Out Our Way:

Genesis 17:15 - 21: 7

Out our way, I have discovered rough cowboy humor. I recall, on my first roundup, one of the guys handed me a rope and said real cowboys know how to rope. But they have to begin somewhere, and he figured it was a good idea for me to come into the corral as they were branding calves and try to get a loop on one just as they released him.

I swung out a loop and began twirling it as I had been taught, when it suddenly occurred to me that a freshly branded and nicked calf is going to bolt the moment he is released. If I did manage to get a rope on him, because I had no place...