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Once again, I respond to an #EnigMarch challenge by writing a puzzle. This one has a lot of flavortext, but fortunately I outsourced the work to L. Frank Baum:

TikTok the Machine Man

…Dorothy stepped inside the little room to get a back view of the copper man, and in this way discovered a printed card that hung between his shoulders, it being suspended from a small copper peg at the back of his neck. She unfastened this card and returned to the path, where the light was better, and sat herself down upon a slab of rock to read the printing.

"What does it say?" asked the hen, curiously.

Dorothy read the card aloud, spelling out the big words with some difficulty; and this is what she read:

SMITH & TINKER'S
Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive,
Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking
MECHANICAL MAN
Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment.
Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.
Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev.
All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law.

"How queer!" said the yellow hen. "Do you think that is all true, my dear?"

"I don't know," answered Dorothy, who had more to read. "Listen to this, Billina:"

DIRECTIONS FOR USING:
  • For THINKING:—Wind the Clock-work Man under his left arm, (marked №. 1.)
  • For SPEAKING:--Wind the Clock-work Man under his right arm, (marked №. 2.)
  • For WALKING and ACTION:—Wind Clock-work in the middle of his back, (marked №. 3.)
  • N. B.—This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.

Dorothy wants TikTok the clockwork man to do some things, so she needs to wind him.

Ponder
Hop
Express
Shout

Assume

Revel
Imagine
Deliberate
Stretch
Bow

What will TikTok do if Dorothy succeeds?
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