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"I haven't the power to do that," answered the Canary, "for Mrs. Yoop, the
Giantess who transformed me, used a peculiar form of yookoohoo magic
that is unknown to me. However, she could not deprive me of my own fairy
knowledge, so I will try to get you a breakfast."
"
Do you think a magic breakfast would taste good, or relieve the pangs of
hunger I now suffer?" asked the Jaguar.
"
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I am sure it would. What would you like to eat?"
Give me a couple of fat rabbits," said the beast.
Rabbits! No, indeed. I'd not allow you to eat the dear little things," declared
Polychrome the Canary.
"Well, three or four squirrels, then," pleaded the Jaguar.
"
Do you think me so cruel?" demanded the Canary, indignantly. "The
squirrels are my especial friends."
"
How about a plump owl?" asked the beast. "Not a tin one, you know, but a
real meat owl."
"Neither beast nor bird shall you have," said Polychrome in a positive voice.
"Give me a fish, then; there's a river a little way off," proposed the Jaguar.
"No living thing shall be sacrificed to feed you," returned the Canary.
"Then what in the world do you expect me to eat?" said the Jaguar in a
scornful tone.
"How would mush-and-milk do?" asked the Canary.
The Jaguar snarled in derision and lashed his tail against the ground
angrily.
"
Give him some scrambled eggs on toast, Poly," suggested the Bear
Scarecrow. "He ought to like that."
"
I will," responded the Canary, and fluttering her wings she made a flight of
three circles around the stump. Then she flew up to a tree and the Bear and
the Owl and the Jaguar saw that upon the stump had appeared a great
green leaf upon which was a large portion of scrambled eggs on toast,
smoking hot.
"There!" said the Bear; "eat your breakfast, friend Jaguar, and be content."
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