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[Delmonico]

With GG and Trinity gone sellin' whiskey to the minors, oops, miners.   Delmonico starts to clean up the house.      There is a lot of sawdust around, that is swept up and put in a barrel out in the back entry way.       Duke takes the rugs out and gives them a good shakin'.  Among the junk, Delmonico finds a couple of pair of worn out boots.   

"Duke, in about an hour we should be done here and we can run out and hang these on fence posts out along the road.

[gophergrease]

Del. done told me were your stills are. He wanted me to put them figs in them. Dont worry none, I told him that be to mean a thing to do.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico throws the boots over his saddle, "Come on Duke we'll go down by the road and hang these on the fence posts.  I'll bet that will drive the Greenhorns and Dudes crazy wonderin' why.  It will give folklorist's all kinds of things to do tryin' to figure it out.  The funny thing is few will really think that we are just tryin' to drive them crazy."

[Trinity]

While loading up the buckboard with stock from the still secret still (as apposed to the decoy stills) Trinity samples the product and ponders Delmonico's strange fixation on fences when he remembers a song from his days in Texas:

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,
Don't fence me in.
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love,
Don't fence me in.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees,
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don't fence me in.

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies.
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can't look at hovels and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies,
Don't fence me in.
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love,
Don't fence me in.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise.
Ba boo ba ba boo.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.
No.
don't you fence me in

[Trinity]

Trinity wraps up loading the buckboard and just as he is leaving he remembers the special brew he made for AnnieLee:

"Whew!  Ah almost fergot mah grain brew what that German feller taught me when he came ta learn how ta grow 'baccer from mah family.  Funny, Ole Delmonico ain't missed none of them peppermint sticks from his coffee bags!"

[Silver Creek Slim]

Delmonico throws the boots over his saddle, "Come on Duke we'll go down by the road and hang these on the fence posts.  I'll bet that will drive the Greenhorns and Dudes crazy wonderin' why.  It will give folklorist's all kinds of things to do tryin' to figure it out.  The funny thing is few will really think that we are just tryin' to drive them crazy."

I figgered as much. 

Slim rides up to the ranch house towing a Jersy cow and a pack horse with chicken crates tied to it. He takes his saddle bags off his horse and goes in the house. He wipes his feet and yells,"Del, are ya around?"

[Delmonico]

When Slim steps inta the kitchen, he sees that Delmonico's office door is locked again and there are strange clompin' noises coming out from time to time.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"What in tarnation are ya doin' in there, Del?"

[Delmonico]

Helpin' Gopher Grease, he's gonna make us a German Chock-0-lite cake when he gets in tonight.    Why, what did you think I was doin'?

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Try'n ta wear out some boots ta put on more fence posts."  "By the by, I brought some brown lay'n hen and a rooster so'z we can have our own eggs. I also brought a mik cow so'z we can have fresh milk and butter. I'll go put 'em away."

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

 (Far, far away, sitting in a cube in DC, AnnieLee thinks about brown yard eggs and how she's stopped buying white eggs, and how she pays yuppy "organic" prices for something as simple as a yard egg, and how it was Slim's talking about it that sent her off that way and ruined her for white eggs, so... she stops for a moment to realize:

It's ALL Slim's Fault.


AnnieLee... when she types inside the parenthesis, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother can't see her text )

[Silver Creek Slim]

(Far, far away, sitting in a cube in DC, AnnieLee thinks about brown yard eggs and how she's stopped buying white eggs, and how she pays yuppy "organic" prices for something as simple as a yard egg, and how it was Slim's talking about it that sent her off that way and ruined her for white eggs, so... she stops for a moment to realize:

It's ALL Slim's Fault.


AnnieLee... when she types inside the parenthesis, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother can't see her text )

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother, who had been quietly and invisibly sitting on the far side of the seat of the buckboard, sniffing for that peppermint corn squeezings, tilts her invisible head.
"A cow? Fresh milk?!? I'm there!" She exclaims, forgetting she is in stealth mode.

With a scattering of glittering sawdust, she *poofs* away from the buckboard and back to the house, where she reappears, once more getting sawdust on Delmonico's floor.

Grabbing up a pail and a small stool, she runs outside to the cow.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico comes out of his office and puts a bowl of chopped up coconut on the table.  "Here's the coconut for GG's German Chock-o-Lite cake.  Ya ought to see what I found that is really wild and awsome!"

[Trinity]

Trinity walks into the kitchen carying a bottle and looks at the coconut.  "What's that white stuff fer, Delmonico??  It looks like white wood shavings.  Ya want me ta sweep it away?

Hey, y'ain't seen Miss FFG or Gophergrease, have ya?"

Receiving no response to either questions, Trinity takes the bottle and leaves it in AnnieLee's room before Delmonico desides to speak and asks him about it.  He returns to the kitchen and looks for something to sweep the white shavings up with.

[Delmonico]

From his closed office door, Delmonico hollors, "Don't you touch that shredded coconut, GG is gonna make us a German Chock-O-Lite cake."   

Suddenly the sound of a horse riddin' up to the house is heard.  Trinity heads to the door and opens it to see who it is.  Outside is Delmonico bangin' the two halves of the coconut shell together.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Del, that's a neat trick. Sounds just like hoss hooves." 
"By the by, did ya get a butter churn the last time ya ordered stuff from town?"

[Delmonico]

No I didn't, ya never tolt me we was gonna need one.       Ya better bring one back from Wissyconsion next week.  Butter churns better if it has sat a while anyway.

[Trinity]

Meanwhile, Trinity is still looking outside for the visitors.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother comes back from the cow with a pail full of milk. On her way inside, she stops to give Trinity a happy kiss on the cheek.