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Out our way, we know that working cattle from horseback has its potential dangers. Wise cowhands remind me that if I am going to push cows in the Tiger Ridge, it is not a question of if I will get hurt but when. Indeed, even my doctor — a fellow horseman — laughed the second time I came to him with sprained ribs. He knew it would happen because it happens all the time.
My pard, Charlie, also knew this, and indeed a few years back was so badly hurt they took him to the ER in town. He ended up in a wheelchair, and died not that long afterward. But I never heard him complain or regret all those t...
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