Caleb, Chikara, Harmony, Anik and John, trotted to a stop all of them panting hard.
They had been running all day, they were still in there training for the racing careers that would be starting soon and this had been the hardest day so fair. Josh had put a lot of weight in the sleg. A lot of the trails had been up hill and in soft snow like powder so the sleg dug in.
“Dam… this Is shit…he’s working us …to death”, anik said angrily throw pants, he laid down in the snow.
“Yeah I agree with you there”, came harmony voice she had never been made to run like that.
Harmony laid down with chikara followed her.
“Yeah … My master …..would never work me like this…… my paws are killing me”.
Caleb didn’t say much but he laid down to eating some snow for water, panting hard.
John still stood panting as hard as the others, he was use to the weight they were pulling but not the pace they had run at, his old joints were killing him. His muscles acing, but it was nothing he wasn’t use to. He thanked the very havens that his last job had been hauling heavy loads other wise he would not have been ready for this.
But as he got his breath back and listened to the others he growled lightly.
Thanks to his past, he had been trade to never complain and to do so was a big deal and would be punished servily by the other dogs and human masters. So it had breed into him at a early age do dislike it. You deal with it no mater what it is, even if it stops you moven you just sit down or let others no you cant go on, you don’t moan about it. Ovesly there were exceptions to this rule, like if your injury was so servier that you would be screaming, yelping in pain wasn’t moaning it was just hurting moaning to john was complaining bascily.
They were all young but that was no excuse, but growling and yelling at them wouldn’t help, and it was no longer in his character.
Then a ider popped into his mind.
John moved into more open space and snarled loudly at them all.
“lisen to ya, its like a bunch of little wimpy pups GET a grip, let me tell you about a real dog that nose how to work for his food”, he said angrily. He took a step back and got ready to sing, he hadn’t song for them yet and this would be the first time. He suddenly regretted his ider but it was to late to go back now, he was after all a good singer and story tell so why the hell not.
John henry's pappy woke him up one midnight
He said before the master comes I wanna tell you, listen boy
Said learn to hoist a jack, and learn to find a track, learn to help and save a human too, and take my harness, it'll do anything you tell it to
John henry's mammy had about a dozen puppys, john henry's pappy broke kennels a dozen times
The babies all got sick and when the humans wanted work, he said i'll pay you day at a time, startin' tomorrow, that's the work for a steel driver on this line
Then the section foreman said hey sleg puller, I see you brought you own harness boy, but what else can all those muscles do?
And he said, I can hoist a jack, I can find a track, I can help and save a human too
And he said "can you pull that sleg ?"
I can i'll do anything you hire me to
Now ain't you something so high and mighty with your muscles, just go ahead hoist that sleg and show me what you can do
He said get a heavy sleg and try pull that sleg three times, i'll pay you a nickel a day for every inch you pull it to, go on and do what you say you can do
With a thick band harness on a sleg piled with steel, john henry rared back till he stood on his back legs, then he tugged at the sleg and moved it three feet with ease, a hole day for driving steel
(He said sweat boy, sweat, you owe me two more tugs)
I was born for driving steel
Well john henry drived in the mountain, he'd give a grunt and he'd give groan with every step, the women folks for miles around, heard him and come down, to watch him make the cold snow ring, lord what a driver, just listen to that cold snow ring
But the bad boss come up laughing at john henry, said you full of vinegar now, but you bout through, were gonna get a steam train to do your share of driven, then what's all them muscles gonna do, huh john henry, gonna take a little bit of vinegar out of you
John henry said I feed four little brothers, and my baby sister's walking on her knees, did the lord say that machines ought to take the place of living, and what's a substitute for meat and bones, I ain't seen it, do engines get rewarded for their steam
John henry said to his captain, a dog ain't nothin' but a dog, but if you bring that steam train round, i'll beat it fair and honest, i'll die with my harness on my body, but i'll be laughing, because you cant replace a steel drivin' dog
There was a big crowd of people at the mountain, john henry said to the steam train how is you, pardon me mister steam train, I suppose you didn't hear me, I said how you, well can you hoist jack, can you find a track, can you help and save a human too, listen this sleg puller talkin' to you
2000 people hollered go john henry, then somebody hollered the mountains caving in, john henry told the captain, tell the kind folks not to worry, that ain't nothin' but my sleg slishing snow, keeps me breathing, a steel drivers muscle I intend
Captain tell the people move back further, i'm at the finish line and I ain't no train, she's so far behind you ain't got the brains to quit it, when she blows up she'll scatter cross the hills, lord lord, when she blows up she'll scatter cross the hills
Well john henry had a little woman, I believe the lady's name was polly ann, yeah that was his good woman, john henry threw his harness over his shoulder and went on home, and early next morning he said come here polly ann come here sugar, ya know,iv laying here watching the sun come up I believe this is the first time I couldn't come up with it
Take my harness polly ann and go to that rail road, and when your pullen with the lead dog, tell them that's not all I can do, tell 'em I can hoist a jack, and I can find a track, I can help and save a human too, ain't no machine can, that's been proved to you
There was a big crowd of mourners at the church house, the section hands laid him in the sand, trains go by on the rails john henry laid, they slow down and take off their hats, when they come to the place john henrys laid, rests on his back, some say mornin' steel driver you sure were a sled puller, then they go along pickin' up speed, clicktey clak, clicktey clak, yonder lies a steel driven dog oh lord, yonder lies a steel driven dog, yonder lies a steel driven dog oh lord, yonder lies a steel driven dog
John finished his song panting still, he then sat down him self. “now that dog john was a real dog he helped carry the steel rails for the humans train tracks all them years ago, and he was a monster of a dog, they said he could pull two slegs tied to gether wooo tell me that ant a real dog, and do you think he complaned hell no, so stop your belly aching.
John then laid down and started to sing another little tune more to him self then to the others.
(hope you enjoyed that a little ider i thought up lol, i reworked a john cash song a little to fit dogs and johns stoy telling and i tell you it was bloody hard to try and make it work as best as i could, but wile you read this lisen to this song this is the orignal and it will help you under stand how he is singing it
and please please tell me what you think and if you want replie as if you chars were responding to it like the rp that be awsome)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Hdobado20
