They keep the country clean.Besides, there""s a law against killin"" buzzards.Hud (uncaring): Man, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner.And that""s what I try to do.Sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.Homer: I don""t like to break the law in my place, Hud.Hud: Well, she ain""t gonna sit up and tell us herself.Hud wants to sell them before they can be condemned by government inspectors: "You gonna let them shoot your cows out from under you on account of a schoolbook disease?" Homer rejects selling them: "That would run the risk of starting an epidemic.However, some of the eerie clocks, with simulated human animation, foreshadow he violence and bad behavior to come - an axeman chopping off a urkey""s neck, a hunter with a gun, a drunk, and a mother spanking her misbehaving child:a church tower bell "ding"-ing at the houra honeybee "buzz"-ing clockducks alternating their "quack"-inga mother bird "cuckoo"-ing with her three chicks in egg shellsa woodsman chopping a "gobble"-ing turkey""s necka hunter with a pop-gun shooting at a "peep"-ing yellow bird in a treea drunk "hiccupp"-ing from a windowa mother spanking the bare bottom of her "waa"-ing boy for spilling paintGeppetto""s stopwatch, with two beer drinkers "clink"-ing heir glass steins togetherGeppetto""s WishNow that it""s time for bed, Geppetto bids his puppet good night: "Little funny face.Without any expression of emotion or grief, Geoff reacts with matter-of-fact orders to "get he wagon, take along a big pair of shears in case you have to cut him out.]Relationships formed during filming would last for he remainder of Gregory Peck""s life -- he received the pocketwatch of Harper Lee""s father; he became the surrogate father to Mary Badham; and Brock Peters delivered Peck""s eulogy after his death in June of 2003.