Lash La Rue Western #61

Lash La Rue suspects the stage robbery isn't what it seems, and he skips the posse to follow his hunch—a decision that costs him the townsmen's respect. When a clever ruse designed to leave the bank unguarded is exposed, Lash's instincts prove right, and the real thieves fall into his hands while the official posse hunts empty trails.

A portly fellow and his friend clash over the need for better fitness—until the friend challenges him to prove his fighting prowess, leading to a string of increasingly tall tales about past brawls that hilariously backfire. This 1956 Western humor tale pits laziness against vanity in the face of some pretty solid exercise advice.

When Lash La Rue wins a county bullwhip contest, the sore loser Mike Butcher hatches a revenge scheme—framing the champion for a series of gold thefts to destroy his reputation. Lash must track down Butcher across the mining camps and prove his innocence before the accusation sticks, leading to a final reckoning where the bullwhip becomes judge and jury.

Begg and Cole clash over a kiss—Cole's furious that Begg locked lips with his cousin Esmeralda at a party, but Begg's brutal honesty about the young woman's looks only makes matters worse as the two trade increasingly cutting insults about her and Begg's own less-than-beautiful girlfriend. When Cole finally tires of the mockery and decides to teach Begg a lesson, fists do the talking in this 1956 western humor tale.

Dopey Danny Dee insists on dining at a French restaurant to show off his year of high school French, but when the waiter arrives, his halting attempts at the language quickly unravel into embarrassing gibberish. In a bid to spare Danny further humiliation, the waiter tries a different approach—with hilarious results.