Word: shoat
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...legendary gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke's daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. "The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious...Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about...
...legendary gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...
...legendary gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...
...raised it to the level of myth, used it to paint his scenery. It is no accident that Lonesome Dove begins, "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one ... 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.'" The gritty particularity of the snake, the pigs and McCrae's irritation start things off right. It is acceptable for Augustus to be a hero--which he is, flat out--if his stage is a ridiculous outpost...
...stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake...