A Little Cowboy Humor!

 An old cowpoke rode into town on his horse and seeing the streets nearly deserted, wondered what was going on. He went into the local saloon which too was almost deserted save for an old prospector sitting at the bar.

"Where is everybody, old timer?" the cowboy asked.

"Oh, they're all at the hanging today." he replied.

"A hanging? Whose being hung?" asked the dusty traveller in between drinks of his beer.

"Brown Paper Joe!" said the prospector.

"Brown Paper Joe?? Never heard of him!" said the cowpoke, "Why do they call him that??"

"Well", the old timer answered, "Because he wore a brown paper hat, a brown paper shirt, and brown paper trousers."

"Is that right??" said the cowboy in disbelief "That's the craziest get up I've ever heard of! But I guess there's no crime in that...so why are they hanging him?"

Replied the prospector with a wink....

"Rustling!"

(please, no groaning!) C);-)