"I think you ought to send the cook back to take care of him," Jimmy told Major Monkey.
At that, Mr. Crow—who was the cook—spoke up and said that he was going to stay with the army.
"I don't see," he said, "how you could get along without me. An army without a cook is as good as lost."
Major Monkey promptly agreed with Mr. Crow.
"Certainly we mustn't get lost," he said. "If we were lost, the enemy never could find us. And we might wander about in the woods for years and years."
His remarks made some of the generals a bit uneasy. And one of them—a soldier called Billy Woodchuck—announced that he would have to be leaving.
