But, alas! I had now no heart, so that I lost all my love for the Munchkin girl, and did not care whether I married her or not.
I suppose she is still living with the old woman, waitiing for me to come after her.
My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very prond of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me.
There was only one danger- that my joints would rust;
but I kept an oli-can in my cottage and took care to oli myself wenever I needed it.
However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm,
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,
but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the grrestest loss I had konwn was the loss of my heart.
While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth;
but no one can love how 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 and marry her."