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...nice and ask if you could ride their horses in races and things like that. After a while, it wasn't so difficult to ask. And now I've got my own colt, since I got a free stud service from a quarterhorse champion for my ridin services. The colt could be real fast. Anyway, about then I decided I wanted to live out in the country where there's more room to ride. I'd saved up 2700 dollars from workin and I went to a real estate agent who used to help coach the Lopez football team...
...vivid to him then as the night it happened. "It was during the depression. Let me see, it was nineteen and thirty . . . two. I was workin' with Evan Thomas in Crowley, Louisiana. We was all sittin' out in the sun by the railroad tracks one day, and Bunk was ridin' a flatcar on a freight train. He was lookin' for work. When he seen us, he jumped off that train and come over to me with a big grin. He says, 'Hi, George. Need a trumpet player?' We took him on with...
Honey I was ridin on my way downtown...
...traction, I'm a-ridin...
...ropers get two calves apiece. This time it was twelve calves per man. and, by starting time, upwards of $100,000 had been bet on the match. "I'm not nervous," Oliver insisted. "Not much, anyway. But when you get a thing going like this, with money ridin', you try so much harder. It's the pressure that gets you-not the calves...