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Strongest - Meanest - Toughest

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 Manitoba 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 Alberta, 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 barehands, bit off its head, and sucked the poison down in one gulp
and didn't even get a belly ache."

Old Fred, the cowboy from Salmon Arm, remained silent, slowly stirring the
campfire coals with his pecker.