Robbie The Tour Guide: 40 years ago I used to be a cowboy at the Gran Canarian Sioux City. I was shot and hung four times a day!
Dylan: How did you survive?
Robbie: We shot blanks – there were no pointy ends on the bullets, just the powder to make them go ‘bang!’.
Dylan: Did they just bounce off you then?
Robbie: They didn’t go anywhere, they just made the noise. And when I was hanged, I wore a parachute harness under my jacket – with a hook at the top.
Dylan: Did YOU have a gun?
Robbie: Yes – it was a real gun. I had to leave it behind, with my horse at the end of each day.
Dylan: What did the horse do with it?
Robbie: The horse went into the stables and I left the gun with my colleague, the sheriff. We were enemies during the day, but we were friends at the end of the day.
[Dylan looks perplexed]
Mum: He was acting, Dylan. It was his job to act – in a show about cowboys.
Dylan: Oh!
Robbie the Tour Guide teaching Dylan how to do the Canarian Whistle
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