"I'm somebody," the owl informed him. "I live here; and I'll be disgusted if you go to tearing my house to pieces."
XV
BENNY AND THE OWL
Benny Badger smiled at the owl. He thought he must be fooling.
"You're a joker, aren't you?" said Benny. "But I never should have thought it—you look so glum."
The owl seemed somewhat displeased.
"I've never made a joke yet," he declared, "though I've no doubt I could, if I should ever want to."
Benny Badger glanced from the owl to the hole, and then back again at the strange fellow.
"You don't mean to say you live here, in this hole?" Benny exclaimed.