有声英语少儿童话故事 绿野仙踪 第23卷 第7章

“The Silver Shoes,”said the Good Witch, “have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious thingsabout them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps,and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is toknock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry youwherever you wish to go.”

“If that is so,”said the child joyfully, “I will ask them to carry me back to Kansas at once.”

She threw herarms around the Lion’s neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Thenshe kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to hisjoints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her armsinstead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at thissorrowful parting from her loving comrades.