She looked over the side of the ship, and saw that they were directly over a lake on the earth. There was a little boat on it, with some people in it. One end of the rainbow seemed to go down directly into the lake, and the people were looking at it.
“I will go right into the water,” she said.
“Oh, no you won’t,” said Fleecy. “I will watch to see that you get down safely.”
Patter, patter, came big drops of rain.
The little ship sailed up to the rainbow, and Tina got on it, holding on with both hands.
“Good-bye,” called Fleecy.
“Good-bye,” she answered; and down she went through the blue sea. Down—down, so swiftly!
She looked back at Fleecy sitting in the boat, and held on as hard as she could, hoping to be saved from the cold water.
Down she went, and she shut her eyes hard and knew she was lost.
Now how sorry she was that she had left the boat, and trusted herself to the rainbow.