The Booze Hangs High

Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.

Cast

Bernard B. Brown

as Bosko (voice) (uncredited)

Delos Jewkes

as Pigs (voice) (uncredited)

Carman Maxwell

as Bosko (additional lines) (voice) (uncredited)

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