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In this episode, I'll be reading Chapter 12, The Search for the Wicked Witch, and Chapter 13, The Rescue, from L. Frank Barnes, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

So let your eyes fall heavy, and your breath soften, as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 12, The Search for the Wicked Witch.

The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City, until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived.

This officer unlocked their spectacles to put them back in his great box, and then he politely opened the gate for our friends.

Witch Road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West, asked Dorothy.

There is no road answered the Guardian of the Gates. No one ever wishes to go that way.

How, then, are we to find her in quiet the girl? That will be easy, replied the man.

For when she knows you are in the country of the Winkies, she will find you, and make you all her slaves.

Perhaps not, said the scarecrow, for we mean to destroy her.

Oh, that is different, said the Guardian of the Gates. No one has ever destroyed her before, so I naturally thought she would make you slaves as she has of the rest.

But take care, for she is wicked and fierce, and may not allow you to destroy her.

Keep to the West where the sun sets, and you cannot fail to find her.

They thanked him and made him good by, and turned towards the West, walking over fields of soft grass, dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

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