15 PEANUT BUTTER

Chapter fifteen, Peanut butter. Gorp answered after Pip's third knock on his door. "Zoey! Pip!" Our forest monster friend hugged us both. "Oh… and Sassafras, too," he added nervously. He gulped and held out a hand, squinting while Sassafras purred and rubbed against it. Seeing how uncomfortable he was, I scooped up a wiggly Sassafras. We explained the whole story. "As my family says, a spoonful of peanut butter a day keeps the hiccups away!" Gorp went back inside his house and returned holding a toothpick full of peanut butter. "I figured a spoon would be too big, but

this should do the trick!" I recorded Wishy's hiccup timing in my journal, and then gave her the toothpick of peanut butter. "I just—hic—eat the—hic—whole thing—hic—?" Gorp folded his arms proudly. "Exactly." Wishy stuck the glob of peanut butter into her mouth. She swallowed a few times. "That was really good—hic—peanut butter. Thank you, Gorp—hi—!" Pip and I looked at each other. I grabbed my stopwatch to be sure. Then I gave Gorp a big hug. "Thank you, Gorp!" I showed him my data chart. "The peanut butter helped a lot!" I let out a big breath. We were finally getting closer to fixing this!