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[Ozark Tracker]

with all them coyotes a howling up there around the house, slim may come out a blastin with the mighty 10

[Sod Buster]

Sod Buster back at home sees the fire off in the distance and also the big moon.  He sits down on the front porch with a bottle of Rye and looks at the big moon, listening to the howling in the distance.  

[Silver Creek Slim]

As Ozark Tracker predicted, Slim brings out both his "Mighty Tens" and starts ablastin' 'yotes. 

[Delmonico]

With the bonfire burned out and no more wood or coal left, Delmonico starts to walk home to get a wagon load of coal so he can get his Steam Traction Engine back home.  Ozark and Trinity lay naked and asleep in the grass as the chiggers feed on them.

[Silver Creek Slim]

<Arthur's note: Someone will have ta go ta Dunning fer alot of fingernail polish.> 

[Delmonico]

Coal Oil was what they used before.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Be sure ta douse em afore ya bring em back ta tha Ranch Del!

[Delmonico]

Delmonico gets back with the coal and fires up The Steam Traction Engine.  He leaves the empty wagon and the coal oil for Ozark and Trinity.     He ties the horses in the shade and leaves a note.  "douse yerselves with the coal oil to get rid of the chiggers when you wake up.  Go away from the fire, some of those embers are pretty hot."

[Trinity]

Sod Buster back at home sees the fire off in the distance and also the big moon.  He sits down on the front porch with a bottle of Rye and looks at the big moon, listening to the howling in the distance.  

<<Arthurs note:  What big moon?  There's only a sliver up there.  A new moon is on it's way.  >>

[Trinity]

Trinity awakens and finds himself encompassed by thousands of dead chiggers.  It seems that his scent killed them before they could get at his skin.  The outside of the circle was comprised of almost dead chiggers struggling to get away.

[Ozark Tracker]

boy, are we lucky, them chiggers would have made a meal on us if they could have,  and I've had some of them back home in Arkansas,  they ain't not fun.

[Trinity]

<<I think Trinity is the only lucky one here... unless you are as "unclean" as he is.  >>

[Ozark Tracker]

Naw, it ain't that, I done took a bath this month,  it was the dern monkey, he was a picking em offn me and eating em as fast as his little hands would move.

[Trinity]

Putting his clothes back on, Trinity recollects fondly of the pagan celebration the night before.  "That was some kahnda fahr.  Our crops should do ver' well this yair.  Most impo'tantly is tha cone crop!"

[Silver Creek Slim]

boy, are we lucky, them chiggers would have made a meal on us if they could have,  and I've had some of them back home in Arkansas,  they ain't not fun.

<Arthur's note: My dad is a chigger magnet.  >

[Forty Rod]

DAY-AMMM!

I'm sure glad Trinity put his clothes back on.  Never could get used to that sight, an' it dang near cost me mine...sight, that is.

[Ozark Tracker]

Well now with our clothes all in place,  Ozark and Trinity look at the wagon that Del left behind, and there is some food that was left in the wagon so they decide to eat and then think about getting home.

[Sod Buster]

<<Arthurs note:  What big moon?  There's only a sliver up there.  A new moon is on it's way.  >>

The one Slim was a-howlin; at:
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,974.msg119147.html#msg119147

It was also homage to an Ian Tyson song.

[Sod Buster]

boy, are we lucky, them chiggers would have made a meal on us if they could have,  and I've had some of them back home in Arkansas,  they ain't not fun.

A good home remedy for chigger bites is to rub bacon grease on affected areas of skin. Itching will stop immediately and chigger bites will disappear in 2 or 3 days

[Ozark Tracker]

authors note;  I guess I hate getting chiggers worse than anything else, tick bites only last me a couple of days, but them chiggers can hang on forever it seems like. 
we also have buffalo gnats here (arkansas) some years they are awful, whelps up and itches like the dickens