Read the excerpt from The People Could Fly.
Now the first time the buckras run Bruh Deer with the hounds, he didn't know nothin about them. And he just lie down in his
bed in the thicket on the edge of the broom-grass field. But here come the hounds, and Bruh Deer so afraid and so, he jump
and he run. And he gets away to the river first. Just as he ready to jump off the bluff above the river, he look down and see
Bruh Alligator's two big eyes come risin out of the water. Bruh Alligator just waitin for him!
Based on the details in this excerpt, which statement best describes the setting of the story?
It is an area near a small farming town in the present-day United States,
It is an area near a muddy swamp where many people live.
It is an area deep in the country where many wild animals live.
It is an area deep in a US forest sometime in the future.