“I don’t know…What do you think?”
“It’s risky. But if I’ve done the calculations correctly, I think it will hold. I just wish it had a bit more length.”
“And what about the pigs?”
“You know them – it’s always hard to tell with their incessant wheet-wheet-wheeting, but I think they’re on board. But they want us to go first. You know, because of our ‘lucky feet’.”
“Typical. So we’re a go?”
“Affirmative.”
The following morning Farmer Ted went out to his garden and discovered a veritable vegetable massacre. All that was left along the outside of the fence were six tiny trench coats, six tiny mustaches, and one leaf of kale. Farmer Ted thought back to the previous week and suspected that those ungrateful bunnies had actually followed through on their written threat:
“fArMheR Tehd:
We sicK of KAle. FEed us CaRROt oR wE usE kAle as PoLE vAUlt inTO VehgtIblE gARdEn. U hAve 7 Day.
LUv,
RaBBits and Teh PiGs”
Build a higher fence, Julie D.