"You're a fine pair of ring- tailed snorters, ain't y'u?" jeered the foreman.

'Well,' Ted went on, 'he's a ring- tailed snorter.

"I guess ol' Dan's the idee, if you can drive him; he's a ring- tailed snorter."

"It's a ring- tailed snorter, hamstring me if it hain't," said Big Pete in an attempt to be enthusiastic.