Mrs Long-Eared-Owl spent her days listening to the squirrel's petty problems; 'I’ve been chased by a cat’ - ‘and I’ve been bullied by Brown Owl,’ they would whine.
'You need to see my husband, Mr Long-Eared-Owl,’ she would tell them, ‘he'll help you out.' Mr Long eared Owl 'helped them out' very well and every night he would bring home, to Mrs Long-Eared-Owl, a delicious squirrel pie for supper. The Long-Eared-Owl family never went hungry and grew very fat.
Billigotoff and his school mates and the Fairy Widdicum together with all the other forest animals saw how kind Mrs Long-Eared-Owl was being to the squirrels and were glad to be counted as Mrs Long-Eared-Owl’s friends. They were also pleased to note that, after their visits, to Long-Eared Hall, the squirrels, never complained again. Everyone was happy. Except, of course, the squirrels but who cares about them?
One night Mrs Long-Eared-Owl felt particularly full of squirrels, and herself, and she fluffed up her feathers and called out, ‘Of course that Brown Owl, he’s a terrible bully, you know. the squirrels have told me this on many occasions.’ Well, Aunty Beeb, the woodland gossip, went around the woods telling everyone and soon all eyes and ears were on Mrs Long-Eared-Owl and her husband. The animals of the forest began to wonder how it was the Long-Eared-Owls had grown so fat. Friends ran away from them and they were left all alone.
Until along came the Big-Red-Dog, ‘Follow me, I’ll help you, how badly treated you have been, this way’. They followed the Big-Red-Dog who lead them out of the woods and straight into middle of the waiting pack of hounds.
Of course, the hounds ripped the Long-Eared-Owls to pieces and ate them all up.
Moral: Don’t be a prat.
