“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.