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Talk! " talking? " asked gracious, I believe I am. the kitten. wrong," said Zeb, gravely. "Animals ought not But even old Jim has been saying things since we "It's all to talk. " "I can't see that tones. " "I don't least, as some other things. know," answered the boy, looking around him curiously. 16 The Glass Cit The houses of the city were all made of glass, so clear and transparent that one could look through the walls as easily as though a window. Dorothy saw, underneath the roof on which she stood, several rooms used for rest chambers, and even thought she could make out a number of queer forms huddled into the corners of these rooms.

Then they turned bottom side up, and continued to roll slowly over until they were right side up again. " she asked. "Never knew him 'Those w^ere the horse, to, first words This to speak then. wonder. before," replied the boy. " "As for that, we are answered Dorothy, cheerfully. " Zeb gave a shiver. All this was so terrible and unreal that he could not understand it at all, and so had good reason to be afraid. and Swiftly they drew near to the flaming colored suns, 13 Dorothy and the Wizard Little in Oz passed close beside them.

They first passed through many again, in time, and we beautiful gardens of which grew nearest the city; but Dorothy could hardly tell what kind of flowers they were, because the colors were constantly changing under the shifting lights of the six flowers, A would be pink one second, white the next, then blue or yellow and it was the same way when they came to the plants, which had broad leaves and grew close to the suns. flower ; ground. When stretched "A they passed over a field of grass Jim immediately down his head and began to nibble.