“‘Chuckalucker town.’
“‘That’s in the song,’ says Johnny.
“‘Me, too,” says Ningapie. ‘It’s in the song. Ain’t you never heard it?’
“Ningapie! Ningapan!
He up an’ killed the Booger Man!
Ningapie, Ningapitch!
‘He’s the one to kill a witch.’
“Johnny wuz so took up wi’ the talkin’ an’ the singin’ of the little feller in the acorn that he didn’t hear his stepmammy when she come, an’ when he did hear her he wuz that skeered that he shook like a poplar-leaf.
“‘Watch out!’ says the little chap in the acorn. ‘Watch out! Be right still. Don’t move. I want to show you sumpin’.’
“‘She’ll skin me alive,’ says Johnny.