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Updated: August 28, 2024
Fridolin told her about the woodpecker's tongue: that it was long and thin, and round as a worm, and barbed and sticky. "He can stretch his tongue out ten times my length," cried the bark-beetle, flourishing his arm. "You think: 'now now he has reached the limit, he can't make it the tiniest bit longer. But no, he goes on stretching and stretching it.
Maya followed the direction of his gaze and saw a remarkable animal slowly climbing up the trunk. She wouldn't have believed such a creature was possible if she had not seen it with her own eyes. "Hadn't we better hide?" she asked, alarm getting the better of astonishment. "Absurd," replied the bark-beetle, "just sit still and be polite to the gentleman.
Would you have dreamed that such delicate legs, legs as fine as a hair, could be so nimble and useful that one could really use them and they'd know what to do? Fridolin, I think it's wonderful, simply wonderful." "Ah, bah," said the bark-beetle. "Don't take things so seriously. Just laugh when you see something funny; that's all." "But I don't feel like laughing.
"When a cut tree is found lyin' all by itself," said the Ranger, "with wagon tracks leadin' up to it an' away from it, it don't need a city detective to find out that some one dropped it there. An' when that dead tree is full of bark-beetle, an' there ain't none in the forest, that sure looks suspicious.
"Oh," he said, "I see." Then he continued: "But I didn't know there was any bark-beetle here." McGinnis waved his hand around. "Does this look as if we had known very long?" he said. "Who found it out?" asked Wilbur. "Rifle-Eye," was the reply, "or at least Merritt and he found traces on the same day and brought the news into camp.
But I ain't believin' any such perambulatin' spirit for a bark-beetle. Especially when I finds wagon tracks leading to each place where the trouble is." "What do you mean, Rifle-Eye?" asked Merritt. "Give it to us straight." "I mean," he said, "that I ain't never heard of spirits needin' wagons to get around in.
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