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“What? Oh, it’s nothing It’s—”

The baseball bat sith unerring accuracy Duck felt the blow on his hip where the relish hung in his jacket pocket The soggy sound of wet glass shattering

“Hey!” Duck yelled

He started to push his way through the, and saw that he had sunk up to his ankles in the sidewalk

“Okay, stopme mad,” he cried desperately

“Stopvoice

“Hey, !” one of them yelled

Duck was up to aze and pleaded, “Co on me?”

“Because you’re a subhu, “duh”

“You want Hunter, right?” Duck asked “He’s in there, man, behind all this stuff”

“Is that so?” Zil said He nodded to his gang, and all together they climbed into the rubble in search of their true prey Soment with his bat

Duck took a deep breath “Happy thoughts, happy thoughts,” he whispered He had stopped sinking, but he was still trapped He squirmed his foot this way and that Finally he pulled one foot free—ed to keep the shoe

Duck took off at a run

“Hey, get back here!”

“He lied, man, Hunter’s not here!”