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upon her parlor rug. Jinjur did not notice the Canary, but she caught up a

broomstick and dashed into the room, shouting as she came:

"Get out of here, you wild creatures! How dare you enter my house?"

With a blow of her broom she knocked the Brown Bear over, and the Tin

Owl tried to fly out of her reach and made a great clatter with his tin wings.

The Green Monkey was so startled by the sudden attack that he sprang into

the fireplace--where there was fortunately no fire--and tried to escape by

climbing up the chimney. But he found the opening too small, and so was

forced to drop down again. Then he crouched trembling in the fireplace, his

pretty green hair all blackened with soot and covered with ashes. From this

position Woot watched to see what would happen next.

"Stop, Jinjur--stop!" cried the Brown Bear, when the broom again

threatened him. "Don't you know me? I'm your old friend the Scarecrow?"

"You're trying to deceive me, you naughty beast! I can see plainly that you

are a bear, and a mighty poor specimen of a bear, too," retorted the girl.

"That's because I'm not properly stuffed," he assured her. "When Mrs. Yoop

transformed me, she didn't realize I should have more stuffing."

Who is Mrs. Yoop?" inquired Jinjur, pausing with the broom still upraised.

A Giantess in the Gillikin Country."

Oh; I begin to understand. And Mrs. Yoop transformed you? You are really

the famous Scarecrow of Oz."

I was, Jinjur. Just now I'm as you see me--a miserable little Brown Bear

with a poor quality of stuffing. That Tin Owl is none other than our dear Tin

Woodman--Nick Chopper, the Emperor of the Winkies--while this Green

Monkey is a nice little boy we recently became acquainted with, Woot the

Wanderer."

And I," said the Canary, flying close to Jinjur, "am Polychrome, the

Daughter of the Rainbow, in the form of a bird."

Goodness me!" cried Jinjur, amazed; "that Giantess must be a powerful

Sorceress, and as wicked as she is powerful."

"She's a yookoohoo," said Polychrome. "Fortunately, we managed to escape

from her castle, and we are now on our way to Glinda the Good to see if she

possesses the power to restore us to our former shapes."

The Tin Woodman of Oz