Fatty had slipped down his tree to the ground; and now he looked down
into the creek. It was just as Jimmy said. Fatty had never thought of it
before, but the black patch of short fur across the upper part of his
face made him look exactly like a robber.

"Come on!" said Jimmy. "We can't play the game without you."

"Well--all right!" said Fatty. He began to feel proud of his mask. "What
shall I do?"

"You wait right here," Jimmy ordered. "Hide behind that tree. We'll go
into the woods. And when we come back past this spot you jump out and
say 'Hands up!' ... You understand?"

"Of course!" said Fatty. "But hurry up! Don't be gone long."

"Leave that to us," said Jimmy Rabbit. He winked at his brother; and
they started off together.

Fatty Coon did not see that wink. If he had, he wouldn't have waited
there all the afternoon for those Rabbit brothers to return. They never
came back at all. And they told everybody about the trick they had
played on Fatty Coon. For a long time after that wherever Fatty went the
forest-people called "Robber!" after him. And Jasper Jay was the most
annoying of all, because whenever he shouted "Robber!" he always laughed
so loudly and so long. His hoarse screech echoed through the woods. And
the worst of it was, everybody knew what he was laughing at.