Annie says men be nice to the women in your lives

 Annie says men be nice to the women in your lives

fiction 

edward pritchard

Annie Oakley says men be nice to the women in your lives. 

Born Phoebe, Annie suffered and fretted as a child and teenager. Many a morning living on the border of Ohio and Indiana in the 19th century she stood with Jupiter to her back and looked West to where cold red Mars drooped in the Western sky and dreamed of a life of freedom  as a pistolero. Still Annie never used her marksman skills to do evil like Wild Bill or Doc Holiday. 

Two hundred times Annie shot a cigar or cigarette out of her husbands mouth in the Buffalo Bill show and always remained a demur lady. Once it was rumored chief Sitting Bull bowed to the little lady out of respect. Men be kind to the Women in your lives.

I wonder if Phoebe cooked, cleaned and sewed.