If Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, who was a real fairy, had been transformed and enslaved by this huge woman, who claimed to be a Yookoohoo, what was liable to happen to them?
Said the Scarecrow, twisting his stuffed head around in Mrs.Yoop's direction: "Do you know, Ma'am, who we are ?" "Of course," said she; "a straw man, a tin man and a boy." "We are very important people," declared the Tin Woodman.
"All the better," she replied.

"I shall enjoy your society the more on that account.

For I mean to keep you here as long as I live, to amuse me when I get lonely.

And," she added slowly, "in this Valley no one ever dies." They didn't like this speech at all, so the Scarecrow frowned in a way that made Mrs.Yoop smile, while the Tin Woodman looked so fierce that Mrs.Yoop laughed.

The Scarecrow suspected she was going to laugh, so he slipped behind his friends to escape the wind from her breath.