25 POiNts Read the excerpt from The People Could Fly.

Now the first time the buckras run Bruh Deer with the hounds, he didn't know nothing about them. And he just lies 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 jumps and he runs. And he gets away to the river first. Just as he ready to jump off the bluff above the river, he looks down and sees Bruh Alligator's two big eyes come rising out of the water. Bruh Alligator just waiting 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.