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[Marshal harpoluke]

 

Delmonico, Ye ain't up to something Brash?

Marshal N Sheep come in driving flock of Chickens.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico comes in from the shop and makes him another "Reuben" samwich fer supper.  After he finishes eatin' he goes back to the shop and starts solderin' with his slolderin' copper, the one with the corn cob handle.

[Trinity]

Trinity is still sleeping when he rolls over and and begins mumbling:  "Reuben... Reuben James?"

[Delmonico]

<Authors Note: The real Reuben, the Liberty Ship that still sails or the Kenny Rogers song?>

[litl rooster]

After hangin' the fat steer (<are altered males their huevous has already been ete) at Sod Busters. The three men return to the Ranch with No Name, leading a the steer we have chosin for our winter meat. Slim has one rope around the horns and is dallied off, while I have a second rope around the horns and looped back into a halter. Leading from the other side, while Lucky Irish Tom pushes it along up the middle. Putting in in the corral behind the barn, will it will recieve hay and water for the night. Tomorrow I will start the processing. After unsaddling our horses and feeding them, I head to the porch to see if i can startle Trinty. 

[Trinity]

Trinity continues to mumble in his sleep: "Reuben james, all the folks around hadison county
Cussed your name You're just a no-count, sharecropping colored man
You'd steal anything you can
And everybody laid the blame on reuben james
Reuben james, for you still walk
Over fields of my mind
Faded shirt, weathered brow
Colored hands upon the plow
Loved you then and I love you now

Reuben james..."


Slowly Trinity awakens and sees the jug beneath him and reaches for it.  Unable to reach, he moves to be able to reach better but his shoes being tied caused only havoc in his hammock (( )).  After a few twists and flips, Trinity is very well tangled up with the hammock and dizzy ... and still hasn't been able to reach the jug. 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother succumbs to silent laughter as she watches Trinity. Her hands clamped over her mouth, she makes tiny choking sounds as the tears stream down her face.

Trying to regain her composure, she turns away, only to gawk at a man and a sheep approaching the house following a passel of chickens.

"What in the blue blazes....?"

[Marshal harpoluke]

 

Good Morning,

Chicken Ranchen, Hey its a living,  they eat da spiders N bugs, lay eggs and work for scratch.  Dey don't stampede, N if one gets too obnoxous it winds up in da Dutch oven.

Da Sheep has wool, and except for being alergic to rustlin is good natured--well mosst of tha time.  He does like to lite off Da Dynomite.

[Sod Buster]

Sod Buster hears tell that there might be a sheep rancher in the area.  He hopes Slim has his mightly 10g ready and hopes that this sheep hearder doesn't plan to keep his sheep anywhere near where Litl Rooster's cattle are.  An "accident" is sure to happen.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Irish gets done helping litl rooster and Slim with the Steer and as he walks out into the yard he sees a feller surrounded by a passel of chickens and one of the biggest Sheep he has ever seen.  He thinks to hissself, "I wonder if Del has any mint jelly in tha stores?"

[Silver Creek Slim]

"I didn't know ya could herd chickens.  Ya gotts anymore sheep den dis BIG one?"

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother's hands flail a little and she talks quietly out of the corner of her mouth to Slim. "But... we already have chickens!"

[Delmonico]

Delmoico comes out of the workshop, the pipe now has a point and 3 tin fins on the bottom.  A "string" hangs out the bottom.   Delmonico sits it down on the fins and lights the sttring with a lucifer, the pipe has a rush of flame out the end, just as it tips.      The "rocket roars through the unbranded chicken heard (Slim branded his ) and scatters them, the steer in the corral breaks out and runs and the rocket heads to the porch. 

As it passes the porch it snags Trinity's shrit and it heads off south with Trinity still doin' his best Kenny roger's im-a-tat-ion.  As they dissapear over hills Trinity is heard to be singin'>  "Ya picked a fine time to leave me Lucille."

Delmonico knows this is good for at least another 100 pounds of coal.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Now we'll see if he can herd chickens."

[Delmonico]

With chickens squawkin' everywhere, Delmonico says "I heard chickens."

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother is slow in getting up from her unladylike sprawl on the porch. As she dusts herself off, she fixes Delmonico with an icy glare. "I'll give you chickens," she says as she draws her wand.

***POOF***

Delmonico is turned into a four foot tall chicken.

[Sod Buster]

[Marshal harpoluke]

 

Marshal N Sheep are rolling on da ground with lafter.   The Da sheep gets up N lites the dynomite N blows up Delmonico's kitchen.  Pots N pans are scatered everywhere, flower is all over everything.

Marshal restraines Da Sheep, Says thats enough.  Chickens return to da marshal, Delmonico don't know that chickens imprint on owner who raises em will flock on threir own.  Same is true fer Ducks N Geese.  Marshal herds Chickens out to Hes new spred Da Dynomite Chicken Ranch.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother stares in horror as the dynamite flies toward Trinity's bunkhouse, where Delmonico stores his extra cast iron pots. ***BOOM***! The dynamite explodes, sending the "Del's Deli" sign flying one hundred feet in the air. Delmonico's pots go  flying hither and yon.

Her face is a cloud of darkness as the stranger leaves. Her wand flickers again and Delmonico is returned to normal. "I don't care who he is," she snarls, pointing at the retreating chicken farmer, "but he is not invited back here. He could have hit the house!"

[Marshal harpoluke]

 

As Ah leave, remind Annie Lee dat it twas Delmonico that tryed to rustle ma Chickens.  I did restrain D Sheep, He wanted to blow up da whole Ranch--He does have a temper!

Talked Him out of it,  Ah apologize, didn't want to endanger anyones house.

Slim, Cattle N Sheep can get along just fine, we did on the California ranch for over 30 yrs.  Indeed the Basque Sheep hearders saved the ranch by leasing the land during the depresion of 29.  The main thing is to keep the cattle N sheep seperate, graze the cattle first, use the cattle dip, N sheep dip, and keep all the heards well inoculated.  Of course, fresh water and occasional feed suplaments, salt blocks are necessary, also proper rotation of pasture fields.  The Horseshoe Ranch in Kern County Ca, was 27 sections (27sq miles) third largest ranch in California at the time.  The Ranch is still around only you would know it as the Five Dogs Shooting Range.  My cousins own it now.  It is not a big, but it still is a working ranch.

Maybe someday when Ya'll is simmered down, Ah will tell you da Sheep's story, N how He got to be so familer with Da Dynomite.

Thats another time.

Marshal tips hat to Annie Lee,  rides on.