FOXY SHIFTY BILLY STUART THE ZINTREPIDS FROUFROU YETI MUSKY
7 DEAR READER Billy Stuart wasn't exactly elected to this particular position He doesn't wear a magical ring on his finger like Frodo He doesn't have a secret collection of masks or stones hidden in his drawers like Zelda He hasn't walked through life accompanied by a daemon like Lyra Nor does he have a distinctive lightning-shaped scar on his forehead like Harry Basically the future of the world does not rest on his thin and bony shoulders Billy Stuart is just a young ordinary raccoon who has experienced some extraordinary adventures Here is the fourth adventure he told me about Alain M Bergeron One twenty-fourth of September in the town of Cavendish
Author's Note many First of all let me introduce myself I am Alain M. Bergeron adventures the author to whom Billy Stuart has told his Over the course of these pages you will notice I feel the two cents directly into Billy's story need to add my clarify a point or some bit of information add a personal commentary amuse myself so as to all of the above My presence in this book and the following ones will be through the use of an author's note These little interruptions look like a note glued to a page And now you can get back to your reading AM.B
THE RECAP Billy Stuart has promised to take care of Froufrou the MacTerrings dog for the whole summer and is dreading the long days of July and August Then he gets a letter from his grandfather Virgil who claims to have found a cave with a passage in it that lets him travel through time Billy Stuart sets out on his grandfather's trail accompanied by his scout pack the Zintrepids and Froufrou What Billy doesn't know is that ohce they ga down the fateful path his grandfather took there will be ha turning back In the course of their adventures Billy Stuart and his friends and even the dog became stranded in another world in another time They escaped the clutches of the terrible Minotaur and miraculously found their way out of a labyrinth and onto a ship The Zintrepid pack then survived attacks by mythical creatures while crossing the sea of a thousand dangers and when they finally made landfall they were almost devoured by thousands of crabs As this fourth adventure begins we find them advancing through an unknown and inhospitable land And they don't know it yet but sameahe somewhere has their eye on them
