[continued from previous message]   
      
    CROW: There's no covering Fatty with an infield tarp.   
      
   > But his mother simply would not buy him any, in spite of all   
   > his teasing.   
      
    JOEL: You don't tease your Mom!  That's how you get grounded!   
      
   >   
   >         "Why are we called The Scarlet Spies?" Frisky   
   > Squirrel asked Jimmy.   
      
    CROW: Because we're nearly a century to early to be the Totally Spies.   
      
   >   
   >         "Because we _spy_ on everybody who doesn't wear the   
   > uniform," Jimmy Rabbit explained.   
      
     TOM: Uh.   
      
   >                                   "Now, there's Fatty   
   > Raccoon! We'll follow him wherever he goes, and watch   
   > everything he does.   
      
    CROW: You mean, 'eating'.   
      
   >                     But we mustn't have anything to do with   
   > him, because he's what is called an 'outsider'."   
      
    JOEL: Well, this just turned into a sinister cult on a dime.   
      
   >   
   >         Fatty Raccoon didn't like it at all when he found   
   > that The Scarlet Spies were following him about, hiding   
   > behind trees, and peeping at him.   
      
    CROW: He didn't want to be seen cheating on his diet, in case he ever was on   
   a diet.   
     TOM: Say, that illustration at the start of the Rabbit's Ball really has   
   cleared things up here, right?   
      
   >   
   >         "Shucks!" he cried.   
      
    CROW: How corny!   
      
   >                             "Those are nothing but _red   
   > leggins_!   
      
     TOM: Gasp!   
      
   >           Jimmy Rabbit has played another trick on you."   
      
    JOEL: [ As Frisky Squirrel ] We know!   
    CROW: [ As Mr Turtle ] It was something to do!   
      
   >   
   >         But Jimmy Rabbit didn't mind what he said.   
      
     TOM: Do you think he would play in the snow if there were anything Fatty   
   Raccoon could do to alter his plans?  He made a snowman thirty-five minutes   
   ago!   
      
   >                                                    He could   
   > play in the snow now without being called names. And that was   
   > enough for him.   
      
    CROW: *And* it divided the forest into the in-group and the out-group and who   
   could hope for more than that?   
      
   [ The End!  Of Chapter 16. ]   
      
      
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                                                                   Joseph Nebus   
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