[Cariboo]

Three cowboys are sitting around the campfire out

on the lonesome prairie; with the bravado for which

each is famous, it is a night of tall tales.



Tim, the guy from Alberta 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.'



J.P.,the guy from Manitoba , couldn't stand to be bested. That's nothing, 'I was walking down the trail yesterday

and a fifteen foot diamondback rattler slid out from under

a rock and made a move for me.

I grabbed that bastard with my bare hands, bit its head

off and sucked the poison down in one gulp and didn't even get a belly ache.'



Ray, the cowboy from Saskatchewan remained silent, slowly stirring the campfire coals with his pecker.