The Green Monkey was so startled by the sudden attack that he sprang into the fireplace--where there was fortunately no fire--and tried to escape by climbing up the chimney.

But he found the opening too small, and so was forced to drop down again.

Then he crouched trembling in the fireplace, his pretty green hair all blackened with soot and covered with ashes.

From this position Woot watched to see what would happen next.
"Stop, Jinjur--stop!" cried the Brown Bear, when the broom again threatened him.

"Don't you know me?
I'm your old friend the Scarecrow ?" "You're trying to deceive me, you naughty beast! I can see plainly that you are a bear, and a mighty poor specimen of a bear, too," retorted the girl.
"That's because I'm not properly stuffed," he assured her.