eeeehaw i aint dead!!

ted was a big ole boy. he worked for me at AZL as a pen rider. he was a jolly happy go lucky guy who tipped the scales at  around 300 pounds. he liked to rope and roped damn good.  he was a little tough to keep mounted. he broke them down over a period of time. but with that he was still a good cowboy.
    the yard at queen creek was about a mile from a pheasant farm and once in a while a bird would apear at the yard eating grain from the feed bunks. one morning ted was late for work,over along the west end of the yard we could hear teds pickup grinding away in the dark.but then we heard it stop and a POP sounded, then the truck took off again. ted rolled into the saddle house and he rushed about saddling his horse to help ship fat cattle.
   when we had finished shipping we all went to the saddle house to have coffee. after we had filled our cups ted grabbed my shirt and led me out to his truck. there in the back was a dead pheasant.  his head was slightly misshapen. ted explained that he had shot the bird with his  22 caliber pistol. that was the pop we heard. ted then asked if my new wife could cook it. i told him i was sure she could , so ted skined the bird and i ran it home to my wife , who looked at me like i was nuts but said she would try. that night we had fried pheasant and ted ate all the bird.  it was ok, after he shot it right?
         some time later we shared a weekend off. we decided to go to sedona to a big ropin there. teds  truck wasnt great, i had a cab over camper on my truck, so pulling teds 2 horse trailer he , me and my wife went to sedona. we pulled in in the middle of the nite, put the horses to bed  and unhooked the trailer. my wife and i went to bed in the camper and ted had a cot in the trailer with his bed roll.
        next morning right at daylite i heard ted let out a blood currdling scream!! hitching up my pants i hurried out of the camper, and around the end of the trailer. there perched on the tail gate staring into the trailer were 3 crows, i heard ted again, "eeeeehaw get away i aint dead!" lookin into the trailer  there was ted on the cot with a white sheet pulled over him. those crows musta thought he was a corpse and was waitting for breakfast!! i shooed the crows away and got ole ted up. he was really shook.  after that weekend he went on weight watchers!!