Chapter V.
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quot;I ell you my story, and then you will know.”
So, in oodman told tory:
quot;I rees in t and sold too became a ook care of my old mot instead of living alone I I mig become lonely.
quot;tiful t I soon greo love . S, promised to marry me as soon as I could earn enougo build a better to o marry anyone, for so remain he housework.
So t to tc, and promised ced my axe, and one day, for I o get t once and cut off my left leg.
quot;t first seemed a great misfortune, for I kne do very o a tinsmit of tin.
to it. But my ac- tion angered tc, for s marry tty Munc off my rig to tinsmit of tin. After ted axe cut off my arms, one after t, noted, I in ones. tc off my first I t t tinsmito come along, and of tin.
quot;I t I en tc I little kneo kill my love for tiful Munc it cut rigting me into to my in, fastening my tin arms and legs and o it, by means of joints, so t I could move around as well as ever.
But, alas! I , so t I lost all my love for t care w.
I suppose sill living ing for me to come after her.
quot;My body sly in t I felt very proud of it and it did not matter no could not cut me. t my joints ; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself o do t in a rainstorm, be- fore I t of ts ed, and I to stand in til you came to errible to undergo, but during tood time to t test loss I . man on eart no one can love o ask Oz to give me one. If o the Munchkin maiden and marry her