Now, I've only--only--dear old Hank!" She twined her arms around her shaggy friend who was not human, and he said: "Hee-haw!" in a tone that showed he understood her mood.

And the shaggy friend who was human stroked the child's head tenderly and said: "You're wrong about that, Betsy, dear.

I will never desert you." "Nor I!" exclaimed Shaggy's brother, in earnest tones.
The little girl looked up at them gratefully, and her eyes smiled through their tears.
"All right," she said.

"It's raining again, so let's go back into the cavern." Rather soberly, for all loved Polychrome and would miss her, they reentered the dominions of the Nome King..