[continued from previous message]   
      
   >         "Why, certainly!" Uncle Jerry replied. "I asked you   
   > your prices, you know. And you said: 'An ear of corn for a   
   > tooth!'"   
      
     TOM: [ As Jimmy ] Well that was --- what do you call it --- a metaphor?   
    CROW: [ As Jerry ] A metaphor for *what*?   
     TOM: [ As Jimmy ] I mean a palindrome?   
      
   >   
   >         Jimmy Rabbit didn't know what to do.   
      
    CROW: [ As Jimmy ] If only I had my wheelbarrow with me!   
      
   >   
   >         "Why"--he gasped, "I thought _you_ were going to pay   
   > _me_!"   
      
    JOEL: Hey, while you were arguing Fatty Raccoon ate the corn and the tooth.   
      
   >   
   >         "Well, you see you were mistaken," Uncle Jerry told   
   > him.   
      
    CROW: Boy, dealing with this guy is like pulling teeth ... *say* ...   
      
   >      "And you had better give me that ear of corn at once, or   
   > it will be the worse for you."   
      
     TOM: He'll take you to small clams court!  And those clams are *tough*   
   judges!   
      
   >   
   >         For all the old fellow was toothless, Jimmy saw that   
   > his claws were long and sharp.   
      
    JOEL: Quick, open a claw-removal clinic!   
      
   >                                He knew that he had got   
   > himself into a fix. And he couldn't think of any way out of   
   > it.   
      
     TOM: _This_ is what happens when you don't work out your business plan.    
   Why, when Jeff Amazon started he had eighteen pages of plans for handling   
   angry, toothless woodchuck attacks.   
      
   >   
   >         "You've got my tooth! I want an ear of corn! You've   
   > got my tooth! I want an ear of corn!" Uncle Jerry Chuck kept   
   > saying.   
      
    JOEL: Watch, I bet he takes this up with the Better Business Burrow.   
      
   >         And each time he said it, his voice grew louder,   
   > until he was shouting at the top of his lungs.   
      
     TOM: Frisky's hiding in the corner just hoping all the shouting goes away.   
      
   >   
   >         Then Jimmy Rabbit had an idea.   
      
    CROW: If he could stop Christmas from coming --- but *how*?   
      
   >                                        He picked up Uncle   
   > Jerry's tooth off the floor and placed it in Uncle Jerry's   
   > hand.   
      
     TOM: Plant this and if it doesn't grow into an ear of corn by August I'll   
   give you another year to grow it.   
      
   >   
   >         "There's your tooth!" he cried. "I don't want it!"   
      
    JOEL: All the fun has gone out of pulling woodchuck teeth.   
      
   >   
   >         "But you promised to give me an ear of corn for my   
   > tooth!" said Uncle Jerry.   
      
     TOM: Yes, we *know*, we've been right here.   
      
   >   
   >         "Well, haven't you got your tooth?" asked Jimmy   
   > Rabbit.   
      
    CROW: [ As Jimmy ] So now you owe *me* an ear of corn!   
      
   >   
   >         And Uncle Jerry Chuck was so puzzled that he went   
   > home without saying another word.   
      
    JOEL: He's puzzled?  How do you know he's not just true to his principles, uh?   
      
   >   
   >         [Illustration]   
      
     TOM: I'm thinking a watercolor depicting the cocktail party scene from Star   
   Trek: Insurrection, do you think you can do that?   
      
      
   [ End of Chapter 11 ]   
      
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                                                                   Joseph Nebus   
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