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2. Dorothy Meets Button-Bright
The seventh road was a good road, and curved this way and that--winding
through green meadows and fields covered with daisies and buttercups and
past groups of shady trees. There were no houses of any sort to be seen, and
for some distance they met with no living creature at all.
Dorothy began to fear they were getting a good way from the farm-house, since
here everything was strange to her; but it would do no good at all to go back
where the other roads all met, because the next one they chose might lead her
just as far from home.
She kept on beside the shaggy man, who whistled cheerful tunes to beguile
the journey, until by and by they followed a turn in the road and saw before
them a big chestnut tree making a shady spot over the highway. In the shade
sat a little boy dressed in sailor clothes, who was digging a hole in the earth
with a bit of wood. He must have been digging some time, because the hole
was already big enough to drop a football into.
Dorothy and Toto and the shaggy man came to a halt before the little boy, who
kept on digging in a sober and persistent fashion.
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Who are you?" asked the girl.
He looked up at her calmly. His face was round and chubby and his eyes
were big, blue and earnest.
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I'm Button-Bright," said he.
But what's your real name?" she inquired.
Button-Bright."
That isn't a really-truly name!" she exclaimed.
Isn't it?" he asked, still digging.
'Course not. It's just a--a thing to call you by. You must have a name."
Must I?"
To be sure. What does your mama call you?"
He paused in his digging and tried to think.
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