Further on a river wiggled A summer cottage perched on its bank And over by the big oak tree was a newly built house The crow swooped towards the badger's tidy cottage Ha The trash can had been overturned and completely smashed Terrible but it served the old grouch right And then the crow landed by the forest's little police station She stepped up to the door and pecked at it Craaak POLICE
The door opened at once and a police officer peered out It was the mouse called Detective Buffy She was Chief Detective Good morning Crow she said nicely with a salute Chilly today I think winter is on its way Has something terrible happened asked the crow I'm pretty sure it has No I've just been doing my reports Only one report of noise in the night Noise in the night Yes Badger said someone tipped over his trash can with a great crash The crow nodded That's what she'd seen So nothing terrible has happened Buffy said Yet They said goodbye and Detective Buffy sat again at her large desk She looked down at her paper Night noise was what it said in the report Someone had banged on the lid of Badger's trash can 5
then finally tipped it over It was absolutely forbidden to make noise at night This would have to be investigated Hmm Buffy said quietly to herself Maybe a deer happened to push over the can Or it might have been that crow looking for something edible Who who Hmm Detective Buffy had a friend called Gordon an old toad He used to be Chief Detective but he was now retired Gordon still lived in the police house and could help when necessary
Although lately he had mostly been lying in bed reading books He'd cleaned out his attic and found a whole box of books about trolls Gordon had become so engrossed in the troll stories that he'd soon read them all Now he lay in bed like a round lump He was also humming Hmm I think it must be Bang he said Ha I always figure out what's going on What said Buffy looking up from her report Bang is the richest troll Gordon explained to his friend The two police looked at each other You're not talking about Badger's trash can are you said Buffy No I'm reading an adventure story about trolls And I think Bang has hidden all the gold in question said Gordon I've read all the troll books now and I'm beginning to understand how trolls think Long before the end of the story I figured out what would happen Buffy jumped down from her swivel chair and stretched her arms wide No one thinks the same as oneself said Gordon 7
