What’s Christmas to a Cow?

and in magazine issue

By Baxter Black I know you’ve prob’ly asked yourself, what’s Christmas to a cow? You’ve not! Well maybe, just perchance I’ve got you thinkin’ now, When we march out on Christmas morn like nothin’s goin’ on, Has Yuletide struck the night before and disappeared by dawn? Were plastic sleeves a’hangin’ up around the calvin’ shed? …

Cowboy Poetry: A Veteran

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He was getting old and paunchy, and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past. Of a war that he once fought in, and the deeds that he had done, In his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one. And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbours, …

Lest We Forget

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“Never again,” was the heartfelt motto, “Lest We Forget,” became the Veteran’s Day theme, But the big guns did not long stay silent. And Peace is still a will o’ wisp dream. In the “war to end all wars,” I had one grandfather on each side. For my parents, my brothers, sisters and I It’s …

Cowboy Poetry

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A Bad Half Hour BY CHARLES “BADGER” CLARK Wonder why I feel so restless; Moon is shinin’ still and bright, Cattle all is restin’ easy, But I just kaint sleep tonight. Ain’t no cactus in my blankets, Don’t know why they feel so hard ‘Less it’s Warblin’ Jim a-singin’ “Annie Laurie” out on guard. “Annie …