" Do you know, Caroline,” Pa stopped singing to say, “I’ve been thinking what fun the rabbits will have, eating that garden we planted.”
“Don’t, Charles,” Ma said.
“Never mind, Caroline!” Pa told her. “We’ll make a better garden. Anyway, we’re taking more out of Indian Territory than we took in.”
“I don’t know what,” Ma said, and Pa answered, “Why, there’s the mule! "

― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)