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<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="2f9be823.gif" LINK="#0000FF" ALINK="#8002BF" VLINK="#00CCFF"> <bR> <div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-774/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="100" height="127">   <img src="HTMLobj-753/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="400" height="200">  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2fb702d0.gif" border=0 width="112" height="45" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2fa24300.gif" border=0 width="36" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2fb702d0.gif" border=0 width="112" height="45" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I>The sign upon the cafe wall said:</I></div> <div> <I> <img src="HTMLobj-765/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="400" height="200">  </I></div> <div> <B>"</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF99FF" FACE="Amaze" ><B>How quaint,"</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><I>the blue-eyed sweetheart</I></FONT></div> <div> <I>said, with some bewildermence,</I><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Champagne" ><B>"</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF99FF" FACE="Amaze" ><B>I didn't</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>know they served such fare out here</B></div> <div> <B>upon the plain?"</B></div> <div> <B>"Oh sure,"</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#6600FF" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><I>her cowboy date replied,</I></FONT></div> <div> <B>"We're really quite urbane,"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"I would guess they're either Chesa-</B></div> <div> <B>peak or Bluepoint, don't you think?"</B></div> <div> <B>"No ma'am, they're mostly hereford</B></div> <div> <B>cross.... and mostly they're pink.</B></div> <div> <B>But I've been cold, so cold myself,</B></div> <div> <B>what you say could be true.</B></div> <div> <B>And if a man looked close enough</B></div> <div> <B>they're points could sure</B><B> be </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><B>blue</B></FONT><B>!"</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><I>She said</I></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#6600FF" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><B> </B></FONT><B>"</B><B>I gather them myself out</B></div> <div> <B>on the bay alone. I pluck them</B></div> <div> <B>from the murky depths and smash </B></div> <div> <B>them with a stone!"</B></div> <div> <I>The cowboy winced, imagining a</I></div> <div> <I>calf with her beneath</I></div> <div> <B>"Me, I use a pocketknife and yank'em</B></div> <div> <B>with my teeth."</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF99FF" FACE="Champagne" ><B>"</B></FONT><B>Oh my,"</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><I>she said,</I></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#6600FF" FACE="CAC Krazy Legs Bold" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF99FF" FACE="Champagne" ><B>"</B></FONT><B>you animal! How </B></div> <div> <B>crude and unrefined! Your masculine</B></div> <div> <B>assertiveness sends shivers up my </B></div> <div> <B>spine!  But I prefer a butcher knife</B></div> <div> <B>too dull to really cut. I wedge it in on </B></div> <div> <B>either side and crack it like a nut!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I pry them out. If they resist, some-</B></div> <div> <B>times I use the pliers or even some-</B></div> <div> <B>times Grandpa's pruning shears, if</B></div> <div> <B>that's what it requires!"</B></div> <div> <I>The hair stood on the cowboy's </I></div> <div> <I>neck. His stomach did a whirl. 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