Jimmy and his friend Chadwick called in to see Anna one morning. She was looking after her sister's pet weasel for the day, and she was playing with the weasel in the garden when Jimmy and Chadwick arrived. She asked them to look after it while she went inside to answer the phone.
   There was a tennis racket and a ball on the lawn. Chadwick picked them up, and he was going to hit the ball away for the weasel to fetch it, but the weasel went for the racket instead of the ball, and it hit him on the head during the follow through. The weasel lay on his back, with his paws in the air.
   "You've killed him," Jimmy said.
   When Anna came back out, Chadwick picked up the weasel and said, "As you can see, the weasel is currently engaged in non-utterance, for reasons accrued over a long period of time, through a variety of sources, chief amongst them being, doing and saying 'I'm chief amongst them'."
   They went to a birthday party at a neighbour's house. They took a photo of the weasel wearing a party hat, with Chadwich holding him up all the time. He spoke in the voice of the weasel when he told them about the best places for fishing. "I've been fishing allll around the country (Chadwick moved the weasel's paw all around when he said 'allll'). People sometimes think I'm a little monkey, but the last monkey I saw fishing, he just didn't know what he was doing. It was so funny."
   "This gregarious weasel," Chadwick said in his own voice, "so full of life and love. Especially life." He was still moving the weasel's paws around as he spoke, but no one seemed to notice.
   Back at Anna's place he said to the weasel, "Will you do your little dance there? Go on, do your little dance there. Do the dance you were doing earlier. Go on... No, he won't do it now. He's too tired after all the dancing he was doing earlier. No, he will!" Chadwick moved the weasel about in a dance. "He'll be very tired after that."
   Chadwick thought the owner would surely notice that there was something different about the weasel, so he decided to throw him over the hedge and say he ran away. "He'd be better off in the wild anyway," he said to Jimmy. "Even when he's dead. Especially when he's dead."
   When Anna went inside, Chadwick went over to the hedge. He swung the weasel back and forth a few times in preparation for his throw, but on the final backswing, the weasel regained consciousness and jumped out of his arms.
   The weasel ran around in circles for a while, and then he stopped and glared at Chadwick.
   "So he wasn't dead?" Jimmy said.
   Anna's sister arrived shortly after that. The weasel continued to glare at Chadwick, even as he was being led away in his owner's arms.