He tore that stump open in a twinkling. Reddy Woodpecker had to stand aside and look on while Cuffy Bear devoured every grub in sight. When at last Cuffy drew back and allowed him to search the ruin Reddy couldn’t find even one grub. "Come on!" Cuffy urged him. "Let’s get on with our hunting!"
"What! Haven’t you had enough grubs?" he asked none too pleasantly.
"Enough!" Cuffy repeated. "Why, I’m only beginning to feel hungry. These few grubs that I’ve eaten have just stirred up my appetite."’
"Well, if you’re hungry, what do you think of me?" he wanted to know.
"You!" he cried. "Haven’t you had a good meal? Didn’t you eat a grub off that first stump we found?"
"One grub!" Reddy Woodpecker exclaimed scornfully. "What’s one grub?"
"I should think," Cuffy Bear answered, "one grub was a good meal for anybody of your size."
"It’s not," Reddy declared. He looked very sullen and glum.
Cuffy Bear was sure that Reddy was mistaken. He even tried to show Reddy that he was wrong.
"_One_ ought to be a big meal for you," he insisted. "Why, last week I went out for my supper one night and I ate only _one_. And it was all I wanted."
"Then you had already had a big dinner," said Reddy Woodpecker.
Reddy Woodpecker stared at him. He couldn’t believe it. There must be something queer about that story, somewhere. At last he asked Cuffy a blunt question.
"You say you ate one," he observed. "One what?"
"Let me see," said Cuffy Bear. "Let me think a moment.... Oh, yes! Now I remember. It was one pig!"
Reddy Woodpecker was very angry with Cuffy Bear. He thought that when they hunted grubs together it was only fair that they should divide the game. So far Cuffy had taken all but one. And that was one that he had overlooked.
"I don’t believe I’ll hunt with you any more," Reddy Woodpecker told Cuffy.
That news surprised Cuffy Bear. "Why, what’s the matter?" he inquired. "Haven’t we had good luck?"
"_You_ have had fine luck," he replied. "But _I_ certainly haven’t. When you asked me to hunt grubs with you I expected we would divide the grubs."
"It’s not easy to divide a grub," he said. "That’s why I let you have all of that one that you found a while ago."
"You don’t understand me," Reddy went on. "What I mean is this: If we find two dozen grubs in a stump you should have one dozen and I should have one dozen."