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...trouble the farm."
"Well, young fella, times were hard for a spell. Almost every night them danged foxen were raiding my henhice."
"Excuse me, sir," I interjected. "Don't you mean foxes?"
"Nope, I don't," Pluribus replied. "I use oxen to plow my fields, so it's foxen that I'm trying to get rid of."
"I see. But what are henhice?" I asked.
"Easy. One mouse, two mice; one henhouse, two henhice. You must be one of them city slickers, but surely you know that henhice are what them birds live in that, when they're little critters, they utter all them peep."
"I think I'm beginning to understand you, Mr. Pluribus. But...
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