Audio Book - Road to Oz
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Dorothy began to fear that they were getting a good way from the farmhouse, since here, everything was strange to her. But it would do no good at all to go back where the other roads all met, because the next one they chose might lead her Justus far from home. She kept on beside the shaggy man who whistled cheerful tunes to beguile the journey until, by and by they followed the turn in the road and saw before them a big chestnut tree making a shady spot over the highway. In the shade sat a little boy dressed in Sailor Close, who was digging a hole in the earth with a bit of wood. He must have been digging some time because the whole was already big enough to drop a football into Dorothy and Toto. And the shaggy man came to a halt before the little boy, who kept on digging in a sober and persistent fashion. Who were you? Asked the girl. He looked up at her calmly. His face was round and chubby, and his eyes were big, blue and earnest. I'm button bright, said he, But what's your real name? She enquired, Button bright that isn't a really, truly name, she exclaimed. Isn't it? He asked, Still digging? Of course not. It's just a thing to call you by. You must have a name. Must I? To be sure. What does your mama call you? He paused in his digging and tried to think. Papa always said I was bright as a button. So Mama always called me button bright, he said. What is your pop? His name? Just Papa. What else? I don't know. Never mind, said the shaggy man. Smiling Will call the boy button bright as his mama does. That name is as good as any and better than some.