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.

[!-- H2 anchor --]

THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL

At a roundup on the Gily,

One sweet mornin' long ago,