Ooloo up against The Beak: A
blood-brotherhood.
Ooloo, the "Sketch" and Studdy cat, imagined that he was a match for any mortal bird; but when he found himself up against the beak of the family parrot, he revised his opinion. The inauspicious opening of the friendship, however, was soon overcome, and Ooloo and the parrot are now blood-brothers.