An ear-piercing cackle jolted us back to conscience. "My head hurts," " Mine too, but where are we?" "Finally! I've found it!" a familiar voice interrupted our conversation. "I, the great Victor, have invented the solution to shrink any creature to ant size!" As the scientist uttered these spine-chilling words, he looked in our direction with an evil etched on his face. No! This was not the kind, young man who offered to drive us back …showed first 75 words of 314 total…

…showed last 75 words of 314 total…shrink until he became a bite-size creature. He shouted frantically. " You reap what you sow." I shot back, with a grin of mischief. As he kept shrinking, his words faded into the distance. Gingerly, I picked him up and dropped him into a jar, which Pete had found. Contentedly, I brought him home and we took turns looking after him as pet. We were free from his clutches, but he was not free from ours!