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    The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
    The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
    The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
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    The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults

    By Stan Paregien, Sr

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    THE CAJUN COWDOG:15 COWBOYS FOR ADULTS is a collection of 15 of Stan Paregien's best cowboy stories. They are "for adults" only in the sense that the stories are probably above the reading levels of most children under 12 years of age. These 15 stories are just a few of the stories which he has written and performed, starting in 1991. This eBook contains such storytelling jewels as "What Dead Cowboys Do," "My Most Unforgettable Christmas," "The Story of Juan Cordova," "The Angel & the Bad Man," "The Urge to Kill," "Romeo & Juliet: Cowboy Style," "Cowboys & Parrots Don't Mix," "How One Cowboy Got Rich," and the laugh generating story chosen for the title of this eBook, "The Cajun Cowdog."

    Stan Paregien is an award-winning writer who has told his stories at everything from elementary schools and Lions Clubs to large Western festivals. His storytelling travels have taken him from Springdale, Arkansas to Santa Clarita, California and from Lubbock, Texas to Great Falls, Montana and many places in between. He perform almost every year for twenty years at the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration in Lubbock, one of the largest Western festivals in the U.S.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStan Paregien, Sr
    Release dateApr 16, 2014
    ISBN9781311267405
    The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
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    Stan Paregien, Sr

    Stan Paregien Sr was born in Wapanucka (Johnston County), Oklahoma to Harold and Evelyn (Cauthen) Paregien. The family moved west the year after his birth and he grew up on ranches and farms where his father worked in southern California.One of those places where Harold Paregien worked was the Newhall Ranch, a corporate ranching and farming operation that stretched for miles either side of the highway from the towns of Newhall (now Santa Clarita) to Piru. Stan was already in love with anything cowboy, mostly by watching those great B-Westerns at the local movie theaters. And then on the Newhall Ranch (officially known as the Newhall Land & Farming Company) he and his sister Roberta acquired horses and rode happy trails all over the ranch.Paregien graduated from high school in 1959 at Fillmore, Calif. He married Peggy Ruth Allen from nearby Ventura, Calif., in 1962. They immediately moved to Nashville, Tennessee for Stan to study Speech Communication (and history and Bible) at Lipscomb University. He graduated in 1965. In 1968, he received his master’s degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then he completed all 60-hours of the classwork toward a Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma (but did not complete his other requirements). He has taken and is still taking continuing education courses in Life Skills through the University of Hard Knocks.He is a former full-time minister, a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio talk show host, a director of mental health facilities in both Texas and Oklahoma, and a salesman of various products. His hobby since 1990 has been writing and performing cowboy poetry and stories. He performed at the annual National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas for a total of some 25 years. Through it all, he has been and is a freelance writer and author.He prefers just calling himself a "storyteller" in the tradition of Mark Twain, Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Garrison Keillor, Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, J. Frank Dobie, Agatha Christie and others. Sometimes he tells stories through narration, sometimes through poetry and often through photography.Stan and Peggy have two adult children, Stan Paregien Jr who lives with his family in the St. Louis area; and Stacy Magness who lives with her family near College Station, Texas. They also have four grandchildren (going on five, with an adoption in progress) and two great-grandchildren. The Paregiens lived in Edmond, Oklahoma for some 20 years before moving to Bradenton, Florida in June of 2013.Be sure to take a look at his other e-books which are also available online, including:S. Omar Barker: Las Vegas New Mexico's Legendary Cowboy PoetHis biography and 50 of his poems.The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults**Just that people under age 13 probably can't appreciate it.Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for AdultsA Rainy Day Reader: 100 Poems for Your EnjoymentWoody Guthrie: His Life, Music & MythOklahoma Almanac of Facts & Humor, (Parts 1& 2)The Austin Chronicles, Book 1: Boggy Depot Shootout (a Western novel with adult themes)The Austin Chronicles, Book 2: The Abilene Trail (a Western novel with adult themes)The Day Jesus DiedRootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy Poetry (Stan's original poems)Guy Logsdon: Award-winning FolkloristJim Shoulders: King of the Rodeo CowboysClara Luper: Civil Rights PioneerThoughts on UnityHe also recently published two paperback books through Amazon.com's KDP "Print-on-demand" process. Those two books are:S. Omar Barker: Las Vegas New Mexico's Legendary Cowboy PoetThe Day Jesus Died: Revised VersionOr just Google "books by Stan Paregien."

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      The Cajun Cowdog - Stan Paregien, Sr

      The Cajun Cowdog:

      15 Cowboy Stories for Adults

      by Stan Paregien

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN: 9781311267405

      Copyright 2014 by Stan Paregien Sr

      All rights worldwide are reserved by the author.

      Bradenton, Florida: Paregien Enterprises, 2014.

      Cover design by Stan Paregien

      Smashwords Edition, License

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this eBook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this eBook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work and legal rights of this author.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to our long-time friends

      Darrell and Martha Russell

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      The Cajun Cowdog

      Chapter 2

      The Urge to Kill

      Chapter 3

      The Story of Juan Cordova

      Chapter 4

      Cowboys & Parrots Don't Mix

      Chapter 5

      Romeo & Juliet: Cowboy Style

      Chapter 6

      Angel & the Bad Man

      Chapter 7

      Cowboy Courtship & Marriage

      Chapter 8

      The Cowboy Who Stole Kisses

      Chapter 9

      The Cowboy & the Guru

      Chapter 10

      On the Road to Nazareth

      Chapter 11

      How One Cowboy Got Rich

      Chapter 12

      Tellers of Tall Tales

      Chapter 13

      What Dead Cowboys Do

      Chapter 14

      My Most Unforgettable Christmas

      Chapter 15

      The Talking Frog

      Addendum A

      List of Stan Paregien's Other eBooks

      Addendum B

      Stan Paregien's Biography

      Chapter 1

      The Cajun Cowdog

      I grew up living on the land owned by one of the largest corporate farming and ranching operations in California, the Newhall Land and Farming Company. We lived about 45 miles north of Los Angeles. I spent a lot of my time as a kid riding horseback over the mountains and valley and along the river where TV and movie production companies now roam.

      Now, back then we got all of our dogs the same way. They wandered in and we fed ‘em, and they usually stayed. The good ones and the bad ones. I can’t remember taking a dog to a vet until I was in high school. Money was scarce, so we did our own doctoring, and we sure couldn’t afford to buy a dog.

      Times sure do change, though, and I have bought several dogs since then. Some of them good and some of them not so good. Today I want to tell you about an unusual dog that a relative of mine bought.

      Several years ago I was down in Lake Charles, Louisiana visiting my cousin Boudreaux Paregien. We got to talkin’ about cattle and cowdogs and such. And cousin Boudreaux allows as how he recently bought himself a wonderful cowdog. He whistled for it and a brown and white dog of doubtful heritage and genealogy came trotting out from under the front porch.

      Dis here cowdog is intelligent, he said. Dis cowdog is a good looking dog. And best of all it is a Cajun cowdog, raised right here in southwest Louisiana. I only paid six-hunerd dollars him. He is the best cowdog you done never have seed in you lifetime. I gaw-run-tee!

      Well, boys, I sure didn't want to upset cousin Boudreaux. He could be pretty wild when you get him mad. But that ol' dog was pathetic. It had both ears flopped over, seemed to be lame in the left hind leg, and I swear it was as cross-eyed as it could be. I just kept quiet.

      Cousin Boudreaux knelt down and the dog licked him across the face. He swelled up with Cajun pride and said, "My dog's name is Phideaux. P-H-I-D-E-A-U-X. He is le gran chien, a wonderful dog. He is good with dem cattle and also with chillrun. And he is the smartest dog in at least five or four parishes down here in Louisiana. His even likes to drink coffee with chicory in it, just like ah do."

      I was biting my tongue to keep from saying anything bad about his mutt. But then it happened. Cousin Boudreaux petted his dog a couple of times. Then he looked right in my eyes and said the words that sent a chill down my spine: What y'all tink 'bout my cowdog? Hmmmm, cousin Stan?

      I pawed the ground with the toe of my right boot. My momma had always taught me to tell the truth. So I blurted out, Frankly, cousin Boudreaux, that looks like the dumbest dog I have ever seen in my whole life.

      Oh, man. You'd think I had hit him with an ax handle. His face turned as red as his suspenders. He got right up in my face and shouted, Didn't you heard what I never just said? Phideaux is maybe da smartest cowdog in da world! Or even Texas!

      Well, I was already in too deep to back out. I said, That dog? Why, I can tell just by the way he walks that he couldn't hit the side of a doghouse with his tail if he was locked inside of it. Never before have I seen such a stupid looking canine.

      Boudreaux stepped back and put his hands on his hips. You are my kinfolk, cousin Stan, so I am gonna forget you done called my dog a canine, whatever that means. But, I tell you one time more, Phideaux is a well-bred, highly intelligent Cajun cowdog.

      I could see that my cousin was cutting me a little slack, and that made me even bolder. That's a big contradiction in terms, ain’t it? ‘Highly intelligent Cajun cowdog.’ If your ol' dog is so dadgummed smart, why don't you prove it?

      That put the bacon in the frying pan. Ol' Boudreaux had to do something fast to show how smart his cowdog was or he'd have to eat crow for a long, long time.

      Dat's no problem, says he. Why, eh . . . , Phideaux is so smart dat he can count.

      Oh, he can count, can he? I said. I've got a crisp hundred dollar bill with me and I'll bet you your silly dog couldn't count a cow pie if there was only one on the ground.

      Alright, let's go out to the barn, Boudreaux said, looking pretty confident for a guy who was about to lose a hundred dollars.

      When we got to the barn we walked on through and out behind to the corral where a few cows were penned up. My cousin bent down and patted Phideaux on the head and said, Phideaux, you done look yore self around in dis corral and tell us how many cattle are in here.

      Phideaux perked up his one good ear. And he looked at the cattle. At least, I thought he was looking at the cattle, but it was hard to tell with his eyes crossed and all.

      Well, to my surprise, that old dog started running around in a tight circle. Once. Twice. Three times. Four times around. And he stopped and sat up, with that one good ear standing straight as a flag pole. My cousin was smiling from ear to ear, his gold right front tooth shining like a star.

      "See there, Phideaux

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