CHAPTER IV

A BARGAIN

T came into litthe Hurly-Burly’s
head that he would not be able
to use anybody else’s wits, and
therefore that this advice was
hardly necessary, but he did not tell the
hedgehog what he thought, but merely asked
him to say the simple word he had told him
over again, so that he might be quite sure
that he had got it right. When this had
been done, he thanked the hedgehog very
much, and asked whether there was anything
else which he ought to know before enter-
ing the forest. At this question the animal
looked him straight in the face for a full
minute before he answered, and then he