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Thread #7295 Message #3882025
Posted By: Amos
13-Oct-17 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I Ride An Old Paint
Subject: RE: Origins: I Ride An Old Paint
I have always thought that "the fiery and the snuffy" referred to two kinds of cow-personalities--the kind that are always heading off on a tangent and uncooperative (fiery) and the kind that lag behind smelling the roses and delaying the herd (the snuffy). I expect this is just ill-informed imagination on my part, though.
I have always sung "two daughters and a song". "One went to Denver, and the other went wrong."