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Date Posted: 22:47:59 09/01/99 Wed
Author: Mary Ellen
Subject: "Ma! We'uns is Ready" Zeke called--Stephie's Private Dream Tour Continues!
In reply to: ANOTHER E! SISTERS COLLABERATION 's message, "THREE TWITS UP A TREE - DREAM TOUR ADVENTURE" on 19:57:09 08/25/99 Wed

"We's got the mulesall hitched up an' we's a-ready ta go ta the faihr" He told her.

"Na, hold on jes a minute, thar!" She interupted him. "You got them hogs slopped?"

"Yes'm!" Zeke replied.

"Roy got that wood chopped?" She continued.

"Yes'm!"

"Mickie and Markie, they done got them last three rows a-corn picked?"

"Yes'm!"

"Whar's Johnny an' Hank?"

"They's just finishin' up cleanin' the barn and gitin' the livestock a-fed!"

"An' yer pa's probably out tendin' the still like always!" Mary Jo said in a tone of tired frustration.

"Yes'm!" Zeke responed plainly.

"Awright! I guess thar ain't no more ta do til nightfall. Go on! Hav a good time!" Mary Jo said.

"YEEHHAAHH! Fellers! She said we could go! Everabody hit the wagin'" Zeke called to his pa and five brothers.

"An' tell yer pa not spend the whole time swappin' sips with them other shiners! He's a-drivin'!" Mary Jo called after Zeke.

"Yes'm!" Zeke said one last time and with that seven men piled into a single buckboard drawn by a two mule team. Johnny struck up a few cords on his banjo, Zeke accompanied him by blowing over the hole of an empty clay jug. Mickey joined in on a Jew's Harp and soon the whole merry scene was making its way down the dirt road to the County Fair five miles away.

"Ma boys!" Ma said seating herself in the rocking chair next to Steph's bed. "They kin git raucous at times but deep down they's good hearted. I do not envy the gals what git 'em though!" Ma said with a smile on her face.

"You have all boys?" Steph asked.

"M-hm" Ma answered. "Six fine, strappin' healthy boys! Thar's Hank, he the oldest. Then thar's Roy. Next come Zeke. Then thar's Mickey and Markie, they's the twins an' last come Johnny! That's how he got 'is name! Pa said 'e was a Johnny-come-lately and so we're a-namin' him Johnny!" Ma slapped Steph's uninjured leg and burst out in the heartiest laugh Steph ever heard. Steph just smiled trying to be polite but was privately repulsed at the idea that a man should wear a name all his like just because it fit some bad pun.

"Yea, we's a-had ar adventures here on the mountin." Ma continued. "Funny, folkes just seem to think it natural ta call ma boys whenever one-a um's a-gitin' inta trouble. they'uns jes seem ta make a fine rescuin' team, ma boys.

Thar was the time when the little Timmons boy got stuck in the swollen creek two springs ago. They done pulled 'im out like tweren't nothin'. Then thar was the time Old Hickory's barn a-caught fiahre caus' his still a-blowed up! Ma Johnny!" Mary Jo said becoming thoughtful and beginning to glow with motherly pride. "He done run right inta that barn. Didn't pay them flames no never mind. He just throwed old Hickory right over 'is shoulders and cahrried 'im righ' out! An' then each a ma boys went in an' saived all the livestock what was in that barn! Why Zeke! He even went baick in an' saved what jugs Hickory had filled! Yes'm! I's proud a-ma boys."

Ma then looked off to the side as her pensive mood turned more serious.

"A-course, we done had ar troubles, too! Thar was the time Hank was a young'un. He got inta Pa shine 'fore he knew how ta handle it. It kinda got to 'is head and he set Pa's hat on fiahre! We'uns don't talk on that much! It's a dark and troubled part-a ar past that still kinda gits under Pa's skin."

"Zeke mentioned a fued a little while back. What started it?" Stephanie inquired.

Ma jumped right back into reality at the feud's mention. "What started it?" She asked sharply. "What started it? Whah, that thar's the silliest question I ever did hear! What started it? I ain't a-gonna sit here and listen to sich nonsense." Ma got up from her chair and left the room to go into the kitchen. Before she left completely she have Stephanie one last parting shot.

"What started it?--Ha!" and left the room.

While in the kitchen, though, Ma looked out the window at the view of the spreading valley below her. What did start it? Ma suddenly became greatly distressed at the thought that she was unable to trace the roots of something in which their family pride, if not their whole family identity was tied up in.

Steph remained on the bed and worried over what type of hornet's nest she may have stirred up with just one simple question. She didn't have much time to contemplate the matter, however. At that same instant she her quiet footsteps coming up the porch stairs. She could have squeeled for joy to see her two fellow twits, Erin and DJ at the door of the cabin. DJ put her finger up to her lips motioning for Stephanie to keep quiet and Stephanie nodded her acknowledgement of the command.

The twits took quick hold of Stephanie and hustled her out the doorway and quickly down the road. Once they were out of the cabin's range, Stephanie burst out in joy and being reunited with her fellow twits.

"Oh, DJ! Erin! Thank God you're here! Thank God you've come! I don't know how much longer I could have stood it! Oh, thank God this nightmare is over at last!" She cried taking hold of DJ and then Erin and holding them so close it almost hurt.

"How's Sally? How's Lorna and Brenda and Tammy and Humble Rookie Mary Ellen? How are Judy and Diane and. . .and. . .oh, how's everybody! Oh, how I've missed you all!"

"Sally-May done sent us'uns ta rescue ya!" DJ said.

"Tammy-Sue and th' others done near wore out a hole in the floor a-pacin' back and forth a-worryin' how ya was." Erin said.

"Huh?" Stephanie said more confused than ever. "What are the two of you talking about?"

Obviously Stephanie was so overcome with joy at being delivered from the hands of the enemy that she was delirious. Well, just as soon as they got their beloved twit back home, DJ and Erin were sure it would all come back to her like nothing had ever happened. DJ and Erin just smiled with amusment at Stephanie's predicament. It was then that Steph realized DJ and Erin were both missing three teeth apiece!

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