Miss East looked at her register.
"Dorothy Gale?"
"Absent, Miss," said one of the girls.
"Well, she's helped us out with the register," said the teacher nastily. She crossed Dorothy's name off when a knock came to the door.
"Enter."
In came the girl who absent in a white dress in blue checks.
"Sorry I'm late, Miss East," said Dorothy panting, "but my dog Toto-"
"No buts, Miss Gale," said the teacher. "Stay behind after class."
As Dorothy took her seat, Miss East noticed she had lost her chalk stick. She left the classroom to retrieve it.
"So why are you late Dorothy?" asked Gwen. She was Dorothy's best friend and probably the kindest girl in the school.
""My dog Toto was following me. Just as he was, Miss Gulch's nasty old cat got in the way and he attacked it. Miss Gulch was so angry that she said if he ever comes across her cat again, she will have him put down."
Gwen gave a look of concern. "Well, just try to keep him well behaved, or you will be at the mercy of that wicked witch. The sooner you get out of Kansas to see the world, the safer he'd be."
Dorothy suddenly noticed the chalk under Miss East's desk. She went to pick up when the teacher entered.
"Dorothy Gale! How dare your steal my chalk?"
"It was under your desk Miss!" cried Dorothy in fright.
"I don't like girls who lie," said Miss East horribly. She snatched the chalk of Dorothy and smacked it onto her desk. "Go and sit down."
"But I wasn't-"
"SIT DOWN!"
Dorothy promptly did as she was told. She noticed that all the girls were asleep.
"And everyone wake up!" snapped the teacher. "I suppose you were all up late last night smelling flowers!"
"We do often dream about being poppies," said a girl.
"We don't stay up all night smelling them," said another.
"We often dream about being poppies ourselves."
Miss East was more than cross. "If you were poppies, you would probably have the power to make people sleep due to your laziness. Looks like Dorothy won't be alone after school. You shall stay as well Gwen, as it's not fair you get the freedom."
Gwen was shocked with the unfair punishment. "But I did nothing wrong!"
"Now you have!" shouted Miss East. "Answering me back. Rude little girls like you make me so angry, you make me as red as these slippers I'm wearing."
And she revealed two beautiful ruby slippers on her feet. Ever girl in the class was dazzled it their beauty.
"I know, beautiful aren't they?" said the teacher most conceitedly. "Miss Gulch makes so many trades for them but I always pass. A good friend of mine, Miss Gulch. She believes children should be disciplined most severely. For their tardiness, theft, and arrogance." She looked at Dorothy.
The door knocked. A small boy at about five looked worried.
"S-sorry," he stammered most sweetly. "I thought this was my class."
"You wasted a few seconds of my lesson you naughty boy!" shouted Miss East.
The boy began to cry as the teacher brought him into the class and trashed him with the stick fifteen times. After sending him out, she said to Dorothy "If my strength wasn't wasted on him, miss Gale, You would've been up here right now, but lucky for you it's drained. You shall stand in front of the class to have it done tomorrow. Ten for tardiness, twenty for theft, and thirty for cheek."
"I'm sorry for making a mess," said Dorothy as she walked down the Kansas trail with Gwen by her side.
Gwen looked at her sympathetically. "It's all fine. Miss East is a witch. She threatens everyone so much with the cane, youngsters mostly, that I often hope that one of these twisters drop a house on her. You deserve more respect than that."
They suddenly noticed the boy Miss East caned this morning coming up to them with some of his small friends.
"How are you feeling, dear one?" asked Gwen gently.
"t doesn't' hurt much now," said the boy.
"Miss East scares me," said a girl.
"She is the reason I hate school," said a boy.
A few others complained about, when Gwen said to them "That woman really is a witch. Don't worry, little munchkins. You will win one day. Imagine now if a house fell on her, flattening her like a pancake."
They giggled.
Suddenly, soft barking approached and Dorothy's little black dog Toto appeared.
"Hello, Toto," greeted Dorothy cuddling him. "Sorry I'm late. I'll bet O was worrying you wasn't I?" Look how dark it's getting.
The sky was dark. Kansas's normality was being threatened with fierce tornados.
"Hmm, yeah," said Gwen. "It looks very likely we are going to get a twister." And to the small children, she said. "You'd better run along home. You don't want to be blown away from your families now, do you?"
And they scuttled away.
As they did however, an ugly cat appeared and Toto started to chases it down the path.
"Toto!" shouted Dorothy. "Bad dog! Come here!"
She and Gwen ran down the road to catch him, but then, they saw him run to a garden. The garden belonged to Miss Gulch. Miss Gulch was heard shouting. She appeared with a rake and tried to hit Toto, who ran into Dorothy's arms.
The woman looked very angrily at Dorothy.
"You are in big trouble, this time my little pretty! I told you this morning to keep your nasty little mutt away from my precious cat."
"I'm very sorry, Miss Gulch!" cried Dorothy in a frightened way, "your cat got in the way and-"
"Got in the way?!" Miss Gulch shouted. "To put it blankly, your dog got in the way. I will be speaking to the Sherriff about this. You will be sorry. I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too."
And she went into her house.
Dorothy was shocked with what she had just got into. She will be speaking to the Sheriff. Miss Gulch had an awful lot of families arrested until they do what she wanted them to do. Many of them now are still suffering even when they were young and she ordered many teenage boys to do her housework for her so she will stop their families from going to jail. She was much worse than Miss East.
"You've made quite an enemy out the woman, Dorothy," said Gwen worriedly.
"You're right," Dorothy nodded. "I need to tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em about this."