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BEANS FOR THE COOK
Excerped from "Tales from Texas Ranch Country" by Bill Goldwire

"The annual chore of shearing all of the three thousand sheep was in process at the corrals on the divide, and as always, unexpected problems began to arise. The camp cook had run out of beans. Tio saddles up Slinging Dick, his favorite mount because of his pleasing pace, and arrived at the headquarters down in the valley just about the time that his high school-aged son got home from school. The two of them chatted a few minutes while Tio filled a tin bucket about three-fourths full of frijole beans. Then returning to the corral, Tio saddled Slinging Dick, mounted and headed back to the shearing corrals in a vigorous trot. To the excitable horse, the can of beans rattled ominously like a snake. Dick lost his self-control and began bucking in earnest, attempting to rid himself of what seemed to be a rattlesnake riding on top of him. His penis extended full length and urine was slung everywhere. Tio hit the ground on his feel still holding the can of beans. With the can of rattling beans off his back, Dick became calm again. Tio led him back to the corral, put the beans into a cotton flour sack so that they would not rattle and returned to the shearing camp with no more problems." Or so the story goes...

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Story posted: May 14, 2007