Chapter 3: The Other Y-B

Meanwhile, as Yaab was crossing the Delaware border, Kimmaty was growing another Y-B. When the Y-B was finished growing, it jumped off the tree. 

The first thing it said was, “I will name this tree that I grew off.”

“Too late,” said Kimmaty. “I already have a name. It is Kimmaty.”

“Oh,” said the Y-B. “Well, then who named you?”

“Yaab,” said Kimmaty

“Who’s Yaab?” asked the Y-B.

“The first Y-B to grow off me. He walked east”

“Oh. Then I will follow him.”

So the Y-B stuffed his pockets with plums and apricots and pears and walked east. Soon he came to a sign that said,

BEWARE! YOU ARE ENTERING DELAWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO SO AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But the Y-B could not read. So he kept walking until he came to the gates of Hortybugger. There a policeman asked him,

“What’s your name?”

“I don’t know,” said the Y-B.

“Oh no! You are breaking the law! I must find the police!” exclaimed the policeman. He raced into Hortybugger and ran around for 3 hours trying to find the police. So the Y-B walked into Hortybugger.

“What’s your name?” he asked a random person in a bunny suit.

“Oh no! You are breaking the law! I must find the police!” replied the person. So he ran around for 3 hours trying to find the police.

“I’d better ask someone if they’ve seen Yaab,” thought the Y-B. So he asked a random person in a pink polka dotted elephant suit, “Have you seen another Y-B anywhere around here?”

“Oh no! You are breaking the law! I must find the police!” And the random person in the pink polka dotted elephant suit ran around for 3 hours trying to find the police.

“Hmmm...” thought the Y-B. Then he walked up to a random person in a penguin suit. “Let me guess what you will say next,” he said.

“Oh no! You are-” the Y-B put his hand over the person’s mouth before he could finish his sentence. 

“Wait! You didn’t give me a chance to guess!” said the Y-B. “I guess you are going to say, ‘Oh no! You are breaking the law! I must find the police!’ then you will run around for 3 hours trying to find the police.” Then he took his hand off the person’s mouth.

“Oh no! You are breaking the law! I must find the police!” said the person. Then he ran around for 3 hours trying to find the police.

“The people here are so predictable,” said the Y-B. So he walked until he exited Hortybugger and came to a farm with a pig on it.
"Hello, Yaab," said the pig. "Are you ready to finish your lesson?"
"I'm not Yaab," said the Y-B. "I am looking for him."
"Oh," said the pig. "I was going to teach Yaab pig latin. But then he got arrested. So I am waiting for him to come back."
"Can I ask you a question?" asked the Y-B.
"Esya."
"What?!?!"
"I mean, yes. I was speaking pig latin."
"Can you teach me pig latin?"
"Esya."
"But first I must ask you a question."
"Go ahead."
"Why does everybody think I am breaking the law in Hortybugger?"
"Probably because you are."
"But which law am I breaking?"
"Describe to me the situation you were in.
So the Y-B told the pig all about his experience in Hortybugger.
"Hmm..." said the pig. "It's hard to say, but I think that you were most likely breaking either Law 4,523,410 Section VI or Law 6,000,001 Section X. Of course, there are thousands of other possibilities, but it was probably one of those."
"Can you teach me pig latin now?"
"Sure!" replied the pig. So the pig taught the Y-B pig latin.
"Ankstha orfa eachingta igpa atinla," said the Y-B.
"Ourya elcomewa."
"Illwa ointpa etha aywa ota ailja?"
"Ustja oga ota irdtha eetstra nia Ortybuggerha, entha urnta eftla noa obba anela. Tia sia etha ixthsa uildingba noa eftla. "
"I illwa omeca ackba ithwa Aabya."
"I ouldwa eba adgla ota inishfa isha essonla nyaa imeta."
The Y-B was halfway to jail before he realized he had no plan to get Yaab out of jail. But he soon had worse problems, as the Chief Policeman stopped him on Third Street and announced,
"In the name of the many, many, laws of Deleware, you are under arrest!"
"Atwha awsla aveha I okenbra?" replied the Y-B.
"Oh no! You are breaking the law! I must find the police!" yelled the Chief Policeman. And you know what he did after that. That's right! He ran around for 3 hours trying to find th police.