Busted Gulch vol 7

Good News! (naomimrshl)

Good News!

Letter Addressed to

Office of the Editor in Chief

Gold Pillars

Busted Gulch

Dear Editor,

Lots has happened since Hugh got hurt

So I'll list it all... in one big squirt.

Hugh recovered like a miracle

His sudden good health is inexplicable.

Buck agreed to work with hammer and nail, and told Bruce he'd use his pay to take care of the bail.

Hugh told Buck he would be well-paid,

If he set his will to learn the trade.

His duties would be to

Stay at the forge

Use the room at the back

And keep the coal fire alive.

Learn to shoe a horse

And fix a wheel

And fashion tools from molten steel.

T. T. Rivers, Wink'n, Blink, and Nod, have come from Virginia.

TT is a retired judge, Hugh's daddy, and a honeybee wrangler.

Wink'n and Blink are twin teenagers.

Nod is a talented nine-year-old charmer.

The two boys will help Dusty work the ranch

And Nod, from her Aunt Dixie,

Will learn to be a farmer.

The Bureau of Land Management

Up in Washington -

Granted the Bellows their

Land Grant application...

As well as 160 acres, in fact,

( Per individual family member, and student)

Promised by the Homestead Act

The federal land is located in Destiny County ,

In the middle of

Somewhere Else Territory,

South of Parallel Mountainsides,

North of the railroad,

And touches the BG County line

Beside a little pond where the cattails grow

And the road-runners reside.

The Bellows/Rivers family

Is pleased as punch to announce...

Accord'n to Federal regulations..

The land will provide a location for

The Prairie Home Academy.

There's our happy update

Of all our current do'ns.

We are sure you will all be upbeat

Cause this is real good news.

Sure... the twins are a trifle wild

And little Nod has her unique ways...

TT is always judge'n...(after all his years in the bench... he just can't help it.)

And there will be some, in BG

Who will think it's all a nefarious scheme.

But... somehow... someway...

Hugh 'n Dixie will build their dream.

___________________________

"Nod! Wink'n!... Blink!... Did any of you see a letter on my desk to the editor? "

"Yes'm, Aunt Dixie." Nod's eyes lit up like a sparkler...

"i put it in an envelope and asked Mr. Dusty to deliver it for you!

He was laugh'n and said he figured he knew where to park it! "

"Oh no! Little Nod!... that letter was unedited and unfinished !

i never got to tell bout Theo. or the pigeons!

What you did was not very wise!"

"Don't fret Aunt Dixie" little Nod chirped.

"Everyone loves a surprise! "