“Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.”

— L. Frank Baum , book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

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