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But even this joy cannot last forever. Eventually Jane catches on.

“Martin,” she says, “I cannot help noticing that you left the phone book open to ‘goat impersonators,’ with a phone number circled, and a nearby picture of our ‘goat.’”

“What an interesting observation!” Martin says.

The goat-impersonator bleats. It wanders about. It attempts to hide the evidence by eating the phone book.

This is a thing that it may not do.

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