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Week of 17 August 2015: Corruption Month 2015, third week

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Disclaimer: Any resemblances here to real people, places, institutions or events are purely coincidental. This is a work of fiction.

We pick up where we left off last week, still in Chapter 4:

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Xil

Old Xil got up next. The Great Mother cautioned: "now state your case based on facts, we don't want opinion!"

"Well, you see," Xil started, "I used to be in this mill where they were going to do a rebuild, you know--they were going to tear out a bunch of stuff and put in a bunch more. I don't know why the big things do that, but that is what they do."

"Get to the point! We have a lot of testimony to hear!"

"As I was saying, they were doing this rebuild. They were taking out a lot of old wires, you know like the ones you locals like around here. ( 'mmm! mmm!' was heard from the crowd)."

"QUIET!"

"Anyway, I think one of the senior managers was involved in stealing the old wire." Xil went on.

"Can you PROVE it?" The Great Mother roared.

"I think so--one of the junior managers heard rumors that the dumpster ('We love dumpsters!' shouted the crowd) full of the old wire had been moved out in the middle of the night, and not to the normal junk yard ('Junk yards, too!')."

"QUIET! I am not going to warn you again!"

"He confronted the big boss about this rumor."

"OK, so what happened?"

"The big boss told him very sternly to mind his own business."

"Well, that does not sound like conclusive evidence, but we will take it under advisement. Clerk--note the 'alleged stolen wire' testimony from Xil. Anything else at all you can add to the story?"

"No, ma'am, that's it."

The clerk started nibbling the testimony into the flat brown stuff.

"OK, we will take a tenth of a light recess and reconvene when it is over. Dismissed!" said the Great Mother.

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Chapter 5

Just like the big things, we try to take a two light break out of every seven. Our history tells us this started when the big things moved from agriculture to doing things inside in big buildings. We noticed they did not show up every light, so on the two lights when they were off, our food was not as tasty.

For our two light break about which I am speaking, a gaggle of us decided to quiver along the big waters down to a paper mill we had heard about that was only 50,000 quivers downstream. We scurried along the bank, taking swims, floating and had a good time getting there. Only a few of us were eaten by the long slimy things. It took about half a yellow light.

Some of our species had been left behind there--they were pregnant. Several hundred had been born that week. We had a good exchange of information at the new mill. The locals said the big things had just installed the dark places with the tasty food inside. I warned them about what had happened to Grandmother and told them they should never go in those. One of their group had gotten sick, but apparently had not eaten enough to kill them. They were lucky.

This mill made the most interesting paper. It was soft and fluffy. The locals said they understood the big things used it when they expelled spent food. We talked about that for a while, but none of us could really figure out why this was done.
Some of the locals said there was an interesting scene nearby. We ask what it was. "Come on, see for yourself!" their Grandmother said.

We scurried about 20,000 quivers through a deep woods. We came upon an open space. There, two deer were tied and staked to the ground. They were eating grass, moving as far as their ropes would let them. The Grandmother said, "Watch!"

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Be safe and we will talk next week.

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