Gander [to Drake]. Listen to him, glorying in it!
Farmer Giles. Oh ay, they had a grand mending of it. They filled it and rolled it, and they filled it and they rolled it, and they filled it and they rolled it, and then, they filled it and they rolled it again.
Bailiff. And they've made a good job of it, too.
Gander [to Drake]. Let's show him we don't like it.
[They stand in the middle of the road and flap and hiss and quack.
Bailiff. Those birds are intolerable.
Farmer Giles [smiling]. I expect they're looking for their puddle, poor things. They was always splashing about in it.
Bailiff. Then they'll have to do without it, that's all. [Gander comes up near him and flaps at him. Bailiff unties hobby horse.] That's a vicious gander of yours, Farmer Giles. He nearly drowned my children the other day. It really isn't safe.
Farmer Giles. Ah, the little uns was teasing of him, I daresay. It'll do them no harm to be learned how to behave in the farmyard.