I feel much better.

I'm not stuck on that picket any more." The Horners began to laugh, thinking this was a joke, but the Scarecrow shook himself and patted his straw a little and said to Dorothy: "Is there much of a hole in my back ?" The little girl examined him carefully.
"There's quite a hole," she said.

"But I've got a needle and thread in the knapsack and I'll sew you up again." "Do so," he begged earnestly, and again the Hoppers laughed, to the Scarecrow's great annoyance.
While Dorothy was sewing up the hole in the straw man's back Scraps examined the other parts of him.
"One of his legs is ripped, too!" she exclaimed.
"Oho!" cried little Diksey; "that's bad.

Give him the needle and thread and let him mend his ways." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed the Chief, and the other Horners at once roared with laughter.
"What's funny ?" inquired the Scarecrow sternly.
"Don't you see ?" asked Diksey, who had laughed even harder than the others.

"That's a joke.