“Read it to me, Carrier Pigeon,” he said, “I’ve just come out of the water, and my goggles are so damp that I can hardly see anything.”
Sly Fox stops Kerchug from running away.
So Carrier Pigeon swelled out his chest and stood on one leg and held the paper in his right claw as he read:
“I can leap further and higher and better than anything which wears a speckled skin and goggles. If Kerchug is not a coward he will come away from the water and hop right out here in the wood and jump with me.
(Signed)
“Jumping Jehosophat.”
“Are his legs as long as mine?” asked Kerchug, looking very hard at Carrier Pigeon.