The sufferer told him the whole circumstance, and says, 'Now yonder's the hole, and if you don't believe me, go and look for yourself.' So this fellow went and looked, and comes back and says, 'How many did you say you put in there ?' 'Not any less than two tons,' says the sufferer.

The other jay went and looked again.

He couldn't seem to make it out, so he raised a yell, and three more jays come.

They all examined the hole, they all made the sufferer tell it over again, then they all discussed it, and got off as many leather-headed opinions about it as an average crowd of humans could have done.
"They called in more jays; then more and more, till pretty soon this whole region 'peared to have a blue flush about it.

There must have been five thousand of them; and such another jawing and disputing and ripping and cussing, you never heard.