Show i f- f CUPOLA A 04 BYRON VaI AMS Pegasus Pegasus' s' s Lambs Pegasus Lewellyn lyn Dill Dillon the prize footracer of CO Island alone Inthe Inthe In Inthe the great city of New Yok fi financially chagrined and otherwise o incapacitated Incapacitated incapacitated for the o 0 of t f the Four Hundred took reeley's s lI advice vice and went west It was a beautiful sun mornIng mornIng morn morn- Ing in early July note the merciful avoidance of wol king June overtime that Pegasus left left the bumpers at Butcher Knife Creek Arizona and s set t out to panhandle a breakfast Two hours latr our our here her hit hithe the he trail for Goobers Goober's ran ranch h. h As ll n he loped along in his old old time tome form the prairie hens fl flew w cackling from hI hij path while the coyotes ducked to safety sauty In their earthy dens But unmindful un un- mindful of the voices vices of nature natures was coaxing his sto nl h to be mesmerIZed mesmerized mesmer mesmer- until he could appease its pangs at Goobers Goober's table When that worthy had fed him he he- allowed he needed no nD help Inasmuch as necessity clamored Pegasus Insisted At ht last a bargain was struck and nd net nest morning when the tile bell bellwether wether of wether of Goobers Goober's sheep ambled ambled ambled am am- bled away o i s s breast i St she was followed not lot only by the sL y y Pegasus Lewellyn Dillon aa as well For a week Pegasus maintained his vigil upon the lonely prairie alone lone alone with the sheep the coyotes and the honey bees Then there there came a night when the bell wether beil-wether wether ambled ambled- home inthe inthe In Inthe the van of her er Lock Cock without the great footracer Rancher Goober peering long ward i-ward the setting sun still for sight of the missing herder led the bleat- bleat ers and sat down upon the threshold of his shack to meditate Soon oon a bedraggled pedestrian mud- mud stained and weary loomed into view It was vas Pegasus Pegasus but but his brt brt-ath brt ath was labor labored d and he threw threw himself upon I the grass with that entire abandon bandon which denotes complete exhaustion I had I I had had the the the hardest ra race e. e of my my life life he ranted rolling onto his back and stretching out out like a mink skin mink skin on a drying board I 1 run run run em In though I run run em run emIn em in in Run riun what in demanded Goober spitting a flood of tobacco juice at a tumble bug bug- bugin in the grass Hun what I in in The lambs Tile lambs lambs' They aint no lambs Iambs In my flock said Goober doggedly the matter of you anyhow Peg Nary a a. a lamb AS Pegasus led led him to the corral door there was a sneer on the westerners westerner's westerners westerner's west west- westerners westerner's erners erner's face There are yer d d-d d d lambs exploded ex ex exploded plod d the sprinter pointing a waver waver waver- l i-g i g finger as he leaned against the corral for support Ther Theres s six of the fastest running lambs In Goober took one look Jack rabbits by Halifax he shouted Jack rabbits Ana A And it was i indeed de d thus thus s Woman Woman is often called a clinging I vin vine but surely Milton did not refer to her when he be used the exP exP- expression Th gadding via f Sf J j |