Yes, I got thrown by this durn bull on account of that whippersnapper o'er there shootin' off his irons like a dadgum fool. No, I ain't happy about it nowise.

Gabby Hayes - real name, George Francis Hayes - was the perennial sidekick in the Western genre. The grizzled old guy with the colorful vocabulary. He was the inspiration for the "Blazing Saddles" routine on the left - something the audience might get in the 70s. Today? Nah.

Note: a nod to the artist, the remarkable Dick Giordano - seen here before he moved on to DC.