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Patrick "Tommy" Tucker is one of the survivors of that golden age and he tells a few rambling recollections in this delightful little book. It has nothing in common with the trash of Hollywood "Westerns," except that old friend, the word "hoss." Tucker's active life-time spanned the roaring decades of the old West: his life was so packed with Indian fights, shootings and hangings of horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental...
...camp on Red Hoss Mountain, where the boys 'II treat you white...
...leather bound covering: OLD BILL IS DEAD Old Bill has died and gone away, Over the "Great Divide." Gone to a place where the preachers say Both saint and sinner will abide. If they "check his brand" like I think they will It's a runnin' hoss they'll give to Bill And some good wild steers till he gets his fill. With a great big crowd for him to thrill. Bill's hide was black but his heart was white, He'd sit up through the coldest night To help a "doggie...
...from Maine: harrse, larf. Bostonian: hoss, lough. Texan: hawse, lawf...
...Lampoon prose is uneven. It is probably an inevitable failure, but nevertheless a fact. Just-So Stories for Little Sots makes no pretense of doing more than riding the pun pretty hard, and comes off a winner. Little Peggy and the Old Album mounts a spirited hoss, which does well enough for the first lap, but he hasn't much wind...