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
11 1 Chapter This Is All His Fault Frou Frou that dirty rotten dog Yes I realize my outpouring of love for the MacTerrings dog seems a bit over the top as we launch this fourth adventure adventure But it reflects exactly what I'm feeling My friends the Zintrepids and I have gone off into the FOREST in the company of Captain Loslobos's crew His sister the brave Timoree walks with us The crew is searching for provisions and FRESH WATER As for the Zintrepids we hope to discover another clue that my grand-father grand-father Virgil might have left for us somewhere on this island This is all that dirty mutt's fault
