“I was laughin’ at you that time,” he remarked.
XXIII
A PLAN GOES WRONG
Turkey Proudfoot was terribly angry when Mistah Mule laughed at him.
“Why did you do that?” he demanded.
“’Cause you thinks you’s the boss ’round here,” said Mistah Mule. “But you has to do just as Farmer Green tells you.”
“I don’t believe you’ve ever seen me fight,” Turkey Proudfoot retorted. “I can whip all the other gobblers on the farm.”
“Maybe! Maybe!” Mistah Mule replied. “But kin you whip Farmer Green?”
“Can you?” Turkey Proudfoot asked.
“I kin kick him plumb across the barn floor,” Mistah Mule chuckled. “Kin you do that?”
Turkey Proudfoot knew that he couldn’t. But he wouldn’t actually say so.