Derek and Tyrone smiled with satisfaction.

"I mean that man was like whipcord! Then one day he wakes up in his cave an' he hears voices. At first he thinks he's goin' crazy, but then he crawls out to the lip of the cave an' there they are, a hundred Indians on horses an' they all got war paint on, and he can tell by their language that they're Shalako Indians, the sworn enemies of the Hondos, an' he overhears that they're on their way to the Hondo camp to pull off a surprise attack. Well, he just ran out the back entrance of the cave, an' he takes off like the wind. He's gonna warn the Hondos of this attack an' he's flyin'! He runs thirty miles to the camp an' he bursts in an' runs up to the chief's tent an' he says, 'Get your braves ready, the Shalakos are on the warpath!' an' the chief looks at him an' says, 'Who the hell are you?' an' De Coco says, 'I'm De Coco,' an' the chief laughs an' says, 'You're not De Coco, De Coco's fat and greasy, you're lean an' strong' an' De Coco's feelin' frustrated but he's got no time for 'To Tell the Truth' an' he says, 'Where are your braves?' an' the old chief says, 'They're all out hunting. There's nobody here but women, children and old men like me.' "

"Oh no!" Tyrone slapped his forehead.

"Stupid motherfucker!" Derek cursed.

"An' now De Coco's flippin' out. He don't know what to do. He can't fight all the Shalakos so he says to the chief, 'Get all the people together an' I'll lead them to safety in the desert but hurry because the Shalakos are almost here an' you know De Coco knows all the hidin' places in the desert pretty good after all these years.' The chief looks out his tent an' sees a cloud of dust way off in the distance an' he knows that it's the Shalako war party comin' down hard an' De Coco's tellin' the truth. Well, in ten minutes he gets everybody ready to go an' De Coco's leading all the women, children an' old men through the desert. An' he's takin' them up and down these tricky paths an' windin' ways, an' behind them now they can see two clouds, one is the Shalako war party and the other is the smoke comin' from their burning village."

"The Shalakos burned it down?"

"Yup, an' now they're hot on their trail. An' every time they turn aroun' that cloud is gettin' closer an' closer 'cause all them Shalakos is on horseback. Well, finally De Coco leads the Hondos into this hidden valley between these two mountains. One end of the valley is wide, but the other end is really narrow, too narrow for a horse but wide enough for a person to crawl through. An' if he can get the Hondos out the other end of the valley, they'll be safe. Well, he runs everybody through the valley an' they get to that narrow passage, but there's about a six-foot-high smooth ledge of rock that everybody's gotta climb to get to that passage, an' it's smooth, too smooth for anybody to climb, you know, they're all children and women an' ol' men. So they're all standing there trapped between two mountains an' suddenly they see the Shalakos at the other end of the valley an' they're a whoopin' an' screamin' about two miles off. Suddenly De Coco gets an idea. He stands like this."