We tighten the circles and still expect miracles to happen, and happen they will, but probably won't.
I don't hold much store in folk lore and none at all in fables.
Saturday at the 'Ponderosa' (in black and white) when the steers have been steered clear and the 'High Chaparral' has sunk the boys'll get drunk on mescal and mix with the senoritas who'll give them the cold shoulders, boys never learn, do they?