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Chapter Four
mornings to herself she could not play with them in the afternoons. So Dorothy searched by herself.
"Perhaps I didn't look hard enough," thought the little girl, and searched the palace all over again.
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"Don't worry," advised the Tin Woodman who was playing checkers with Scraps, "he's probably gone home."
"He is a man of brains; why worry
Because he's left us in a hurry?"
Because he's left us in a hurry?"
chuckled Scraps with a careless wave of her hand and
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