HOW THE RED TOADY MET THE ANDAMAN AND WHAT HAPPENED

One fine day the Caraway Lady and her good friend the Dover Fly were having breakfast over some young muffins and tea, when in through the open kitchen window jumped the Red Toady landing promptly on a dish of plump crumbs, scattering them off the table onto the floor.

"I hope I'm not too late for breakfast," exclaimed the Red Toady out of breath.  "Muffins and tea,I see.  Without nothing sweet," he noticed.

"Please help yourself," replied the Dover Fly politely, flying down to pick up crumbs she'd been about to eat.

"Red Toady, you are the rudest friend I have," declared the Caraway Lady speaking plainly.  "As usual, you have arrived uninvited.  However, since you are here, there is honey in the cupboard by the sink."

In a single hop, he was over to the cupboard and in another back with the crock of honey.

"My dear Caraway Lady, I agree.  If only you had asked me to breakfast I wouldn't have burst in univited.  But you didn't, so I did.  Like Great Grandfather Tobogahop Toady once told me: 'Never let being unwanted get in the way of what you want.' And I haven't." Then he stole the spoon from the Caraway Lady's hand as she was going to scoop some honey and began to help himself.

"Red Toady," warned the Caraway lady.  "Watch where you jump or some day you may land in trouble. Suppose instead of finding the Dover Fly and I you had surprised the Andaman?"

And at the mention of that name, even so thoughtless and reckless creature as the Red Toady was forced to swallow twice, choking as he did.

"But the Andaman never leaves the Creaking Hollow," recalled the Red Toady, glad that he remembered. 

"Except when he is especially hungry," corrected the Caraway Lady.  But the Red Toady never listened when he ate.