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This next one is
about Phil Statler,

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who we all bought cows
from or sold cows to

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at different times.

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I'm reminded of another
story about Phil,

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when there used to
be a restaurant where

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the jail is now, and Phil
Statler was a great big fella.

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He's still alive,
and apparently, he

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wanted to get a fellow's girl.

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The fellow was selling
jewelry, so they went out

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to look at the jewelry.

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And Phil Statler just
picked up the fellow

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who was selling the jewelry and
put him in the trunk of the car

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and took his girl away.

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That is a very direct--

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there is a sort of
directness to manners

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of the cowboy in that area.

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Phil Statler had a bunch
of cows sold to Ted Robb,

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but some of the
cows got the jimmies

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from eating poisoned weed
and was trembling and shaking

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and about to die.

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"I'll buy every
son of a bitch that

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walks off the trucks
alive," Ted Robb said.

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Well, about 40 of them
walked off the trucks

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and lay down and died.

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Old Ted got mad and
didn't want to pay.

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"I thought you'd take
every son of a bitch that

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walked off the trucks alive?"

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Phil Statler said.

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They may have walked
off, Ted Robb said,

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but they was dead sons of
bitches while they was walking.

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Now, that's practical poetry.

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I mean, that's what I
like about the people

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there in the country.

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There's no fooling around.

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If Ted Robb could say
that convincingly enough,

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it would have saved
him some number

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of $1,000 because
Phil Statler would

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have had to take the
pressure off him to keep

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those cattle that were
walking while they were dead,

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dead while they were walking.

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So that's an example of how a
rural place, an area like that,

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creates its own language
and its own power.

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