Cottonwood Cowboys — Marsha Ward

Saturday afternoon working toward evening was a poor time to pull tree clearing duty, especially this Saturday, with the dance all laid out at the school house, and a new schoolmarm to gaze at.

In a short story designed to make you chuckle, Western writer Marsha Ward brings you cowboys Slim and Curly on the two-man saw, as they try to shoehorn the unexpected chore of cutting up a fallencottonwood tree into their big plans for Saturday night.