One day when Princess the pig had nothing to else to do, she thought she would do something, so she went around to Arjohn's house to see what Arjohn the bear was doing. It was still snowing as she stumped over the white forest track, and she expected to find Arjohn warming his toes in front of his fire, but to her surprise she saw the door was open, and the more she looked inside the more Arjohn wasn't there.
"He's out," said Princess sadly. " That's what it is. He's not in. I shall have to go fast Thinking Walk by myself. Bother!"
But first she thought that she would knock very loudly just to make quite sure... and while she waited for Arjohn not to answer, she jumped up and down to keep warm, and hum came suddenly into her head, which seem to her a Good Hum, such as is Hummed Hopefully to Others.
"So what I'll do," said Princess, "is I'll do this. I'll just go home first and see what the time is, and perhaps I'll put a muffler round my neck, and then I'll go and see Mikez, the dog."
