Teddy was thoroughly frightened; he had no idea how to kill giants, though he had often thought about it, but now that the chance had come he couldn't think of a single way to accomplish it, and after a while he began to cry. While he was crying very hard, he heard a scratchy sound, and looking up, saw a little red squirrel, coming in through a crack in the cave. The squirrel winked very solemnly with one bright eye, and then remarked,
"I wouldn't cry if I were you."
"What would you do?" said Ted, rather put out by the squirrel's tone.
"I'd go to work," was the answer, delivered with another wink.
"I don't know how to," said Teddy, "and I can't get out if I did know."
"You must find Mamma Know-all," said the squirrel whisking his tail, "she will help you, she knows you well, she is in your house a lot of the time."
"At my house?" said Teddy, much surprised, "whereabouts?"
"That would be telling," and the squirrel winked again.
Teddy rose to his feet, "Let us go and find her at once," he said, "if I have to do this thing there is no use in waiting any longer."
"Now you are acting with some sense," said the squirrel, "blow your whistle and tell them you must be let out any way, that you can't think locked up, and then start to your left, thro' the woods and I will join you," with that he scurried into the darkness, and disappeared.