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Six Suns
From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, 1908. Read Online Reader: Jessica Teeter

First edition cover watercolor by John R. Neill, 1908. Larger.
Natural disasters can occur anywhere on earth. Just ask famous Kansan Dorothy Gale whose frightening encounter with a mid-western tornado led her to the Emerald City.

So it hardly seems fair when young Dorothy—during a mild visit with western relatives—is swallowed up by the earth during a California earthquake in L. Frank Baum's 1908 Oz sequel, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Along with cousin Zeb and Jim the horse, plucky Dorothy takes it all in stride as she drops downward toward the center of the planet.
Far below her she found six great glowing balls suspended in the air. The central and largest one was white, and reminded her of the sun. Around it were arranged, like the five points of a star, the other five brilliant balls; one being rose colored, one violet, one yellow, one blue and one orange. This splendid group of colored suns sent rays darting in every direction, and as the horse and buggy-—with Dorothy and Zeb--sank steadily downward and came nearer to the lights, the rays began to take on all the delicate tintings of a rainbow, growing more and more distinct every moment until all the space was brilliantly illuminated.

Dorothy was too dazed to say much, but she watched one of Jim's big ears turn to violet and the other to rose, and wondered that his tail should be yellow and his body striped with blue and orange like the stripes of a zebra. Then she looked at Zeb, whose face was blue and whose hair was pink, and gave a little laugh that sounded a bit nervous.

"Isn't it funny?" she said.
Dorothy Gale was the creation of L. Frank Baum, the "Royal Historian of Oz," who began writing children's books after having little success in a variety of careers. After his death in 1919 other writers continued the Oz series.