[continued from previous message]   
      
   >                                                         And   
   > he pointed out the exact place where he wanted Fatty to   
   > stand.   
      
    JOEL: Roscoe Arbuckle's watching this and taking notes.   
      
   >        A little way behind Fatty, he stationed Frisky   
   > Squirrel.   
      
    CROW: No no no, you need to keep the reserves where they can support _either_   
   of your front line units.   
      
   >           And back of Frisky he took his own place.   
   >   
   >         "Now!" Jimmy Rabbit said, "are you all ready?"   
   >   
   >         "Yes," they cried.   
      
     TOM: [ As Tommy ] I forgot what we're doing!   
    CROW: [ As Frisky ] Me too!   
    JOEL: [ As Fatty ] I'm hungry!   
      
   >   
   >         "I'm coming!" called Tommy Fox. And he came running   
   > up behind them. He rested his front paws on Jimmy Rabbit's   
   > back. And just as he leaped, Jimmy Rabbit leaped too.   
   >   
   >         You might say that Tommy Fox made a double jump.   
      
     TOM: Arthur Scott Bailey invented sequence-breaking?!   
      
   >                                                          His   
   > own jump would have been a high one. But when Jimmy jumped,   
   > it sent Tommy Fox all the higher into the air.   
      
    JOEL: Oh, classic Jimmy Jumping there.   
      
   >                                                He went   
   > sailing far above Frisky Squirrel and Fatty Raccoon; and   
   > still he kept on, turning and tumbling, head over heels,   
      
     TOM: Some say he hasn't landed to this day.   
      
   > until at last he landed with a great splash in the same deep   
   > pool where the hornets chased Cuffy Bear one time.   
      
    CROW: Like duh, you don't have to remind *us* about Cuppy Bear and the   
   hornets.   
     TOM: Cuffy.   
    CROW: What?   
   >   
   >         When Tommy Fox crawled out upon the bank, dripping   
   > wet, the leap-frog players were nowhere to be seen.   
      
    JOEL: Frisky Squirrel never imagined a game of leap-frog would make him a   
   fugitive for life.   
      
   >   
   >         Though Tommy did not know it, at that very moment   
   > they were hidden in the woods, rolling over and over upon the   
   > ground,   
      
     TOM: Leaping *and* rolling?  Man, how did video games ever get popular?   
      
   >         and laughing as if they would never stop.   
   >   
   >         Finally Jimmy Rabbit sat up and wiped the tears off   
   > his face. He had laughed so hard that he had cried.   
      
    JOEL: [ As Jimmy ] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!  (Sigh) Well, on with life then.   
      
   >   
   >         "I told him I'd teach him something different about   
   > leap-frog," he said.   
      
    CROW: Not as punchy as Henry Skunk eating hen's eggs but there you go.   
      
      
   [ End of Chapter 9 ]   
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                                                                   Joseph Nebus   
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