Ted Danson
ted danson strode in the dust across the plain his heart just as big as
the sky that arced over him like eternity and was clear and blue and
cold. ted was a minister of some renown but that renown was usually for
drowning his baptisms and stealing what they owned and making for the
next town. in his coat pocket he carried a watch left to him by his
grandfather a railroad man who had had a lot of success killing indians
by murdering buffalo and across his back was strapped the elephant
rifle his father had left to him for killing men who would be
inconvenient if left alive.
in the old days before he was a minister and a killer ted was a rover and a killer riding down men who would offend him in town out in the open at night under the starry sky eyes ablaze in the firelight like a wolf and just as cunning and not afraid of the man dozing in his kit.
that was how ted danson run into a man named herman gerhardt a presbyterian minister from the east who had come west looking for a wife and a bit of a congregation to get his life started fresh. old ted had come upon him in the night and sat by his fire and shared his food and offered to walk with the minister as far as salt lake but broke his neck after two days of idle sermonizing and assumed the ministers clothing and manner and went on his way.
he must have drowned near to twenty people before the law finally caught up to him down around tucson. Women and babies and men old and young died by his saving and none could account for his wickedness even when they had him caught and asked him flat out why he done it. ted danson hadn't an idea as to why he was the most terrible son of a bitch most anyone could remember though the memory of the people in that land was mostly fresh and the land itself didnt care much one way or another.
ted danson was brought out on a windy day in early april, trotting out to the tree and the horse and the rope with his hands behind his back and the ministers stinking coat in tatters on his thin frame. the sheriff of the posse took him to the tree and another man stepped up and shot ted through the heart and then again the head to make sure and a detail of the congregations faithful laid him to rest head first in a hole that had been dug for a well that hadn't come up wet after allowing his body to stiffen up a bit before getting tipped on end and dumped in a maw that might have been hell if it were not fitting for a man without remorse to end up that way
later someone went out to the covered up pit and laid a sign that read: do unto those what they would have surely done to you and though there was clucking and disapproval amidst the good citizens of tucson none made any motion to take it down.
in the old days before he was a minister and a killer ted was a rover and a killer riding down men who would offend him in town out in the open at night under the starry sky eyes ablaze in the firelight like a wolf and just as cunning and not afraid of the man dozing in his kit.
that was how ted danson run into a man named herman gerhardt a presbyterian minister from the east who had come west looking for a wife and a bit of a congregation to get his life started fresh. old ted had come upon him in the night and sat by his fire and shared his food and offered to walk with the minister as far as salt lake but broke his neck after two days of idle sermonizing and assumed the ministers clothing and manner and went on his way.
he must have drowned near to twenty people before the law finally caught up to him down around tucson. Women and babies and men old and young died by his saving and none could account for his wickedness even when they had him caught and asked him flat out why he done it. ted danson hadn't an idea as to why he was the most terrible son of a bitch most anyone could remember though the memory of the people in that land was mostly fresh and the land itself didnt care much one way or another.
ted danson was brought out on a windy day in early april, trotting out to the tree and the horse and the rope with his hands behind his back and the ministers stinking coat in tatters on his thin frame. the sheriff of the posse took him to the tree and another man stepped up and shot ted through the heart and then again the head to make sure and a detail of the congregations faithful laid him to rest head first in a hole that had been dug for a well that hadn't come up wet after allowing his body to stiffen up a bit before getting tipped on end and dumped in a maw that might have been hell if it were not fitting for a man without remorse to end up that way
later someone went out to the covered up pit and laid a sign that read: do unto those what they would have surely done to you and though there was clucking and disapproval amidst the good citizens of tucson none made any motion to take it down.