Newbrassky

[Trinity]

Meanwhile the scent from Trinity's shoes wafts over from the corner of the room to the FFG, Duke and his new family.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

A strange scent of rancid bacon mixed with foot fungus and stale booze draws the Frumpy Fairy Godmother's attention as she tends to the dogs. Torn between sniffing the air and pinching her nose closed, she hunts through the room. She knows she is getting closer as her eyes start to water. Finally, she finds the shoes. Fighting off the urge to gag, she holds her nose with one hand and picks up the shoes with the other. Rushing to the window, she chucks the shoes out where they bounce down the lawn.

[Delmonico]

with the shoes now offendin' Delmonico, he goes a distance north of the house and digs a hole.  going to the barn he gets a tongs and grabs the shoes and tosses them in the hole.  He then goes back to the barn and gets a milk bucket full of coal oil and dumps it in the hole.   

Striking a lucifer he lights the coal oil.

<Authors Note: Kids don't try this at home today, the EPA will get you. .>

As the shoes and coal oil burn, the breeze picks up from the south and a lone tumble weed blows by the fire, igniting as it passes.  The burning tumbleweed picks up speed and bounces accross the dismal, lighting the grass on the north side.

The fire picks up speed and heads north following slim's wagon tracks.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

As the wagon rolls to a stop at sunset, Irish looks back over the distance they have travelled.  Over the rapidly darkening sky beyond the horizon line Irish notices a faint orange glow, it reminds him of the Del O Lantern back at the house, he shivers at the thought.  He walks over to Slim and points to the orange glow.

[Trinity]

While everybody's attention is averted, Trinity roots around until he finds one of the jugs that Del packed.  Elated, he pulls the cork, spits it out (he'll never need to recap it, now will he?) and takes a deep slug.  Realization that this isn't what he thought sets in and he spits it out, all over half of the hunting party.  Because spit takes are so funny, he takes another slug to make sure and then spits it out all over the other half.

"This ain' mah recipe!!!"

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Trinity! Quit spitin' on us!  "
"Tom, I don't like the looks of that orange glow. It could be a BIG flamin' punkin or maybe a fire. I don't like either one. I'z gonna ride my horse that way to scout it out. You and Trinity get ready ta make a run fer it if it is sometin bad." With that, Slim rides south towards the orange glow.

[Scattered Thumbs]

Reader's note: I hope the oli-phant hunting party still remembers the teachings of Delmonico on how to deal with a prairie fire. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Reader's note: I hope the oli-phant hunting party still remembers the teachings of Delmonico on how to deal with a prairie fire. 

...Always carry lucifers in yer pocket in a match safe to keep them dry.  If'n ya see a prarie fire coming just light the grass down wind from ya, when it burns off, step into the clear spot and the fire will go round ya. ...

[Scattered Thumbs]

Reader's Question to Slim: Didja remember it or had to go check? 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim comes ridin' back. "It's a prairie fire. Accordin' ta the maps the North Loup is too far to try ta outrun the fire, so we'z gonna try sometin a crazy cosie tolt me once. We'll light the grass down-wind from us, when it is burnt off we step into the burnt part and the fire should go 'round us."
"Anyone got some Lucifers?" 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Reader's Question to Slim: Didja remember it or had to go check? 

<Arthur's note: Whatcha think?  >

[Scattered Thumbs]

Reader's Question to Slim: Didja remember it or had to go check? 

<Arthur's note: Whatcha think?  >

[Delmonico]

<Authors Note: Once again Slim has failed us.  What he should have did was since he was in lake country was to drive the wagons into a lake and for Slim to find a hollow cottonwood with a bee nest.  He could then gather the honey while the smoke kept the bees calm. >

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

From Trinity's bedroom window, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother watches the fire. Her first reaction was to get her new surrey and head off to the rescue, but the fire was between the house and the pachyderm seeking party. As she watches, she idly pets a puppy or five. One of them comes dangerously near the edge of the bed and she gently nudges it back. The puppy squirms, then latches onto Daisy.

"Hey, didn't I see you with Claire before?" Of course, the pup doesn't answer her. She gives a look to Claire and Daisy who look back at her as if to say, "Do you really expect us to keep them straight?"

With a shrug, she looks back to the window and the fire.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

I got some in a special compartment in the wagon I had made to seal stuff from the weather!  Irish reaches in and hands a couple to Slim.  Where do ya reckon the best spot is Slim?

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Probably next to this here lake.  "

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Good idea Slim, Irish pulls the wagon into the water about halfway up its wheels.  He looks in the compartment and pulls out a box.  "ACME Instant Soap" just add water, he decides to take the initiative and sprinkles it all over Trinity then pushes him into the Lake.

[Delmonico]

As the tumble weed blows through the fire, Delmonico looks puzzled and says, "What was that durn thing that went by?"

<Authors Note: The large tumble weed that is a favorite of Hollywood, is also known as the Russian Thistle.  This weed came into the country with immagrants bring in improved wheat seed fron europe, most spe-sif-ic-ally the variety know as Turkey Red.    This weed did not really become much of a problem till the dry 1930's.  This stray one which caused all the problems was most likely an early production model from south central Newbrassky or north central Kannnnsasss. >

[Silver Creek Slim]

Good idea Slim, Irish pulls the wagon into the water about halfway up its wheels.  He looks in the compartment and pulls out a box.  "ACME Instant Soap" just add water, he decides to take the initiative and sprinkles it all over Trinity then pushes him into the Lake.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim rides his horse into the lake as the fire approaches. "It's nice that this lake magically appeared so we didn't have to use some of our precious Lucifers. Wonder if the FFg had anything to do with it."