Once on a time they were in a barn, tucked away waiting for night, and they heard a man running a double shift of talk-beating down the farmer on the price of cattle and blowing off about gold coin hoarded by the bushel in a rube bank.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
A "rube" act, it was called in show parlance, and it was that in very truth, more because of Teddy's drollery than for the makeup that he wore.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.
Hopkins and a posse were arresting one rube Maloney when set upon by Terry.
"California 1849-1913 or the Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State."
L. H. Woolley