Chapter Eight TREASURE
Chapter Eight TREASURE Chapter Eight TREASURE Flute woke up and trilled so loudly that he startled the King and the Queen and Elmer and the dragon wide awake. The other canaries had been up for an hour and were crowding around to see what was happening under the tree. Everybody peered into the big hole and gasped, "A real treasure chest, with a ring in the top! But how will we ever get it out?" The King looked at Elmer, and Elmer looked at the dragon. "Dragon, do you think you could put your t
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Chapter Eight TREASURE
Chapter Eight TREASURE
Flute woke up and trilled so loudly that he startled the King and the Queen and Elmer and the dragon wide awake.The other canaries had been up for an hourand were crowding around to see what was happening under the tree.Everybody peered into the big hole and gasped,"A real treasure chest, with a ring in the top! But how will we ever get it out?"
The King looked at Elmer, and Elmer looked at the dragon."Dragon, do you think you could put your tail through the ring and pull up the chest?"
"I'll try," said the dragon, puffing up with importance as the swarms of canaries moved aside for him.He backed up to the hole, stuck his tail down and through the ring, and pulled.
Nothing happened. "Couldn't you pull harder?" suggested the King.
"That's exactly what I was going to try.Just let me catch my breath," said the dragon somewhat crossly."After all, I'm not used to lifting heavy chests with my tail."He took a deep, deep breath and pulled very, very hard, and suddenly the chest moved.He grunted and strained and struggled and panted and slowly,slowly hoisted the chest up out of the hole.
"Far enough!" yelled Elmer. "Now walk forward and set it down."
Crash! The chest fell down on the pine needlesand the dragon staggered off to sit down while the canaries shouted "Bravo!"
"Quiet! Quiet!" yelled King Can Eleventh. "I am now about to tell you the last part of the secret.The key to this chest - the key to this chest - well, anyway, this is the last part of the secret.My illustrious ancestor, King Can I, stole the key from the settlers,and the key to this chest is in my nest. Go get it, Flute. No, never mind. I'll go get it myself."
The King flew up to his nest and down again with a big brass key in his beak.Elmer pried out the dirt in the keyhole with his jackknife and put in the key.
Click! The lock turned. Elmer threw back the lid,and picked up a note lying on top of a piece of heavy canvas."Can you read what it says?" asked the King.
"Yes," said Elmer, feeling sick with excitement as he read the note aloud:
