Don't let any fool detectives bunco him into refusing to pay the ransom.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
Just as in the human drama we find deceit, disguise, mask, trickery, bunco and bluff, all forms of cheating and clever deceptions, so it is precisely the same in the animal world, though man is little informed on Nature's real ways.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
The Colonel was naturally as suspicious as a rattlesnake in August; hence he had no sooner emerged from the ranks of the frank scoffers than his alert mind framed the question: "How is this new road-improbable as I know it to be-going to affect the interests of the Laguna Grande Lumber Company, if the unexpected should happen and those bunco-steerers should actually build a road from Sequoia to Grant's Pass, Oregon, and thus construct a feeder to a transcontinental line?"
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne