Newbrassky

[Delmonico]

As Slim walks to the chicken coop he steps on a bunch of straw that covers a hole that is 10 feet deep with 5 feet of chicken poop in it.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Where did he git 5' of chicken do-do? 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

And in a blink of an eye, the crown of every hat Delmonico owns, including his 10X, including the one on his head (even if it is a hat made from a bandana), is filled with chicken poop.

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother lifts Slim out of the pit of poop and fills it with dirt.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Thankee kindly, ma'am. I wonder how that got there? I think I'm in need of a bath fer I go back to Wiscooooooooooooonsin fer the weekend." Slim takes a bath, gets dressed, says his goodbyes to the FFG, gets in the saddle, and rides northeast.

Slim

[Delmonico]

Dern it he left afore I got back, I wanted him to google and find out what the white stuff in chicken poop is.

As Slim rides off away from the sunset, the dyin' light shines on a sign that says:  "Kick Me and My Horse."

[Trinity]

Trinity walks in and says: "Ah think these warmer temperatures have done made you all crazy!  Why is ever' one covered in chicken poop??"

He glances quickly over at the FFG and is relieved to see her poop free.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother squints a sharp look at Delmonico and mutters under her breath: "Have to watch him every second."

Seeing Trinity, her face blossoms into a wide smile.

[Delmonico]

The FFg walks into the house, as she opens the door a bucket falls, like a bad gag in an old si-o-lent movin' picture.  But no water in the bucket, and now she is covered with chicken poop.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

...Which immediately turns into sparkling sawdust, giving her a mystical aura as she walks.

[Trinity]

  Immediately Trinity ducks into a ball peeking at Delmonico from beneath his elbow.  "It's gonna happen any minute now!  It were nice knowin' ya Del!!"

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother calls Duke to her, they go upstairs to her cupola, and she closes the door.

[Trinity]

Trinity searches all over the house and finds no one available and the FFg's door still closed with Duke inside.  All alone, he decides to rest on the porch in his new hammock.

[Delmonico]

By late afternoon the Yaller Dog fumes build up to the point the FFg has to open a window.

Duke has been raidin' the icebox again.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother comes back downstairs. Duke follows after her, wearing a very sheepish smile. Behind Duke wafts his "icebox cloud."

"I need a blacksmith to rig a latch for the icebox. A dog-proof latch."

[Delmonico]

Delmonico gets a ruler and measures and draws on a piece of paper.  He then writes a note, puts in an en-ver-lope and hans it to the rider that comes through the yard.

[Trinity]

Trinity is still asleep in the hammock.  He is tossing and turning, apparently in the middle of a dream.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Coffee mug in hand, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother steps out on the porch to greet the new day. She glides over to the swinging hammock and looks down at the restless Trinity. Reaching out, she soothes his brow with a fingertip, then takes a seat in her rocker.

[Trinity]

Trinity awakens suddenly drenched in sweat and struggles to sit up.  Seeing the FFG over in the rocker, he greets her with a wide smile:  "Mornin' ma'am!  Whew!  Ah shore had me a wald dream.  It was 'bout a man with a funny lookin' hat what fought funny but broke men's bones like they was chicken bones... an' he danced wif snakes! 

Boy am I glad to be back here, Miss FFG!  It was plumb strange!!!"

[Delmonico]

With the warmin' sun of spring delmonico is out with a forked stick and a knife prowlin' around the south side of the hills for rattlesnakes. 

[Trinity]

Trinity nudges the FFG who has fallen asleep in the rocker with her knitting hin her lap.  "Hey, what do you s'pose ol' Del is doin' over there?  That's the same sorta tool mah great Granpappy used when he was a-huntin' water.