Once there was a ferret that thought he had a thorn in his paw, but he didn't. So he called Gertrude McCluck. And then he told her that he had stepped on a hickory nut. And then Gertrude McCluck said she thought it wasn't a hickory nut. She looked at the ferret's front paw with her magnifying glass. She didn't see a print big enough to be a hickory nut.

Later, ferret remembered that he had been eating blackberries in his blackberry patch. When he told Gertrude McCluck about this she said, "Let's take a good look at your paw."

She saw two thorns in ferret's paw. Then she took her tweezers and she grabbed her magnifying glass and took both of the thorns out of ferret's paw.

Ferret said, "Goodbye and thank you, Gertrude McCluck. I'm going back to eat blackberries."