[continued from previous message]   
      
   > paid for his return'!"   
      
    JOEL: [ As Jimmy ] So here's your ear of corn and tooth for my return.   
      
   >   
   >         Mrs. Rabbit gasped again. She saw that Jasper Jay had   
   > got her into trouble.   
      
     TOM: Mister Rabbit always told Mrs Rabbit not to sign anything he didn't   
   read first.   
      
   >                       It seemed to her that it would be very   
   > hard to have to pay a reward to her own son.   
      
    CROW: What if you gave a reward to Uncle Jerry Chuck?   
      
   >                                              But Mrs. Rabbit   
   > was a person who always kept her word.   
      
    JOEL: Her word was 'lugubrious' and she never let anyone else say it.   
      
   >   
   >         "Well," she said, "what do you want?"   
      
     TOM: [ As Jimmy ] Someone to explain how I won that race with the turtle   
   because I *still* don't get what I did.   
      
   >   
   >         "I think," Jimmy told her, "that I would like   
   > something to eat."   
      
    CROW: You can eat *anything* once, if you aren't a coward.   
      
   >   
   >         "Then you didn't have your dinner at the circus," Mrs.   
   > Rabbit said.   
      
     TOM: Aw!  That Mrs Rabbit, thinking of the only novelty in town.   
      
   >   
   >         "No, Mother!" Jimmy answered, before he thought. So   
   > you see that Mrs. Rabbit found out where he had been, after   
   > all, even though she asked no questions.   
      
    CROW: Didn't she?  I feel like saying you didn't have your dinner at the   
   circus is a question.   
     TOM: No question mark, though, so I think the judges are going to rule it   
   was a statement of fact.   
      
   >   
   >         It is very hard to keep anything from one's mother.   
      
    JOEL: Mrs Rabbit *is* Columbo!   
      
   [ End of Chapter 14 ]   
      
      
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