Andy jerked away from him that he might face him ragefully.
"Maybe this looks funny to you," he cried, husky with wrath.

"But I can't seem to see the joke, myself.

I admit I let then herders make a monkey of me....

They slipped up behind, going down into Antelope coulee, and slid down the bluff onto me; and, before I could get up, they got me tied, all right.

I licked one of 'en before that, and thought I had 'en gentled down--" Andy stopped short, silenced by that unexplainable sense which warns us when our words are received with cold disbelief.
"Mh-hm--I thought maybe you'd run up against a hostile jackrabbit, or something," Pink purred, and went back to his place on the bench.
"Haw-haw-haw-w-w!" came Big Medicine's tardy bellow.