Jon Scieszka - Time Warp Trio 03 - The Good, the Bad and the Goofy

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THE TIME WARP TRIO
The Good,
the Bad,
and the Goofy
by Jon Scieszka
PUFFIN BOOKS
ONE
High noon.
A hot, dry wind blows across the prairie. “Where the heck are we?” asks
Cooky. “Cheyenne country,” says Cowboy Bob. An arrow whizzes out of
nowhere and sticks in the side of the chuck wagon. Cowboy Bob calmly pulls it
out and looks at it.
“Yep. Cheyenne. I’ll bet Sitting Bull and his braves are looking to rustle our
cattle off the old Chillum Trail.”
Cowboy Bob squints up at the ridge. Two hundred Indians on horseback
stand ready to attack.
A flash of lightning. A clap of thunder.
Two thousand longhorn cattle start to moo and mill around behind Cowboy
Bob.
Cooky blinks nervously. “What are we going to do, Bob?”
Cowboy Bob tugs on his white ten-gallon hat. “Circle up the wagons and get
lunch started, Cooky.” He eases his two six-shooters out of his holster. “I’ll
stop these Indians. Then I’ll hold off the stampede. By the time the cavalry
comes to save the day, I’ll be ready for grub.”
“Will the cavalry make it in time, Bob?” Cooky freezes. The background
music swells. The scene fades to black.
AND WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH OUR “SATURDAY NIGHT AT
THE MOVIES” FEATURE, COWBOY BOB TO THE RESCUE, AFTER
THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES.
F red grabbed the remote and turned the sound down. “Yes! Cowboy Bob is
going to stop Sitting Bull and his Cheyennes from stampeding his cattle off the
old Chillum Trail. Can you believe it?”
“No,” said Sam, eating the last of the potato chips. “Because they’ve got it all
wrong. Number one, Sitting Bull was not a Cheyenne. He was the leader of a
Sioux tribe. Number two, the trail from San Antonio to Abilene was called the
Chisholm Trail. And number three, Cowboy Bob is just a bad character actor
reinforcing mindless stereotypes.”
Fred shook two cans of soda, looking for a full one. “Well, excuse me, Mr.
Information. Thanks for spoiling the movie.” Fred found a half-full can and
emptied it. “I wonder what it was really like back then instead of boring old
now.”
“Thanks so much for inviting yourself over for the night and then calling my
house boring,” I said.
Fred gobbled a handful of popcorn.
“I didn’t mean your house is boring, Joe. It’s great. But summer vacation is
getting boring. Wouldn’t it be great to be real cowboys for just a little while?”
I thought about galloping across the prairie, firing off six-shooters, roping
cattle, and sleeping under the stars. I pulled out a small blue book with stars and
moons and twisting silver designs.
“Well, I have been reading a little more of The Book, And I think I found a
spell we could use to get us out of any trouble. It’s called the Industrial Strength
Time Freezer Spell and—”
Sam jumped to his feet. “Oh, no you don’t. If you two guys are going to go get
stuck full of arrows and stampeded by cattle, you can leave me out of it.”
Fred grabbed another handful of popcorn. “Oh, come on, you chicken. We’ve
handled giants, dragons, wizards, and pirates. What could be so bad about
being cowboys?”
I held The Book in my lap.
Sam adjusted his glasses like he always does when he gets excited. “Don’t
touch that book, Joe. Every time you do we get in trouble. Just because your
uncle is a magician doesn’t mean we have to be.”
“You think I don’t know magic?” I said. “Let me show you the Power
Broomstick Trick. I’ll hold this broomstick and bet that both you and Joe
together can’t push me from this spot.”
“No way. I’m not trying any tricks or saying anything until you put that book
away.’’
“But what if we could wish for something safe like being cowboys for just
twenty-four hours,” said Fred.
“No. That wouldn’t work,” I said, leaning on the broomstick. “‘What you
have to do is—”
“Wait! Stop! Shut up!” said Sam. “Don’t say another word, I know exactly
what’s going to happen. One of you two wizards is going to say something
stupid like:
Yip pee Ki Yi Yip pee, Yip pee Ki Yi Yo.
Take us back to cowboys long, long ago.
“Then that stupid green time-traveling mist will start to swirl around and
we’ll be in big trouble again. “
“That would probably work,” I said.
Sam adjusted his glasses and stared at me.
“What did you say?”
A faint wisp of green mist began to curl out of The Book.
“I think that rhymed spell would probably work.”
“Oh, no,” said Sam.
The green mist swirled thicker and deeper.
“Oh, yes,” I said.
The mist rose over our shoes, the couch, the TV.
“Yeee haw!” said Fred.
TWO
High noon.
A hot, dry wind blew across the prairie.
“Where the heck are we?” asked Fred.
“Nowhere,” I said.
Fred, Sam, and I looked at each other. We looked around as the last of the
green mist dissolved at our feet. No cowboys. No horses. No six-shooters. No
cavalry. Nothing but scrubby cactus, bits of grass, and dirt as far as we could
see.
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