THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WELL

Chapter 6 – page 1

Next morning they woke up early, as G & J wanted to be off for the Peppermints. Muff was bounding around before daylight. Seemed as tho she was catching butterflies in the dark or something tasty to eat. G sure hoped she wasn’t eating Chips.

For breakfast they had more M, B & P and also stuffed the bottom of their new willow switch baskets with more of the same (mangoes, bananas & papaya). The Chips were up early, looking rather frosty in the high mountain air, a white tinge upon their fuzz. They helped gather M,B &P’s for G & J. Once the fruits were on the bottom of the baskets, in went the New Chip Colony which would travel with them. J helped them into the basket. G really didn’t like to touch them. There were 10 to a basket when G said that Pepper couldn’t carry so much weight (these were pretty hefty Chips). So 14 each were put in two baskets for Mober to carry, which left …. hhhhmm … hhmmmm …let me see .... 6 in each basket for the Pepper to carry. Pepper only carried bananas, too.