"Now, in stories I'd read...when a man passed out he would always come to hisself with a pretty girl a-pattin' his brow... When I come to it was dark, and wet and muddy."

-excerpt from TUCKER

That's Louis L'Amour poking fun at himself in 1971 because the cliche he's describing occurs in almost every book he wrote in the '50s. Made me chuckle.