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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother casts a sidelong look to Brazos.

"I heard that." She pauses a moment, contemplating the wheels of the engine. "And I suppose my actions depend on what Delmonico is planning to do with the thing."

[Trinity]

"Yeah, Del.  What in tarnation is ya gonna do that contraption!??"

[Delmonico]

"The teamsters will water them and graze them all night.  They'll help me put together my Steam Traction Engine in the mornin' before they leave.   Why if this was good farm land round here we could pull a 12 bottom plow and use it to thresh the wheat, shell the corn and pull out stumps with it."

"But when the stuff gets here fer the Ride-Inn and Sarsparilla stand, I'll have the meanest machine in the valley."

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[Trinity]

"Corn?"

[litl rooster]

 ???12Bottoms

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother scowls a bit.

"But this isn't good farm land and we don't have any trees so there're no stumps. What are you going to do with it, Delmonico? And it'd better not spoil my view and make a lot of noise."

[Trinity]

"That's prolly why he wants it!  He'll run it at all times of the night like he did that derned musical con-traption of his!  When all's said an' done, we'll be so sleepy, but not too sleepy to notice that all beee-auty of this land is done been took away!   That Del shore is a grumpy one!"

[Delmonico]

By gettin' up at dawn and using the oxen and a large A-Frame, the machine is put together.   The oxen are hitched together and head back to Dunning.    

Delmonico fills it up with water and fires it up with coal from the old dugout/coalbin.  (He makes a mental note to be a little more badder, so Santa brings him more coal at Christmas.)

What they have not noticed is he bought not a plow or disc for this giant machine, but a large roller to pull and smoothen out the road leading to "Ranch with no Name Ride-In and Sarsparilla Stand"

As he's workin' to improve the road, he decides on a name for his machine, he'll call it Mannheim.

[Trinity]

<<Ahem... Mannheim... cute!  Who's gonna drive it, Chip Davis?>>>

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Brazos watches all the goin's on with interest. he's been sippin' on the jug and does not want to move to far. 

"Delmonico is that machine of yourn going to play Christmas music too?  Why if you going to put in a soda stand ya might as well add on ta the house and put in a bunch of rooms fer the people come to the stand.  Ya could call it "Delmonico's Imperial Hotel"!


With that much thought, Brazos takes another sip o' the jug and falls off to sleep.  This watchin Delmoico work as made him a bit tired.

[Delmonico]

<Author'snote, I fixed it, was to lazy to go upstairs and dig out a CD.   We'll get CW McCall to drive it, he used to work fer Chip back in the 1970's, haulin' bread I think. >

Delmonico has an Idea and decides to order a plow fer the front in case of a blizzard.

(Mannheim Steam Plow?)

[Trinity]

After several sips of recipe, Trinity gets a strange idea and like a man possessed  takes a piece of paper and begins to write:

One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock,
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock,
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Put your glad rags on and join me, hon,
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes two, three and four,
If the band slows down we'll yell for more,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the chimes ring five, six and seven,
We'll be right in seventh heaven.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too,
I'll be goin' strong and so will you.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cool off then,
Start a rockin' round the clock again.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.



Excited, Trinity exclaims: "Say Del if'n we kin git a jug band together and make some music to go with these words, *hic* ...to go with these words, we kin sang at yer Sarsparilly Stand! *hic*"

[Trinity]

Brazos watches all the goin's on with interest. he's been sippin' on the jug and does not want to move to far. 

"Delmonico is that machine of yourn going to play Christmas music too?  Why if you going to put in a soda stand ya might as well add on ta the house and put in a bunch of rooms fer the people come to the stand.  Ya could call it "Delmonico's Imperial Hotel"!


With that much thought, Brazos takes another sip o' the jug and falls off to sleep.  This watchin Delmoico work as made him a bit tired.

<<Forty: is this feller related to us??>>

[Delmonico]

"Well there sure are enough jug and jugheads to make a jug/jug head band."

Delmonico thows two more shovels of coal into the firebox and heads down the road with his 10 ton roller.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"You do that, Trinity, and you might find your recipe spiked with alum."

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother doesn't look happy. Nope, not happy at all.

[Trinity]

  Dejected and hurt that the FFG would speak to him with such a tone all he can do is mutter: "But why?"

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother watches the engine roll down the road.

"Trinity, I don't think you understand. Delmonico wants to turn your home into a business. That means he's going to make you work. There won't be any more afternoons or evenings spent in the hammock. We'll be overrun with strangers and their dirty, misbehaving children, and they will expect us to wait on them."

[Trinity]

 

Hearing the words "work" and "Children" and understanding that the FFG did not mean the the children would be doing the work, Trinity gets up and weaves his way into his room soon to return with a crate of dynamite.  "I've got an idear..."

[Delmonico]

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."

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother watches the creation of the noodles. She opens her mouth to speak, but the voice that comes out isn't hers. It is an unfamiliar(to some), low-octave woman's voice: "I'd rather eat Ramen."