Baum, L Frank - Oz 40 by Baum L Frank

Author:Baum, L Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 12

WELL," said Robin, "that's the end of the woods. And there's plenty of roads down yonder, but I don't see anything of that yellow brick one Howzatagin told us about, do you?"

Merry shook her head as they both examined the scene before them. "No. Those roads are all kind of blue."

"Everything's kind of blue," Robin agreed in a puzzled tone.

They were standing on a hillside overlooking a curiously empty stretch of land which rose everywhere into barren, rolling hills dotted with clumps of prickly pears. They could not see over the hills, but they could see, winding in and out among them, numerous tracks and paths, which looked well-traveled though they were empty at the moment. The whole landscape did, indeed, have a distinctly blueish cast.

"Even the dirt's sort of blue," said Merry.

"And those prickly-pear bushes-and the pines at the edge of the woods. Look, Merry, isn't that queer?" Robin said as they both glanced back toward the last scrubby fringe of trees.

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"I thought those pine woods had a sort of red look when we started through them, back by Howzatagin's cabin. And remember how red the rocks in the Red Gorge were? And all that red clay in Fox-Hunter land? Now everything's changed color."

"You've changed countries, that's all," said a squeaky voice, and a squirrel with bushy blue-gray fur scampered along a pine branch to peer down at them.

"Changed countries? You mean we're not in Oz any more?"

exclaimed Robin.

"Of course you're in Oz. But you've left the Quadling Country-it's the red one. You're in the Munchkin country now. The border runs through these woods."

"Oh. Then where's the Yellow Brick Road?" Robin asked.

"I don't know. Squirrels aren't concerned with roads. Excuse me, please, I have an important engagement with a hazel-nut bush. Ta-ta!" With a flirt of his tail, the squirrel vanished into the trees.

"Well," Robin said, "Maybe one of those blue roads will lead us to the yellow one. Come on, let's try it."

The blue road was little more than a well-trodden footpath, but for some time they followed it around the base of one hill after another, seeing nothing but prickly-pear bushes, blue rocks, and more barren hills ahead. Then they rounded the curve of one last hill and were confronted by a very strange sight.

Before them, in a bowl-shaped hollow among the dusty hills, was a huge sphere made of some glistening, transparent stuff that looked like pale blue glass. Inside it were many smaller spheres the size of small houses, with an occasional larger dome thrusting up above them, and Robin and Merry could see people moving here and there along what appeared to be curving streets. Strang-est of all, around the outside of the Great Sphere ran a broad road paved with little round glass stones; and this road was really running-circling frantically around and around the Sphere at great speed, flashing blindingly in the sun.

One bridge spanned the road,

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