Mr. Owl:

This is too much! I’ll stand no more, I vow!

Defend yourself!

Mr. Bear (looking out of hollow tree):

Come, neighbors, stop that row!

What you’re about I’m sure I cannot think.

I only know I have n’t had one wink

Of sleep. Indeed, I’ve borne it long enough.

’T would put the mildest temper in a huff;