They looked through the gardens and in the tree house, they checked up in the trees and under the flowers but found nothing.
Finally, down by the creek, they came upon their thief. There, with feathers sticking to his lips and a big, contented smile on his face was 'Old Croc' a really big old crocodile with hardly and teeth."Quick !" roared Grandpa to Melissa, "Run and get The Big Bad Wolf and tell him to bring a gun so we can shoot it.
"Melissa rather liked 'Old Croc' and knew that he had a right to eat just like everyone else so she told Grandpa Pencil that there was a better way to solve the problem.
From that day on just before going to bed, Grandpa Pencil placed a picnic cloth in front of the chicken pen covered with cream cakes with the pinkest icing and fairy bread and orange lemonade and his chickens sleep peacefully in the knowledge that 'Old Croc' is happy.

The Moral: Cut people as much slack as you'd like to be cut if the circumstances were reversed.