[Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum]@TWC D-Link bookTik-Tok of Oz CHAPTER Seven 2/15
Moreover, it was an unusual sensation to pat the cold, damp earth with her rosy toes.
Before she realized it the bow had lifted and disappeared in the billowy blue sky, and here was Polychrome standing helpless upon a rock, her gauzy draperies floating about her like brilliant cobwebs and not a soul--fairy or mortal--to help her regain her lost bow! "Dear me!" she exclaimed, a frown passing across her pretty face, "I'm caught again.
This is the second time my carelessness has left me on earth while my sisters returned to our Sky Palaces.
The first time I enjoyed some pleasant adventures, but this is a lonely, forsaken country and I shall be very unhappy until my Rainbow comes again and I can climb aboard.
Let me think what is best to be done." She crouched low upon the flat rock, drew her draperies about her and bowed her head. It was in this position that Betsy Bobbin spied Polychrome as she came along the stony path, followed by Hank, the Princess and Shaggy.
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