After waking up, Dorothy went in search of water to wash herself and to drink. At a spring, she refreshed herself and ate some bread. On the way back to the yellow brick road, she heard a groaning sound and discovered a man made entirely of tin, standing with an uplifted axe beside a half-chopped tree. He asked Dorothy to oil his joints because he had been rusting from standing still for so long. Who was this strange tin man, and what was he doing in the forest? How did he become made of tin? What surprising story would he share with Dorothy and the Scarecrow? Read this part to uncover the mystery behind the Tin Woodman.
