"You will be very welcome," answered Dorothy, "for you will help to keep away the other beasts.
It seems to me they must be more coward than you are they allow you to scare them so easily."
"They really are," said the Lion, "but that dones't make me any braver,
and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy."
So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion walking with stately strides at Dorothy said.
Toto did not approve this new comrade at first,
for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion's great jaws.
But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the Coward Lion had grown to be good friends.
During the rest of that day there was no other adventure to mer the peace of their journey.
Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing.
This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creatrue;
and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and reget.
This tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted.
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