"Who in samhill was it said how the cowboy's life was so grand and glorious?"
"I don't know, but I think it was the same feller who said something about beautiful snow."
"Well, whoever it was has never pulled bog and never rode in wet snow."
This kind of talk was going on between 'em. One was on his horse at one end of the rope and the other, the loop end in his hand, was knee deep in sucking slushy black mud trying to find the horns of a cow that had bogged down.
He wanted to put his loop end of the rope around them horns. the cow had been fighting in trying to get our after having her drink, and the suckin mud had got her deeper as she fought, till only about half of her body showed. The cow being on the "prod" as they usually are when bogged down that was had fought with the result that she got on her side, throwed her head until, in her struggling, she'd throwed it back and there she layed breathing hard, both her horns stuck deep in the mud.
There wasn't a part of her showed where a loop could be throwed so it would catch a hold. So there was nothing to do but for one of the cowboys to was in the mud, get her horns and place the loop around 'em. Then as her head was straightened and she struggled some more to get at the cowboy who was near her, the other cowboy on the bank pulled with his horse, and all together she was soon brought to solid ground, there to show her gratitude only by trying to hook the men and horse that had saved her life.
But that's the nature of the range critter and the cowboys didn't pay much attention to that, there'd been such doings all day long.
Written by "Will James" in one of his books, "Home Ranch".
If your looking for a good book to read get his book "Smoky the Cow Horse", but make sure you ask for one of his books with his drawings in it.
