eppie

i met eppie moreno  the first time as a kid in high school and then later while i was in colledge we worked for the same out fit.  he was half mexican, half papago and 100 per cent crazy!!he was a wild loco cowboy, and always involved in some kind of a mishceve.  
       once while moving some cattle along the I 8 freeway as we neared a water trough  eppie spied some tourists parked there on the freeway side of the fence. they hadnt seen us yet and were focused on the cattle as they milled around the water trough. eppie had us stay back out of sight. then stripping down to his draweres, cutting  his horses tail off and tying the hair into his own with a bandana, he trotted  up to the water trough afoot acting skittish, and drank from the trough like a cow. the tourest were pointing and taking pictures and jabbering like a flock of crows about the wild man following the cattle.  after a minute, eppie threw his head up with water streaming out of his mouth, stared at the tourists , grunted and spun and broke into a run through the cattle screaming in papago!! the tourist in turn jumped in their car , screaming, spun the tires and headed toward gila bend!! we hadnt quit rollin and laughin when a deputy sherrifs car pulled up.  he got out and wanted to know what the hell we did to those people? we explained what eppie had done and the deputy shook his head, looked at eppie, and said that explains a lot.  he wagged his finger at eppie and said one more prank and he would pull one. eppie meekly said yes sir. as the deputy left we went back to laughin at eppie who was still wearin that horses tail!!!