The Cowboy Story



Instructions:

Form a large circle with the boys and you assign them a character, there can be

1 or more of each character. As you are telling the story the boy run on the

outside of the circle saying what their character says until they reach the

spot they started out at. The boys repeat doing this every time until the story

is done.



CHARACTERS

The Cowboy:                 Yippee

Old Paintbrush:             Slap hands on knees to make a galloping sound

Old Chief Woodwillow:       KI YI

"Emma" the snake            Rattle Rattle

Sitting Bull:               Hee Haw

Timber wolf:                Wolf Whistle

Sherriff:                   Bang Bang

Deputy Sherriff:            He Went that-a-way



The Story:



Once upon a time there was a cowboy... who went off into the Mojave desert

riding his horse Old Paintbrush...Far off in the distance he could hear the

timber wolf....The Cowboy... made camp and went to sleep, first making sure his

horse, Old Paintbrush.... was secure.

Now, creeping along the desert, came Cheif Woodwillow... riding his mule,

Sitting Bull... However he know nothing about the Sherriff....and his

deputy.... In his pocket Chief Woodwillow...had a trained rattlesnake named

Emma.... This rattle snake, Emma...was trained to creep up and bite the

Cowboy....and his horse, Old Paintbrush....While Chief Woodwillow...crept up.

the horse Old Paintbrush...was afraid, the timber wolf... howled, the

cowboy...snored and Sitting Bull, the mule...was eating cactus.  In the

meantime the Sherriff... and his deputy... were already to capture old Chief

Woodwillow...Just as Emma... was about to bite the cowboy... and his horse old

Paintbrush...the Sherriff...and his depty...sprang the trap. "Halt, you are my

prisoner" shouted the sherriff...and his deputy...The cowboy...woke up and

mounted his horse Old Paintbrush... This frighted the timberwolf...and also

Emma... Away went Old Chief Woodwillow...on his faithful mule, Sitting Bull... 

and away went, in pursuit, the Sherriff...his depty... the cowboy...and his

horse Old Paintbrush...But Old Chief Woodwillow...led them into a blind canyon,

so that was the last that anyone ever heard of the cowboy...his horse Old

Paintbrush...Emma... the timber wolf... Sitting Bull... the sherriff... and his

deputy...!



                       The End.