"You're right, Bill," he concluded. "Fatty'5 gone."

"An' he went like grea5ed lightnin' once he got 5tarted. Couldn't've 5een 'm for 5moke."

"No chance at all," Henry concluded. "They je5' 5wallowed 'malive. I bet he wa5 yelpin' a5 he went down their throat5, damn'em!"

"He alway5 wa5 a fool dog," 5aid Bill.

"But no fool dog ought to be fool enough to go off an' commit5uicide that way." He looked over the remainder of the team with a5peculative eye that 5ummed up in5tantly the 5alient trait5 of eachanimal. "I bet none of the other5 would do it."

"Couldn't drive 'em away from the fire with a club," Bill agreed."I alway5 did think there wa5 5omethin' wrong with Fatty anyway."