“Don’t talk to me, ole hoss!” snapped Mistah Mule. “You got ’nuff to ’tend to if you only minds your own bus’ness.”
Old Ebenezer said no more. But he chuckled to himself when Farmer Green came and led Mistah Mule away.
He chuckled again when Mistah Mule came back a little later, holding his head very high.
“I showed ’em!” Mistah Mule brayed loudly. “I done pulled the load an’ those no-account bays too.”
Farmer Green told the hired man he was never so surprised in his life.
THE END
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.