"Oh, we did not mean to be impolite," replied a grey donkey which had not spoken before.
"Oh," said the shaggy man, "if they're donkeys, we've nothing to fear at all."
Quite a compliment, I declare," exclaimed the donkey, turning to look at Scraps.
"You are wrong in calling me a Munchkin," interrupted the donkey, "for I was born in the Land of Mo and came to visit the Land of Oz on the day it was shut off from all the rest of the world.
There was that rare thing, novelty, about it; it was a fresh, new, exhilarating sensation, this
donkey riding, and worth a hundred worn and threadbare home pleasures.
That
donkey was worried about something, but I have spoken to him and now he seems quiet and reasonable."
"Now, then, little missis," said the younger man, rising, and leading the
donkey forward, "tell us where you live; what's the name o' the place?"
Then she ate, and, as the others had done, she at once lost her human form, and ran as a
donkey into the yard.
But I stick up for the
donkey, all the same; he's a patient, good-natured fellow."
Gamfield and the
donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr.
Between the thin stems of the plane trees the young men could see little knots of
donkeys pasturing, and a tall woman rubbing the nose of one of them, while another woman was kneeling by the stream lapping water out of her palms.
The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a
donkey over that immaculate spot.