And if you don't believe me, all you have to do is to look at the sporting-records.
Whitey was greatly disappointed when Single was driven out of the bunk house.

He wanted to hear the rest of that story about the third wife's half brother.

So Whitey went after Single, and tried to coax him to come back.
And the other punchers were sorry that they had been so hasty, for they wanted to see how far Single's imagination would carry him.
Whitey had heard an old yarn about a parrot in a mining camp.

A magician was giving a performance at the camp, and after every trick the miners would say, "I wonder what he's going to do next ?" One of them was smoking, a spark fell in a keg of powder, and blew the camp away from that place.

The parrot landed a quarter of a mile off, most of his feathers gone, his cage was a wreck.