Kiddie Katydid and Leaper the quarreled so loudly that they soon drew a crowd around them.  
 
"That message for 'Mr. ' is certainly meant for me," Kiddie insisted. "You know yourself how you have objected to being called by the name of 'Grasshopper.' Why, only last night you refused to stop when Freddie Firefly shouted it after you."
 
"And you—" cried Leaper the Locust—"you paid no attention when Chirpy Cricket went up to you just as the moon rose this evening and said, 'How-dy do, Mr. Grasshopper!' right in your ear. You have no right to open the message. And I promise you that I shall make trouble for you if you don't mind your own affairs."
 
"Well, well—what's all this row about, anyhow?" asked a strange voice. It was a newcomer in Pleasant Valley who had just spoken. He elbowed his way briskly through the until he reached the center of it, where Kiddie and Leaper the Locust faced each other angrily. People noticed that the stranger looked as if he had travelled a long distance. And he had a mail-pouch over his back. Furthermore, he was enough like Kiddie and Leaper to be a cousin of either one of them.
 
A person couldn't see his horns, on account of the hat that he wore.
 
When this traveller asked about the dispute, everybody hastened to explain the quarrel to him.
 
He listened carefully, and when he had heard the whole story he said:
 
"This message—do you know where it is? Do you know who has............