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Title: The Tin Woodman of Oz
A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken
by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the
Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter

Author: L. Frank Baum

Illustrator: John R. Neill

Release Date: January 4, 2010 [EBook #30852]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ

A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure
Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted
by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow
of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's
Daughter

BY

L. FRANK BAUM
"Royal Historian of Oz"

Author of
All the Oz Books

ILLUSTRATED BY
JOHN R. NEILL

The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago

[Illustration:

Copyright
1918
by
L. Frank Baum

_All
rights
reserved_]

_Made in U. S. A._

[Illustration:

This Book
is dedicated
to the son of
my son
=Frank Alden Baum=]

[Illustration: Ozma]

[Illustration]

TO MY READERS

I know that some of you have been waiting for this story of the Tin
Woodman, because many of my correspondents have asked me, time and
again, what ever became of the "pretty Munchkin girl" whom Nick Chopper
was engaged to marry before the Wicked Witch enchanted his axe and he
traded his flesh for tin. I, too, have wondered what became of her, but
until Woot the Wanderer interested himself in the matter the Tin Woodman
knew no more than we did. However, he found her, after many thrilling
adventures, as you will discover when you have read this story.

I am delighted at the continued interest of both young and old in the Oz
stories. A learned college professor recently wrote me to ask: "For
readers of what age are your books intended?" It puzzled me to answer
that properly, until I had looked over some of the letters