Sheriff John the (Partly) Wild by Laura Ellen Anderson

Author:Laura Ellen Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2015-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

I look down and see that my horse has grown a massive pair of udders.

“I was just testing you,” I fib.

“Is this your horse, sheriff?” says Little Joe, untying Daisy.

Daisy snorts two blasts of warm air and then does a massive dump on the ground.

“That’s my Daisy, all right,” I sigh.

“Daisy,” cackles Old Jake, “what kind of a name is that?”

Daisy flicks her tail in Old Jake’s eye.

“Ouch,” hollers Old Jake.

“Don’t fail us now, sheriff,” says the blacksmith.

“Do I look like I’m about to fail you?”

Everyone stares back at me.

I need to prove what an excellent all-round cowboy I am. So I grab some rope and spin it round my head like cowboys are supposed to do. I think they call it lassoing.

The rope slips out of my hand and accidentally lands over an angry bull at the front of the herd. The bull rears up, then charges down the street. Everyone starts clapping and cheering. I lean back in the saddle with my hat held high and shout, “Yeehaw!” That’s when I see the rope quickly uncoiling, and just as I work out what is going to happen next, I’m whipped off my feet and dragged along the ground, screaming and hollering, clutching the other end of the rope.

The townsfolk part as the bull pulls me, face down, through the grit and dirt. He thunders round a corner and sends me – still clutching the rope – swinging out wide and on to the back of an old cart. The cart rolls after the charging bull.

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