The Tugboat Cowboy

Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the Guardian of the Forest, Ranger Bill, pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions.

Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. One time a man complained to his boss about a fellow employee. A man told the boss every time he went by the other man's office, he always found him staring out the wind toe.

The man wanted to know how the other fella got away with it. The boss told him that if he came up with ideas like the man in question did, he'd get paid for staring out the window too.

Ideas come from minds that do creative thinking. ideas are what have given us the wonderful machines and gadgets we have today. In our story today we find a young man who has an idea. I like to call this one the tugboat cowboy at Junction City Bob Mitchell usually called on only in the river barge company.

Onks nephew Dick works for his uncle and is more or less been the understanding that someday Dick would take over the business. But right now, Unk is pacing the dark in a stew because both of his tugboats are laid up with engine trouble.

It's a matter, Uncle. Would you face all powdered up for? Oh, the honor is laid up with a busted engine now, too. Of all the businesses in the world, I had to get mixed up in river barge, and to dumb and stupid kind of work. One tug ain't laying down on the job, the other is. Well, some