Victor “Grumpy” Bung

Victor Bung or “Grumpy,” as the Beetle children call him, is the wittiest of the bunch. He may have been around for The Great Syrup Flood back in 1887, but he’s still smart as a whip. After his chores of hacking firewood and shearing the sheep bangs, he sits on his thinking stump. With a whistle weed between his teeth, he looks over the farm and tries to remember what it felt like to run between the hay barrels as a young boy. He tries to remember the taste of his mother's rye bread, the smell of his father’s clove cigarettes, and when the farm existed only as Bung Farm.