This is old blowers and I'm gonna tell you a story today about This old boy that lives down here is probably gonna take me Three or four podcasts is to tell you about him because he is a real interesting person His name is Billy Cypress is what his name is but some people calls him Cowboy because he always dresses up and you know cowboy clothes Western Western closes what they call him, you know, he's always got a big cowboy hat on and you know one of them Western shirts and and he He ain't got a whole lot of money, but he gets these clothes from somewhere and he is Like I say, they call him cowboy for that reason and some people calls him he hot shot They call him hot shot because he you know, he talks a whole lot and he he likes to brag and and talk about what he's gonna Do but all of the kids around here just think the world of old Old cowboy, especially the little kids, you know They follow him around and look up to him and and treat him like a hero and the reason that they do that is because over Oh Billy is you he's good to all of them He don't think he's too big to talk to him and if somebody wants to talk to Billy don't make any difference if he's six years old Oh Billy, he'll talk to him, you know, make him make him feel big, you know, and they like that and Another thing that that Billy will do is he'll look out for all of the little kids and make sure that don't nobody Mistreat one of them and we had this little old boy down here one time just to give you a sample of what I'm talking about We had this boy down here They called him Pee-wee as little bit boy and he had this speech impediment, you know, he couldn't talk plain and so Most people know about him and they looked out for him, but some of the kids got to making fun of O.P. Way and And Billy heard him and he come in there and he said now I better not hear nothing like that again And so he took O.P. We with him to come on Pee-wee said we ain't gonna have nothing to do with these people well That that worked for a while, but then one day O. Billy Zafras come by and this old boy was talking, you know, making fun of Pee-wee and and trying to imitate him, you know, and This was the boy they called him Bozy Crawford's what they called him big big mouth boy that Everybody knew it didn't nobody like him But he was making fun of O.P.
Wee and the first thing no, don't Billy Zafras picked Bozy up and throw him in my stock pond down there carrying him down there and throw him in there and said now If you do that again, you're gonna get worse You're gonna get worse than what you got this time and he said what's worse than being thrown upon He said the only thing I can think of is you getting drowned in and that's what's gonna happen Well, he didn't mean that of course because Billy wouldn't he really wouldn't hurt nobody, but he don't he don't take no You know mistreatment of other people around whether you're talking about a person or animal Billy is good to everybody and he just wouldn't Wouldn't allow nobody to you know to mistreat somebody else. Well, anyway, what I'm what I'm leading up to is this that he He was up there at school. You know Billy is he 16 years old plays for the football team and So he was up there at school and he heard these this old Bozy again making fun of this girl she was well, she was a little on the heavy side and Bozy was calling her names. I won't go into who he called her but Billy heard him and he come up and grabbed him said Bozy I told you about that well scared O Bozy to death and Billy got him by the belt and come in slapping him real hard with his hand and So my girl Emily was telling me about this I didn't see it, but she goes up there to school and she was telling me about it and she told me she said I Looked up and he said I seen Super intended up there standing on the porch and she said I was wondering why the teachers didn't stop it But said he was standing there and they expected that that he would stop it But he didn't he let old Billy slap him around a time or two and didn't Billy took him by the belt and and Bozy was saying Billy I won't do it no more.
I won't do it no more I swear I won't do it no more and Billy said well just to make sure that you don't said I'm gonna hang you up on the floor And he grabbed him by the belt and there's just they had this you know flagpole there in front of the school where they hung the flag Every day and Billy tied that rope over to his belt He said I'm gonna hang you up and leave you up there for a few minutes And then maybe you'll learn you lesson and that boy got to Holland and said oh Billy Please don't hang me up on a flagpole or Billy started pulling him up and he got him up about a hit high and the superintendent finally Spoken he said that's enough Billy. He said let him down. So Billy did you know he wasn't gonna? He expected to superintendents, so he let him down, but he told Bozy He said if you ever do that again, he said I'm gonna wait till the superintendent ain't here and he said I'm gonna hang you up there so they Bozy went on off but that afternoon he was bragging about how you know he Billy was scared to put him up on the flagpole and Billy come by and heard him You know you'd think some people would learn but some people just don't learn they just they let the mouth overload their brain and so Billy heard him and he grabbed him and he said well He said the superintendent here now and said you going up that pole and he took him over there to the school wasn't anybody there but Lot of the kids was there because they saw the whole thing and they went up there to see you Billy would sure enough hang him up on the pole and so Billy tied that rope on the Bozy Bozy was hollering and and Billy drawn him all the way up to the top of the pole had that rope tied around his belt you know where he wouldn't fall and he Dropped all the way up to the top of the pole and he left him up there about 30 minutes and Bozy was bleeding.
Oh Billy let me down let me down and Billy said well have you heard have you learned your lesson and Bozy said Yeah, Billy I've learned it. I've learned it and Billy'd say I don't believe you have and he left him up I guess it was 30 minutes. Oh, Jimmy Vanderstig was telling me about it and so anyway he let him down and Bozy's he I think he learned his lesson that time because he ain't he done nothing You ain't heard a peep out of Bozy since so Billy hung him up to the top of the flag pole But anyway, that just gives you some idea about how Billy he just won't take no nothing off of nobody if they're being mean to somebody He just don't don't allow it and you know kids can control that stuff, you know better than adults can and so Billy he had a remedy for Bozy Crawford. I guarantee you but Billy you know his daddy died when Billy was little About three years old his daddy got gored by bull.
He was They had this old bull in the corral and Bull bus you through the fence and his daddy was you know trying to get out of his way into bull gored him and and killed him and That was it was awful thing, but it happened and so Billy's momma didn't you know they didn't have no insurance or nothing and so Olah Uncle Fred He's this rich man up here that I told you about and he He said that he wasn't he had his house up there that didn't nobody live in that and he used to rent it out But it was empty at that time and he told old Billy's mama. Oh Sally He said now Sally I ain't gonna give you the house, but he said you can live in this house free of charge I ain't gonna charge you nothing and So he said you just stay there as long as you need to so they moved into that house That's been well, let's see Billy was Billy's 15 now so that was about 12 years ago and they've been there ever since and oh uncle Fred ain't Ain't charge them nothing, but I was gonna tell you that just to show you what kind of a person Billy Oh hot shot is well he Come up to Uncle Fred when he was about 12 years old he went over to Uncle Fred's and he said Uncle Fred is anything that you need Done. He said I'm here to help you and so Uncle Fred You know he he gave him a lot of chores to do He let him you know clean out his his chicken house that chicken house had been cleaned in in years and Billy Cypress cleaned out that chicken house and he he chopped wood for Uncle Fred, you know, he always gets his wood in every year and Uncle Fred, you know was going to pay him one time because Uncle Fred He's kind of crotchety, you know, but but he is a good man. He really is so he told Billy He's gonna pay him and Billy said no he said I don't want no money He said you've been giving us a house free for years and he said my mom I ain't got no money to pay you but he said I can work for you and Uncle Fred said well Billy you don't you don't need to do that And Billy said no, I know I don't need to but he said that's the right thing to do and he said I'm gonna do it so Billy works for Uncle Fred anytime Uncle Fred has some work he needs done well Billy'll go up there and do it and He don't never take no pay for it and I told Billy I said Billy I said you know that old man and said he's got plenty of money if he wants to pay you all to let him do it And he said well, no, I can't do that.
He said You know he's give us that house and ain't never once asked us to pay him no rent and he said if I can help him He said it makes me feel better city kind of you know said my conscience gets to bother me Well, that just shows you what kind of a person oh Billy Cypress is but anyway I'm gonna stop here But I'm gonna tell you some more about Billy Cypress when I get time I tell you he he is I told you that he's kind of borsers You know he talks a lot and that's his only fault is that he likes to brag and and he wants to be a big shot to everybody And in all the kids, you know, they like him I like I told you they he just got more friends than anybody in his country and so I'm gonna tell you some more about him and some some of the stuff that he has did around here But that that just lets you know the person that I'm talking about but like I say He they called him cowboy and some people calls him hot shot, but he is a good old boy And he's worked for me a time or two, but I'll tell you all this in the next podcast is