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A band of small‑town ranch hands form a committee to decide how to observe the Fourth of July, trading boastful stories, rival claims to leadership and comic proposals for parades, floats and pageantry. Their bickering and practical jokes escalate into rough horseplay, personal entanglements and an arrest, and the narrator intervenes to break open the jail and free his companions to avert a lynching. The episode blends tall tales, ribald humor and frontier camaraderie as a series of petty rivalries and escapes drives the holiday preparations.
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