The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Lyman Frank Baum

care to oil myself whenever I needed it. However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm |попав под ливень|, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me. It was a terrible thing to undergo |перенести|, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin maiden and marry her.”

      Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart.

      “All the same,” |В любом случае| said the Scarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know |потому что дурак не будет знать| what to do with a heart if he had one.”

      “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

      Dorothy did not say anything, for she was puzzled to know which of her two friends was right, and she decided if she could only get back to Kansas and Aunt Em, it did not matter so much whether the Woodman had no brains and the Scarecrow no heart, or each got what he wanted.

      What worried her most was that the bread was nearly gone, and another meal for herself and Toto would empty the basket. To be sure neither the Woodman nor the Scarecrow ever ate anything, but she was not made of tin nor straw |она же была сделана ни из жести, ни из соломы|, and could not live unless she was fed |не будучи сытой|.

6. The Cowardly Lion

      All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the thick woods. The road was still paved |все еще была замощена| with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good.

      There were few |мало| birds in this part of the forest, for birds love the open country where there is plenty of sunshine. But now and then |время от времени| there came a deep growl from some wild animal hidden among the trees. These sounds made the little girl’s heart beat fast, for she did not know what made them; but Toto knew, and he walked close to Dorothy’s side, and did not even bark in return