Two Shot had many enemies, but he treated everyone the same, whether they were enemy or friend; he treated them very poorly. The one exception was Mildew Scatterbrain. He was just a scarecrow. Mildew was everyone's friend. After his last trick, stealing Max's dumplings, Two-Shot now had another enemy to add to his long list. Max. Two-Shot just laughed at all of it. They couldn't possibly do anything to him, he was too clever for them. He'd escaped the farmer, when the farmer had thought to cook him up for dinner that Saturday. Two-Shot was still angry with Silver Tonsils, the rooster, for...

Two-Shot's very best friend was Mildew Scatterbrain, the scarecrow. Mildew stood in the middle of his field all day in all weather and throughout the seasons and the years. The wind pulled at his clothes and his straw filling. He got wet in the rain, and he got baked in the sun, yet he never complained. The mice who lived in his head tried to keep him stuffed with straw, but even that was soon lost from all of the holes in his clothes, which were falling to bits around him. Two-Shot felt sorry for him and decided, one day, that Mildew deserved to be better dressed. So that's what he did. He...