 Oh, what a flimsy excuse. Well, like those who were invited to the king's supper, one of them said, well, I bought a piece of land. I got to go see about it. Well, I wonder where the land was going to go. He couldn't drift off nowhere. No. He said, I got to go check on my land. Well, he said, beg me be excused. Then he come to the other fellow and he said, well, I done bought me a five-yoke oxen.