<P> The Wicked Witch of the West sees the travelers approaching with her one telescopic eye . She sends a pack of wolves to tear them to pieces, but the Tin Woodman kills them with his axe . She sends wild crows to peck their eyes out, but the Scarecrow kills them by breaking their necks . She summons a swarm of black bees to sting them, but they are killed trying to sting the Tin Woodman while the Scarecrow's straw hides the other three . She sends her Winkie soldiers to attack them, but the Cowardly Lion stands firm to repel them . Finally, she uses the power of the Golden Cap to send the winged monkeys to capture Dorothy, Toto, and the Cowardly Lion, unstuff the Scarecrow, and dent the Tin Woodman . Dorothy is forced to become the Wicked Witch's personal slave, while the witch schemes to steal Dorothy's Silver Shoes . </P> <P> The Wicked Witch successfully tricks Dorothy out of one of her Silver Shoes . Angered, Dorothy throws a bucket of water at her and is shocked to see the witch melt away . The Winkies rejoice at being freed of the witch's tyranny and help restuff the Scarecrow and mend the Tin Woodman . They ask the Tin Woodman to become their ruler, which he agrees to do after helping Dorothy return to Kansas . Dorothy finds the Golden Cap and summons the Winged Monkeys to carry her and her companions back to the Emerald City . The King of the Winged Monkeys tells how he and the other monkeys are bound by an enchantment to the cap by the sorceress Gayelette from the North, and that Dorothy may use the cap to summon the Winged Monkeys two more times . </P> <P> When Dorothy and her friends meet the Wizard of Oz again, Toto tips over a screen in a corner of the throne room that reveals the Wizard . He sadly explains he is a humbug--an ordinary old man who, by a hot air balloon, came to Oz long ago from Omaha . The Wizard provides the Scarecrow with a head full of bran, pins, and needles ("a lot of bran - new brains"), the Tin Woodman with a silk heart stuffed with sawdust, and the Cowardly Lion a potion of "courage". Their faith in the Wizard's power gives these items a focus for their desires . The Wizard decides to take Dorothy and Toto home and leave the Emerald City . At the send - off, he appoints the Scarecrow to rule in his stead, which he agrees to do after Dorothy returns to Kansas . Toto chases a kitten in the crowd and Dorothy goes after him, but the tethers of the balloon break and the Wizard floats away . </P> <P> Dorothy summons the Winged Monkeys to carry her and Toto home, but they explain they cannot cross the desert surrounding Oz . The Soldier with the Green Whiskers informs Dorothy that Glinda the Good Witch of the South may be able to help her return home, so the friends begin their journey to see Glinda, who lives in Oz's Quadling Country . On the way, the Cowardly Lion kills a giant spider who is terrorizing the animals in a forest . The animals ask the Cowardly Lion to become their king, which he agrees to do after helping Dorothy return to Kansas . Dorothy summons the Winged Monkeys a third time to fly them over a mountain to Glinda's palace . Glinda greets the travelers and reveals that the Silver Shoes Dorothy wears can take her anywhere she wishes to go . Dorothy embraces her friends, all of whom will be returned to their new kingdoms through Glinda's three uses of the Golden Cap: the Scarecrow to the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman to the Winkie Country, and the Lion to the forest; after which the cap shall be given to the King of the Winged Monkeys, freeing them . Dorothy takes Toto in her arms, knocks her heels together three times, and wishes to return home . Instantly, she begins whirling through the air and rolling through the grass of the Kansas prairie, up to her Kansas farmhouse . She is now in her stocking feet; her shoes were lost forever in the desert . Dorothy runs to her Aunt Em, saying "I'm so glad to be at home again!" </P>

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