Folks gener'ly gets stuck-up 'cause they don't know theirselves like other folks knows 'em. - L. Frank Baum

— Pero el León en realidad no es cobarde — dijo Dorothy — . Lo he visto comportarse de lo más valiente. — Te equivocas, querida — protestó el León — . Ante los ojos de los demás puedo haber parecido valiente algunas veces, pero nunca he estado en un peligro que no me haya dado miedo.

He was only about as tall as Dorothy herself, and his body was round as a ball and made out of burnished copper. Also his head and limbs were copper, and these were jointed or hinged to his body in a peculiar way, with metal caps over the joints, like the armor worn by knights in days of old. He stood perfectly still, and where the light struck upon his form it glittered as if made of pure gold.

"Why should I do this for you?" asked Oz.

"Because you are strong and I am weak; because you are a Great Wizard and I am only a helpless little girl," she answered.