Tall Tales
Three cowboys are sitting
around a campfire, out on a lonesome Texas prairie, each with the bravado for
which cowboys are famous. A night of tall tales begins.
The first one says, "I must be the meanest, toughest cowboy there is. Why,
just the other day a bull got loose in the corral and gored six men before I
wrestled it to the ground by the horns with my bare hands."
The second cowboy can't stand to be bested. "Why that's nothing. I was
walking down the trail yesterday and a fifteen-foot rattlesnake slid out from
under a rock and made a move for me. I grabbed that snake with my bare hands,
bit its head off and sucked the poison down in one gulp. And I'm still here
today."
The third cowboy remained silent, silently stirring the coals with his hands