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It was coming up on Roy Roger's birthday and Dale Evans wanted to buy him a very special birthday gift. So she went out and purchased him a $2000 pair of snakeskin cowboy boots. Came his birthday, he opened his package and tried them on. They fit like gloves, and, in fact, were the most comfortable pair of boots he had ever worn. He walked around, happy with her and prouder than a peacock.
Roy decided to saddle Trigger and go out for a ride in his new boots. The day was a warm one, and when he reached the pond in the back 40, he decided to take a swim. So he took off his boots, laid them very carefully aside, and took off the rest of his clothes, waded into the pond and went swimming.
Well, Roy wasn't all that good a swimmer, but more of a dog paddler. As he roamed around the pond, he looked over and, much to his surprise, saw a cougar gnawing on his boots. Shocked, he paddled over to the other side of the pond, got out, snuck over to Trigger, pulled his Winchester out of the stock and shot the cougar.
By that time, however, the cougar had made a complete mess of his brand new boots. So Roy put on the rest of his clothes, put the dead body of the cougar on Trigger and started walking back to the ranch house barefooted.
Well, I don't know how many Roy Rogers-Dale Evans movies you've ever seen, but, in the final scene, Dale is always on the porch as Roy approaches the ranch house. And so she was here. She takes a look at a barefooted Roy with his mangled boots in one hand and leading Trigger carrying the dead cougar with the other. And she says, "Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat who chewed your new shoes?"
