But I have a horrible feeling that you farmers think you have caught a city ignoramus and that it is your duty to stuff me with the tallest stories you can invent.
Please set me right.

If you are stuffing me the joke is certainly on me, for these incredible tales seem true: if they are true the joke is doubly on me.

As I am the butt, either way, don't be too hard on me: Please set me right." They chorused at him that they had all heard the story, most of them soon after the marvel took place; that they had always believed it, and believed it then.

I corroborated Hirnio's exactitude as to all the details..