of the East to take care of it. She enchated his ax to chop off his leg but the girl still loved him. The story goes on and on with one limb after another getting chopped off. Every time, the tinman would go to a metalsmith would would replace the missing limb. Before long, he was completely made of tin.

They invite him to come and they are glad they did. Whenever branches covered the yellow-brick road, he gladly took care of them. He doesn’t have a brain nor a heart, but he would have the latter and he explains why. Baum thinks he tried to avoid nightmarish stories but this one sounds perfectly grim to me (ha, ha). He fell in love with a munchkin but her mother did not approve.

He tells them he has been stuck for a whole year. He groans from time to time but this is the first time anyone has heard him. He instructs Dorothy to get his oil can and tells her where to give him oil. He loosens up and is able to move. He’s very thankful and he asks where they are going and they tell him to see the great wizard so Dorothy can go home and the scarecrow can get a brain. The tinman wants a heart.

Ch. 5 Dorothy woke up and found a nearby stream to wash her face and get drinking water. She and Toto ate bread and there is not much left. She’s glad that the scarecrow doesn’t eat. He’s also glad because having flesh seems to be such a bother. Just as they were ready to go, They hear a groan and follow it into the woods. It turns out to be a tin man in the process of chopping down a tree but he is frozen.

Dorothy and Toto slept in a bed of leaves while the scarecrow stood watch over them.