Waylon:
"Well... I'll tell you what happened but danged if I know what I saw... I was headin' out to put m'shovel back in the shed when I hear this funny singin' goin' on, like sailor songs. Comin' from the shed! I go in for a closer look and sure 'nough, some fellla with one eye is gettin' hisself drunk in there, singing 'bout 'Yah-hoo-hoo and a bottle of gin!' or some such thing."

"Well, I start tellin' him I don't need no fellas singin' sea songs in m'shed and how I might want anyone doing such to leave, and so he does. But he stole two of m'chickens on his way out!"

(Jones):
"That's a real dang mystery, right here in our own town! You know, that story has me thinkin' on a few days ago, out at ol' Bob Tater's place..."