The Skippy Chronicles Season 4 # 2 Search and Rescue

Well, even though Dane expressed his confusion of the obviously false first clue, he still decided to search his house after leaving Henry's. He started with the plumbing. After seven hours of sticking his head in toilets, shower drains, sinks, garbage disposals (ouch), and various other wet tubes, tunnels, and crevices, he concluded that Skippy was not in any of the pipework, so he decided to check all the structural areas. After four more hours of crawling around in walls, ceilings, floors, and other various places that held his house up, Dane assumed that Skippy wasn't there either, so he decided to check all outgoing forms of transportation. After three more hours of riding cars, mail trucks, milk vans, ice cream vans, bicycles, garbage trucks, and other various things with or without wheels, Dane came to realize that Skippy wasn't leaving his house if he was there at all, so, for his final search, Dane check all rooms and piles of junk in his house. After ten more hours (which now all the hours spent searching add up to twenty four, EXACTLY, I HAD A STOPWATCH) of looking in bed rooms, closets, bathrooms, and kitchens, and digging through piles of dishes, food, clothes, toys, and other various molding lumps Dane came to the final answer that Skippy was not in his house at all. Dane went into a fit that looked somewhat like him attempting to catch his tail, swallow his tongue, tickle his back, and kick his leg. Dane finally snapped out of his deranged trance and went to get the mail. In the box he found another clue. It read:

Dear Dane, Henry, Ben (maybe), and Zach (honorary),

We wish that all of you had followed Dane's idiotic example of tearing up his house in search of Skippy, but I guess you can't have your salamander and lick it too. So, we have issued the real first clue, but it will be number 1 & 1/2 and will prepare you for the second clue, or Clue 2, as I might add. Good luck with this rhyme:

Clue # 1 & 1/2:

Gather your crew,
For clue number two.

Sorry, that clue was really bland and dry, and really, it probably shouldn't have been a clue at all, but, it will bring us all closer together, love your neighbor.

Somewhat Sincerely, but Somewhat Sarcastically,
E.V.I.L. (Evil Villains Incarcerate reptiLes)