Well, Toodle and Noodle were gnawing away, and they had almost cut down two little trees when, all of a sudden they heard:
"Whack! Whack! Thud! Thud!"
"Hark! What's that?" cried Toodle.
"It's Grandpa Whackum, telling us there's danger!" shouted Noodle. "Run, Toodle! Run!"
Away they ran for the water, and only just in time, for the bad old wolf sprang after them. But he did not get either of them, for Toodle and Noodle slipped into the water just in time and swam safely home.
From where he was working Grandpa Whackum had seen the wolf stealing up on the two little chaps and had warned them. So the wolf didn't have a beaver dinner that day, and Papa Flat-tail made Toodle and Noodle stay in the house the rest of the afternoon for not minding him.
But they were not always like that, and so in the next story, if the stove poker doesn't take the teakettle out to the moving picture show, I'll tell you about Toodle Flat-tail cutting down a tree.