“What message?”
“The one we came to bring.”
“Say, be you tryin’ to make fun of me?”
“No, sir,” says Catty, “we wouldn’t make fun of anybody. We wouldn’t know how. Honest.... All we want to do is give our message and get paid for it, and go back. We’re in a hurry, we are. We aim to go fishin’.”
“You’ll fish when I git through with you,” says the man.
“Yes, sir,” says Catty, as meek as Moses.
“How’d you git in here?”
“Jest walked.”
“Nobody try to stop you?”
“What ’ud anybody stop us for?” says Catty, all full of surprise. “We come on business.”