A SENTENCE BY L. FRANK BAUM

October 27, 2012
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But the tree next to the lunch-box tree was even more wonderful, for it bore quantities of tin dinner pails, which were so full and heavy that the stout branches bent underneath their weight.

Why this sentence from Ozma of Oz? Simply because of the gifted storyteller’s use of the word ‘for’. He loved ‘for’ and used it in this manner all throughout his books and stories, 1900 to 1920.

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