rinkled
cocoanut until you would have thought there had been a snow storm! Talk
about a delicious cake! Oh, dear me! Well, I just don't dare write any
more about it, for it makes me so impatient.

"Now," said Mrs. No-Tail, after the baking was over, "we'll just set the
cake on the table by the open window to cool, Nellie, and we'll wash up
the dishes."

So they were working away, talking of different things, and Nellie was a
great help to Mrs. No-Tail. Every once in a while, however, Nellie would
look over to the cake, because it was so nice she just couldn't keep her
eyes away from it. She was just wishing it was time for her to have some
to take home, but it wasn't, quite yet.

Well, all of a sudden, when Nellie looked over for about the
twenty-two-thirteenth time, she saw that all the chocolate was gone from
the top of the cake. All the chocolate and the cocoanut was missing.

"Oh! Oh!" cried the little sparrow girl.

"What's the matter?" asked Mrs. No-Tail quickly.

"Look!" exclaimed Nellie, pointing to the cake.

"Well, of all things!" cried Mrs. No-Tail. "That chocolate must have
disappeared. It must have gone up like a balloon. I will have to buy
some more of you, and put that on." Then she went over and looked at the
cake, and she wondered at the queer scratches in the top, just as if a
cat had clawed off the chocolate. But there were no cats around.

So Mrs. No-Tail and Nellie put more chocolate and cocoanut on the cake,
and they went on washing up the dishes, and pretty soon, not so very
long, in a little while Nellie looked at the cake again. And, would you
believe me, the chocolate was all off once more.

"This is very strange," said Mrs. No-Tail. "That must be queer chocolate
to disappear that way. Perhaps a fairy is taking it."

"Maybe Bully and Bawly are doing it for a joke," said Nellie. So she and
Mrs. No-Tail looked from the window but they could see no one, not even
a fairy, and, anyhow, Mrs. No-Tail knew the boys wouldn't be so impolite
as to do such a thing.

"It is very strange," said the frog boys' mamma. "But we will put the
chocolate and cocoanut on once more, and then we'll watch to see who
takes it."

So they did, making the cake even better than before. Oh, with such
thick chocolate and cocoanut on! and then they hid down behind the
stove, and watched the window.

Pretty soon a big, shaggy paw, with long, sharp claws on it, was put in
the open window, and the paw went right on