night lights
cowboy night before christmas formerly titled prairie night before christmas
twas a cold christmas eve on the southwestern plain and two lonely cowboys are shivering from the cold . a knock at the door of their sod shanty rouses them and they admit a fat little old man with frost on his whiskers and hat . the old man had been moving a load across the country when his team fled north to escape the panhandle cold . now he must find a new team to help him finish his rounds . in this new twist on the classic tale the two cowboys help the mysterious man round up eight replacement longhorns . together they hitch the cattle up to the odd gents wagon and see him on his way . the two cowboys trudge back to their shanty where they discover the gifts the stranger has left them .
when santas reindeer abandon their job in the midst of a texas storm he enlists the help of two lonely cowpokes so that he can finish his christmas eve rounds .