Then it's dollars to dimes I'm throwed.
For a man is a man, but he's partly a beast.
He kin brag till he makes you deaf,
But the one lone brute, from the west to the east,
That he kaint quite break is himse'f.
THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL
At a roundup on the Gily,
One sweet mornin' long ago,