EACH YEAR WE HELD A HORSE SHOW FOR THE GOVERNOR AND THE TOWNS PEOPLE. IT WAS AT A SHOW LIKE THIS WHEN EVERYTHING WENT WRONG.
THE FIRST EVENT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A COWBOY AND INDIAN EVENT. IT WAS SUPPOSE TO GO LIKE THIS. THE COVERED WAGON WAS TO GO OUT AND BE ATTACKED BY INDIANS WHO WERE SUPPOSE TO SET FIRE TO THE WAGON.
THIS FAILED THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE THE TWO MEN IN THE WAGON, ONE DRESSED LIKE A WOMEN IN A HOOP SKIRT. AND THEY WERE TO LIGHT THE STRAW IN THE WAGON UPON THE PROPER SIGNAL. THIS FAILED. THEY HAD TO RETURN FOR THE MATCHES. THE SECOND TIME IT WENT WELL UNTIL THEY HAD TO ABANDON THE WAGON AND FREE THE HORSES. THIS WENT ALRIGHT UNTIL THE TROOPER THAT WAS DRESSED LIKE A WOMEN GOT CAUGHT IN THE HARNESS AND WAS DRAGGED SOME DISTANCE BEFORE GETTING MOUNTED.
BY THIS TIME DANGEROUS DAN AND HIS BAND OF CUT THROATS CHASED OFF THE INDIANS AND CAPTURED THE WAGON, THE CATTLE AND THE MAN AND WOMAN.
NOW OUT COMES THE POSSE AND WE CAPTURE DAN AND HIS GANG AND TAKE HIM BACK FOR THE HANGING. THERE WAS A LARGE TREE ON THE PARADE GROUNDS THAT FIT THE SITUATION JUST RIGHT. WE HAD A SLING UNDER DANS SHIRT TO FASTEN THE ROPE TO. THE NOOSE FOR HIS NECK WAS A DUMMY NOOSE SO NO-ONE WOULD GET HURT. WELL AS USUAL MURPHY'S LAW TOOK EFFECT AGAIN. WE FASTENED THE ROPE TO DAN, TOSSED THE OTHER END OVER THE TREE LIMB AND ALL WAS SET. WELL NOT QUITE,,, DAN WEIGHED ABOUT 180 POUNDS AND THE TROOPER PLAYING THE PART OF THE SHERIFF WEIGHED ABOUT 135 POUNDS. YOU MAY BE AHEAD OF ME AT THIS POINT. WHEN WE WHIPPED THE HORSE FROM UNDER DAN HE WENT DOWN AND THE SHERIFF WHO HAD THE ROPE WRAPPED AROUND HIS ARM WENT UP. THE CROWD GOT QUITE A CHARGE OUT OF THIS ONE.
THERE WERE TWO TROOPERS WHO HAD BEEN INSIDE A MAKE BELIEVE COW AND THEY HAD WANDERED INTO THE AREA WHERE THE CROWD WAS.
NEXT WAS THE FINAL EVENT WITH EVERYONE IN A COSAK CHARGE WHICH MEANS STANDING UP IN THE SADDLE IN A FULL CHARGE ACROSS THE FIELD. WE HAD A HORSE NAMED POPEYE WHO WAS ALMOST BLIND IN HIS RIGHT EYE. GREAT FOR PARADES AND SUCH BECAUSE HE DEPENDED ON HIS RIDER AS TO HOW FAR HE COULD MOVE TO THE RIGHT. WE ALWAYS KEPT HIM ON THE RIGHT FLANK AND HE WOULD KEEP A STRAIGHT LINE. THIS WORKED WELL IN THE COSAK CHARGE UNTIL THE TROOPERS IN THAT DAMM COW FORGOT WHERE THEY WERE AND WALKED OUT INTO THE ONCOMING CHARGE. WELL NEEDLESS TO SAY POPEYE HIT THE COW DEAD CENTER AND HORSE, RIDER AND COW WERE IN A NICE PILE ON THE GROUND. THE TROOPER IN THE FRONT PART OF THE COW GOT A BROKEN LEG, THE ONE IN THE REAR GOT SOME TEETH KNOCKED OUT AND ASIDE FROM THAT THE CROWD HAD A GOOD TIME AND MURPHY'S LAW WORKED 100% AGAIN......