"The fairies who control Button-Bright's umbrella must be very
powerful indeed!"
TROT REGULATES THE PINKIES
CHAPTER 29
The Pinkies were rejoiced to find themselves again in their beloved
land of sunrises and sunsets. They sang and shouted with glee, and
the Band uncovered its pink instruments and played the National Pink
Anthem, while the parrot flew from Trot's shoulder to Cap'n Bill's
shoulder and back again, screaming ecstatically,
"Hooray! We're through the wetful fogs
Where the elephant scared the fretful frogs!"
There was a magnificent sunset in the sky just then, and it cheered
the Pinkies and gave them renewed strength. Away they hastened
across the pink fields to the Pink City, where all the Pink people
who had been left behind ran out to welcome them home again.
Trot and Button-Bright, with Cap'n Bill and Rosalie the Witch, went
to the humble palace, where they had a simple supper of coarse food
and slept upon hard beds. In the houses of the City, however, there
was much feasting and merrymaking, and it seemed to Trot that the
laws of the country which forbade the Queen from enjoying all the
good things the people did were decidedly wrong and needed changing.
The next morning Rosalie said to the little girl, "Will you make
Tourmaline the Queen again when you go away?"
"I'll send for her and see about it," replied Trot.
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