Once around the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, two
U.S. Army Cavalry scouts, one white and the other Indian entered a
saloon for a drink. Shortly afterward, a guy walked into the
saloon and asked, "Any of you own that gray horse out there?" The white scout replied, "Yes, why do
you ask?" The guy replied, "Your horse looks like he's about ready to
pass out."
The scouts ran outside and the gray horse was indeed in dire
straits. The white scout got his horse some water and the gray horse looked a bit better. Then the white scout had an inspired idea.
The white scout said to his Indian companion, "Run around my horse
and try to create enough wind current to give him some relief."
Since he was naturally subservient to the authority of the white
man, the Indian scout had little difficulty acceding to this request. While he did this, the
white scout, smug in his arrogant feelings of superiority over the red man, went back
into the saloon and returned to his drink
A little bit later, a cowboy walked into the saloon and asked out
loud, "Who owns that gray horse? The white scout answered, "I do. Anything wrong with him?"
The cowboy answered, "You left your injun running."
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