“Is what?” asks Ajax.
“Right.”
“Ah, no doubt,” agrees Ajax foolish-like, and we let the matter rest.
Ajax puttered around for a while and then came to us.
“May I—er—have a piece of rope? Three yards will be sufficient.”
“Plenty,” agrees Magpie pleased-like.
“You know how to tie the proper kind of a knot?”
“I— Perhaps not, but——”
“The pleasure is all mine,” says Magpie.
Ajax looks the knot over interested-like.