Newbrassky

[litl rooster]

Delmonico, here's an ideal if you wait to long 30 years or so they will be all over the country

[Delmonico]

Delmonico is in the kitchen rumagin' around fer canned peaches, mutterin' sumthin' about pie crust.

[Trinity]

Delmonico comes back and parks his Traction Engine,  he goes in the house and mixes eggs, flour, lard and water and kneads it into a stiff dough.  He flours it, and lays it out on a floured board, the ten ton roller is backed over it and Delmonico cuts the flattened dough into noodles.  He banks the fire in Mannheim and hollors, "Beef and noodles fer supper tonight."

Seeing that no one is interested in the Hamburger Helper, Trinity takes the entire pan to his place at the table and commences to eat it all.  He likes Hamburger Helper ... or Beef and noodles as some call it.  It's best with fresh beef.

[Delmonico]

After the dishes are washed, Delmonico builds the fire back up in Mannheim and gets up a good head of steam, he then drives it and his ten ton roller out and parks it behind the barn.  He then banks the fire carefully so it won't die out and have to be lit again in the morning.

On the way back to the house he sees one of Trinity's jugs sittin' in the yard.  As he picks it up he sees a strange site, it looks like Trinity, but it's 6 feet wide and 30 feet long and 1/8 inch thick.   Realizing that Trinity has passed out in the yard and has been run over by Mannheim and his roller, Delmonico knows he has to act fast. 

He pours some of the corn likker in Trinity's mouth, suddenly Trinity comes back to his normal shape and conforms Delmonico has guessed all along, Trinity is a Toon.

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Brazos who'd been out in the barn tending to his horse's feeding and brush down, strolled up behind Del just as he was standing up from pouring a jug into something on the ground.  just at that moment there is a loud SPOING!   and up pops Trinity!

"Jumping frogs in a frying pan!  What in the hell is going on?  Took ten years of growth off of me!"  Brazos screamed!  And it takes a might of doin' to make ol' Brazos scream.

"Del, how did you make him do that?"  intoned Brazos when he got his wits about him.  That is some trick my friend!"

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

At the scream, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother dashes outside, leaving glttering sawdust in her wake. She arrives on the porch to see Delmonico, Trinity, and Brazos standing there. All appears normal.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

[Delmonico]

No big problem, Trinity fell asleep in the yard and I rollered him.  A little corn liker and he's back to "Normal"  Brazo's is just a bit edgy cause he fergot what "normal" is around here.

Delmonico rakes the fire, adds some coal, gets up a good head of steam and blows the whistle on Mannheim.    He opens the throttle valve and is heard singin,

Rollin, Rollin, Rollin,
Keep my engine rolling
Even if Trinity is flattened
Mannnnheim.



<Author's note:  It might be good that Delmonico don't drink none of the recipe.>

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Brazos Smiles at Del's sense of humor, and turns to Trinity.  "Trinity ol' horse, you looked like one of them there spuges they send in the mail.  All flat and paper thin, then ya add liquid and it puffs up into normal shape, you sure did give me a start!?"

"Wonder if Slim is going ot make an appearance, hope he watches out for Del and his contraption!  he could have a very pressing problem like you did.  You walking kinda funny there Trinity!"

[Delmonico]

Out rollin, the road, Delmonico has an idea, lucly he has brought his carrier pigeon lap top with him.      He is gonna pull to the side of the rode when he 'members he's got the biggest and baddest machine in the valley, so he stops in the middle of the road.      He types an address and the pigeon flies off, dern, he should have went home and used the 4 barb wire broadband, this lap top takes so much time to down load.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother spies what appears to be a dove flying by.

"DINNER!!" She exclaims, and out comes the shotgun.

**BLAM** and the poor carrier pigeon flops to the ground.

((This is called payback for Del's killing the carrier pigeon with the Frumpy Fairy Godmother's order for the greenhouse. You thought I forgot about that, eh? HA! ))

[Delmonico]

Delmonico sits in the middle of the road waitin' for his carrier pigion to bring his down load cookie.   His time is not wasted though, he is using the heat that Mannheim produces to cook some dinner.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim approaches the ranch and sees a BIG iron horse apuffin' and aweezin'. To has surprise, Del is sittin' in it. "Del, what is this contraption?"

[Delmonico]

"It's a steam powered traction engine, it's the latest thing in machinery, ya can do most anything that draft horses can do with it.  I gots this roller with it and can smoothen out the road."   "I named it Mannheim the Steam Traction Engine and this is it's roller."


Delmonico then pulls on the whistle and plays "We Three Kings."

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim's horse commences to pitching 'cuz of the awful noise coming from the iron horse. Slim holds on fer a couple bucks, but is thrown into a mud puddle. 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother rushes out to rescue Slim, carrying an armload of towels.

"That derned Delmonico, isn't Newbrassky flat enough without that thing?"

[Delmonico]

<Authors note: The Sandhills ain'ft flat and the roads need constant work or they either rut up or blow away. >

Delmonico looks down and says, "I have log chains, I could a hooked up to Slim and drug him out."

Delmonico, finished with his dinner, tosses a couple of shovels a coal in the firebox and heads down the road.   Just before he blows the whistle (It Came upon a Midnight Clear  )  he is heard to say in a Spanish accent, "Let's tie him to the back of the traction engine and draaaaag him."

As he goes off rollerin' Delmonico grabs a bit of lard out of the chuck box and using it and a comb, slicks his hair back into a Duck Tail.    He thinks a nice black leather coat with a symbol on the back would be awsome.   Perhaps others in the area would get traction engines and the could form a club, cruise the roads and see which one would go the fastest.

[Silver Creek Slim]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother rushes out to rescue Slim, carrying an armload of towels.

"That derned Delmonico, isn't Newbrassky flat enough without that thing?"

"Thank ya, ma'am." Slim takes a towel and wipes the mud from his face. "I better go track down ma horse. He's probably in the next county by now." Slim follows the hoof prints.

<Arthur's note: Since there ain't many trees here. Whatcha need a "log" chain fer?>

[Delmonico]

<Aurturo's Note:  "To tie you to the back of the traction engine and drag you."  or "I can have you attach it to the back end of the Sherrif's horse and you can hollor sumthing out at him when we drive by." >

As Delmonico drives down the road, rollerin' as he goes, he's thinkin' about lowerin' the top on Mannheim and maybe custom paint.

[Delmonico]

As Delmonico is rollerin' along he sees sumthin' in the rode, but to late to stop.   After he has passed over it he stops and goes back for a look see.  It is Slim's saddle bags with this weeks cheese.

Delmonico looks in the flattened bags atthe now soft and squeesy cheese, he runs back to the chuck box anfd grabs and empty jar and lid and puts the cheese in it as Slim walks up lookin' for his horse.   "Gee Whiz' says  Slim when he sees the cheese. 

But with Mannheim running, Delmonico hears wrong and labels the jar "Cheese-Whiz."

[litl rooster]

author's note....I am sure glad I got a warning