It's a quiet afternoon in Gregoropolis (Daddies Steve and John would think suspiciously quiet), so Pete Dakota has decided to sprawl on the couch with a good book...
Pete Dakota: What sounds good today?
Pete: Hmmm, I haven't noticed this one before.
Pete: The Lost Mine of Big Bug Mesa by Randolph L. Tumbleweed.
Oooh, a western! Just the thing...
Pete: "The first in a series about cowboy-detective Monterey Jack and his faithful steed, Midnight Beauty. Their adventures in the untamed west of the 1880s will thrill readers of all ages."
Pete: Chapter One: "The Mystery of the Mine. Cowboy-detective Monterey Jack had been on the trail east of Tombstone for three hours when he heard gunshots..." Okay, I'm hooked.
Lost in the novel's rootin'-tootin' tale, Pete soon daydreams that he is the hero of the book...
Pete: Time to saddle up!
Pete: Ride, Beauty! We've got to find the lost mine before those claim jumpers!
Pete, as Monterey Jack: "Those owl-hoots are hiding out at the BAR 5-Aces Ranch!
Monterey Jack: "Quiet now, Beauty. We'll sneak up on 'em and catch 'em
like rattlers outta their skins."
Oh, no! The varmints have ambushed Jack! It's a gunfight between Jack, the no good Cerulean Twins, and Yellabelly Carter!
Monterey Jack: Yore lives ain't worth plugged nickels, boys. Give up now!
Our heroic reader races to the end to find that of course, Monterey Jack has saved the day.
The claim-jumpers are sent to the hoosegow and the lost mine remains hidden and safe.
Monterey Jack: "Boy howdy, muh dogs are plumb tuckered out.
Mebbe a little shut-eye fer a spell."
Pete: Yippe-Ki-Yay, m--- <snore>
BR: I almost hate to wake him up.
4 comments:
wow, that is so clever! He has figured out a good book can take you to places you'd never get to go otherwise! If he ever wants to come to Tombstone for real, it is only an hour and a half from my house....I'll take him!
So it wasn't suspiciously quiet in the end, but quiet and peaceful. Nothing like a good book - or an entertaining blog post - to get you out of the lockdown reality, at least for a while.
What an adventure he found in his book, it got tricky there for a moment when he was surrounded,
but I knew he’d come good.
After all that adventure a snooze is well earned.
Love those book cases, ver smart
Great post! To wake him up a little watering may do? ;-))
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