stirring
 

Three cowboys were seated around the campfire out on the
lonesome sagebrush prairie and, with the pride for which
these men were famous; it was a night of bravado, a night of
tall tales..

Tom, the hand from Wyoming says, 'I must be the strongest,
meanest, toughest cowboy there is. Why, just the other
day, a bull got loose in the corral. It had gored six men
before I wrestled it to the ground by the horns with my bare
hands and castrated that sucker with my teeth.'

Ben, from Colorado , couldn't stand to be bested.. That's
nothing, 'I was walking down the trail yesterday and a 15
foot diamondback rattler slid out from under a rock and made
a move for me. I grabbed that bastard with my bare hands,
bit off its head, and sucked the poison down in one gulp and
didn't even get a belly ache.'

Bronco Steve, the old cowboy from West Texas , who flew Marine Corps
F-4's in ' Nam , remained silent, slowly stirring the campfire
coals with
his
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