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The Old-Time Cowhand choose

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[US] R.F. Adams Old-Time Cowhand 321: ‘Pullin’ the badger’ got to be a standard joke ... it had to be pulled on an Easterner who knowed absolutely nothin’ bout the West ... they’d gather ’round ’im . . and begin talkin’ excitedly ’bout the comin’ badger fight ... Declarin’ they’d have to have some disinterested party, they’d begin lookin’ ’round and suddenly discover the greener ... some cowhand would give the new referee some advice as to how to pull the badger ... When they got to the place of the fight, there was the dog ... Nearby was the tub the badger was supposed to be under, and there was a rope runnin’ out some distance from beneath the tub ... When he [the ‘referee’] was ordered to ‘pull’ he gave the rope a hard yank jes’ as one cowhand tipped up the tub from the rear ... There was no badger on the end of the rope at all, . . . but . . . one of them vessels usually found under the bed at night.
at badger, n.2
[US] R.F. Adams Old-Time Cowhand 7: If, when he got to town, after long months out in the brush, on the lone prairie, or on the long, long trail, the cowboy cut his wolf loose and had a little fun, he could hardly be blamed. [Ibid.] 323: It was kinda natural that when he hit town after the roundup he cut his wolf loose and freighted his crop with likker.
at cut one’s wolf loose (v.) under cut loose, v.
[US] R.F. Adams Old-Time Cowhand (1989) 83: He learned to wear this hat at jes’ the right jack-deuce angle over his off eye.
at jack-deuce, adj.
[US] R.F. Adams Old-Time Cowhand 101: ’Bout the only mattress the cowhand knowed was the one at the cheap frontier hotel, stuffed with ‘prairie feathers [=straw],’ and knowed as ‘Missouri featherbeds.’ [DARE].
at Missouri featherbed (n.) under Missouri, adj.
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