He broke the cake in half and broke one half into manageable pieces and put it down on a saucer.  Maybe Little Fuzzy would want a drink, too.  He started to fill a pan with water, as he would for a dog, then looked at his visitor sitting on his haunches eating with both hands and changed his mind.  He rinsed a plastic cup cap from an empty whisky bottle and put it down beside a deep bowl of water.  Little Fuzzy was thirsty, and he didn’t have to be shown what the cup was for.

It was too late to get himself anything elaborate; he found some leftovers in the refrigerator and combined them into a stew.  While it was heating, he sat down at the kitchen table and lit his pipe.  The spurt of flame from the lighter opened Little Fuzzy’s eyes, but what really awed him was Pappy Jack blowing smoke.  He sat watching this phenomenon, until, a few minutes later, the stew was hot and the pipe was laid aside; then Little Fuzzy went back to nibbling Extee Three.

Suddenly he gave a yeek of petulance and scampered into the living room.  In a moment, he was back with something elongated and metallic which he laid on the floor beside him.

“What have you got there, Little Fuzzy?  Let Pappy Jack see?”

Then he recognized it as his own one-inch wood chisel.  He remembered leaving it in the outside shed after doing some work about a week ago, and not being able to find it when he had gone to look for it.  That had worried him; people who got absent-minded about equipment didn’t last long in the wilderness.  After he finished eating and took the dishes to the sink, he went over and squatted beside his new friend.

“Let Pappy Jack look at it, Little Fuzzy,” he said.  “Oh, I’m not going to take it away from you.  I just want to see it.”

The edge was dulled and nicked; it had been used for a lot of things wood chisels oughtn’t to be used for.  Digging, and prying, and most likely, it had been used as a weapon.  It was a handy-sized, all-purpose tool for a Little Fuzzy.  He laid it on the floor where he had gotten it and started washing the dishes.

Little Fuzzy watched him with interest for a while, and then he began investigating the kitchen.  Some of the things he wanted to investigate had to be taken away from him; at first that angered him, but he soon learned that there were things he wasn’t supposed to have.  Eventually, the dishes got washed.

There were more things to investigate in the living room.  One of them was the wastebasket.  He found that it could be dumped, and promptly dumped it, pulling out everything that hadn’t fallen out.  He bit a corner off a sheet of paper, chewed on it and spat it out in disgust.  Then he found that crumpled paper could be flattened out and so he flattened a few sheets, and then discovered that it could also be folded.  Then he got himself gleefully tangled in a snarl of wornout recording tape.  Finally he lost interest and started away.  Jack caught him and brought him back.