7 A wonderful find
　　Soon the stars filled the sky. An owl¹ hooted², and the wind whispered something in the treesoverhead. But the four children did not see the stars nor hear the owl and the wind. They weretired out. They slept solidly, and though Dinah was almost smothered³ with the rug over her head,she did not wake or move.
　　Kiki slept too, her head under her wing. She was perched on a branch of the birch tree just overJack’s head. She awoke when she heard the owl, and hooted back softly. Then she put her headback under her wing and slept again.
　　When dawn came the children were still asleep. Kiki awoke before they did. She stretched outfirst one wing and then the other. She erected⁵ the feathers on her head and shook them. Then shescratched her neck thoughtfully and gazed down at Philip.
　　Lizzie the lizard⁶ was also awake and was running over the rug that covered Philip. She came towhere Philip’s feet stuck out and disappeared under the rug there. Kiki’s sharp eyes watched thelittle moving bump she made under the rug as she made her way all the way up Philip’s body andappeared by his neck.
　　‘Wipe your feet,’ said Kiki suddenly to the lizard. ‘How many times, how many times have Itold you to wipe your feet?’
　　Lizzie was startled. She leapt from Philip’s neck on to Jack⁴ and stood half hidden in his hair,looking up into the trees, though she could focus on nothing there. Kiki, annoyed at seeing Lizziedaring to tread on her beloved master, gave an exasperated⁷ squawk and flew down to peck thelizard, who promptly⁸ disappeared under the rug again.
　　Kiki landed heavily on Jack’s middle and gave a vicious peck where the rug covered Philip’sright leg, for she could see the moving bump there that meant the lizard was running

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