"Thisisastory about a couple of pals who set up light housekeeping on top of a lighthouse near Montevideo, and by a strange coincidence, their names happened to be Monte and Video." "I suppose you wonder why the little fella's keeping his eye on the big one." "Well, Monte, the big pelican, is a somnambulist." "You know, flies in his sleep." "Somebody has to stay up and watch him, in case he takes off." "And little Vidi, the snipe, he's that somebody." "And he watches over him with untiring devotion." "If that isn't true friendship, I don't know what it." "And Monte doesn't even realize it." "See?" "What did I tell you?" "There he goes." "Whenever Monte dreams he's a dive bomber, it's little Vidi's job to pull him out of dives." "Look." "Imagine what would happen to Monte if little Vidi wasn't along." "See?" "Just one narrow squeak after another." "PoorlittleVidi." "What a life he leads." "And this sort of thing goes on night after night." "It's wearing little Vidi down." "But here's the irony of it." "At the crack of dawn  Monte is up, fresh as a daisy, full of vim and vinegar." "One, two, one, two." "Up, down, up..." "He can't understand why Vidi is so dead-tired in the morning." ""Oh, well," thought Monte." ""No use waiting for that snoring snipe." "Am I hungry." "Could I use a little seafood. "" "Oh, I forgot to mention the airplanes." "Every day they practice maneuvers around the harbor." "Monte's crazy about planes." "But poor little Vidi could get along without them." "The next night Vidi tried a new plan to keep Monte out of danger." "Somehow I don't think this is going to work." "Poor little Vidi." "No wonder he's getting tremendous bags under his eyes." "There must be a way out." "Little Vidi racked his brain." "There must be a way out!" "No, no, Monte, relax." "What to do, oh, what to do?" "No." "No." "Oh, no." "Where would he get an elephant?" "Oh, no, not that." "That?" "Yes, that." "Well, looks like little Vidi's troubles are over." "Why didn't he think of this before?" "So this is that snipe's idea of a practical joke." "He gave Vidi a withering look that said," ""You ungrateful guttersnipe." "You molting mallard." "Sleep all day and play tricks on me at night, will you?" "You, you sawed-off sandpiper." "You've destroyed my faith in birds." "Go, and never darken my lighthouse again. "" "Scram!" "And Vidi scrammed." "And there's the end of a fine feathered friendship." "Now Monte's all alone." "Uh-oh, just what I was afraid of." "There he goes, and with no little Vidi to guide him." "Now he thinks he's a flying fortress." "He'll have to solo it tonight." "No, he'll have company." "The air force is out on night maneuvers." ""Hey, what's the big idea, you?" "Why don't you look where you're going?" "Ooh." "How did I get up here?"" "And then it dawned on him." "Flying in his sleep." "What an injustice he'd done to poor Vidi." ""Oh, what a cad I turned out to be!" "Vidi!" "Vidi!" "My little pal Vidi!"" "Wait a minute." "Do you want to see how close this really is?" "Well, everything's patched up and the two birds are buddies again." "I suppose you're wondering about Monte." "Oh, don't worry about him." "Little Vidi had solved that problem once and for all." "But I'll bet he'll have a dizzy pelican on his hands in the morning."