She took off her old leather shoes and tired on the sliver ones, which fitted her as well as if they had been made for her.
Finally she picked up her basket. 'Come along, Toto.' she said.
'We will go to the Emeralds City and asked the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.'
She closed the door, locked it, and put the key carefully in the pocket of her dress.
And so, with Toto trotting along soberly behind her,, she started on her journey.
There were several roads near by, but it dod not take her long to find the one paved with yelloe bricks.
Whinin a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emeralds City, her sliver shoes thinking merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.
The sun shone bright and the birds song sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a girl would.
who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land.
She was surprised, as she walked along, to see how pretty the country was about her.
There were neat fences at sides of road, painted a dainty blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance.
Evidently the Munchkins were good faramers and able to raise large crops.
Once in a while, she would pass a house and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by;
for everyone knew she had been the means of destorying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage.
The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was round, with a big dome for a roof.
All were painted blue, for in this country of East blue was the favorite color.
Toward evening, when Dorothy was tired with her long walk and began to wonder where she should pass the night, she came to a houe rather larger than the rest.
