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"But your case is different," replied Ozma, no longer smiling but wearing a
grave expression on her sweet face. "I shall have to experiment on you,
Polychrome, and I may fail in all my attempts."
She then tried two or three different methods of magic, hoping one of them
would succeed in breaking Polychrome's enchantment, but still the
Rainbow's Daughter remained a Canary-Bird. Finally, however, she
experimented in another way. She transformed the Canary into a Dove, and
then transformed the Dove into a Speckled Hen, and then changed the
Speckled Hen into a rabbit, and then the rabbit into a Fawn. And at the last,
after mixing several powders and sprinkling them upon the Fawn, the
yookoohoo enchantment was suddenly broken and before them stood one of
the daintiest and loveliest creatures in any fairyland in the world.
Polychrome was as sweet and merry in disposition as she was beautiful, and
when she danced and capered around in delight, her beautiful hair floated
around her like a golden mist and her many-hued raiment, as soft as
cobwebs, reminded one of drifting clouds in a summer sky.
Woot was so awed by the entrancing sight of this exquisite Sky Fairy that he
quite forgot his own sad plight until be noticed Ozma gazing upon him with
an intent expression that denoted sympathy and sorrow. Dorothy whispered
in her friend's ear, but the Ruler of Oz shook her head sadly.
Jinjur, noticing this and understanding Ozma's looks, took the paw of the
Green Monkey in her own hand and patted it softly.
"Never mind," she said to him. "You are a very beautiful color, and a monkey
can climb better than a boy and do a lot of other things no boy can ever do."
"What's the matter?" asked Woot, a sinking feeling at his heart. "Is Ozma's
magic all used up?"
Ozma herself answered him.
"Your form of enchantment, my poor boy," she said pityingly, "is different
from that of the others. Indeed, it is a form that is impossible to alter by any
magic known to fairies or yookoohoos. The wicked Giantess was well aware,
when she gave you the form of a Green Monkey, that the Green Monkey
must exist in the Land of Oz for all future time."
Woot drew a long sigh.
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