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What are you doing?

Paul?

What the hell.?

Please, John.

Help him.

Please, Johnny, help him.

Oh, dear Jesus.

The tail.

Look at the tail.

What did you do?

I helped Del’s mouse.

he’s a circus mouse.

Gonna live in a mouse city.

.down in.

Florida.

Boss Percy bad.

He step on Del’s mouse.

I took it back, though.

Brute.

you come along with me.

You fellas go on back to your cribbage game.

Now, don’t start in on me.

It was just a mouse.

Never belonged here in the first place.

The mouse is fine.

Just fine. You’re no better at mouse-killing than you are.

.at anything else around here.

Yeah, you expect me to believe that?

I heard the goddamn thing crunch.

Arert you glad Mr. Jingles is okay?

After all those talks we had about.

keeping the prisoners calm?

Arert you relieved?What kind of game is this?

It’s no game.

See for yourself.

Go on.

Don’t let nothing happen to Mr. Jingle.

You switched them. You switched them somehow, you bastards.

I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.

Yeah, you playing with me, huh? Both of you.

Just who the hell you think you are?

We’re the people you work with.

But not for long.

Percy, I want your word.

My word?

I put you out front for Del.

you put in your transfer to Briar Ridge the very next day.

Well, what if I just call up certain people and tell them you’re harassing me?

Bullying me. Go ahead.

I promise you’ll leave your share of blood on the floor.

Over a mouse? No.

But four men will swear you stood by.

while Wild Bill tried to strangle Dean to death.

About that, people will care. Even your uncle the governor will care about that.

Thing like that goes on your work record.

Work record can follow a man around for a long, long time.

I put you out front.

you put in for that transfer.

That’s the deal.

All right.

You make a promise to a man, you shake his hand.

Hey, boys.

No, now, say hey, Mr. Jingles.

Eduard Delacroix, will you step forward?

Boss Edgecomb.

Yes, Del?

Don’t let nothing happen to Mr. Jingle, okay?

Here. You take him.

Del.

I can’t have a mouse on my shoulder while.

you know.

I’ll take him, boss.

Just for now, if Del don’t mind.

Yeah.

Yeah, you take him, John. You take him till this foolishment be done.