"The Wond'rous Wise Man" is a short story by L. Frank Baum. It is one of the selections in Baum's 1897 collection Mother Goose in Prose. It is drawn upon one of the less well-known of the Mother Goose rhymes, about a man who jumps into a bramble bush that scratches out his eyes. (He then jumps into another bush, which scratches them in again.)