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Why, right this minute there's a newspaper writer down to the village he's from New York and he's been stayin' to the Tavern ever since he come in this morning and asked for a room with a bath and he's goin' to write up the town. Yes sir-e-e the whole dad-blamed town!
"Jest a common, ordinary jug that's kinda got broke, somehow. Yes, sir-e-e, all broke up, as you might say!" His shrill cackle of a voice caught in his throat, and grew husky, and then broke entirely.
He was too intent on his plan to catch Reddy Fox. "I'm just going to hunt over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest until I get that fox!" said Farmer Brown's boy, and as he said it he looked very fierce, as if he really meant it. "I'm not going to have my chickens stolen any more! No, Sir-e-e!
"No, sir-e-e! After takin' stock of myself, as you might say, the way I done this morning, I wouldn't 'a' believed myself on oath!" His feet dropped noisily to the floor, and he sat bolt upright again. "But she's a-goin' to believe me! Godfrey, yes, she'll believe me when I git through tellin' her!" His pale eyes clung to the boy's face, tinged with astonishment before so much vehemence.
When he got out of th' hack last night at th' Forks, Uncle Ike he catched sight o' him an' says, says he t' me, 'Ba thundas! Lou, looky there! Talk 'bout prosperity. I'm dummed if there ain't ol' Santa Claus a comin' t' th' Forks in th' summa time. 'Ba thundas! What! "An' when Santa come in, he he wanted Now what d' you reckon he wanted? A BATH! Yes, sir-e-e. Dad burn me, 'f he didn't. A bath!
Then, anyway, I'm too stiff and sore to fight. And then, he has no business to think he owns the Old Pasture, because he doesn't. I have just as much right here as he has. Yes, Sir, I have just as much right in this Old Pasture as he has, and if he thinks he can drive me out he is going to find that he was never more mistaken in his life! I'll show him! Yes, Sir-e-e, I'll show him!
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