Newbrassky

[Delmonico]

Delmonico heads to the ice house for some ice fer the lemonade, he's back in a little bit with just one tiny piece, "Slim, ya fergot to go to the lake last January and cut ice to put in the icehouse.  Now what are we going to do all summer?"

[Silver Creek Slim]

"We'll just have it delivered from the ice factory." 

[Marshal harpoluke]

"We'll just have it delivered from the ice factory." 

Marshall Telegraphs Chicago Ice factory, shipped by Rail, delivered and put in Ice House.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico says, "Well, that will work for now, but I was going to order an ice factory to add to the collection here on the ranch.  We've already got a steam engine to run the amoe-knee-a pump."

[Delmonico]

Delmonico gets his shotgun and hollors to Duke, "Lets go get a few of those Snow Geese, out on the lakes afore they head on north Duke."

Duke wags his tail, the hitch up the buggy to the mules and head out to a lake south of the ranch.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico and Duke get near the lake and he unhitches the mules and hopples them to let them graze.  He and the Yaller Dog go down in the grass and cattails near the lake and hide, waitin' for the geese to get done with their mornin' feedin' and come back to the lake to rest.

Delmonico sees some clouds off to the south-west and makes a note to keep an eye on the weather as the first geese start to show up.

[Sod Buster]

"In that case, Litl Rooster, I'm gonna make some oyster stew fer loooonch." Slim goes into the kitchen. He peels and slices some tators and gets 'em ta boiling. He opens a couple air-tights of oysters and pours 'em in a kettle with milch. He put a pound of butter in the kettle and sets it on the stove. When the tators are done, he drains the water and put 'em in the kettle. In a half hour, the stew is hot. He gets out bowls, fills 'em with stew, and sets 'em around the table along the spoons. "The stew is hot! Come and get it 'fore I throw it out!"

Meanwhile back at the Soddy, Sod Buster is still trying to use up all of the corn from last year's harvest.  It is corn for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert.  Sod Buster even has a corncpb pipe to smoke with at the end of the day.  Sod Buster is getting sick of corn......

Oh....planting season starts around the first week of May.  The soil should be warm enough then.....for more corn........ <sigh>

[Delmonico]

As Delmonico and Duke keep pilin' up the geese, it's starts to thunder off to the South-West. 

But the geese keep flyin' in and Duke and Delmonico are havin' too much fun to stop.

[Sod Buster]

And to drink....it is more corn.

A new supply of TISWIN is ready.  I wonder if Triniy would like to come over and join me?? <hic>

[Delmonico]

To busy shootin' geese to notice the sheep herder peekin' in, Delmonico is too busy to notice a thin black lookin' finger of a cloud drop down to earth south-west of him.   

Between the noise of the geese, the shotgun and a happy excited dog, Delmonico dosen't hear the roarin' that sounds like a freight train till it is too late and Duke and him are picked up and carried skyward.

[Stoney Pete]

arthers note << It's a tornado.   At least it ain't blue plates.>>

[Sod Buster]

To busy shootin' geese to notice the sheep herder peekin' in, Delmonico is too busy to notice a thin black lookin' finger of a cloud drop down to earth south-west of him.   

Between the noise of the geese, the shotgun and a happy excited dog, Delmonico dosen't hear the roarin' that sounds like a freight train till it is too late and Duke and him are picked up and carried skyward.

[Delmonico]

After a while the tore-nader sets Delmonico and Duke down on the prairie, Delmonico looks at Duke and says, "It don't look like we're in Cans-sass Duke, but if we we're we'd have to start another thread."

[Delmonico]

Delmonico and Duke start walkin' back to the ranch through the drifts of white goose feathers.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico gets back to the ranch and combs his mussed up hair.   He gets a couple large slices of ham and some of Slim's egs, or rather eggs from Slim's chickens and makes him and Duke breakfast.

[litl rooster]

 After several bowls of the fine Oyster stew, I decide to go check the trap I set. When leaving the houseDelmonico is approching. Hey, Del funny thing a little while back, I swore I seen you and yallar dog fly by here chasing geese. Must have been I ait too much.

Arriving at the area of the trap, down the trail along the Dismall. There lies the sleeping giant, the so called Brother of Trinity. The jars I filled from #9 empty along the way. He fianally passed out. Riding up to Mendicino and pulling the tufts of wool from his ears, I ride out from buckshot range and whistle. The big horse leads the rest back to the ranch. Smelling sheep off to the west, I decide to continue on, and finish the radication of the "woolies"

[Delmonico]

As Delmonico is finishin' breakfast, the two buggy mules come back to the barn wearin' ruby mule shoes.   Delmonico puts them in the stalls and saddles up Reuban, his ridin' mule and goes out to see about the buggy.

[Trinity]

Trinity's super-sensitive-to-all-things-related-to-a-drink hearing picks up the pop of a cork from the direction of the Soddy.  Trinity hitches up his buckboard in order to have an excuse and rides out over to the stranger in the soddy.

Arriving, he finds the stranger already inebriated, sitting on a chair outside the door.  "Howdy partner, Ah come fer some more corn.  Mahnd if'n Ah... Uh, say, whatchagot in tha bottle?"

[Delmonico]

As Delmonico heads to look for the buggy he passes a band of Apaches lead by Geronimo headin' to Sod Buster's place after hearin' he has Tiswin.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico gets back to where he left the buggy, it is not there.   Followin' the flattened path in the grass, Delmonico finds bits and pieces of splintered wood.  He goes back to the ranch fer a wagon.