He ran home with the water running off him and making little puddles here and there.
Nobody heard a word more from him that day.
CHAPTER THREE
GIDDY GOAT
But now All the Beasts were HUNGRIER and HUNGRIER. They could have eaten nails if there had been any nails in the Great Wood.
They sat in a circle round the tree and thought a while.
Then they said, “Giddy Goat is older than Pinky Pig, and wiser than Robin Rat. Let us send him to King Leo to ask the name of the tree, so that we may eat the fruit of it before we starve.