"I see," said the teacher. "That is very good. You may go up head, Toodle." So that is how Toodle got up to the head of his class the first day in school. Wasn't that good?
Well, then, the teacher asked Noodle a question. Said Professor Water Rat:
"If you had five pennies, and your mamma should give you ten pennies more, how many pennies would you have?"
"Not any," said Noodle, as politely as he knew how.
"Why not?" asked the teacher. "Do not five pennies and ten pennies make fifteen pennies?"
"Maybe," said Noodle; "but, please sir, if I had fifteen pennies I'd buy three ice cream cones—one for Toodle and one for my sister Crackie, and one for myself, so I would not have any pennies, you see."
"Very good," said the professor rat. "You may also go up head, Noodle." So Noodle did, and he and Toodle sat in the same seat. They were quite proud, too, at getting up head their first day in school. Not too proud, you know, but just proud enough.
Well, all of a sudden, as the animal children were studying away very quietly, a voice called:
"I want Toodle! I want Noodle!"
Everybody looked up surprised like. The two beaver boys were sort of scared, too.