From the way they've been letting sheep on our land, time and time again, I'd gamble he's just trying to make us so mad we'll break out.

He's got it in for the whole outfit, from the Old Man and the Little Doctor down to Slim.

If any of us boys got into trouble, the Old Man would spend his last cent to clear us; and Dunk knows that just as well as he knows the way from the house to the stable.

He'd see to it that it would just about take the Old Man's last cent, too.

And he's using these Dot sheep like you'd use a red flag on a bull, to make us so crazy mad we'll kill off somebody.
"That's why," he said to them all when he saw that they had ridden up close that they might hear what he was saying, "I've been hollering so loud for the meek-and-mild stunt.