[net.micro.apple] Zork I question

"SchellSteph"@LLL-MFE.ARPA (08/31/84)

     Hello, netland!
     I'm stuck in Zork I for the Apple ][+. I have 298 points.  There 
are several things I have not been able to figure out:
      egg:       to get the small-clockwork bird out of the egg, I think
                  you have to give it to the thief, come back later, and
                  get the egg back from him (by killing him?).  When I
                  kill him, it says,"His booty remains," but there is
                  no booty -- in fact, the program does not know the word
                  booty.  Is there a thief's hideout I have not found?

      grate:     Evidently, the lock to the grate is on the underside.
                  The skeleton key ought to unlock the grate, but from where?

      timber:    Use?

                               Thanks in advance,
                                      Stephan Schell
                                      schell@mfe