When his cough was better, he went for a walk in the
wood near which he lived, to think out a new plan. Suddenly he
heard something croaking, and saw the Fat Frog sitting under a
tree. Now the Dreadful Griffin was so low in his mind that he
wanted to tell someone his troubles, so he told the Fat Frog.
"Don't come near me," said the Fat Frog when he had finished, "for
I hate heat. If you look under the fifth tree from the end of the
wood you'll find a thin packet. Put it in sixteen gallons of water
and pour it over the cats, only mind you shut your eyes first, and
for goodness sake don't come into this wood any more, you dry up
the moisture."
The Griffin quite forgot to thank the Fat Frog, he was a Griffin of
NO manners, but he didn't forget to take the packet. It was
labelled 'Reckitt's,' and when he put it in the water all the water
turned bright blue. Then he took the pail in his claw, flew to the
castle, shut his eyes and poured some of the contents of the pail
over the cats in the courtyard.
When he opened his eyes there were twenty-seven bright blue, damp,
depressed cats; and he passed them without any difficulty. He shut
his eyes, wriggled up the stairs, poured the remaining mixture over
the seventeen cats, who all turned as blue as the rest, and then he
burst open the door of the Princess's room. Fortunately there was
a kind Fairy flying over the castle at that very moment, who,
seeing what was happening, changed the Princess into a flea so that
the Dreadful Griffin couldn't see her anywhere.
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