Bel. My mother said to come home when the table had begun to be set. I’ve got my new boots on (looking down), and I stepped in the mud with ’em.
(Dan, in catching a fly, knocks down Benny’s book.)
Benny (picking it up). What are you trying to do?
Lulu. We saw a cow, and ran across the street; and Bel stepped in the mud (wiping it off Bel’s boots).
Bel. ’Twas a hooking cow.
Benny. Ho! run for a cow! ’Fore I’d run for a cow!
Dan (swooping off a fly). It doesn’t take much to scare girls.
Benny (finding his place). I know it: anybody could do that.
Agnes. He couldn’t scare us; could he, Lulu?
Benny. Don’t you believe I could make you run? Boo, boo! (Jumps at them.)