Field Mouse asks if the Bogey Man scares the children.
“Is this the person who always scares the children so?” asked the field mouse.
“No,” replied the Hoot Owl, who was the wisest of birds. “He is worse than that. He is the man who thinks that he knows how to play golf.”
“Hoot Owl,” whispered the Garter Snake, “you and Sly Fox must get rid of this terrible Bogey Man, who is all the time poking around our houses and making us uncomfortable.”
When the Bogey Man went to play golf in the pasture next day, he heard a hoarse voice away up in a tree.
“Hoot man, hoot!” said the voice. “It seems to me that you really do not know how to play golf.”
The Hoot Owl came down from the tree all dressed up in baggy, spotted clothes. He had a pipe in his beak and a big club in one claw.
“I’ll let you know,” replied the Bogey Man, “that I have had games with some of the very best players in the country, and besides that I can talk Scotch better than you can.”