[continued from previous message]   
      
   >                              So he began at the beginning   
   > again and told Henry Skunk exactly what he had said to Mr.   
   > Fox.   
      
    JOEL: [ As Henry Skunk ] Why are you offering to tell me Tommy Fox's past?   
      
   >   
   >         And Henry seemed just as pleased as Mr. Fox had been.   
      
     TOM: These two, they're like peas in a pod except for Henry missing all   
   those teeth.   
      
   >   
   >         Then Jimmy waited for some time, because Fatty   
   > Raccoon had not appeared at all.   
      
    JOEL: Fatty was ruined by how he cannot tell a cabbage from a lettuce.   
      
   >                                  You see, Fatty had been   
   > trying and trying to bring a cabbage up the hill, to pay for   
   > having his fortune told.   
      
    CROW: But uphill is not Fatty's big thing.   
      
   >                          But before he was half way up he   
   > always grew so hungry that he had to eat the cabbage,   
      
    JOEL: Whoops!   
      
   >                                                       and   
   > then there was nothing to do but go back for another.   
      
     TOM: Did we write this paragraph?   
    CROW: Fat jokes aren't fun when it's other people making them!   
      
   >                                                       So poor   
   > Fatty never had his fortune told at all.   
      
    JOEL: Which is wild considering you could predict 'lunch' pretty well.   
      
   >   
   >         The next day Jimmy Rabbit heard that Mr. Fox and   
   > Henry Skunk had had a terrible battle on the other side of   
   > Blue Mountain,   
      
    CROW: Oh, that's a shame.  I was hoping they'd have a good battle.   
      
   >                just as the moon came up. It was said that   
   > each thought the other was spying on him.   
      
    JOEL: And over this they fought?   
     TOM: This valley needs better pointless squabbles.   
      
   >   
   >         Jimmy Rabbit was the only person who knew how it had   
   > come about. And _he_ wouldn't tell.   
      
     TOM: Ohhhh!   
    CROW: Oracle of Delphi over here giving a knowing nod.   
      
   >   
   >         [Illustration]   
      
    JOEL: This really clears up the whole thing.   
      
   [ End of Chapter 15 ]   
      
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                                                                   Joseph Nebus   
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