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Cowboy Poetry and Western Verse
The Legend
Mike Berger
The brunt of a thousand jokes.
With a name like Clyde Ebenezer
Hedman, the jokes flowed like the
mighty Mississippi.
He was surly and flashed his teeth
when somebody made a joke. You
could put his sense of humor in an
old tin can, shake it and it would rattle.
Taking so much heat, he stayed to
himself. If he tried to join the group
around the campfire, it would take
a couple of minutes to chase him off.
He was running down strays in a little
valley, when his horse ran across a
giant rattlesnake. His horse pitched
him half a mile.
When he woke up, his mouth was full of
dirt and sagebrush. His hat had been
blown away. His horse had bolted and
gone back to camp.
In his pointed cowboy boots, he trudged
his way back to camp. The other cowboys
were waiting for him. They had composed
some cowboy poetry about the event. Thus
was born the legend of horseless Hedman.
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