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"Makes me think uh that time we had the ringtailed tiger in camp," sighed Andy Green, shaking sand out of the teakettle so that it could be refilled. "By golly, I'd ruther have a whole band uh tagers than this fighting bunch," Slim affirmed earnestly. Slim was laboring sootily with the stove-pipe which Patsy had struck askew with a stick of wood.
He'll sulk in a minute," laughed the Texan, and true to the prophecy, the horse ceased his efforts and stood with legs wide apart and nose to the ground. "Whoopee!" "He's a ringtailed woozoo!" "Thumb him!" "Scratch him!" The crowd laughed and advised, and the cowboy thumbed and scratched, but the broncho's only sign of animation was a vicious switching of the tail.
What an experience it would be today to rouse one of those remarkable individuals from his dreaming, as Davy Crockett did, with an oar, and hear him howl "Halloe stranger, who axed you to crack my lice?" to tell him in his own lingo to "shut his mouth or he would get his teeth sunburnt" to see him crook his neck and neigh like a stallion to answer his challenge in kind with a flapping of arms and a cock's crow to go to shore and have a scrimmage such as was never known on a gridiron and then to resolve with Crockett, during a period of recuperation, that you would never "wake up a ringtailed roarer with an oar again."
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