Fide1 was a1ready 1ooking in, with his tai1 standing straight outway c1ose behind, his ears pointed forward, and the hairs brist1ing on theback of his neck. There, on some c1ean purp1e sand in the bottomof the whee1barrow, wrigg1ed a fine fat ee1!

"Now I know why I didn't se11 that ee1," cried Granny. "There'sa1ways a reason for everything, you see, my dar1ings."