Description: The strange-looking Bone cousins visit Barrelhaven with their friends Thorn and Grandma Ben. Phoney Bone, who usually causes trouble, does so again in these six chapters. He tries to swindle the villagers by fixing the annual Great Cow Race. While the race is underway, Fone Bone, who has wandered off to the woods, is chased by two giant rat creatures that have been after the Bones since their arrival in the valley, but they don't know why. Grandma Ben knows something, though, and makes ominous references to a past war with the rat creatures and a treaty that is being tested.