"Oh, I'll go!" cried Toodle, before his brother could say anything. "I'll go, mamma!"
"Ha!" laughed Jimmie Wibblewobble. "I guess I'll go too, Toodle. I could help you carry the cocoanut if you happened to drop it."
"Let's all go!" suggested Noodle. "Because if the cocoanut does fall and break, some one would have to pick up the pieces, and if there were any very little ones it might be better to eat them instead of letting them go to waste. We'll all go!"
So it was decided and the two beaver boys and Jimmie Wibblewobble, the duck, started out, Mrs. Flat-tail giving them the money for the cocoanut and also some for a cake of soap. But, of course, a cake of soap is not good to eat.
On and on the boy beavers and the duck went to the store, and soon they reached it. The store was kept by an old beaver gentleman named Skilly-scaly, because he was always weighing things on his scales. But he was no relation to the skillery-scalery alligator, with the humps on his tail.
Toodle and Noodle got what their mamma had sent them for and Toodle said:
"I'll carry the cocoanut; you might drop it, Noodle."
"So might you," said his brother. "We can carry it between us and Jimmie will take the cake of soap. See, we will tie the cocoanut to a long pole and carry it between us."
"That's a good plan," said the little duck boy.
So the round, brown, shaggy cocoanut was fixed up that way and slung on a pole between Toodle and Noodle, who carried it on their shoulders. Jimmie carried the soap on his back, where it would not get wet.