{"id":14392,"date":"2000-01-12T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2000-01-12T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=14392"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:04:12","slug":"the-first-born-returns-by-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=14392","title":{"rendered":"The First Born Returns (by Robin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary: \u00a0<\/strong>Clay Stafford returns to the Ponderosa.<\/p>\n

Rating: \u00a0T \u00a0(2,500 words)<\/p>\n

Author’s Note:<\/strong> \u00a0The REALLY Losts are satires of the series written with much affection, eye rolling,\u00a0\u00a0and winks. \u00a0And can be somewhat risque’.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The First Born Returns
\nA REALLY Lost Episode
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This REALLY LOST episode is the sequel to First Born. In that episode, Clay Stafford appears at the Ponderosa and reveals he is Joe\u2019s half brother. Clay is the son of REAL Marie, who thought he had died from fever. Clay has led a life alone and on the edge of the law. Even though an injured Little Joe begs him to stay, Clay Stafford leaves the Ponderosa rather than cause trouble for the Cartwrights. He claims he can\u2019t fit in to a family. Joe wants to go with him to Mexico and adventure but Clay sends him back to Pa, his brothers and the Ponderosa. It is duly renown as one of the top ten \u201cShirtless Joe\u201d episode and one of the top ten \u201cJoe gets hurt and Pa comforts him\u201d episodes as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In this sequel, Clay returns to the Ponderosa and tries to fit in with the Cartwrights. <\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Little Joe decided to take his new half-brother along when he and Adam and Hoss went out on roundup. At night, the tired and dusty but handsome cowboys make camp and bond over a pot of beans.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cI got the most brothers here!\u201d Joe bragged finishing his dinner. \u201cI got three and you, Adam only got two. And you, Hoss, only got two and you, Clay, only got me!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hoss and Adam chuckled and threw clumps of beans at Joe. Poor Clay just felt bad. He wished he had a real family to throw beans at him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, Joe may have three brothers but they are only half-brothers so that means he has one and a half if you really add it up.\u201d Adam loved math. The other three cowboys just looked at him like he was an annoying pain in the butt.<\/p>\n

\u201dYeah, right, Adam,\u201d Hoss said shaking his head. \u201cLet\u2019s get drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clay pulled a huge earthenware jug from under his saddlebag. \u201cBrought you boys a souvenir of Mexico!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dTouristas?\u201d Adam said sarcastically remembering his trip to Mexico to find undead childhood friend Carl Reagan (who by the end of the episode was really dead but went on to be the deputy in the \u201cDukes of Hazard\u201d) and the evenings in the cantina and the days in the outhouse.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cEeeww!\u201d said Hoss remembering his own souvenirs of Mexico when he and Joe went to get El Toro Grande in Mexico. It was a long ride home with one of the other of them having to stop and use the bushes every few miles and they ran out of toilet paper part way home.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cPULKEY!\u201d Joe said remembering his drunken night with Clay drinking the potent brew.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Joe slid his hat back and took the jug from Clay.\u00a0 “You say this stuff is called Pull Key? What did you say it was made of?”<\/p>\n

Clay winked.\u00a0 “Cactus and kosher chicken legs\u2026. that is where they get the name.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cI once dated a Jewish girl. Her father was a peddler,\u201d Adam shared.<\/p>\n

\u201dHe dated a Mormon and a White Buffalo woman too!\u201d Hoss explained to Clay. \u201cAdam likes exotic gals\u2026I just like big gals who can cook. I got an autographed photo of Julia Child hangin\u2019 over my bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dI like all gals!\u201d Joe smiled. \u201cBig, small, exotic or ordinary! And good food too! And Pulkey!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cMe too!\u201d Clay was glad he and Joe had something in common. \u201cTake a drink, Joe!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dOK, brother!\u201d Joe took a long slug from the jug and just as he was about to pass the ceramic jug to Adam, he started to choke much like a sweet fluffy pussycat hacking up a hairball.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cGak gaka hahhhakk!\u201d Joe coughed. Joe spit something out on the ground. \u201cA chicken bone!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hoss poked at it with his toe. Joe spat again and stuck his tongue out. Hoss gently pulled the cactus stickers out with a tweezers he had under his hat. \u201cSay Ahhh, little brother.\u201d He pulled some big, sharp, cactus thorns out of Joe\u2019s adorable and agile tongue. He flicked the thorns over his shoulder into the rocks.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pingeta ping. PING.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Clay felt very bad that he almost killed his newly found brother. \u201cOoops! Sorry Little Joe!\u201d Clay hoped he hadn\u2019t screwed up a relationship once again. The shrink in the Betty Ford Clinic said he had an aversion to intimacy and openness brought upon by his dysfunctional childhood and being hit in the head by Mardi Gras beads.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Joe stuck out his tongue and tried to inspect the damage in his reflection in the shiny canteen that Adam held up in the firelight. \u201cHope that is healed up by the dance on Saturday night. Got a date with a good kisser and I don\u2019t want her to be disappointed if I\u2019m not up to my usual standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cBen Cartwright always told his boys to take pride in every task we do and we should always do the best we can at every thing we do,\u201d Adam explained to Clay patiently.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cJoe and his tongue have a very high standard of performance,\u201d Hoss added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur Pa taught us that,\u201d Adam added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd to keep our feet off the furniture!\u201d Joe explained.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cI can do that!\u201d Clay hoped that they believe him. He wished he had a father like Ben and brothers like his brother Joe. He couldn\u2019t help but be envious.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The three Cartwrights took off their hats and sighed, \u201cWhat a Pa we have!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Clay wished Ben was his Pa instead of some dopey dead guy from New Orleans that either died from fever or saving Ben Cartwright from something or other on the Ponderosa. Either way Clay knew his mama was REAL Marie from New Orleans, not EXPLODED Marie from Down Under. Maybe Emeril was his father but he really wished it were Ben Cartwright, just like most of America. Even people in other lands wished they had Ben Cartwright as their father.<\/p>\n

Adam said, shaking his head, “Well, I wish they’d take the stickers out of this booze before they bottled it. That could have killed you, kid!” He patted Joe\u2019s tongue in a brotherly way.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Joe smiled and hugged Hoss for dethorning his tongue with the tweezers. \u201cThanks big, big big, large brother!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then Adam hugged Hoss and Joe and they hug Adam. Clay awkwardly watched and wished he could figure a way to hug Joe too. It was such manly brotherly warmth or maybe it was the fact he was sitting a bit too close to the camp fire and singed his buttocks.<\/p>\n

Hoss hugged Joe a second time, almost crushing the smaller cowboy with his affectionate embrace. \u201cGarsh, Little Joe, you know I always watch out for you and you always watch out for me. What are brothers for?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBorrowing money from?\u201d Joe teased. \u201cI\u2019ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cNaa, throwing in the horse trough!\u201d Adam quipped.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cHar har har!\u201d laughed Joe and Hoss, thinking of all the dunkings Joe took over the years and how happy all the women in the audience were to see him wet and drippy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Clay was really sad now. He wished he had brothers he could borrow money from and tease manfully too, as well as drown. He also wished women in the audience were able to see him wet and drippy too but he suspected that was not to be.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Adam took the black bandana from around his manly neck and stretched it across the empty black iron bean pot. \u201cWe can strain out the bones and the thorns this way.\u201d He adeptly poured the Pulkey through the cloth. With a flourish of his wrist, Adam tossed the half filled jug spiraling into the night sky. He did a little jig and caught the bottle behind his back, much like Tom Cruise playing a bartender in that Tropical bartender movie. Adam also could dance in his briefs like Tom in \u201cRisky Business\u201d, though Hoss did it better. Joe refused to wear briefs and Pa said \u201cNo more dancing briefless. You can get hurt worse than you can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

That episode got high ratings too.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cVoila!\u201d Adam declared as he balanced the Pulkey jug on the tip of his pinky. Joe and Hoss applauded enthusiastically. Clay applauded as well but less enthusiastically.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Adam took a slug of the potent brew and sighed appreciatively. \u201cI learned to say \u2018Voila\u2019 and \u2018croissant\u2019 from Marie. And \u2018Ooola la too!’\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cMy dead mama?\u201d Joe let a tear trickle down his cheek.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cOur dead mama!\u201d Clay also let a tear trickle down his cheek. Hoss and Adam wept too as they loved Marie as the only mama they remembered. Except Adam who remembered Inger and Marie but not his own mother Elizabeth, which was pretty paradoxical.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Clay realized that Adam Cartwright had learned French from his own Mama and he learned nothing from his dead mama\u2026. but the feeling of abandonment. SIGH.<\/p>\n

\u201dGosh, you think of everything, Adam. You sure are sure smart!\u201d Joe exclaimed, watching the amber liquid filter through Adam\u2019s black bandana. As much as he and his oldest brother fought, he was mighty proud of his clever brother and glad the booze wasn\u2019t going to waste. He poured a ladle of Pulkey down his throat and passed it to Hoss. \u201cDrink big brother!\u201d Joe invited.<\/p>\n

\u201dAnd I sure am thirsty!\u201d Hoss shouted. His loud voice echoed off the cliff and started a landslide on the Sierras. Fortunately the rocks were all papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 and only a limping wolf got beaned. \u201cYelp!\u201d squealed the wolf in an edited in clip. It wasn\u2019t even a wolf; it was a coyote from a Warner Brothers cartoon. Then a roadrunner took off and a coyote chased her off the cliff and landed on the wolf\/road runner.<\/p>\n

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Clay\u2019s lip trembled. He wished he had a smart brother like Adam and a thirsty loud-mouthed brother who could make rocks move like Hoss and a pet roadrunner or wolf. He wished he was a real Cartwright brother.<\/p>\n

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Adam finished straining the crud out of the Pulkey and flung his sodden bandana at the limping wolf.<\/p>\n

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WOMP!<\/p>\n

The beast looked vaguely familiar and it wasn\u2019t until the cur picked up the crud-filled bandana and dragged it into the brush for a gross midnight snack did Adam Cartwright realize that was the same wolf who had attacked Little Joe in \u201cBrother\u2019s Keeper\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201dThought I blasted that wolf to wolfie heaven a while back.\u201d Adam shook his handsome head and twirled his pistol.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cWolves have 9 lives,\u201d Hoss suggested.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s cats,\u201d Adam corrected.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone ever see \u201cCats\u201d the musical? \u201c Clay asked trying awkwardly to make conversation. He tossed another log on the campfire and poured some Pulkey down his own throat. \u201cAhhhhhh!\u201d he said as the booze seared its way to Clay\u2019s intestines. He spit into the fire and the booze flashed up in flames like a volcano erupting or the flaming heart of a female guest star seeing a Cartwright for the first time.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cCats? A MUSICAL!\u201d Adam, Hoss and Little Joe exclaimed in unison.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cYep! A musical on Broadway!\u201d<\/p>\n

All three Cartwrights stared at Clay who turned red at the suggestion that a manly cowboy would have seen a Broadway musical. Even Adam who loved music would never stoop so low.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHECK\u2026the only musical we manly Cartwrights would see is \u2018Oklahoma\u2019 because that has cowboys in it!” Hoss shook his head. Joe\u2019s brother was sure a sissy dope with a sissy moustache that looked like it was drawn on with an eyebrow pencil. Maybe Clay should date Laura Dayton. She was a dope and so was Clay, even though this Pulkey was good. Hoss took another slurp. No sense letting good booze go to waste.<\/p>\n

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Joe and Adam linked arms and harmonized, \u201cOooooooooooo-kla HHOMA where the wind comes sweeeeeeping down the Pppppplain!!!\u201d They were both pretty drunk and really sounded like the wounded wolf even though in their drunken condition they thought they sounded like guest stars on Hullabaloo or two of the four Monkees.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSure liked that Ado Annie though,\u201d Hoss sucked a big sip of the Pulkey.<\/p>\n

\u201dShe\u2019s jest a gal who can\u2019t say no!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cI sure like gals who can\u2019t say no!\u201d Joe winked.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cHoss once dated Sally Bowles in Cabaret,\u201d Adam winked and Hoss blushed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cAdam had to rescue him,\u201d Joe bragged to Clay. Clay tried to wink but he was too drunk and uncoordinated to get his eye lids to work separately. Clay just blinked and looked stupid as if his contact lenses were bothering him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cJoe dated Julia Bullette and Lotta Crabtree too!\u201d Adam bragged. He winked agilely.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cAdam had to rescue me from them too!\u201d Joe added with a brotherly wink as well as wiggling his ears.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cBut Joe carried me all the way to safety when Cochise shot me!\u201d Adam observed. He wiggled his ears and winked and did a jig.<\/p>\n

\u201dYour horse shot your brother?\u201d Clay asked as he drank more Pulkey. He gave up on the winking and ear wiggling and jigging.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, Cochise the Indian, not Cochise the wonder Pinto!\u201d Hoss ladled more Pulkey down each man\u2019s throat and added two ladles down his own. He was the biggest cowboy around the fire and needed a big drink.<\/p>\n

Clay wished he had a brother to rescue him from a demented Berlin nightclub singer or a sleazy saloon gal or a murderous Apache. \u201cYou fellers sure are lucky!\u201d Clay sighed with envy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The three Cartwright Brothers wrapped their arms around each other and hugged just as Pa rode up on Buck.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cAren\u2019t you boys done rounding up those 76 trillion cows yet?\u201d Ben said as he climbed down from his horse and kicked aside a papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 rock. The rock arched upward in a spiral and flew off into the night.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cUh uh,\u201d said Hoss concisely. \u201cHave some Pulkey, Pa! Clay brung it\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben\u2019s eyes lit up. \u201cPulkey? The Mexican fire water made from cactus and kosher chicken legs?\u201d\u00a0 He had first tasted the beverage when he was a cliff diver in Acapulco. That was probably where Adam got his swimming talents and the love of Speedos.<\/p>\n

\u201dYes sir!\u201d Clay said, kissing up big time. \u201cHave some Pulkey, sir!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dI strained it Pa!\u201d Adam said, handing his Pa the ladle.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, Pa! I hurt my tongue and Adam had to cleverly devise a solution!\u201d Joe said. He stuck out his tongue to show the wound to his beloved Pa. Ben patted his baby son\u2019s wounded tongue with a gentle, loving touch.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cHave some Pulkey, Pa. It is yummy!\u201d Hoss said. His blue eyes were twirling like roulette wheels at the Sazarac.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ben poured a big measure of the potent brew down his throat. His eyes rolled back in his head and steam came out his ears. \u201cAaaaahhhhhhhh! WOWza!\u00a0 YUMMY!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ben hugged Clay to his chest and stroked his almost Joe-like hair. \u201cSON! It is good to have you\u2026Hic\u2026back!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cGuess we won\u2019t be rounding up no cattle tonight! Har Har Har!\u201d Hoss grinned as Adam and Joe started singing Oklahoma again.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Clay smiled as he rubbed his cheek on Ben\u2019s shoulder and fell into a peaceful sleep in his stepfather\u2018s fatherly arms.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*****End*****<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tags: Ben Cartwright, Clay Stafford, Joe \/ Little Joe Cartwright<\/p>\n

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