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Updated: May 2, 2025
I got eyes an' ears as are uncommon good, even though I been usin' the same ones for nigh on to seventy year. I got my own ijeers as to who's sneak-thieving this school and bime-by somebody's goin' to get ketched." "What are your ideas?" asked Snubby. "Do you know who's doing it?" But old Jerry had no further enlightenment for his friend, even when Snubby pressed him further.
Bunny and Susan could scarcely believe their ears, but Tippy Toes opened his basket and took out the lamp and spectacles, and Bunny and Susan were pleased, you may be sure. Bunny lighted the lamp, saying, "How can I ever thank you, Snubby Nose? Now I shall not burn my paw, as I read by candle-light." Tippy Toes tried not to laugh when he was called "Snubby Nose."
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes and the Seventeen Little Bears did not know whether Grandpa Grumbles was teasing or not. They did not know if he meant to open a real Toy Shop. The Seventeen Little Bears said, "Will you tell us the whole story to-morrow?" The Seventeen Little Bears still had to stay in bed next day.
As Teeny-bits looked at Snubby, he said to himself again that it was impossible that this genial and loyal son of Ridgley was guilty of stealing from members of the school or being in any way connected with the incidents that had contributed to his own former unhappiness.
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes woke up again and said, "Hurrah, hurrah, how fast the seeds grow! We must ask Grandpa Grumbles if they were magic seeds that he gave us." But Grandpa Grumbles had sailed away, and away, and away! At that very minute the Postman brought two letters. The letters were for Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes. They were from their Mothers asking them to come home.
"Speak into my other ear, 'Tis very hard indeed to hear." Then Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes shouted into his other ear, "Please come back upstairs and tell us about the Toy Shop. We will be good, indeed we will." Grandpa Grumbles said, "Speak a little louder, please, If you do not want to tease."
"Bunny and Susan, what do you say? I am so old and deaf to-day." Then Snubby Nose cried into his right ear, and Tippy Toes cried into his left ear, but Grandpa Grumbles only said, "I can't hear, my deafness grows; Ask the umbrella, for it knows." Then the Cotton-Tails asked the umbrella what had become of Bushy-Tail and the umbrella said,
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes danced about the room and cried, "Grandpa Grumbles, do tell us the story of the Toy Shop!" Grandpa Grumbles came upstairs leaning on his green cotton umbrella. He coughed six times and then he sat down in the rocking-chair by the Window. He said, "The story of the Toy Shop begins with a question."
To certain members of Ridgley School the tragedy served as a last link in a chain of circumstantial evidence that had gradually been involving Campbell and Bassett. Among those persons were Neil Durant and Snubby Turner. On the previous evening Teeny-bits Holbrook had not been so absorbed in the celebration that he had not found time to say to the captain and the coach what he had in his mind.
I was almost sorry for the poor Tyndals, who meant no harm, though they had the air of being so frightfully rich and prosperous that it seemed ridiculous to pity them. "Of course, it could only have been a resemblance," said Mr. Tyndal, with that snubby glare at Mrs. Tyndal which husbands and wives keep for each other.
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