Escape And Goggle

Roo-kai has returned with the key, which he found on a hook in the office.

Open it! says Terence.

You'll have to do it, says Roo-kai. I have my limits.

Terence pokes the key into the keyhole. 

Click. 

Now it should be possible to open the glass case containing the birds' eggs.

But Terence can only lift the lid up so far.

Get something to jam it open! says Terence.

Roo-kai looks about for something to jam it open.

There is nothing in this room. He flies out to the next room which contains old fashioned domestic furniture, jars, pots, lace doilies, a coal scuttle, fire dog and bellows.

He comes back with an antimacassar.

Terence lets down the lid of the glass case with a bang.

What's that? asks Terence.

No idea, says Roo-kai. But if you fold it and jam it under the lid it should hold the lid open enough for a conversation.

Terence folds and refolds the antimacassar.

The two of them succeed in jamming it under the lid.

Hello, you eggs! says Terence. 

Hurrrr, say the eggs.

What's the matter? asks Terence.

We're not used to breathing, say the eggs.

What kind of eggs are you? asks Roo-kai.

Magpie eggs, say the eggs.

It seems they have quickly got used to breathing.

Want to come with us to look at a stuffed possum? asks Terence.

Anything for a change of scenery, say the eggs.

Roo-kai pokes his beak in, stabs an egg, lifts it, and eases it into the cement hands of Terence.

Then the other one.

Yay! says Terence. Let's go.

It's not far to the framed diorama of birds and mammals, made by William Garlick, a self taught naturalist and taxidermist, around 1889.

Look, a stuffed possum! says Terence.

But the eggs are goggling, as only eggs can, at the spectacle of a stuffed magpie.