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According to a recent report, the Ratty’s noon lunch rush is nowhere near as bad as the stampede of cattle into the paddock when the supper bell tolls.
“If you think this line is long, you should watch all 76 of my Aberdeen Angus Steer squeeze through the six-foot wide wooden gate at the ranch when I ring that supper bell,” reported Callie Wilder, student and Idaho cowgirl, clipping on her spurs and tossing her braid aside. “It’s like I always say: If the ground ain’t rumblin’, then the herd ain’t big! Get me my lasso, and I’d have these folks rounded in two shakes of a lamb’s tail!”
“At the Ratty, we’re all pilin’ in here for some rice and dry chicken, and you can tell nobody’s too excited,” reported Wilder, straightening the belt buckle she won at a rodeo back home, “but when we put a fresh pile of hay in the trough for the cows, woah Nellie, do they come runnin’! Bessie ain’t ever last in line for a fresh pile of chow.”
At press time, Wilder reported that her classes ain’t as difficult as the studyin’ she did when her Poultry Trivia Team made it to Nationals in 2019.
