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Pecos Bill

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Pecos Bill
giant folk hero famed for cowboy exploits. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 643]
See : Wild West


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The beer tents will be gone, cussin' and tobacco chewin' will be strongly discouraged, and there will be a prayer service at the church Sunday before the rodeo events begin -- something of a Billy Graham meets Pecos Bill kind of thing.
But when pawpaw grower Larry Rossi, a slender bespectacled man, presented me with a freshly picked pawpaw, it was clear that unless you were Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill, there was no way you could pick up pawpaws and put 'em in your pocket.
Pecos Bill, Bugs Bunny and Lampwick from ``Pinocchio'' all smoke.
 
 
 
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