To be brave, one must be cheerful, so I hope you will be as good-tempered as possible." They had traveled some distance when suddenly they faced a high fence which barred any further progress straight ahead.

It ran directly across the road and enclosed a small forest of tall trees, set close together.

When the group of adventurers peered through the bars of the fence they thought this forest looked more gloomy and forbidding than any they had ever seen before.
They soon discovered that the path they had been following now made a bend and passed around the enclosure, but what made Ojo stop and look thoughtful was a sign painted on the fence which read: "BEWARE OF THE WOOZY!" "That means," he said, "that there's a Woozy inside that fence, and the Woozy must be a dangerous animal or they wouldn't tell people to beware of it." "Let's keep out, then," replied Scraps.

"That path is outside the fence, and Mr.Woozy may have all his little forest to himself, for all we care." "But one of our errands is to find a Woozy," Ojo explained.

"The Magician wants me to get three hairs from the end of a Woozy's tail." "Let's go on and find some other Woozy," suggested the cat.