The Cowboy

He'll have to cut her loose when she gets hung up in a fence, or rope and drag her out of a swamp when he can't figure out why in the heck she wandered out there in the first place.

Every now and then, the cowboy will have to try to get a cow's calf back to her after it has crawled through the fence. He'll cut the fence and run the calf back and forth past the hole until his horse is played out chasing the little fella, who is now half-deer and half-antelope. In the meantime, the cow jumps the fence, mothers the calf, and then they both calmly stroll back through the hole the cowboy cut.

He has to act as a midwife when the cow is having trouble calving, but he'll grin from ear to ear when he pulls the calf and it's alive and finally stands up to get that first drink of milk.

On occasion, the cowboy will swear to his wife, "By gosh, come next spring, we're gonna sell this dang ranch, 'cuz I'm tired of freezin' my rear off in the winter and fryin' my brains in the summer. We'll move to town and get a job that pays better than the starvation wages we make here!" Yet, when the first calf is born that next spring, the cowboy will grin at his wife kinda sheepishly and say, "Aw shucks, maw, let's try it another year."

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