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All the World's a Scenario
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.
—Duke Senior,
As You Like It
, Act 2, Scene 7, he Forest
Roy Ferguson, a tall hound of a Tennessean, arrived at the dress rehearsal decked out in
a fluorescent orange sweatshirt and a tan vest covered with flaps and pockets, gadgets and
badges. He looked like an ideal Boy Scout troop leader: geeky and capable of goofy humor,
yet stern enough to keep high jinks at bay, and with a handy tool to fix any problem. He
stood inside the wood line on a misty winter morning, briefing a laconic dog handler from
Florida. A young pit bull terrier, dark brindle with ghostly amber eyes, stood at the handler's
side, her sheriff K9 vest providing the only bulk on her slender body.
