now working for this farmer was a man who, although he was actually quite jollified and amiable most of the time, had a very short temper. his name was arthur a. chester, and he was quite fond of wearing his pink superman suit (which his dear mother had made for him many years before for halloween) with his top hat, and also of the colors orange and purple, as well as hot free-tos. another of his hobbies was attending carnivals, where he enjoyed riding the merry-go-round with his friends carny and joey. mr. chester's job was to remove the tops from farmer squashbuckle’s carrots. now although this job appears to be quite simple, mr. chester labored quite heavily indeed, and was prone to get thirsty quite often. thus he was called the thirsty topper. many times, to quench his thirst, mrs. squashbuckle provided for him cans of v8. but mr. chester really, to be quite honest, hated v8. coke, cherry coke, cherry pepsi, mountain dew, lemonade, carbonated orange juice, even carbonated water for pete's sake, anything was better than this horrible v8 mrs. squashbuckle continued to give him. so mr. chester vowed that if he was forced to drink one more can of v8, he would come after the squshbuckles’ daughters, jovannafer and megara cordelia, and stab them twenty-nine times with a butter knife (fifteen in the head and the rest in the heart), then set his killer pink snake upon them (who, by the way, was named ichabod, which means "the glory hath departed"). therefore, they were quite frightened. mr. chester very nearly fulfilled his vow, too. but thankfully farmer squashbuckle stepped in and decided that, instead of continually giving the topper v8, mrs. squashbuckle would give him dr. pepper, which mr. chester agreed was much better indeed. so now jovannafer and megara cordelia no longer had cause to worry, and everyone was once again happy. in fact, they all lived happily ever after to the end of their days.