And Betty's husband's at the wood, Where by the week he doth abide, A woodman in the distant vale; There's none to help poor Susan Gale; 30 What must be done?

Nick Chopper, the famous Tin Woodman of Oz, had been recently polished, and so was feeling especially bright and chipper.

In one place I would get a settler with a canoe, in another a woodman with a fast horse; and in a third some lad who prided himself on his legs.

From thickly-glittering spires the matin bell Calling the woodman from his desert cell, A summons to the sound of oars, that pass, Spotting the steaming deeps, to early mass; Slow swells the service o'er the water born, While fill each pause the ringing woods of morn.

we are also growing rather wearied, but they are most of them extremely comfortable and cosy; and The Woodman at Carysford was no exception to the rule.

They say there is not a woodman like him in all our land.

In order to earn a living, he turned woodman for the nonce, and accidentally discovered an underground palace, in which lived a beautiful lady, confined there by an evil genius.