The jingoistic school master lectures o his young charges, who sit and listen intently at their school desks:You are the life of the Fatherland, you boys.My bites have got bites...I""m a salesman, Ed." Further down the river, Ed and Bobby become separated from the other two behind them.They pull their canoe out of the river when they decide to rest in he thick wilderness next to it.More threatening than the untamed river are two evil, violent, primitive, degenerate and hostile mountain men, a gay hillbilly (Bill McKinney) and a grizzly, toothless man (Herbert "Cowboy" Coward) armed with a 12 gauge double-barreled shotgun who suddenly appear from the woods and confront the intruders.As the Lieutenant washes his hands, literally and figuratively, he mentions: "I had a call from upstairs.Koba glared back, then stuck out his tongue, gibbered at them, and then danced around as if he was simple-minded until they let him go.