"They're a large family," he said, "these sun dogs, wind dogs, rainbows, halos, and parhelia.
Strange flashes of vari-colored, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
One day, whilst passing near a fountain in the garden, she noticed that the sun's rays fell on the water in such a manner as to produce a brilliant
rainbow. She stood still to admire it, when, to her great surprise, she heard a voice addressing her which seemed to come from the centre of its rays.
In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the
Rainbow's Daughter met on an Enchanted Road and followed it all the way to the Marvelous Land of Oz.
"Once upon a time an old man found the pot of gold at the
rainbow's end.
Pendleton, it's a baby rainbow--a real
rainbow come in to pay you a visit!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands together softly.
Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a
rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal.
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, "I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the
rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings." "True," replied the Crane; "but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."
Half way up the steep was a yawning cave, black as night beyond the point where the
rainbow rays of the colored suns reached into it.
`A
rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning.'
He ran swiftly, till want of breath compelled him to slacken his pace as he was entering the village at the turning close to the
Rainbow.
Even the
rainbow hasn't as many colors, and you must admit that the
rainbow is a pretty thing."