botheration

“Hmm, hmm, me Lord Abbot Cedric. It is Cedric, isn’t it? Oh botheration, you’ll be the new Abbot, Mortimer, the one who came after Cedric. Oh dear me, I see so many of them come and go, you know. Hmm, hmm, me Lord Abbot Mortimer and members of Redwall, I refer to a record of winter, six years back.”

But he never wants to stop taking the mic, at the Comedy Store or across the country, and churning his botheration into laughs.

“Y’all got a colored doctor down there. Don’t be bringin’ all this botheration to me.”

“Don’t ever do that to me again! That’s about all the botheration a body can stand for one day!”

“Blast anil botheration!” exclaimed Digory.