FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
79
Bill Siems, ed.
The Perfessor Buys a Horse...and a Dog
In a week or two Zeb and the perfessor has got over their ruckus and is both pirootin' and lookin' fer more trouble of some kind
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
81
Bill Siems, ed.
Eph and the Perfessor Says Good Bye
When I gits back from from the next work I sees Rildy Briggs' saddle layin' in the corral and I knows that trouble is right close bye.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
83
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Turns Diplomat
Well me and the cook goes out to look at them claims and then he gits a hoss and pokes around fer a day or two more. When I goes in to file, so does he.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
85
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty's Boss Buys a Mule Team
Well things got soter settled down and the boss and all the folks that has took up claims has gone in pardners and is goin' to make a real feed and past'er place out of the deal.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
89
Bill Siems, ed.
Thinkin'
It's an easy job herdin' "Parada." Yore old hoss is standin' close bye. You are watchin' the drift of the shadders that's made by the clowds in the sky.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
91
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Goes Home for Armistice Day
Not long after the boss bought the mules, I gets a chance to go up North and I goes. Then along comes that Boer war and we was all tryin' to break and sell all the willer tail hosses
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
94
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Finishes His Visit
We knocked arount that day and I did get track of a few old-timers. But every time I asked about somebody, Bill or Eph would say, "Let me see!
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
97
Bill Siems, ed.
All Dressed Up
Things is pickin' up as most folks knows, So I sent to town fer to git new clo'es. Some onderwear and a big hat box, A couple of shirts and a passel of socks.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
99
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Meets Some Missourians
Jest when the Boer war was on Folks got to shippin' hosses a plenty. I had left the old man's place and I went to work fer a feller that had a bunch of broom tails
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
100
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Meets a Fool for Luck
Oncet I got down into Arizona fer a spell and was lookin' about fer a job, when a feller comes a ridin' into town
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
102
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Hears Ike Analyse Words
There was four fellers a workin' at the place besides me and Ike. We had gathered the beed and shipped it.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
104
Bill Siems, ed.
The Boss Buys a Mare
The boss has a great big mare that he works around the ranch but he ain't got nothin' to mate up with that big animal and a make a real team
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
106
Bill Siems, ed.
He Was After a Road Runner
The road runner discussion in Mr. King's column made me think of a little affair that happened long ago. A road runner played a part.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
108
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty and Ike Meet the Boss's Nephews
One day the boss gits a telegram and he looks awful worried. We try and figger it out but no chance. Things git to lookin' funny.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
111
Bill Siems, ed.
The Other Feller's Beef
When some fellers start out lookin' fer meat, They get mighty careless at that. They ain't so partick'lar whose cattle they eat, So long as the critter is fat.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
113
Bill Siems, ed.
Shorty Corrects a Mistake
One night the boss calls Ike into the house, and when he comes out he looks like he's got sumpthin' heavy on his mind.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
115
Bill Siems, ed.
The Fortune Teller Sends Ike Fishing
A couple of weeks after Ike had got through with his rustlin' scrape him and me went to town. The Boss tells us the very last thing, not to git drunk, and not to git separated.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
118
Bill Siems, ed.
Ike Has Trouble With His Hat
Spud and his crooked outfit was gone and the company had put a foreman in charge of the outfit over on the south temporary till they got things arranged fer permanent.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
120
Bill Siems, ed.
Ike Meets a Romance
A few days after Ike had been to the Sand Creek dance he saddles up one mornin' and he had a wicked grin on his face. I wasn't long learnin' why.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
122
Bill Siems, ed.
Cap'n Beasley Goes in for Cattle
One Sunday we was foolin' about the place when a wagon drives up. Old Man Dix was ridin' alongside. Out climbs a feller that is six feet high and about as wide
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
125
Bill Siems, ed.
Stockings and Watches
As I said, Ike took to the hill country. We all knowed the reason. Johnny Burke's widder.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
129
Bill Siems, ed.
The Wrangler
Oh yes he's the wrangler, a big lanky kid, That started to work 'bout the same as you did.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
131
Bill Siems, ed.
Ricky Comes and Goes
One day I rides in to the ranch and I sees a kid's saddle throwed under the shed cow puncher fashion with blankets over it.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
134
Bill Siems, ed.
Cap Takes to Mules
Old Cap liked to git about and see what was goin' on but he was soter handicapped on account he had to drive and there was a heap of places where he couldn't git with a spring wagon or a buckboard.
Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
FC 11 K-28
136
Bill Siems, ed.
Squint Comes and Goes
When I gets back to the home ranch after my work at Cap's place, I finds a mighty pecculiar jasper there. The cook said that Ike had fetched him out fromo town same as he had me.