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Location: The Hoosegow, Broken Rose Sim
Recently on UR Island a tiny avatar was found by me and Dianna Defiant. The forlorn tyke, a white-furred, bipedal fox about 2 feet tall, was wearing a hat just like the one eternally on the head of our frequent guest writer Pappy Enoch.
We suspected the worst and our fears were soon confirmed about the unfortunate waif cast ashore on the shoals of academia. When we asked the lost urchin its name, it replied “I are Marcus Boo-Boo Aurelius Enoch, and I’m a-looking for my pappy.”
Yes, a “Pappy-ternity” suit has been filed in Second Life by Linden Lab’s prosecutor, Caligula Linden. Pappy Enoch languishes in the calaboose of a Wild West role-playing area, awaiting trial on charges of abandonment, moral turpitude, and nonsupport of a virtual furry infant.
For the legal record, the Judge presiding over the trust for the little shaver, the Honorable Justin Kase Linden, asked me, as Pappy’s employer, to publish a short inventory of the hillbilly’s worldly goods, now piled up beneath my house on the island:
—One (1) Moonshine still and related equipment (8 barrels, 6 crates, 42 jugs, 514 mason jars, 1 funnel)
—One (1) 1948 International Harvester pickup (not running)
—One (1) 1941 Ford Garbage Truck (on its side, definitely not running)
—One (1) pup tent, recently fumigated
—One (1) wooden outhouse, in need of fumigation
—Two (2) cinder blocks
—One (1) I-Beam, slightly rusted
—One (1) cord of barn-wood, some of it assembled into signs
—One (1) Hound dawg & dawg-house (in this writer’s keeping)
—One (1) unidentified and hungry critter in a packing crate (fed daily with raw steak)
—Two (2) Union suits (recently laundered by two semi-nude women who showed up on the island during Pappy’s recent “vakashun” )
—One (1) set overalls, one (1) hat, one (1) undershirt (worn by accused)
—Eight (8) Linden Dollars.
Di and I serve as trustees of the poor abandoned halfpint, and we will keep our readers posted about events in this sad, sad case.
Little Marcus Boo-Boo Aurelius will be doing independent study with me in writing, as the semester begins at Richmond.
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