Ray's Thought for the Day - Ray and Olwen
Ray and Olwen
Ray and Olwen
A while back there was a young lady who went crazy and ran off from her home and her husband. She wandered about the city and got into lotsa trouble in those parts due to all the wickedness a young lady can get into in the city. Eventually, she wandered out to the countryside, but her wandering was mostly driven and random and she was only a leaf in the wind. Then one stygian night she was staggering around and suddenly fetched up against a board fence and looking up she saw that the board fence had a tin roof over part of it. So she just managed to climb over the fence. Then she curled up in a corner on the hard concrete floor under the tin roof and went to sleep. The night passed little by little and the wee hours gave way to the somewhat less wee hours, but the lady snored on for she was wore out and much afflicted by allergies and other respiratory difficulties encouraged by the hard life she had recently been living. But finally she was awoken by a great racket of snorts and squeals, for a swineherd had arrived to slop his charges, the swine. For indeed, the young lady had slept away in a pig parlor from which the swine had been excluded for the night.
Groggily, from her still stygian corner of the parlor, she espied the swineherd distilling great buckets of swine food into the troughs and then of a sudden he opened a great gate and swine came charging into the parlor amid great rejoicing. Naturally, she was terrified of the swine and commenced a great squealing herself and the terror of the swine did trigger her birth pangs also.
“Whut the heck is this then?,” hollered the swineherd, for he only at that very moment become aware that something other than a swine was habitating a stygian corner of his parlor. Hark it is a lady in much distress, and so saying the swineherd scooped up the distressed and squealing young lady. “Here now”, he allowed, “let’s stick ye in the pickup fer the nonce.”
So that’s what he did, put her in the pickup on the passenger’s side. Then he allowed, Now just let me see that the swine are sorted out properly and the facilities in order, then perchance I will take ye home with me. The young lady, perceiving that she had been rescued from the swine in a timely fashion ceased her squealing, but the labor pangs were still upon her so she was not quiet as a mouse either, for in addition to the pangs, the terror of her narrow escape from the swine afflicted her still and she squeaked and snuffled loudly and alternatively.
After seeing that the swine were properly sorted out , the swineherd returned to his pickup, started it up and commenced on the short drive to his domicile. Once arrived thereto he scooped the young lady up out of the pickup and hauled her into the domicile where his family and other hangers-on were much amazed to see the swineherd hauling about a young lady instead of a swine, which would have been more usual.
“I found this un habitating the parlor and she seems much in distress so I brung her home, wi’ me”, he announced, and then they all rushed off with the swineherd still toting the afflicted young lady to deposit her, the afflicted young lady stranger, in one of the guest bedrooms. Then the swineherd and his family and hangers on undertook much ado to make the young lady comfortable and to bring her stuff and be nice to her.
So after awhile the young lady calmed down and the sense that had left her a good while back began to return and the pangs ceased to trouble her so much so she was able to tell the swineherd and his family and hangers on who she was and what had happened to her and why she had come to fetch up in the pig parlor.
Ray and Olwen
A while back there was a young lady who went crazy and ran off from her home and her husband. She wandered about the city and got into lotsa trouble in those parts due to all the wickedness a young lady can get into in the city. Eventually, she wandered out to the countryside, but her wandering was mostly driven and random and she was only a leaf in the wind. Then one stygian night she was staggering around and suddenly fetched up against a board fence and looking up she saw that the board fence had a tin roof over part of it. So she just managed to climb over the fence. Then she curled up in a corner on the hard concrete floor under the tin roof and went to sleep. The night passed little by little and the wee hours gave way to the somewhat less wee hours, but the lady snored on for she was wore out and much afflicted by allergies and other respiratory difficulties encouraged by the hard life she had recently been living. But finally she was awoken by a great racket of snorts and squeals, for a swineherd had arrived to slop his charges, the swine. For indeed, the young lady had slept away in a pig parlor from which the swine had been excluded for the night.
Groggily, from her still stygian corner of the parlor, she espied the swineherd distilling great buckets of swine food into the troughs and then of a sudden he opened a great gate and swine came charging into the parlor amid great rejoicing. Naturally, she was terrified of the swine and commenced a great squealing herself and the terror of the swine did trigger her birth pangs also.
“Whut the heck is this then?,” hollered the swineherd, for he only at that very moment become aware that something other than a swine was habitating a stygian corner of his parlor. Hark it is a lady in much distress, and so saying the swineherd scooped up the distressed and squealing young lady. “Here now”, he allowed, “let’s stick ye in the pickup fer the nonce.”
So that’s what he did, put her in the pickup on the passenger’s side. Then he allowed, Now just let me see that the swine are sorted out properly and the facilities in order, then perchance I will take ye home with me. The young lady, perceiving that she had been rescued from the swine in a timely fashion ceased her squealing, but the labor pangs were still upon her so she was not quiet as a mouse either, for in addition to the pangs, the terror of her narrow escape from the swine afflicted her still and she squeaked and snuffled loudly and alternatively.
After seeing that the swine were properly sorted out , the swineherd returned to his pickup, started it up and commenced on the short drive to his domicile. Once arrived thereto he scooped the young lady up out of the pickup and hauled her into the domicile where his family and other hangers-on were much amazed to see the swineherd hauling about a young lady instead of a swine, which would have been more usual.
“I found this un habitating the parlor and she seems much in distress so I brung her home, wi’ me”, he announced, and then they all rushed off with the swineherd still toting the afflicted young lady to deposit her, the afflicted young lady stranger, in one of the guest bedrooms. Then the swineherd and his family and hangers on undertook much ado to make the young lady comfortable and to bring her stuff and be nice to her.
So after awhile the young lady calmed down and the sense that had left her a good while back began to return and the pangs ceased to trouble her so much so she was able to tell the swineherd and his family and hangers on who she was and what had happened to her and why she had come to fetch up in the pig parlor.
posted by ray pistrum at Monday, March 13, 2006
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