It was a cloudy day in Dodge city and Doc Adams was holding down his regular stool at the Silver Lining Saloon
slurping a warm beer and dreaming of better days.
Suddenly, Deputy Festus Haggen burst through the swinging doors like a bull through tinfoil. Out of breath, he panted,
"Whatcha doing here Doc? Why ain't you over at the Long Branch with Miss Kitty?"
"Mmm.. what a pleasant thought," Doc contemplated, barely stirring from his besotten repose.
"Well ya see, Festus, the little missus told me she'd knock me upside the head with a long branch if she caught me in the same county as Kitty. Why my head's barely healed from the skillet wound she gave me last May."
"I'm just tryin' to keep the peace. You know it's not a pretty sight when a redhead gets angry."
"Well alright Doc, but here's the skinny. We have to act fast". "We're going to be rich, Doc, rich, rich, rich!"
"Not so fast, Festus. Sit your hillbilly derriere down and have yourself a whiskey."
"Nothing's so important you can't stop for whiskey, you old fool."
"That's just it, Doc. Whiskey. We are going to get rich making whiskey."
"Whiskey? What in the Sam Houston do you know about making whiskey, Festus?"
"You can't even spell whiskey ."
"(Can't even spell Festus neither)" Doc muttered under his well oiled breath.
"Alright, give me a shot. But make it quick. We have to move fast before someone beats us to punch."
"Them two gals are gonna sell the whiskey stream this afternoon rain or shine, and we have to make a down payment if we want to get it ."
"It's worth a mint!"
"Wait just a country minute, Festus. What gals, what stream?"
"What in the blue blazes are you talking about?"
Festus could barely keep from exploding, he was so excited.
"Them two gals from Topeka that Matt and Chester were dancing with last night at Kitty's. Sunshine and Moonshine is their names."
"Well they own the best whiskey stream between here and Paris, France, and it's right out of town at the top of Graverobber's Point. They would keep it and stay here and get rich themselves, but they Mama's sick and they going back to Topeka on the stage tomorrow noon."
"All we have to give them is two hundred dollars."
"Well that , and my Spanish saddle. I already gave them that-- well and a hundred dollars."
"But Festus, there ain't no stream up on Graverobbers Point. It's on the top of the mountain you embecile."
"No, Doc. The stream's underground. That's what Moonshine told me."
"That's why nobody knew it was there."
Just as Doc was about to lay into Festus for being a numbskull, In through the swinging doors sauntered heaven it's ownself. Sunshine and Moonshine. With raffish legs prancing and hips dancing too and fro, the callipygian angels had a captured audience.
Moonshine sidled up and put her arm around Festus while Sunshine gently ran her nimble fingers through Doc's hair
(well at least the hair sticking out from his hat).
One look into Festus' eyes and it was clear. Love is definitely in the air.
"Well sweetheart, my handsome little cayeuse, you got the two hundred?" Moonshine cooed to Festus while Sunshine
put her arm around Doc's shoulder.
"Why sure we do, my darling moonbeam. Me and Doc gonna split it 50-50, ain't we Doc?"
"Why sure . Festus. Fifty fifty.
Moonshine cracked a grin that could have held a whole watermelon when Doc and Festus each laid $100 worth of bills, coins and nuggets on the cherrywood bar. Sunshine looked on with a glimmer of apprehension and talked softly to Doc while Moonshine closed the deal.
(This is the point where the piano player in the back of the bar trills the keys in dimished chords and everybody is on the edge of his seat because----
like dynamite through a limestone wall,
in burst Deputy Chester Goode and Marshall Matt Dillon!!
"Festus, Doc, hold on to your money. These are the same crossroaders the bilked old Rufus McGirch out of his hog farm out in Sioux City last month. They called themselves Fire and Rain over there".
Chester grabbed Moonshine while Festus protested and tried to pull the deputy away from his newfound love.
"Don't get pushy, you knothead. " Chester said, pushing Festus aside.
"This lady is going to jail".
"With a glimmer of sadness in his eyes, Marshall Dillon turned to Sunshine and asked,
"Well, are we going to do this the hard way or the easy way?"
Sunshine squeezed Matt's hand warmly at the same time that Moonshine gave Chester a barnyard kiss.
"Looks like it's going to be the easy way," said the marshall as they made their way to the jail.
When they arrived at the Sheriffs place, Doc was standing in front of the Longhorn whispering sweet nothings to Miss Kitty, when Kitty burst out
"Sunshine said WHAT to Matt? She wants to MARRY him?"
"Well over my dead body, she will!" she hollered, running toward Matt Dillon. The Marshall, no stranger to adversity,(but no fool either) tried to sneak in the side door of the saloon. It was no use.
"Hey Mister, you get your keister right back here before I make you into soup!"
In the mean time, Sunshine gave Matt a midnight kiss like it was going to be her last. She stroked his neck delicately, gazed into his eyes, and kissed him one more time.
"Wait for me Matt, promise?"
Sunshine trotted past the saloon and headed for the corral.
Miss Kitty caught Sunshine by the elbow and spun her around.
"Marry him? Marry my Matt Dillon? Why he won't even marry me and I have baked a whole lot more beans for him than you have, if you get my drift."
"That's my man, and don't you forget it. "
"Before the sun goes down, Sunshine better get out of Dodge."
"And if you don't, well let's just say there will be more than a showdown at that corral tonight.
Hi. Sunshine.
Whew. How's that?
2007-04-22 07:09:00
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2016-12-16 12:41:09
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