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Lobey Dosser - His Life Story.

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Panel01: baby in a bib with dummy and baby bonnet, [When I was six weeks auld I decided tae run awa' tae sea … I could speak awfy weel by that time, tae….]Baby Lobey: “Nuts tae this! I'll run awa' the night an' get a job as a sailor ….”

Panel02: tiny baby with possesions in a hanky on a stick on the quay at the side of ship with a single port hole and rigging with a sailor looking over the gunwhale. [So next morning at Plantation Quay.]Baby Lobey: “Ony chance o' a job as a sailor, Mac?.” Sailor: "What age are ye?" Baby Lobey: "Six weeks…." Sailor: "Aye, aye, mate, come aboard."

Panel03: Baby stands on the boat deck knee height to the sailor with bare feet, striped breeches, a large stick in his belt and a bandana around his head.Baby Lobey: "Whaur's yer boat goin' tae Jack?" Sailor: "The Caribbean - we sail tonight!"

Panel04: On the deck of the boat, baby in the foreground, in the background before the mast a man with a peg leg, belt with stick and hands drawn as shovels who waves them about and shouts.[It wisnae until efter the boat sailed that I discovered it had a brutal captain called 'Black' Swite … He was ten feet tall an' had haun's on him like shovels ….] Captain: "Avast there, ye dogs! Splice the fo'c'sle and run out the mizzen mast if you can find it for it's been mizzen since last Tuesday … Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle o' rum!"

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[Ridin through the streets o Laredo by courtesy o Paramount picters wan efternoon I stopped an bought mysel a new rig-oot…]
Lobey: “All I've got to do now is walk bow leggit an they'll think I'm Tom Mix … Here, a bloke goin tae speak tae us Elfie….”

Whisk E Glorr: “Howdy pardner.” Lobey: "Howdy pardner! Reckon it's mighty fine weather we do bin havin lately … shore is … spit …."

Whisk E Glorr: “What outfit ye ridin for pardner?” Lobey: "Nary a one, pardner, nary a one … spit …."

Whisk E Glorr: “I am Whisky E. Glorr owner of the Lazy Z … I could use a good man … can yo'all punch cows pardner?” Lobey: "I yo'all can pardner." Whisk E Glorr: “Yore hired pardner!” Lobey: "Thanks, pardner."

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[I was soon punching cows for the Lazy Z ranch…] Lobey: “Take that!” Bash!

[Efter I'd punched every coo in sight I went up tae the cook hoose for ma tea…]
Cow-boy01: “Howdy pardner!” Cow-boy02: "Yore the noo puncher ah reckon?" Lobey: “Shore am! 'Bronco' Dosser they call me… . Howdy!” Cook: “Here's yore chow, boys!”

[When I seen the lassie that brung in wur tea ma legs a' turned tae watter - me that's never even looked at a girl, neither … of coorse I was young then an no a bad lookin chap if I say it masel.]
Adoda: “Howdy! Yore the noo hand?” Lobey: “Glubber glubber, glubber glubber … yes mam …” blush!

[Once I got my breath back – an efter the ither coo punchers had went – I asked the lassie her name… Ma hert was goin like the big drum in the Govan Burgh Baun'….]
Lobey: “My names Lobey - whit's yours, please?” Adoda: “Adoda - I am mister Glorr's daughter.”

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The town in the background with a fat cowboy beside Lobey in the foreground while townsfolk of all shapes look on behind. [In a couple o weeks we were a' settled doon in Calton Creek….] Cow-boy01: “The place is feenished noo… post office, shoe maker, grocer, butcher, stables, gambler, gun-smith, plumber, saloon an' a jile. A' we need noo is a sheriff. "Onlooker 01: "There's naebuddy tae bate Lobey. Lobey'll be the sheriff.” Onlooker 02: "We want Lobey." Onlooker 03: "Lobey's the wee boy!"

Lobey sitting at his desk with a sharpened pencil, oil lamp and wanted posters behind. […An so it was I became the sheriff o' Calton Creek.]

Rank in his black hat, black coat shoestring tie and black facemask winks and wags a finger. […wi Rank Bajin as resident villain.] Rank Bajin.: "Hee Hee Hee"

Beside a cactus in the desert with butes silhouetted behind the GI bride stands dressed in a great coat and hat with her thunb out hitch hiking with an army kit bag beside her with GI Bride writ on it and a baby in a baby bonnet with dummy swaddled in a blanket in her other arm. [… An the hitch-hiker always somewhere aboot tryin tae thumb a ride hame… .] The GI Bride: "Pertick?"