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Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam recounts a tale from his boyhood.<\/p>\n

Rated:<\/strong>\u00a0 G\u00a0 (3,300 words)<\/p>\n

A Hard Lesson<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sorrel bucked and thrashed wildly about the dirty corral, throwing its head from side to side.\u00a0 Fighting the bitter tasting steel held tightly in its mouth, the frightened horse pulled violently against the restraining rope.\u00a0 Sweat formed to glisten upon the well-defined muscular flanks of the wild stallion while its struggles continued.<\/p>\n

Adam Cartwright pointedly ignored the encouraging shouts and whoops of excitement from the spectators near the corral.\u00a0 He fought to maintain his sole concentration on the task at hand.\u00a0 Heel down, grip rein tighter, shift, spur, toe\u2026<\/p>\n

“Ride ’em Adam!”\u00a0 Sitting atop the corral fence Joe Cartwright excitedly cheered, awed by his oldest brother’s skill at bronc busting.<\/p>\n

“Yore alright, yore fine Thunder!”\u00a0 Standing safely behind the fence nestled between his little brother and father, Hoss shouted reassuring words to the terrified stallion.<\/p>\n

Adam felt a shift to the left and tried to adjust his position in the saddle to accommodate.\u00a0 He hadn’t anticipated the craftiness of his mount when the animal suddenly reversed its direction, unseating him and throwing him into the air.\u00a0 Caught somewhat unaware, Adam fell to the dirt covered ground and landed hard upon his right side.<\/p>\n

Pain lanced through his hip and down his right leg.\u00a0 Dazed by the sharp stab of shooting agony, Adam lay motionless sprawled out face down in the center of the corral.<\/p>\n

Ben Cartwright marveled at his oldest son’s ability to ride the bucking stallion.\u00a0 He could only beam with pride while watching his son’s magnificent ride.\u00a0 His heart rose into his throat when he saw his firstborn fall and didn’t immediately get back up.\u00a0 Quickly climbing over the fence, Ben sped toward his fallen son, with his younger sons on his heels.<\/p>\n

Shaking his head to clear the cobwebs, Adam pulled his sore body onto his knees.\u00a0 He was none to pleased to be abruptly hauled to his feet by strong hands that seemed to appear from nowhere.<\/p>\n

“You alright boy?\u00a0 You’re not hurt?”\u00a0 Ben anxiously inquired giving his son the once over, but not seeing any obvious cuts or scrapes.<\/p>\n

“I’m fine, let me go.”\u00a0 Hating the public display of affection from his doting father, Adam pulled away from the restraining grasps and stepped forward.<\/p>\n

Lancing pain once more coursed through his right hip to his back then raced down his leg.\u00a0 The leg weakened by the sharp tendrils failed to support Adam’s weight and he fell heavily to his knees.<\/p>\n

Now even more worried about his oldest son’s welfare, Ben again grabbed Adam’s upper arm.\u00a0 This time to keep him from moving about.\u00a0 While Hoss hovered nearby, ready to assist his father should he need him.<\/p>\n

“Joe, get the doctor.”\u00a0 Ben barked the order over his shoulder not sparing his youngest a glance.\u00a0 He was trying to insure that Adam didn’t attempt to stand or free himself once again from his grasp.<\/p>\n

As quickly as he could, Joe started to run for the corral fence to do his father’s bidding.<\/p>\n

“Stop right there, Joe!”\u00a0 Adam countermanded, once more struggling to get to his feet while trying to remove his father’s offending hand.\u00a0 Turning he addressed his father with a stern tone.\u00a0 “Pa, I’m fine and I don’t need a doctor.”<\/p>\n

Hearing Adam’s demand, Joe stopped his pace.\u00a0 Turning around, he started to walk back to where his family sat and kneeled upon the dusty ground.<\/p>\n

“Do as I say young man, get Doc Martin!”\u00a0 Angry at having his instructions revoked by his eldest, Ben angrily commanded ignoring Adam’s plea.<\/p>\n

Making an abrupt about face, Joe again began his dash for the corral fence.<\/p>\n

“Joe stop!”\u00a0 Hating the way his father was treating him like some small child.\u00a0 One more time Adam tried to stop what he considered a useless trip for Joe and the Virginia City doctor.<\/p>\n

Joe’s feet once again came to a screeching halt creating a small dust cloud that rose upwards causing him to cough.\u00a0 Waving his hand before his face, he hoped to clear away the dirt that threatened to affix itself inside the nostrils of his nose.\u00a0 In annoyance and feeling like a yo-yo, Joe spun around to address his family.<\/p>\n

“Joseph, now!”\u00a0 Casting a steely-eyed glance toward his oldest son as he continued his struggles to rise from the ground.\u00a0 Ben made it clear what his decision was, and that it was final.<\/p>\n

Seeing that his father had the matter in hand, Joe once again made his way for the gate.\u00a0 Gracefully, he easily cleared the top rail using his hands to vault his body over the fence.\u00a0 Hurdling onto Cochise, he spurred the horse into action and directed him toward town.<\/p>\n

*************<\/p>\n

“Look Pa, it’s just a bruise,” Adam bitterly complained.\u00a0 He resented the way his father and brother, Hoss, had practically carried him from the corral up to the house.\u00a0 He was even more annoyed by the coddling and prying of his well-meaning family.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, and it sure is a mite biggon.”\u00a0 Hoss helpfully added holding the sheet back to examine Adam’s injury.<\/p>\n

“Do you mind!”<\/p>\n

Adam slapped away the large annoying hand that wasn’t helping matters much.\u00a0 He snatched the sheet from his brother’s hand and recovered his lower body to once again hide the injury from his father’s discerning view, and also to regain some semblance of his dignity.\u00a0 Turning an annoyed glare from Hoss, Adam closed his eyes and raised his right hand to pinch the bridge of his nose in frustration.\u00a0 After taking a deep calming breath, he once more attempted to reason with his father.<\/p>\n

“Pa it’s nothing, please it’s just a waste of Paul’s time.”\u00a0 Adam pleaded.<\/p>\n

“Let me be the judge of that.”<\/p>\n

The arrival of a new authoritative voice into the room quickly drew the attention of Adam, Hoss and Ben.<\/p>\n

“Paul, I’m so glad you\u2019re here.\u00a0 He’s hurt that hip\u2026” Rising to greet the town doctor, Ben guided the man over to Adam’s bedside.<\/p>\n

“I see.”\u00a0 Paul Martin was well familiar with the hip in question and could understand Ben’s concern.<\/p>\n

“It’s just a bruise.”\u00a0 Petulant and severely perturbed, Adam endeavored to remain calm.<\/p>\n

“Well then, you won’t mind if I take a look.”\u00a0 Paul Martin evaluated his patient’s mental state with a practiced eye.\u00a0 He placed his medical bag onto the nightstand and frowned, he clearly recognized Adam Cartwright was in a foul mood.<\/p>\n

Adam made a sharp sweep towards his right side with his hand before firmly crossing his arms over his chest.\u00a0 “Go ahead, everybody else has.”\u00a0 Casting a disgusted glare toward his younger brother Hoss, whose eyes rose in a ‘what did I do?’ look.<\/p>\n

“If you’ll excuse us gentlemen.”\u00a0 Doc Martin directed with a slight nod of his head toward the open doorway.<\/p>\n

Understanding completely, Ben lead the way from Adam’s bedroom followed by Hoss who made a point of ignoring his older brother’s irate stare.\u00a0 Reaching the doorway, Hoss pushed Joe ahead of him into the hall before pulling the door closed behind them.<\/p>\n

*************<\/p>\n

“You can come back in now Ben.”\u00a0 Paul Martin bellowed from the doorway to Adam’s room.\u00a0\u00a0 Rolling down his sleeves he walked back to his medical bag on the nightstand and snapped the valise shut.\u00a0 He didn’t have to wait long for Ben and his other boys to appear.<\/p>\n

“How is he?”\u00a0 Ben anxiously inquired, looking first to his son, now dressed in his freshly starched striped nightshirt, then to the family doctor.<\/p>\n

“It looks just to be a bad bruise.”\u00a0 The doctor pronounced slipping his coat on.<\/p>\n

“See, I told you.”<\/p>\n

Ben could tell that Adam’s nasty disposition definitely hadn’t improved.<\/p>\n

“I said it looks like, I didn’t say it was.”\u00a0 The physician corrected, he didn’t care for his patients giving second opinions of his diagnoses.\u00a0 He could tell he now had four sets of confused eyes staring in his direction from different locations in the room.<\/p>\n

“Is it or isn’t it just a bruise?”\u00a0 Hoping for clarification, Ben probed the doctor for a more exact explanation.<\/p>\n

“I said it looks to be.\u00a0 I didn’t find the hip to be broken, but it could still be cracked or fractured.\u00a0 There’s no way of telling at the moment.”\u00a0 Doctor Martin explained, hoping to clear some of the confusion.<\/p>\n

Ben nodded in understanding and looked to Adam, whose disappointment, showed clearly upon his face.<\/p>\n

“Just keep him in bed, and I’ll be back to check on him in a couple of days.”\u00a0 Paul Martin instructed giving his patient a thoughtful glance then placed his hat firmly on his head.<\/p>\n

“Thanks Paul.”\u00a0 Ben gratefully responded, nodding to the doctor as he turned to depart.<\/p>\n

“Doc.”\u00a0 Both Hoss and Joe acknowledged the doctor as he left the room.<\/p>\n

Ben returned his full attention back to his oldest son and recognized the all too well scowl he found.\u00a0 It was his oldest son’s version of a full-blown sulk.\u00a0 Smiling at his eldest’s frustration and knowing how Adam hated being wrong, Ben sat down in the chair beside the bed.<\/p>\n

“Adam, son you know you can’t take any chances with that hip.”\u00a0 Ben tried to placate his son, hoping to make some type of amends.\u00a0 Even though he had always disagreed with Adam’s assessment of his injury.<\/p>\n

“Pa, it’s fine, trust me.”\u00a0 Adam pleaded; he despised being treated like an invalid.<\/p>\n

“I trust you fine son, it’s that hip I don’t trust.”\u00a0\u00a0 Giving his son a warm fatherly smile, Ben pointed a finger towards Adam’s injury.<\/p>\n

“Why don’t you trust his hip?”\u00a0 Curious that he was missing something, Joe pushed away from the wall near the door where he’d been leaning, and approached the bed.\u00a0 Carefully he sat down next to his injured brother.<\/p>\n

“Yeah Pa, what’s wrong with it?”\u00a0 Hoss too didn’t understand what his father or older brother was alluding to.\u00a0 Perching his large frame on the foot railing, he looked to his father and brother for an explanation.<\/p>\n

With a slight tilt of his head and raising his black eyebrows in a silent inquiry, Ben solemnly gazed at his oldest.\u00a0 It was up to Adam if he chose to tell his younger brothers, he would not.<\/p>\n

Seeing his father pass the floor to him, Adam gazed to Little Joe’s intensely inquiring hazel green eyes.\u00a0 Glancing to the foot of the bed, he found the crystal blue ones of Hoss’s calmly waiting for some type of explanation.<\/p>\n

Shrugging his shoulders in acquiescence, Adam dipped his head to the right, staring subconsciously toward his hip before clearing his throat to speak.<\/p>\n

“Really it happened such a long time ago.\u00a0 I was what\u2026”<\/p>\n

“Eight!”\u00a0 Ben abruptly added wanting his son to remember just how young he really was when it happened, just how young and naive.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I guess I was eight.”<\/p>\n

*************<\/p>\n

Adam rolled over and stared at his three-year old brother.\u00a0 He couldn’t believe how much noise that one somewhat large toddler could make while sleeping.\u00a0 Carefully he eased his small frame out of the bed they shared, so not to awaken Hoss.\u00a0 Adam walked over and plopped down on one of the hard wooden benches to the table, which was located in the center of the cabin.\u00a0 Adam snorted in annoyance, there was only one thing his baby brother liked more than napping and that was eating.<\/p>\n

Propping his elbows on the small table before him, Adam rested his chin in his hands.\u00a0 I don’t see why I have to take naps, I’m not a baby like Hoss, I should be out rounding up strays with Pa, he harrumphed to himself.\u00a0 He rolled his eyes when Hoss firmly planted one chubby thumb into his mouth, then started suckling before wrapping a chubby arm around Adam’s pillow to draw it snuggly to his pudgy chest.<\/p>\n

Bored with watching his little brother sleep, Adam glanced about the small one room cabin he shared with his father and Hoss.\u00a0 Finding nothing of interest, Adam left his napping sibling and headed out into the warm sunshine of the Indian summer day.\u00a0 He wandered about the small yard studying some of the late blooming wildflowers and bugs before something caught his eye down at the small corral located not too far from the cabin.<\/p>\n

Looking back toward the cabin where his brother slept, Adam contemplated his next move.\u00a0 Feeling that Hoss would probably sleep for another couple of hours yet, Adam decided he had plenty of time to visit the corral and be back before either his father returned or his brother awoke.<\/p>\n

Running, Adam slid to a stop at the corral gate.\u00a0 He watched in awe as the bay stallion trotted lazily around the enclosure.\u00a0 The animal was the most beautiful thing Adam had ever seen.\u00a0 Its graceful moves held the young boy spellbound.<\/p>\n

Adam stood and studied the horse while it put itself through its paces, before realizing there was a saddle still sitting high upon the horse’s back.\u00a0 Adam knew his father had been working to tame the stallion, and was growing impatient with his father’s slow progress.<\/p>\n

Afterall, all you had to do was sit in the saddle, Adam reasoned, what was so hard about that?<\/p>\n

Feeling all of his eight, almost nine, grown up years; Adam decided to help his old father out and finish the chore of breaking in the horse.\u00a0 Walking over to the corral gate, Adam carefully opened and closed the entrance.<\/p>\n

“Whoa there boy,” Adam softly spoke to the horse like he’d seen his father do.<\/p>\n

The tall strong horse dipped his head and turned a large brown eye, giving the small boy its full attention.\u00a0 Without resistance, it allowed the child to lead it over to the railing of the fence and stood patiently while the boy climbed to the top rail.<\/p>\n

With great ease, Adam lowered his small frame onto the back of the enormous horse to rest lightly in the big saddle.\u00a0 He felt his body slightly jerk as the horse took a step forward, before feeling the pull of the reins in his small hands.\u00a0 Adam wondered what the big deal was in taming this horse, while the animal easily sauntered into the center of the corral.<\/p>\n

Without warning Adam felt the strong buck of the horse as its hind legs flew high into the air and land sharply upon the front.\u00a0 The swift movement caught the boy totally off guard, and Adam found his body sailing high into the air over the big animal’s head.\u00a0 Still surprised and stunned, Adam crashed onto the ground, striking hard upon his right side.\u00a0 The frightened boy was unable to stifle the cry that was emitted from his lips when the pain coursed through his body.\u00a0 Scared Adam stared upward at the menacing horse that towered over him.\u00a0 The horse snorted in derision as though the lesson was complete and returned to the side of the corral.<\/p>\n

In sheer tormenting pain, Adam tried to draw his body up to stand.\u00a0 He knew he needed to get out of the corral and away from the horse.\u00a0 Trying to pull himself onto his knees, he found that his right leg wouldn’t respond and fell back onto his side.\u00a0 A strangle groan escaped his mouth and bitter tears coursed down his face as intense agony rushed over him.\u00a0 Unable to stand or walk, and now unable to crawl, Adam began to pull himself from the corral.<\/p>\n

*************<\/p>\n

Ben Cartwright rode into the small yard of the cabin he shared with his two small boys.\u00a0 He was hot and covered with mud and sweat after spending the majority of the afternoon wrestling to free the few head of cattle he owned from a muddy bog.\u00a0 He was looking forward to a hopefully cool and quiet evening with his sons.<\/p>\n

Dismounting, Ben glanced toward the open doorway to the small shack and shuttered as some type of paternal six sense warned him that something was definitely amiss.\u00a0 Rushing forward he stopped at the entrance to his dwelling.\u00a0 There, still sleeping peacefully in his bed with his right thumb secured between his lips, was his youngest boy Hoss.\u00a0 His oldest boy, Adam, was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Returning to the yard, Ben scanned the nearby area for his child.\u00a0 His heart lurched as he saw the raven-haired head and small form, clad in a red checkered shirt and faded denims, slowly pulling itself along the rocky ground toward him.\u00a0 Ben raced toward his son calling out his name.<\/p>\n

Adam looked up at the sound of the familiar voice and felt enormous relief mixed with anxiety wash over him.\u00a0 He was grateful that his father was there and could help him, but he dreaded what his father would do when he found out about him riding the horse.<\/p>\n

Within moments Ben reached his injured son and kneeling took the small boy into his arms.\u00a0 With his thumb he gently wiped some of the tear-streaked dirt from the boy’s soft silken cheeks, while he searched the young boy’s face and body for injury.<\/p>\n

Adam hissed in pain when his father gathered him into his arms.\u00a0 It took all of his control to fight the urge to cry out.\u00a0 Exhausted by his agonizing exertions and now feeling safe in his father’s loving embrace, Adam drifted into unconsciousness.<\/p>\n

*************<\/p>\n

“Ya broke yore hip?”\u00a0 Hoss was amazed, being so young at the time, he never knew.<\/p>\n

“Bet ya got the tanning of your life for riding that horse?”\u00a0 Joe prodded and teased.\u00a0\u00a0 He relished the thought that his sensible oldest brother had gotten into some type of dumb trouble.\u00a0 The same type of trouble that Adam was always riding his case over.<\/p>\n

“No, no actually he didn’t.\u00a0 Considering the circumstances, I figured he’d been punished enough.”\u00a0 Mentally, Ben sadly recalled the vision of his beloved firstborn’s suffering over being bed ridden for months with his leg splinted and hip strapped unable to move.\u00a0 He could also remember the torture that Adam endured as he struggled to learn how to stand, then walk and finally run again.<\/p>\n

“Oh, I got punished alright.”\u00a0 Adam corrected, “I pay for it every time the weather changes, or I’ve spent a long day in the saddle or some ornery beast decides to dump me on my sorry backside.”<\/p>\n

Joe and Hoss nodded in silent understanding; they had both broken bones, which caused them grief when the outdoor climate grew wet or cold.<\/p>\n

Little Joe looked to his oldest brother in a newfound understanding.\u00a0 He now understood some of his brother’s moods and dispositions.\u00a0 Often through the years he watched his brother while Adam struggled to stand, sometimes thrusting his chest forward, then twisting at the waist in an awkward angle to his hips and legs.\u00a0 He now realized the pain his brother must be enduring to stand in his hip shod way, or to take each agonizing step.\u00a0 Joe also understood the sorrowful expression he found upon his father’s face, when his Pa clenched his fists until the fingers turned white in distress, over his inability to help or assist his fiercely independent son.<\/p>\n

It was a hard lesson that Adam had learned at a very young and tender age.\u00a0 He also reasoned why Adam was always so bossy and protective of him, Adam was just trying to prevent him from making the same mistakes.\u00a0 Vowing to cut his oldest brother a little more slack in the future, Little Joe decided it was time to lighten the growing somber mood.<\/p>\n

“Say, anybody up for a little horse riding.\u00a0 Adam’s gonna show us all how it’s done!”\u00a0 Teasingly the youngest Cartwright broke out into a silly giggle, until he felt something soft and fluffy, in the form of Adam’s pillow, smack into the side of his head knocking him ungracefully to the hardwood floor.<\/p>\n

The End<\/p>\n

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