Chapter 4

Chapter 4 All the art scientists crowded around to see what I would see when I looked at the blob. "Hmm," I said. I said "Hmm" so it would sound like I was thinking something really smart. Instead, I was thinking that I was looking at a yellow blob. A slightly greenish-yellow blob, actually. Wait a minute! Maybe the blob looked like a hand... a pointing hand! Well, not really. Maybe the letter R? No, not much.

Or a duckie? Or Nina's mom? No, not any of those things. It just looked like a blob. "Have you had the blob scientifically tested?" I asked. "No, it's too important and valuable for us to even touch," said Lulu Emu. "Hey! What's your goat doing?" Nina was licking the yellow blob. "Stop!" shouted Lulu Emu and all the scientists. "That blob is priceless!" "Big deal," said Nina. "It's too salty anyway."

"Salty?" I said. "Hmm." This time I said "Hmm" because I really meant it. Finally it was starting to make sense. I just needed to know one more thing. "Do you know anything about Leonardo da Vinci?" I asked Lulu Emu. "Of course! He was born in Italy in—" I interrupted her. "Do you happen to know how tall he was?"

"About this tall," said Lulu Emu. She held out one foot just above the yellow blob. "AHA!" I shouted. "I have solved the BIG DEAL mystery."