Some More Horse Tradin' by Ben K. Green

Author:Ben K. Green [Green, Ben K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-83190-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

MULE

SCHOOLIN’

I had been to Granbury and spent most of the day doin’ more loafin’ than business, and was on my way back to the ranch. I was ridin’ a good horse named Dan and it was still the heat of the day, so I was lettin’ him take his time when one of those little quick summer thunder showers built up and got me and him wet in the matter of a few minutes and then passed on and the sun came out. Well, ridin’ along in the heat of the summer and gettin’ a quick shower never bothered a cowboy; you wouldn’t even think about changin’ clothes because when the sun came out, they’d dry on you in a little bit.

I rode up to Davidson’s store at Thorp Springs to break the ride home and stopped for a little local conversation and refreshment. Davidson’s store was a small country mercantile sort of place with groceries and dry goods and a small amount of shelf hardware. As I ate my bar of candy and drank my Coke, Mr. Davidson set in to sell me a dry change of clothes. And I told him that would be kind of foolish, that the ones I had on would be dry in a few mintues.

I put up considerable argument that I wasn’t interested in buyin’ clothes every time I got wet and he pulled out a good pair of black-and-white-stripped duckin’ britches and a blue duckin’ shirt that would come near enough to fittin’ me and told me that I could put on a change of clothes for a dollar bill. Well, that sounded like a bargain and I went in the back of the store to change clothes.

Some of the grown men of the community were sittin’ up in the east door discussin’ the problems of farmin’, which didn’t sound too entertainin’ to a cowboy that wasn’t interested in turnin’ the grass bottom side up, so I didn’t pay a lot of attention until I heard the Professor. A university professor that wasn’t nearly old enough to quit teachin’ had moved into the community and had said that he retired from teachin’ in order to live on the land and enjoy farmin’. He was full of brilliant ideas and well impressed with his vast knowledge of general subjects and his particular knowledge of farmin’ and was generous in explainin’ his views. He always brought up the fact that education took time and money and it was a pity there weren’t more well informed men engaged in farmin’. Well, you could tell by his conversation that he was more than willin’ to share his vast knowledge with us ignorant people that had been makin’ a livin’ off the land while somebody had been payin’ him to learn their children readin’ and writin’.

While I was changing clothes, he began to expound on the matter of fertilizer. He had just put out some fertilizer and was glad to see this little shower melt and send it into the ground.

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