PAGE TWO THE PERKINS JOURNAL JUNI
Continued From Old Timers Page
Pistol Pete's Life
RIDING TIlE CA'InI'LE '
On another Sunday morning,
not long after, Jean and I had
nfilked the cows, strained the
milk and put it away. Mother
told us we could not go hunting
for there wa's pierty of raeat to
last all week and we never kirl-
ed the game unless we needed
the mt, ]Ylother said we tlad
better ,stay hmne and rest p
while we could for there was a
,hard tveek ahead of husking corn.
It wns not what we had p'km-
ned but we had to take it so we
":':'put our guns away, ctamged our
clothes and went down to tm
straw stack. We climbed up
top of it and were just lying
there when Jess Hyvner, one off
the rmighbor boys, rode up. He
climbed up on the sLraw stad
and we all lay there watching ie
cattle. When an old steer ;got
his head in a hole in the fer,e
so he could not see us we w, ouki
juml9 on his back and ride hhn.
Nearby in the calf pen was a
large haystack with a rail fe, ze
around it. At one place the
correct of the fence came close
to the haystack with room for
only one calf to go by at a time.
After riding the steers for a
whim we all went over to the
calf lot. Each got on a calf to see
who could stay the longest. The
calves were running and bucfling
and finally started around he
stack• Jess Hymer's calf was i
the ead, then came Jean. I
brotght 'hi) the rear on a red
yearling heifer that could throw
the hair off her back.
I "was holding on like a lean
tick €o a dog's ear and they all
came around like a cyclone. As
Jesss cal went through the pass-
way Jess got his foot caught in
the fence. The calf ran out
from under him and left him
hanging y one leg, his body .on
the .hay in the path of tim ,otbe,x
calves. Jean was .right behind
him: his calf stopped short, but
Jean went on top of Jess and the
calf ran over both of them.
They were still on the hay
when I came along. My red
heifer gave a bellow and threw
them both into the fence. She
jurrped over them scraping me
of on the fence rails as she went.
Then all the other calves in the
lot came around and ran over
us, We were a badly skinned-
up tunch when we finally got
out)f there and climbed on the
fence and looked at ourselves.
te went back to the straw
staek and tried to clean up a
little before Mother saw us.
About that time Jess Hymen's
two brothers, John and Ilim
another neighbor Boy,
Jolm Stewart. and Dempsey Gill-
strap rode up. John Stewart
was selling my stepfather some
cattle and had come to get him.
tIy stepfather had a little old
Indian saddle with only one
cinch and I told him he could
use my saddle. After the two
of them had gone we got to talk-
ing about riding and planned for
each of us to saddle and ride a
steer.
There was a longhorn spotted
steer in the bunch and it fell to
me to ride him. He was easy to
catch for he would go out of his
way to fight a man. We got a
rope on him, drew him:trp to the
fence and put the old Indian
saddle on him. It didn't stick
very well so I put my, horsehair
role around it and across the
addle seat three times, drew it
up tight and piled on him.
Now, that hair xope was ekm-
ble-sheared and it was like ,sit-
ring on a dozen rtrvs of sharp
pin points and I saw at once that
I hd made a big mistake, When
] b_it that saddle the old steer
started bucldng; I stayed until
he hit me three times with that
roIe and then tried to get,,be
hiad the saddle but I couldn't
make it. I let all hold go and
wtmt over the steer's head. I
landed on nay hands and knees
and the steer hit ,e and knocked
me about ten feet, That time I
landed on my back. As the steer
came in again I kicked him in
the nose with my spurs and ,Iea
ot him 1)5" the tail. Then he took
after Jean, who climbed the
fence, so the steer turned back
to me and I got up on the straw
stack just ahead of him.
Jim I-!ymer roped the steer
and he and John Dempsey drew
him up to the fence and took of£
the rope and saddle. John
thought he could ride the long-
horn so he put his om saddle on
him and crawled on and the,y,
urned him kose. The steer made
a few circles around the raw
stack, then ran across .the lot mad
jampcd the f, once. Dempsey was
thrown over the top rail wtdle
the steer went pitching "off into
the timber with Dempsey's stir-
rups flying over his back at ev-
ery ptmge. We spent the rest of
the day roping him and getting
Dempsey's saddle back again.
Our Sunday clothes looked
terrible but my stepfather and
John Stewart came in about an
hour before sundown with about
one hundred head of catle my
stepfather had bought. They had
to be cut out and put in the
branding lot to be branded with
Goodhue brand, so we all helped
mad thai gave us an excuse for
our torn algol dirty clothes. Moth-
er never knew how we had spem
our day of rest.
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123 E. 8th Stillwater, Okla
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