Log of a Cowboy 269: The dealer has lowered the limit from a hundred to fifty, for old Paul is playing them as high as a cat’s back.at higher than a cat’s back, adj.
Log of a Cowboy 269: The dealer has lowered the limit from a hundred to fifty, for old Paul is playing them as high as a cat’s back.
Log Of A Cowboy 360: The old gent knew a thing or two about horses.
Log Of A Cowboy 275: The horse of some peeler, working with one of Shanghai Pierce’s herds, acted up one morning and fell backward with him.
Log of a Cowboy 125: That style of dress is what you call lo and behold.
Log of a Cowboy 228: To june a herd of cattle across in this manner would have been shameful.
Log Of A Cowboy 34: Your letter would hang him as sure as hell’s hot.
Log of a Cowboy 81: The family were these razorbacked, barnyard savages.
Log Of A Cowboy 280: She asked me to make the bear sign – doughnuts, she called them.
Log of a Cowboy 380: Then with a few drinks under my belt and a rim-fire cigar in my mouth.
Log Of A Cowboy 125: I can’t quite make out this other duck, but I reckon he’s some big auger – a senator or governor, maybe.
Log Of A Cowboy 334: A shave was two bits and a drink the same.
Log of a Cowboy 355: There were about a dozen entries and only one blackbird in the covey.
Log Of A Cowboy 355: There were about a dozen entries and only one blackbird in the covey.
Log Of A Cowboy 81: Are you sure you was n’t running a blazer yourself, or is it the wind merely rising?
Log of a Cowboy 127: That fellow in front of the drug store over there, with the hard-boiled hat on.
Log Of A Cowboy 362: And did you notice the pock-marked colonel, baring his brisket to the morning breeze?
Log Of A Cowboy 24: The Rebel and I were bunkies.
Log of a Cowboy 37: I [...] put spurs to my horse, so that when they reached the brow of the hill, I was half a mile in the lead, burning the earth like a canned dog.
Log Of A Cowboy 123: As he helped himself to a third piece of ‘fried chicken’ (bacon).
Log Of A Cowboy 357: These old pioneers naturally hung together and visited and chummed with one another.
Log Of A Cowboy 182: I don’t care a continental who wins the egg now.
Log Of A Cowboy 102: This cow town had the reputation of setting the pace that left the wayfarer purseless and breathless.
Log of a Cowboy 260: He was the first one to suggest we made up a ‘cow’ and let him try his luck at monte [...] I willingly consented and contributed my five to the general fund. [Ibid.] 385: We [...] made up a cow by putting in five apiece and had Officer play it on faro.
Log Of A Cowboy 203: They wanted to come back on me to make them good, but, shucks! I wasn’t responsible if their Jim Crow outfit lost the cattle.
Log of a Cowboy 356: Some of those good people did n’t have any better manners than to hiss and cut up ugly.
Log Of A Cowboy (1965) 81: Any time that you have the leisure and want to shoot me, just cut loose your dog.
Log of a Cowboy 128: He looked me in the eye and said, ‘You’re a G-- d--- liar’.
Log Of A Cowboy 197: That’s another damn lie.
Log of a Cowboy 227: Slaughter’s darky cook.
Log of a Cowboy 380: McCann was transferred to the hurricane deck of a cow horse.