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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Duke knows, and he knows how she knew, but he isn't saying, he's just giving a dog grin.

[Delmonico]

With the house up and coal in the furnace, things are gettin' better at the ranch.   The rest of the furniture should be here this week, but there is enough stuff from the dugout to get by with till it gets here.   

The big problem is that the temp has dropped below 0 again and Slim has not arrived with the sanitary tissure. (not called toilet paper in the 1880's)   Delmonico paces and hope Slim arrives soon cause the Sears and Roebuck catalog paper will clog the pipes, yet it is very cold out in the old privy.     

For the conclusion of this episode we must wait till morin', will Delmonico be able to hold on till Slim gets here or will he have to make that cold dangerous journy in his night shirt.   If only they would have sent the Wedgewood Chamber Pots with the Wedgewood flush toilet, instead of sendin' it with the eatin' china the problem would be solved.   More importantly, why did Gopher Grease make dried apricot pie fer supper, thats is almost as bad as castor oil.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim rides up to the ranch house with a pack horse in tow. "Delmonico, I got a bunch of your "Sanitary Tissue" on rolls and the tub stopper." He dismounts, ties his horse to the rail, and starts unpack the pack horse.

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[Delmonico]

Thanks, BTW I knew ya would look over the weekend posts from "Hornets Nest Hill" afore ya rode in.  Surprise I didn't have to go out in the sub-zero last night with the Catalog,  I brought a few rolls from North Platte.  

Just knew it would be cheaper to get in Omaha,  so so've been waitin' out behind that cold hill fer nuthin' I did what needed to be done last night right after the post.  And it was nice and warm inside the house.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"I'm glad ya didn't have ta freeze your fanny."
"BTW, did the teamsters ever come back with firewood the FFG's fireplace?"

[Delmonico]

Just as the words get out of his mouth, the wagons with the firewood apear in the distance.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Sure took 'em long enough. Is the fireplace finished so I can start a fire fer the FFG to sit in front of and knit?

[Delmonico]

The fire place is done.  the reason the wood took so long was cause you were gone all weekend and we forgot about it cause a brand new Wedgewood flush toilet was more interestin' than a load of wood.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"I'll forgive ya fer ogling over the wasserkloset." 
"I'll start a fire for the FFG, so when she shows up she can sit in front of it."

[Delmonico]

Does that mean in Wisssyconsion they are WK's 'stead of WC's?

[Trinity]

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM !!!!!

[Trinity]

Trinity staggers to the house black with soot, his clothing almost completely blown off.  Why if these were the 2000s, his clothes might have been blown completely off, but since it is the 1800s there remained in the essential areas some bits of clothing to maintain modesty.

"Delmonico, ya got that there terlit finished??"  Trinity looks around sheepishly.  Ah don' think that no one will be able ta use the outhouse no more.  Ah wen' in there after eatin' Gophergrease's Apricot Pah an' let me tell ya:  Don' never smoke no seegars in the john!!

[gophergrease]

If ya all liked them aprecots, wait till ya try prune colaches i got baken. 

If someone be going to town in the mornin I got a box of dry figs comin a the stage. I fix ya up something good with them. I just wont tell ya what its called, cus you " real men" mite not eat it if I did.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother doesn't seem to be around, but out of nowhere there is a smaller than usual scattering of sawdust and a new rocking chair appears before the fireplace. Next to the chair, a stack of new but soft flannel shirts also appears. The stack is big enough and varied enough for each of the men to have a new shirt. One top of the stack is a bright yellow bow of thanks. 

[Delmonico]

Delmonico looks at GG's post and is horrified, he thought he had taught him better.  But a session in June with our Czech Mountainman friend will straighten him out.  "Dern it, don't mind if'n ya spell it with a c stead of a k cause Slim spells with a k instead of a c, but there are no such thin' as kolace's." 

"That is one of the things that allows me to be a honorary Czech, one is a kolace, more than one is kolaci.  Just because Czech is a difficult language, don't mean ya can go round makin' double plurals."

"Next thing ya know ya gonna be bakin' kakeses.   Fact that gives me an idea."

Delmonico goes inta his office off to the left of the kitchen, next to his bedroom.  (GG's office and bedroom is to the right of the kitchen. "  He then takes fountain pen, writes a letter, seals it in an enverlope, and seals it with sealing wax and presses in his seal.   He then steps outside and hands it to a wiry guy with a red shirt and a 51 Colt navy revolver, gallopin' by on a pony.

[gophergrease]

The spelln book was easyer to eat than read.

[Scattered Thumbs]

Does that mean in Wisssyconsion they are WK's 'stead of WC's?

I'm wondering the same here. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Does that mean in Wisssyconsion they are WK's 'stead of WC's?

Only if ya know Deutsch. 

[Delmonico]

Did ya check the Oel in yer truck this mornin'.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Did ya check the Oel in yer truck this mornin'.

No. Why?