Once upon a Time Way out West Texas there was a cowboy named Tex right down the trail and he saw a great vague clump of Cholla cactuses are right on the side of the trail. Now Tex stopped right there and just looked at that Cholla cactus, he rolled a Bull Durham cigarette. He sat there at the side of the trail destroyed his horse just looking at that Cholla cactus. The longer he looked a better look in that cactus became. He finished his Bull Durham cigarette, and finally decided that that was the most beautiful Cholla cactus he had never seen. So he climbed down off Old Paint his horse and through the bull Durham cigarette down on the trail and stomped it out. That cactus looked even better and better it looks so good he just couldn’t resist it anymore.

With any took off all his clothes and jumped headfirst right into that big batch of Cholla cactus. Of course right away all the cactus prickers stuck right into him.

While Tex was down to that patch of Cholla cactus ahooting and ahollering and thrashin around in the cactus along came to his Old Buddy Slim right down the trail behind him. Slim said whoa to his horse, rolled himself a bull Durham cigarette, lit it and sat there just watching Tex thrash around in those cactuses. It was an awful sight to behold; and Tex was awhooping and ahowling something awful and thrashin around in the cactus patch. Slim just sat there on his horse smoking his cigarette watching Tex. After he finished his cigarette he threw it down on the trail. Just about that time Tex came acrawling up out of the cactus patch all cutup and bruised and bleeding all over with so many cactus prickers sticking out of his hide he looked like porcupine full of quills.

Slim just sat there and watched this apparition come creeping up the side of the trail and onto the trail he was such an awful sight that even Slim couldn’t believe who it was.

He looked down at Tex, and shook his head. Finally he said the Tex, “Tex, what in hell ever made you do such a damned fool stunt as that?”

About this time Tex wasn’t feelin any too good, so he looked up at Slim and said, “Well Slim, it seemed like a damn fine idea at the time!”

Now I don’t know quite what the moral of this story is, but I suspect that it is probably what looks really good isn’t necessarily so. And, just don’t go about jumping into something like that without looking first.