the water's edge, so the paper and ticket must have fallen in the
water. What was it anyhow to the finder but a plain, clean piece
of paper? No harm, no harm, Ledermann!"

"Here is something the Wolf told me to give you," said Ledermann.
"You are to use it whenever you can. Watch the bakery."

Adolph took something in his hand.

"The usual thing!" he asked.

"Yes," said Ledermann. "Poison."

Porky, scarcely breathing, listened with all his ears. And then
a terrible thing happened. Porky sneezed!





CHAPTER V

ALL BECAUSE OF A SNEEZE


Loudly, earnestly Porky Sneezed. It was so sudden, so unexpected
that he could not control or disguise it. It came out, seemingly
filling the little plant house. To Porky it sounded like a large
gun going off. It was followed by an instant of deepest silence
while Porky crouched in his corner and wondered what next. Like