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Cowboys & .......

Outdoorsfellar

Dignitary Member
Supporting Member
Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport lounge in
> Bozeman, Montana, awaiting their flights.One is an American Indian,
> passing thru from Lame*
> Deer.*
>*******
>****** *
>*******
>****** Another*
>****** is*
> a cowboy on his way to Billings for a livestock show. And
> the third*
>****** is a*
> fundamentalist Arab student from the Middle East, newly
> arrived*
>****** at Montana*
> State University.
>*******
>****** *
>*******
>****** Their*
>*******
> discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two
> Westerners*
>*******
> learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the
> conversation*
>****** falls*
> into an uneasy lull.
>*******
>****** *
>*******
>****** The*
>****** cowboy*
> leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine
> table*
>****** and tips*
> his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind*
>****** outside is*
> blowing tumbleweeds around and the old windsock is*
>****** flapping, but still no*
> plane comes.
>*******
>****** *
>*******
>****** Finally,*
>*******
> the American Indian clears his throat and softly speaks.
> “At one time*
>*******
> here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are
> few.
>*******
>****** *
>*******
>****** The*
>****** Muslim*
> student raises an eyebrow and leans forward, “Once my
> people*
>****** were few," he*
> sneers, "and now we are many. Why do you suppose that*
>*******
> is?"
>*******
>****** *
>*******
>****** The*
>*******
> Montana cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his
> mouth, and from*
>****** the*
> darkness beneath his Stetson says in a drawl, “That's
> 'cause we*
>****** ain't*
> played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's*
>*******
> a-comin'".
>*******
>*******
>****** *