Q: What are threats to the prairie ecosystem?

A: First the missionaries arrive, preaching their God and thumping their bible. Once they get enough followers, they need to build a church.

Someone needs to build that church, so carpenters roll into town, and these men need places to live, and places to eat and places to drink and places to "unwind," if you catch my drift.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about brothels.

Those gals need places to live and eat and play as well, so soon a whole town, full of businesses, and full of businessmen, has sprung up all around that little old church.

Now these businessmen are raking in money, hand over fist, and they need a place to keep it, so they open a bank. Now, once there's a bank, that means there must be someone to protect it. That means men with guns, walking the streets, shooting those deemed "criminal."

Well, the town can't just have outlaws walking the streets, accusing each other of thievery and shooting each other dead all day and all night. They need law. They need order. So they set up a proper government, with laws and courts and officials.

Soon, they're passing all kinds of laws. Soon they're making laws saying you can't shoot a man in the back, or steal a  horse because it reminds him of his dead wife. Before long, they're telling a man that he can't dress his children up and make them perform Twelfth Night for weeks on end. They'll even go so far as to tell a man  he can't make sweet, tender love to his own daughter, no matter how attractive she may be.

As you can see, the greatest threat to our ecosystem is man. That's why you mustn't leave the house. Ever.

Now, why don't you go along and put on that pretty new dress I bought you.

And we'll pick it up with Act IV, Scene One. Enter Sebastian and the Fool.

Go get your mother out of the stable. She'll want to see this.