grunt at last, and turning to eye the inven- 

 tion indignantly. To get out of his den 

 was easy, for during the long day he had 

 digested his dinner and was thin again ; but 

 how to get in comfortably in the morning 

 with a full stomach, that was the question. 



One morning I saw him come out of the 

 garden, and I knew instantly that he had 

 more trouble ahead. He had found some 

 rich nests of bugs that night and had eaten 

 enormously; his "fair round body" dragged 

 along the grass as he crawled rather than 

 hopped to his doorway, and his one desire 

 seemed to be to tumble into his den drow- 

 sily and go to sleep. But alas ! he could not 

 get in. He had reached the limit at last. 



First he put his head and shoulders 

 through, and by pulling at the under side 

 of the flagstones tried to hitch and coax 

 his way in. All in vain ! His fat body 

 caught between the obstinate flags and only 

 wedged tighter and tighter. The bulging 

 part without was so much bigger than the 

 part within that he must have given it 

 up^at a glance, could he only have seen 



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