He dressed up as a peddler and went back to Old Sly Foot’s den and began to sell his wares.
Suddenly Sly Foot said, “Those don’t look like a peddler’s feet, those don’t look like a peddler’s hands.”
Then his voice rose to a shriek and he said, “Those don’t look like a peddler’s ears,” and he pulled off Curly-Tail’s cap and saw he had been fooled.
Curly-Tail only wanted to get into the den to see where Old Sly Foot had hidden the cookies, and doughnuts, and crackers, and ginger snaps.
Old Sly Foot bound Curly-Tail to a chair and set a kettle over the fire to boil, saying,
“I will boil you very truly,
For you seem to me unruly.”
Curly-Tail blew a little silver whistle and in trooped the Fourteen Little Darling Dogs, to his rescue.