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.