It was quiet at Moab Ranch;
too quiet. Moabbey the Coyote
could not find another living soul. After searching from room to room, he finally found Silver Girl.
"Where are Coney and
Kokopelli?" he asked.
"Coney", she replied, "was mumbling something about going out to
Seven
Mile. He heard that the
Moab Burro was
missing from there. He thought that Kokopelli might help him find it."
Moabbey looked startled. "The Moab Burro has been standing on a railroad siding out by
the Union Pacific Railroad
Potash
Branch for years. Where would it go?"
"Beats me." Silver Girl replied. "But if anyone can find the Moab Burro, it will
be Plush Kokopelli, not Coney the Traffic Cone".
Meanwhile, out at
Seven
Mile, Coney and Kokopelli were not having any luck. They had looked
everywhere at the intersection of U.S. Highway 191 North and Utah Highway 313,
near the entrance to Seven Mile Canyon.
Coney looked concerned. "Last time we were out here, the
Moab Burro
was right over there, on that railroad siding. He had a pile of old railroad ties nearby
and some sections of old bent-up rail that he had replaced. If he had not repaired the Potash Branch, the Train of Pain might
have derailed and spilled nuclear waste all over the
New
Industrial Desert."
Kokopelli,
as was his tradition, said nothing. He did, however raise an eyebrow and smile.
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