Newbrassky

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim rides into the yard and puts his horse in the barn. He gathers eggs and milch. He takes the eggs, milch, warbags, and "Mighty Ten" into the house. He puts the perishables in the icebox. He yells, "Is anyone home?" He thinks to himself, "Did the boys get the beeves ta the railhead and sell 'em? Did they git a good price? Did they spend all the money in one place?  Where are they now? Is Charlie ever gonna git off the MTA?" 

[Delmonico]

"Don't know, ain't seen them since Sat-er-day when they was almost there.  Ya ought ta seem my new shotgun I gots in Omaha and the neat German shells."   Delmonico goes and gets the gun case, "it's a 12 gauge Parker and it ain't got no hammers to cock.   And look at this."  Delmonico loads the gun on the porch, he fires it and there is no smoke.   He opens it with the top lever and both empties land on the porch at Slim's feet.

"Some German army Capitain named Schulz invented this new powder fer shotshells.  Will be able to shoot a lot more ducks this fall not being blinded by smoke."

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Not cocking the hammers and no smoke?  That just ain't right!" 

[Delmonico]

Delmonico says, "next thing ya know you'll want to go back ta loadin' it from the front-end."

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Nope. I like the self-contained cartridges. Specially when the badins are comin' fast and furious."

[Trinity]

Delmonico tosses Trinity's steak to Duke and hands him a plate of grits instead.

Trinity wrestles duke for the steak and wins (but has a gash here and a scratch there plus a few puncture marks from Dukes teeth).  Staring back at Duke, Trinity goes to the hammock and enjoys his fine meal of steak and grits. 

[Sod Buster]

Delmonico steps over Trinity and goes to his room and gets the package from the University of Newbrassky Ag Collage and gives it to Sodbuster.  Here, this is a new strain of popcorn they have developed, they say it should grow good out here.

Sod Buster arrives home with the package from Del.  He had tried growin' pop corn back home in ol' Virginny but it didn't take.  Perhaps this variety will work better.  There is still plenty of land to plow so there is plenty of room for this crop.  Since there is plenty of land still and there was a recent prairie fire, perhaps Sod Buster can also go into the Sod Farm business.  Anyone that needs some grass can come here.  What a concept!  Sod Buster ponders on this while harnassing the mule team to the plow for the plantin.  Hmmmmm....Sod Farm.........

[Trinity]

A thought strikes Trinity while laying in his hammock.  "Dail, didja give that funny pop-cone ta the stranger in the soddy?  Ah wonner how it might change tha taste of mah squeezins."

[Stoney Pete]

Pete come riding in with OT and Tom,  "I heading up to my room.  See you all in the AM."

[Delmonico]

Delmonico makes pork chops with his "Musk Thistle BBQ Sauce" fer supper, long with some fried tatory and turnip green with smoked hog jowls.   And dried apricot pie fer dessert.

He then gets out the long neglected fony-graf and puts on a wax cylinder by some fella name a Guy Clark.

The old gunfighter on the porch
stared into the sun
and relived the days of living by the gun
when deadly games of pride were played
and living was mistakes not made

and the thought of the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke
Ah, the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke

It's always keep your back to the sun
and he can almost feel the weight of the gun
it's faster than snakes or the blink of an eye
and it's a time for all slow men to die
and his eyes get squinty and his fingers twitch
and he empties the gun at the son of a bitch

and he's hit by the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke
hit by the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke

Now the burn of a bullet is only a scar
he's back in his chair in front of the bar
and the streets are empty and the blood's all dried
and the dead are dust and the whiskey's inside
so buy him a drink and lend him an ear
he's nobody's fool and the only one here

who remembers the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke
remember the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke

He said I stood in that street before it was paved
learned shoot or be shot before I could shave
and I did it all for the money and fame
noble was nothing but feeling no shame
and nothing was sacred but stayin' alive
and all that I learned from a Colt 45

was to curse the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke
curse the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke

Now he's just an old man that no one believes
says he's a gunfighter, the last of the breed
and there are ghosts in the street seeking revenge
calling him out to the lunatic fringe
now he's out in the traffic checking the sun
and he's killed by a car as he goes for his gun

So much for the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke
so much for the smell of the black powder smoke
and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke

[Delmonico]

As that one ends, Delmonico puts on another one;


I played the Red River Valley
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
And wonder, "Lord, why has every well I've drilled gone dry?"

We were friends, me and this old man
We's like desperados waitin' for a train
Desperados waitin' for a train

He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells
He's an old school man of the world
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like, some old Western movie
Like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominos
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Just like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
Well to me he was a hero of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Jus' like desperados waitin' for a train
Like a desperado waitin' for a train

The day 'fore he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone.
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang one more verse to that old song
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'

We're desperados waitin' for a train
Was like desperados waitin' for a train

[Ozark Tracker]

Ozark takes his saddlebags into the house to his room then turns and goes back to the porch to tell Trinity that they have been to the potted meat museam.  he brings down all the sample cans so trinity can try varietys from all over the world. After visiting with Trinity a little bit,  Ozark goes back out to his mule Dynamite, and starts the trip to sodbusters, 

since he gives us a lot of the veggies and other good food, Ozark has picked up a new implement to make sodbusters work a little easier.  it's got some of them new fangled tires.

[Trinity]

  Trinity is in awe after hearing about their visit to the Potted Meat Museum and has already tried three varieties before OT makes it to his room.

[Ozark Tracker]

Ozark hurries back home after delivering Sodbusters new riding breaking plow. He also picked up litl rooseter a new toy, he figures with him out chasing da sheep all over the country he needs him a racing chariot, that way he can make  ole pea eye  the wheel horse  and get another good horse and then he can just tell  pea eye what he wants to do and use both hands for shooting and such.

[Ozark Tracker]

well I guess I got 2 of them, oh well Trinity can have the other one and we can have chariot races on Sunday's out at the new pond created by  Stoney when he put out the fire.

We might even get some people from town to come down and bet money on the race.

[Trinity]

"Ah bet a jug on tha raid one!"

[Ozark Tracker]

what are you thinking?  your betting a whole jug on a horse race.  You must really think he's a good n

[Ozark Tracker]

Trinity, when I was up to town, I also picked up a new shotgun for Slim, I know he's got the mighty 10 but with all them girls he's a raising I figured he might need one with alittle more powder in it to fight them boys off when they get al little older.

[Sod Buster]

Trinity, when I was up to town, I also picked up a new shotgun for Slim, I know he's got the mighty 10 but with all them girls he's a raising I figured he might need one with alittle more powder in it to fight them boys off when they get al little older.

That one should make plenty of thunder, fire, and smoke.  What gauge is it?  double-0  ??

[Ozark Tracker]

That one should make plenty of thunder, fire, and smoke.  What gauge is it?  double-0  ??

(authors note) well I really don't know what it would be?  it's an inch and a quarter inside bore. thought it'd be fun to hang in the loading room.