improvised shot

by RayLee, Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 09:55 (5 days ago) @ AaronB

The lad thought his dad was seven foot tall and three and a half wide with jaw and chest like cheyenne clint walker. The little fellow was of an age that he aped his dad's every move and tried to parrot his every word.

Then one day the herd bull acted a fool and went through three strands of wire and destroyed some chuting and chased some of the help up onto a hauler trailer before defiantly bellowing challenges from atop a dungheap. The rancher was called-in from his day job in town to address the calamity and the little fellow swelled in pride as he watched his dad load the old fowling piece and teach the beast some manners. At the shots, right and left, the bull promptly returned to his proper place in a most humble fashion.

A fortnight or so later the rancher was again called home from town with the bad news that the bull had been shot and was expected to die. A further shock came to the man when he was informed that his little son had been seen with a shotgun early that very morning. The man went to the schoolhouse and had the principal fetch the boy from class. When queried, the lad admitted to his misdemeanor(s).

"pa, I was waiting for the school bus when that confounded bull busted out again and there he was up on that dungheap just a bellowing away. I ran back in the house and fetched the 16 gauge and did just like you did."

The man, with misty eyes, gently tossled his son's hair and said "son, them shells I used was loaded only with okra seed !"