30.绿野仙踪-1-4

Then a strange thing happened.
The houe whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.
Dorothy flet as if she were going up in a balloon.
The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone.
In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone;
and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quiet easily.
After the first few whirls around, and one another time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
Toto did not like it. He ran about the room, now here, now there, barking loudly;
but Dorothy sat quiet still in the floor and waited to see waht would happen.
Once Toto got too near the open trao door, and fell in;
and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.
But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall.
She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again,
afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.