The Legend of Rope Wrasslin' Sadie One scorchin’ day Out West, a long, long time ago, there lived the smartest Cowgirl anybody ever met, and the kindest. Her name was Sadie. That thar day, Sadie noticed thar was an unusually strong wind, and that evenin’ she also noticed it was considerably chilly. She was up all night tryin’ to figure out why this unusual change in the weather was occurrin’.
Sadie had two, young wildcats named Cinnamon & Sugar, who were havin’ a tussle; snarlin’, bitin’, and scratchin’ they were. They had already hit her around four times, and scratched her exactly twice and the third time was the stick that broke the horse’s back. That was the second time they broke her train of thought, and she yelled, “You two dadgum scoundrels.” And with that tossed Sugar into the other room of her two room cabin. Well, Cinnamon didn’t like that so she bit Sadie. Sadie was mad, and she put Cinnamon in the other room, and brought Sugar in with her. Sugar went to sleep, so Sadie wasn’t disturbed again, except for Cinnamon scratchin’ up a storm on the door.
By mornin’, Sadie was awful hungry from doin’ all that thinkin’, so she got out a plate, (made from a table top), made seven dozen pieces of toast, twelve dozen eggs, nine dozen pieces of bacon, and a cup of coffee, (the cup was made from a hollowed out tree stump-a big tree stump.) When she had eaten her breakfast, drank her coffee, and fed Cinnamon & Sugar, she went outside to see if it was warmer than it was the evenin’ before. But the temperature had dropped even more. She went inside, thought around sixteen more hours, and then, lightning struck. She left with her trusty rope the moment her plan was completely devised, but the farther she went, the colder it got. Until she met ice and snow-storms so bad she had to turn back. So disappointedly, Sadie turned homeward.
At her cabin, she waited two hours, ‘til she was so impatient, she set out with her trusty rope two or three minutes after the storms hit her house. But Sadie didn’t care. She pushed through that storm as if she had been doin’ it all her life. She pushed on and on and on and on and ever so on, it seemed like she had been goin’ on forever. Then, ahead it looked like something really bright, she thought it was the sun, and it was! Sadie felt as if she were almost in Paradise. About fifty-six miles ahead, she would be directly under the sun. So, she walked the distance, and when she was under the sun, Sadie took out her trusty rope, made a lasso, swung it round and round and round, round , round! No one to this day knows how many times that rope went round. THEN! Sadie let it fly! It took about thirty-six hours to reach the sun. It smoothly encircled it, then, Sadie tightened the rope and pulled. She did it! Sadie had hog-tied that sun!
She pushed on towards home, dragging the sun behind her. It was more difficult going back home than it had been going to the sun, because for one thing she was dragging the sun, and the other thing is, there was such a strong wind, and it was blowin’ right in her face, and tryin’ to push her back, but Sadie got through the wind, and when she arrived home, the storm was at it’s worst.
When the sun appeared, it started to melt everything, and within three or four hours, everything was melted and back to normal-except for the wind. Now the wind was the problem! The wind was blowin’ so hard, all the cowboys of Texas suddenly found themselves skinny-dippin’ in the Pacific.
Sadie thought for two days, and during that time, Cinnamon &
Sugar had some of the worst fights ever. They hit her fifteen to
nineteen times, and scratched her exactly twenty-six times. But they never broke her concentration, lucky for them, because if they had, Sadie probably would have put them outside in exile, and they would have been blown clear out of the state. Everything else was: people, buildings, the few trees and bushes there are, and, even whole crops. The wind would just pick up the soil that was underneath, and you would see a crop bouncing and blowing away-right before you were picked up off the ground. At the end of those two days, Sadie had devised a plan.
She went out all over the world collecting millions and millions, even trillions and trillions of rocks. Then she put them in a huge pile, and again, went out into the world, and mortar. When she had gotten all the the mortar she needed, she began to build a wall. It took her two-and-a-half weeks to build a five-hundred and sixty-seven mile high wall around Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Ol’ Californy, and Colorado. When Sadie was done, she ate twenty-six dozen eggs, nineteen dozen pieces of bacon, and twenty-two dozen pieces of toast and washed it all down with sixteen cups of coffee. Since this happened so long ago, that big wall has disintegrated and been torn down. But, if you are on the border of one of those states, and you think you see a pile of bricks or rocks, it could possibly be the wall Sadie built so long ago. And that is how she got her nickname, "Rope Wrasslin' Sadie." The End
If you liked my tall tale, maybe you would enjoy the "Room 12, Third Grade Tall Tales." If you own an older set of books called My Book House, you can read the following tall tales:
Casey Jones, "Song of the Railroad Men," Book 5, page 64 Graphics used on this page courtesy of
by Mary, grade 5
"Pecos Bill, the Cowboy," Book 4, p. 193
"Old Stormalong," Book 4, p. 183
"The Story of Big Paul Bunyan," Book 4, p. 161
