......... LUNCHBOX STORIES
by john rustywire

Cow Walkers

talked with a group of skins and someone mentioned they had seen a cow walker in the fields out by the river. the brush is thick near there and at night there is the sound of breaking branches and the sky was really dark. it was during this time someone heard a cow walker making the rounds. how strange a word, cow walker, what is that you are talking about. in this country it is said there are skin walkers, those that have certain mystical powers to shift their shapes, but it has been a long time since anyone has had the power, but some have tried to do it.

the ones that know a little and try to do those things of the night, those people we call 'cow walkers' since they scare mainly the cows and every once in a while someone who is sitting at home.

they lurk in the shadows and move about clumsily in the dark, they are not fast and some are not really shape shifters but think they are and they are cow walkers...they don't frighten anyone, nor do they bring good or evil, but go about walking about like cows, with no particular place to go....

oh, I said...i have not seen any of those...they people there, those natives looked at me and said, you will, they find a way to let you know they are there...i looked about me and stared into the brush... I wonder where these cow walkers are...