“Hi, there!”
calls
Cowboy Small.

 

Cowboy Small
has a horse.
His name is Cactus.
He keeps him in the barn
at Bar S Ranch.

 

Cowboy Small
takes good care
of Cactus.
He brushes and curries him.

 

He feeds him
oats and hay.

 

He gives him water
to drink.

 

Cowboy Small
puts the saddle on.
He pulls the girth tight.

 

“Whoa, Cactus!”

Cowboy Small
puts his left foot
in the stirrup
and mounts.

 

“Giddyup, Cactus!”

Cowboy Small rides out
on the range.
Cloppety, cloppety, clop!

 

“Whoa, Cactus!”

Cowboy Small
dismounts.
He fixes the fence.

 

Cowboy Small makes camp
for the night.
He cooks supper and eats it.
Oh, how good it tastes!

 

Cowboy Small rolls up
in his bedroll.
He goes to sleep
under the stars.

 

Next morning,
Cowboy Small rides in the Bar S roundup.

The cowboys round up all the cows.
“Yip-pee! Yip-pee! Yip-pee!”

 

“Come and get it!”
calls the cook at noon.

Cowboy Small
eats at the chuck wagon
with the cowboys.
They have beef,
red beans, and coffee.

 

“Yip-pee!
Ride ’em, cowboy!”

Cowboy Small
ropes a calf
in the corral.

 

Cowboy Small helps
with the branding.
The calves are marked
with the Bar S brand:

 

Cowboy Small
turns the cows back
on the range.

 

At night,
Cowboy Small
plays his guitar
and sings:

“Home …
        home on the range …”

 

He goes to sleep
          in the bunkhouse.

 

Next day,
Cowboy Small
rides a bucking bronco.

“Yip-pee!—Yip-pee!
Ride ’em, cowboy!”

 

Ker-plop!

Cowboy Small
hits                
the     
                dust!

 

But—                                       
he’s a pretty good cowboy
after all!
Cactus is waiting,
                   so—

 

“Giddyup, Cactus!”

Cowboy Small
rides
      again!