Dear friend,
Here is Chapter 3 in the continuing "Whistletypuff" saga.
-- Poet Les

CHAPTER III

Ticklish Tommy was lost in reverie now as he let this mysterious Whistletypuff fill his mind. He wanted to know, oh so VERY much what a Whistletypuff was!

But no, indeed, -- until Hilarious Hank told him about it, Ticklish Tommy Jones had never even HEARD of anything called Whistletypuff! Can you imagine that? Such a fascinating creature! He certainly was curious!

But he had no picture in his mind of what a Whistletypuff was! Ticklish Tommy KNEW that he didn't know, but he knew that he WANTED to know. He wanted very much to know what a Whistletypuff was!

He REALLY got interested at the thought of learning about, and solving, this mystery. It was brand new to his thinking. He got very excited when he thought of finding out about something with such a mysterious and tantalizing name as Whistletypuff!

“And when I do find out,” he thought, “I can tell all my friends. They’ll be so pleased! Why, they’ll wonder why THEY never heard of the mysterious Whistletypuff themselves!”

Oh, a Whistletypuff must be SO wonderful! Think of it! A radiant, shimmering, mysterious Whistletypuff! A fabulous, fantastic, far-off Whistletypuff! A peculiar, eccentric, unusual Whistletypuff! An odd, curious, and uncommon Whistletypuff!

Oh, how Tommy longed to see a Whistletypuff, and find out for himself what it REALLY was. He thought about it every livelong day. And he dreamed about it every sleep-jumbled night!

"SOMEDAY soon I will certainly find it out." Ticklish Tommy told himself. And this was reassuring to him, VERY reassuring. Yes, he was far more interested than anyone could imagine!

But he didn't know HOW he would go about finding out who, or what, Whistletypuff was. How WOULD Ticklish Tommy find out what a Whistletypuff is, anyway? The people that he held in highest regard couldn’t seem to tell him. “Strange,” he thought, “very strange, indeed!”

Was there someone he could ask? Or was there a book he could read that would tell him what a Whistletypuff is? Ticklish Tommy wondered, and he wondered, and he WONDERED some more! He knew that books could tell him a lot of things, but he wasn’t really sure about this one.

Could he find out by asking Patriarchal Papa? Or would Magnificent Mama perhaps have the answer to what this mysterious Whistletypuff creature is? Big brother Hank hadn't been able to tell him, but perhaps SOMEBODY could. Surely Patriarchal Papa could, if ANYBODY could!