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THE NEW HAND
The new hand started workin tuesday last.
And he was gettin with the program pretty fast.
He said he'd been cowboyin for about the last 10 years.
And i have to admit he knew his way around horses cows and steers.
His ropin skills compared to other cowboys were no better or no less.
But when it come to riden skills he was up there with the best.
He could saddle up a pony as fast as any man i'd ever seen.
He only stood about 5 foot 5 and was kind of wirey and lean.
He'd do what ever needed doin rather it was brandin or muckin stalls.
And he could more then hold his own when it come to bustin balls.
He said his real name was Pat but he went by Curly most the time.
And Though it'd only been a week it looked like curly was fitten in just fine.
his ability to cuss was more an art form then a vice.
i saw him cuss a broom tail 5 minutes straight and never use a cuss word twice.
Curly wern't afraid of workin he worked hard from when we started till we was done.
we were all headin in to town that night so we'd see if he was good at havin fun.
A few of us were settin at a table at the bucken bronc saloon.
When curly came through the door and walked across the room.
Curly scooted a chair up to the table and ordered up a brew.
And joined right in tellin jokes and stories and lies like cowboys like to do.
curly reached up and took off his hat. And all of us were as shocked as we could be. when a beautiful head of blonde curly hair fell out and we realized curly weren't a he but a she.
Curly saw our shock and said "after i explain to you perhaps you'l understand
why the first day that i came to work i pretended to be a man."
"if i had come to work lookin like a girl you wouldn of given me the time of day.
i figured if you saw i could do the job as good as a man. Perhaps you'd let me stay.
Well we never worked with no girl before but if she could do the job did it really matter?
Besides maybe this was one of those glass ceilings women like to shatter.
Curly excused herself while we put our heads together trying to figure out what we ought to do.
When she retutned we said "Curly if you are willing to work with the likes of us we'd be proud to work with you."
Curly worked with us for five good years and when she left we wern't sure what we do.
But it all worked out Cause the day after curly left we hired a boy named Sue.
© terry colby
And he was gettin with the program pretty fast.
He said he'd been cowboyin for about the last 10 years.
And i have to admit he knew his way around horses cows and steers.
His ropin skills compared to other cowboys were no better or no less.
But when it come to riden skills he was up there with the best.
He could saddle up a pony as fast as any man i'd ever seen.
He only stood about 5 foot 5 and was kind of wirey and lean.
He'd do what ever needed doin rather it was brandin or muckin stalls.
And he could more then hold his own when it come to bustin balls.
He said his real name was Pat but he went by Curly most the time.
And Though it'd only been a week it looked like curly was fitten in just fine.
his ability to cuss was more an art form then a vice.
i saw him cuss a broom tail 5 minutes straight and never use a cuss word twice.
Curly wern't afraid of workin he worked hard from when we started till we was done.
we were all headin in to town that night so we'd see if he was good at havin fun.
A few of us were settin at a table at the bucken bronc saloon.
When curly came through the door and walked across the room.
Curly scooted a chair up to the table and ordered up a brew.
And joined right in tellin jokes and stories and lies like cowboys like to do.
curly reached up and took off his hat. And all of us were as shocked as we could be. when a beautiful head of blonde curly hair fell out and we realized curly weren't a he but a she.
Curly saw our shock and said "after i explain to you perhaps you'l understand
why the first day that i came to work i pretended to be a man."
"if i had come to work lookin like a girl you wouldn of given me the time of day.
i figured if you saw i could do the job as good as a man. Perhaps you'd let me stay.
Well we never worked with no girl before but if she could do the job did it really matter?
Besides maybe this was one of those glass ceilings women like to shatter.
Curly excused herself while we put our heads together trying to figure out what we ought to do.
When she retutned we said "Curly if you are willing to work with the likes of us we'd be proud to work with you."
Curly worked with us for five good years and when she left we wern't sure what we do.
But it all worked out Cause the day after curly left we hired a boy named Sue.
© terry colby
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