The Little People of the OzarksT are a fun loving lot, each about as tall as a grape hyacinth. Still retaining their old world brogue, they settled the Ozark Mountains hundreds of years ago, and since then have lived as two separate clans, peaceful and loving by nature, and preferring the simple and uncomplicated, candle lit life, of days gone by. They dwell contentedly in quaint and tidy hollow stump homes, and are a most cheerful, charitable people, who thoughtfully go about practicing their magic, in order to bring happier, safer, more satisfying lives to the mortals who live near by. Book Three: The Ambassador and The Touchperson Jay and Twiggs have their first three meetings. Hard-nosed negotiating doesn't interfere with joy-filled escapades at the swimming hole and cabin. The year culminates with "the miracle of the millennium," as Jay's Grampa characterizes it in his country newspaper. The boys learn that even a miracle, like life itself, sometimes has an unanticipated down-side which they struggle to understand and manage.