The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

rains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.'

was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of

Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."

"No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."

she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz.

"I don't mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt. If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn't matter, for I can't feel it. But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?"