Baum, L Frank - Oz 39 by Baum L Frank

Author:Baum, L Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER 16

The Snowmen of Icetown

THE friends waved goodby to their two companions and then proceeded along the path that had taken them to Bookville. Soon they were at the sign-post again, and began walking toward Icetown.

"I don't know what it'll be like there," said Dorothy, "but I'll bet they don't try to make books of us."

"Animal Book indeed," muttered the Hungry Tiger, still angry at the insults they had received from the books."And I'm the King of the Forest," declared the

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Cowardly Lion. "I certainly don't belong in any book."

"Our fate was to be bad, too," said Nick Chopper.

"The Scarecrow and I were to have the least digni-fied fate of all. At least the rest of you were to be in books, while we were to be placed in a very menial position."

"Let us hope that we receive better treatment in Icetown," fervently said the Scarecrow.

"Maybe they'll have ice cream cones," Jam said hungrily.

"Maybe we can just breeze through the place and keep on going, kiddos," said Percy, and the rest agreed that was really the best idea of all.

They had walked for perhaps a mile when Dorothy began to shiver, and Jam felt a cold wind blowing in his face. The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow didn't feel the change in temperature, but Percy remarked that it seemed a lot colder than it had been, and the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion said that they preferred warmer climates than this. In the midst of their comments, they came to a hollow in the land, and there, below them, lay a most curious village. The ground was covered with snow and ice, and the houses were built of blocks of snow and shaped like Eskimo igloos. Since the path led straight down the hill into the town, the group began the descent, getting colder with each step they took toward the snow houses.

Suddenly a figure appeared in the path ahead of them and said,

"Who goes there?"

It was the queerest man Dorothy and Jam had ever seen, for he was a live snowman, complete with car-rot nose, eyes made from chunks of coal, and on his head was an old, battered stovepipe hat. Around his neck was knotted a red, knitted muffler, and there were coal buttons down the front of his coat.

"Look," cried Jam, "A snowman. A live snowman!"

"Hello, there," Dorothy said to him. "My, this certainly is a curious place. I didn't know that any such place existed in all the Land of Oz."

"This," said the Snowman in icy tones, "is Icetown. No visitors are allowed."

"That's what is known as giving us the cold shoulder, I'd say," murmured Percy.

"We are sorry to intrude," said the Scarecrow in

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diplomatic tones, "but your village lies in our path, and we shall have to pass through it in order to continue upon our mission. I am sure that you will understand and will not refuse our humble request.

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