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Amy Alden: [the ranger picks up Igor, one of Amy's goslings] Excuse me, sir, please leave him alone.
DNR Officer: Your name's Amy, isn't it? Well Amy, these geese belong to the crown.
Amy Alden: What crown?
DNR Officer: That's the Queen of England.
Thomas Alden: Pinioning?
Susan Barnes: I have no idea.
DNR Officer: She made rules. It's for the good of the goose, it's for the good of the people. Now what you do is you take the wing and you just shave a bit off the cuticle here--
[prepares to cut the tip off Igor's wing with a fingernail clipper]
Amy Alden: [utterly enraged] WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
[shoots up from her chair and hits the ranger on the head with a bowl of popcorn]
Amy Alden: STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
Thomas Alden: [indignantly grabs the ranger and hauls him to the door] What the hell are you doing?
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DNR Officer: Who's the guy at the house?
Amy Alden: It's my Uncle David. He's got a black belt. We call him KILLER!
Gladys O'Connor
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