The Scarecrow found a seat in the wagon between Omby Amby and the Shaggy Man, and his weight did not add much to the load because he was stuffed with straw.
"I should think that after the straw was taken out of you there wouldn't be anything left but your clothes."
'And would a better fate have fallen to my lot?' said the
straw. 'The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and smoke; she seized sixty of them at once, and took their lives.
D'Artagnan went instantly to the hay dealer and bargained with him for a hundred and fifty trusses of
straw, which he obtained, at the rate of three pistoles each.
At the same time, one of them took a handful of
straw and set off to light it at the wick of the good Virgin.
The coachman making no reply, and plainly declining to enter into any controversy on a subject so far removed from his sympathies and feelings, another passenger says, 'Yes, sir;' and the gentleman in the
straw hat in acknowledgment of his courtesy, says 'Yes, sir,' to him, in return.
The Munchkin farmer who had made the Scarecrow had neglected to sew him together with close stitches and therefore some of the
straw with which he was stuffed was inclined to stick out between the seams.
'Do you mean to say there is no
straw in the village?'
Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with
straw, it was quite light.
Then he lay flat upon the ground and unbuttoned his jacket, displaying the mass of
straw with which he was stuffed.
"I'm leaving over there," he said abruptly, waving his
straw in the direction of the neighboring house.
"To look for a house or a hut, where they will be kind enough to give us a bite of bread and a bit of
straw to sleep on."
Having travelled about three miles, we came to a long kind of building, made of timber stuck in the ground, and wattled across; the roof was low and covered with
straw. I now began to be a little comforted; and took out some toys, which travellers usually carry for presents to the savage Indians of America, and other parts, in hopes the people of the house would be thereby encouraged to receive me kindly.
Batches of the animals were sent away daily to this lying-in hospital, where they lived on
straw till their calves were born, after which event, and as soon as the calf could walk, mother and offspring were driven back to the dairy.
When everything was nearly ready and only the reins had to be adjusted, Nikita sent the other man to the shed for some
straw and to the barn for a drugget.
