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There are those who believe that old sayings are wise
because someone now dead said them or wrote then or carved them into
the cave walls a long time ago.
But it’s our journalistic duty to laugh at ones that are just
ridiculous.
Case in point “There’s something about the outside of a horse that’s
good for the inside of a man.”
Have you ever brushed the outside of a horse? I don’t mean just
getting the Cretaceous crust off him with a curry comb. I mean
getting a soft brush in there all the way to bedrock (or his skin)
whichever comes first.
Depending on where you live, you will find hidden in that soft brush
such things as yellow snow, goatheads, trail dust, horse slobber
from one of his corral mates that settled in and dried, and dead
grass. If you’re fortunate enough to share your world with bugs, you
might come across a cockroach corpse or two.
Protein!
With the benefit of hindsight, which occurs in mule packers with
great experience, such as myself, I figured out we weren’t supposed
to eat horse brushings, but absorb them into our souls, so we can
fool others into thinking we know a lot.
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One question here: How smart
does a horseman have to be to mount up on top of some mangy volcano
who’s dedicated to the random scattering of cowboy parts on at least
17 acres?
Of rocks.
But the final definition of being a real cowboy is then to sit up in
that convenient pile of cactus and horse manure and grin and say, “I
told you he was spirited!”
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
Brought to you by old
bunkhouse cowboys like Windy Wilson, who always have something to
say to enrich our lives. |
