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and I am eager to start because I suppose that that poor Munchkin girl is
anxiously awaiting my coming."
"
She's waited a long time already, seems to me," remarked the Scarecrow, as
they left the grounds of the castle and followed a path that led eastward.
"
True," replied the Tin Woodman; "but I've noticed that the last end of a
wait, however long it has been, is the hardest to endure; so I must try to
make Nimmie Amee happy as soon as possible."
"Ah; that proves you have a Kind heart," remarked the Scarecrow,
approvingly.
"It's too bad he hasn't a Loving Heart," said Woot. "This Tin Man is going to
marry a nice girl through kindness, and not because he loves her, and
somehow that doesn't seem quite right."
"
Even so, I am not sure it isn't best for the girl," said the Scarecrow, who
seemed very intelligent for a straw man, "for a loving husband is not always
kind, while a kind husband is sure to make any girl content."
"
Nimmie Amee will become an Empress!" announced the Tin Woodman,
proudly. "I shall have a tin gown made for her, with tin ruffles and tucks on
it, and she shall have tin slippers, and tin earrings and bracelets, and wear
a tin crown on her head. I am sure that will delight Nimmie Amee, for all
girls are fond of finery."
"Are we going to the Munchkin Country by way of the Emerald City?"
inquired the Scarecrow, who looked upon the Tin Woodman as the leader of
the party.
"I think not," was the reply. "We are engaged upon a rather delicate
adventure, for we are seeking a girl who fears her former lover has forgotten
her. It will be rather hard for me, you must admit, when I confess to Nimmie
Amee that I have come to marry her because it is my duty to do so, and
therefore the fewer witnesses there are to our meeting the better for both of
us. After I have found Nimmie Amee and she has managed to control her joy
at our reunion, I shall take her to the Emerald City and introduce her to
Ozma and Dorothy, and to Betsy Bobbin and Tiny Trot, and all our other
friends; but, if I remember rightly, poor Nimmie Amee has a sharp tongue
when angry, and she may be a trifle angry with me, at first, because I have
been so long in coming to her."
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