DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
Divide the group into eight smaller groups and assign each group one of the words listed below. Read the story. After each of the words is read, pause for the group to make the appropriate response. All shout "RIDE'EM COWBOY!"
| COWPUNCHERS | "Whoopie" |
| TIMID LADIES | (falsetto scream) |
| BUCKING BRONCOS | (galloping sound) |
| SIX SHOOTER | "Bang, Bang" |
| BANDITS | "Stick'em up!" |
| RATTLESNAKES | "Hisssssssss" |
| CATTLE | "Mooo-oo-oooo" |
| RIDE'EM COWBOY | Ride'em Cowboy |
Are you listless, tired, out of sorts? Do you need excitement and new thrills? Then go to Texas! There you will find COWPUNCHERS ____, BUCKING BRONCOS ____, RATTLESNAKES ____, SIX SHOOTERS ____, and just enough TIMID LADIES ____.
How well I remember one night on the Bar-B-Q Ranch. The CATTLE ____ were in the corral and the RATTLESNAKES ____ were rattling their babies to sleep and the COWPUNCHERS ____ were telling tall tales to the TIMID LADIES ____, when all of a sudden the BUCKING BRONCOS ____ began cutting up. You could hear the CATTLE ____ for a mile. Like a flash, the COWPUNCHERS ____ pulled out their SIX SHOOTERS____ and made for the corral. The RATTLESNAKES ____ ran for cover, and the TIMID LADIES ____ collapsed in a cactus bush.
Stealthily, from around the corner of the ranch house crept the BANDITS ____. "Aha, just as I thought ... much better than CATTLE ____, huh, Pancho? So, your young friends have deserted you. We could be very good friends." The TIMID LADIES ____ shrank further in the cactus. "Aha, Pancho. See they are such TIMID LADIES ____, we will have to teach them a few things. The BANDITS ____ quickly carried the TIMID LADIES ____ to Gory Gulch where their horses were waiting. The TIMID LADIES ____ screamed but to no avail -- the CATTLE ____ were making too much noise. The TIMID LADIES ____ screamed, "Where are you taking us?" "Down Mexico way, my leetle tortilla."
At this moment the TIMID LADIES ____ sank their teeth into the BANDITS ____ arms. The BANDITS ____ let out a terrified yell that rang out over the range above the noise of the CATTLE ____ and the stamping of the BUCKING BRONCOS ____. In an instant, the COWPUNCHERS ____ were on their BUCKING BRONCOS ____, SIX SHOOTERS ____ in hand, riding hard and fast in the direction of the BANDITS ____.
They could hear the cries of the TIMID LADIES ____. The BANDITS ____ spurred their horses on; the COWPUNCHERS ____ were gaining -- 50 yards, 30 yards. Now the BUCKING BRONCOS ____ were at the foot of the hill. The noise of the SIX SHOOTER ____ was terrific. Pancho pushed one of the TIMID LADIES ____ off his horse, the other BANDITS ____ followed suit. "Reverse," cried the COWPUNCHERS ____, shifting their reins. Immediately the BUCKING BRONCOS ____ fell into reverse until the TIMID LADIES ____ could regain their feet. Then the COWPUNCHERS ____ swooped the TIMID LADIES ____ up into the saddle beside them and galloped rapidly away. The TIMID LADIES ____ shouted, " RIDE'EM COWBOY ____!"
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