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Well, for my part, I am glad he did," responded the Canary. "Your journey
resulted in saving me from the Giantess, and had you not traveled to the
Yoop Valley, I would still be Mrs. Yoop's prisoner. It is much nicer to be free,
even though I still bear the enchanted form of a Canary-Bird."
"
Do you think we shall ever be able to get our proper forms back again?"
asked the Green Monkey earnestly.
Polychrome did not make reply at once to this important question, but after
a period of thoughtfulness she said:
"I have been taught to believe that there is an antidote for every magic
charm, yet Mrs. Yoop insists that no power can alter her transformations. I
realize that my own fairy magic cannot do it, although I have thought that
we Sky Fairies have more power than is accorded to Earth Fairies. The
yookoohoo magic is admitted to be very strange in its workings and different
from the magic usually practiced, but perhaps Glinda or Ozma may
understand it better than I. In them lies our only hope. Unless they can help
us, we must remain forever as we are."
"
A Canary-Bird on a Rainbow wouldn't be so bad," asserted the Tin Owl,
winking and blinking with his round tin eyes, "so if you can manage to find
your Rainbow again you need have little to worry about."
"
That's nonsense, Friend Chopper," exclaimed Woot. "I know just how
Polychrome feels. A beautiful girl is much superior to a little yellow bird, and
a boy--such as I was--far better than a Green Monkey. Neither of us can be
happy again unless we recover our rightful forms."
"I feel the same way," announced the stuffed Bear. "What do you suppose
my friend the Patchwork Girl would think of me, if she saw me wearing this
beastly shape?"
"She'd laugh till she cried," admitted the Tin Owl. "For my part, I'll have to
give up the notion of marrying Nimmie Amee, but I'll try not to let that make
me unhappy. If it's my duty, I'd like to do my duty, but if magic prevents my
getting married I'll flutter along all by myself and be just as contented."
Their serious misfortunes made them all silent for a time, and as their
thoughts were busy in dwelling upon the evils with which fate had burdened
them, none noticed that Jinjur had suddenly appeared in the doorway and
was looking at them in astonishment. The next moment her astonishment
changed to anger, for there, in her best rocking-chair, sat a Green Monkey.
A great shiny Owl perched upon another chair and a Brown Bear squatted
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