On a quiet day in the park, they heard the growls of a wild beast. It was the growls that set The Thing off. The Thing that turned Lance Leftfoot's life upside-down. There were three of them in the park, Lance, his mother, and William Wallace, the Scottish terrier. William Wallace chased after the growls, pulling Mrs. Leftfoot along. Lance ran after and so the three stumbled upon the lion with the lion's tooth necklace. Sprawled out on a picnic table...