[1] George curiously looks at the little black marks, dots, and lines in The Man with the Yellow Hat's books, and starts tearing some pages.

The Man gives George a pad of paper and a pencil to list some words that use the first 13 letters.

He is quite impressed with the real words (ball, milk, cake, ham, jam, egg, lime, feed, and kid), but gets confused at the gibberish words (dalg, glidj, and blimlimlim).

He reminds George that any arrangement of letters will not always make just any kind of word.

George curiously looks at the note The Man had written and outsmarts his plan by changing the word "one" to "ten".

When The Man unpleasantly catches George dumping all the doughnuts down to the floor and sees that the note has been changed, he sternly scolds him and says that it must be what he (himself) gets for teaching the alphabet to a little monkey.

The Man tells George he cannot eat any doughnuts right now and to put them all back in the bag, so that they will finish the alphabet.