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"
Well," announced the shaggy man, "it's my turn next." He took off his shaggy
coat and laid it on the grass and dived head first into the Truth Pond.
When he came up the donkey head had disappeared, and the shaggy man's
own shaggy head was in its place, with the water dripping in little streams
from his shaggy whiskers. He scrambled ashore and shook himself to get off
some of the wet, and then leaned over the pool to look admiringly at his
reflected face.
"
I may not be strictly beautiful, even now," he said to his companions, who
watched him with smiling faces; "but I'm so much handsomer than any
donkey that I feel as proud as I can be."
"
You're all right, Shaggy Man," declared Dorothy. "And Button-Bright is all
right, too. So let's thank the Truth Pond for being so nice, and start on our
journey to the Emerald City."
"
I hate to leave it," murmured the shaggy man, with a sigh. "A truth pond
wouldn't be a bad thing to carry around with us." But he put on his coat and
started with the others in search of some one to direct them on their way.
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