A/N: Here you go, as promised the second one today. When I first saw the episode 'The Auld Sod' there was one thing that bothered me and I haven't found any fan fic what would answer my question, so I decided to write my own answer for the question. Enjoy.
Joe cursed; then he remembered where he was, he looked around and prayed his father wouldn't be there, he was alone in the barn; he sighted in relief and cursed again. He didn't understand it, all those fifteen years he had been alive he never won the fair ways as Pa called them, drawing a stick or burning the match, he could admit that Hoss sometimes lost too and Adam sometimes, but Adam had never lost in the match burning he always won and Pa usually used the match burning to hand out the nastiest choirs, today it was the cleaning of the watering holes on the eastern pastures and as usual Joe had lost. It was the third time in that year he had cleaned watering holes, last time the western pastures and time before that the northern pastures on the early spring he almost got the cold that time. Joe had enough.
Adam walked into the barn; he had heard Joe cursing outside. He looked his baby brother who was a miserable sight to see. He left Joe to groom Cochise and saddled Sport, when he guided
Sport to the yard he turned to Joe, "Damp you fingers next time when Pa wants to burn the matches." And gone he was leaving Joe look after him with mouth opened.