"No,"  A strange voice said.  "Add some toad's foot!"
     "Yeah," Another answered.  "And a couple of lizard eyes!"
     "All right," A third voice responded.  "Fetch me some centipede legs
from the shelf!"
     "Good idea,"  The second replied.  Rosie, Sammi, Shiva, and Penelope
awoke at once, startled from the loud sounds of these odd new persons in
their general vicinity.
     "Woah,"  Sammi declared.  "We're in a bathtub!"  The other two ferrets
and the opossum looked down to find themselves all roped tightly together in
a huge iron pot of very warm water.  Three deranged-looking, unkempt
squirrels were standing outside of the steaming vat of liquid, bantering on
and tossing bits of weird items into the "soup."
     "They're awake!"  One of the squirrels exclaimed.
     "What are you doing to us?!" Rosie yelled.
     "You are tonight's dinner!" The three uncanny squirrels answered in
unison, laughing awfully...
 
     (to be continued...)
[Posted in FML issue 1681]