20-PIRANHABURGERS

PIRANHABURGERS "Trap, is everything all right?" asked Theae Her eyes were as big as fresh balls of mozzarella. My cousin ran a paw through his fur. "No, no. Everything is all wrong. I am running terribly late!" he groaned. "I still have to peel the caterpillars, grill the scorpions. and fry the fleas. Thank goodness, you guys are here!" I stared at my cousin's red fur. "But what happened to you?" I cried. Trap giggled. "Oh, it's nothing. Don't go fainting on me, Germeister," he teased, "A bucket of tomato juice just fell on top of me. Luckily, I've got another one in the refrigerator. So let's see, Cousin, can you

cook the shark fillets and fry the Be careful with the piranhaburders? piranhas. They're super fresh. In fact, they may still be alive!" I grabbed Trap's paw. "Listen," I said. "We've got to get out of here. You have no idea what we discovered! These Von Ratoffs are really WEIRD." I told him about how they slept during the day and stayed awake all night. I told him about how they slept in beds with no mattresses. Then I told him about the huge black bat we had seen flying around the castle at night.

"It's all true, Trap," my sister added. "We need to scram now before it's too late!" Trap just went on cooking without twitching a whisker. "So the rodents are a little out of the ordinary," he said. doesn't bother me. Besides, I'm not leaving until I've found out about my royal background. I didn't travel all this way for nothing," he insisted. He pulled a cookbook off the shelf and began flipping through it. "Now, what can I make for dessert? How about a nice dragonfly pie? That would be nice. I think I saw a crate of fat little dragonflies down in the cellar..."