{"id":46655,"date":"2023-12-24T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=46655"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:37:20","slug":"sterling-and-bright-by-bluewindfarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=46655","title":{"rendered":"Sterling and Bright (by BluewindFarm)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bonanza
\n~*~*~ Advent Calendar ~*~*~
\n* Day 3 *<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Summary<\/b>:\u00a0 It might be white outside, but inside?\u00a0 Being a day like no other, was an understatement; and long after the sun had set Ben Cartwright was almost ready to declare that all three of his sons would be receiving lumps of coal in their Christmas stockings.
\nRating: G
\nWords: 2,350<\/p>\n

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Sterling and Bright<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHop Sing no have time for little boy questions,\u201d the harried servant spoke in clipped tones as he bustled about the kitchen, preparing the daily meals as well as the baking that was expected this time of year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, but I can help you,\u201d Little Joe spoke, following like a shadow as his friend entered the pantry.<\/p>\n

Hop Sing reached for the sack of flour and turned to exit the small room.\u00a0 Not realizing the child had followed him, he tripped and dropped the opened bag, spilling its contents all over\u2026. everything…. except the five-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut!\u201d Voice pitched higher with his arm and finger pointing the way, \u201cNow!\u00a0 Go!\u00a0 Hop Sing now have mess to clean up!\u00a0 No time for Lit\u2019le Joe!\u00a0 Go bother brotha!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dejectedly walking through the short hallway from the kitchen to the dining room, Joe heard, \u201cAnd bundle up.\u00a0 No time to take care of sick child because he not dress warm!\u201d<\/p>\n

Stopping in front of the credenza, Joe began to pull on his winter coat and knit hat.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t forget your mittens and wear your scarf!\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Slowly Joe exited his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on Hoss!\u00a0 Ya gotta tell me!\u201d Joseph Francis Cartwright begged and pleaded, essentially pestering his older brother for what felt like hours to the older boy.\u00a0 \u201cAdam won\u2019t tell me anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShortshanks,\u201d Eleven-year-old Hoss, towered over his little brother, with a fearsome face trying to prove he meant business.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m gonna dump ya in the water trough if ya don\u2019t stop askin\u2019 questions.\u00a0 Ya gotta let me get back ta work.\u00a0 I promised Pa I\u2019d have my chores done afore lunch, and Amos needed my help with shoeing these horses.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m right powerful hungry.\u00a0 So why don\u2019t ya go pester someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning his back to Joe, Hoss returned to the forge, picked up a set of tongs and pulled a red-hot bar of iron from the fire.<\/p>\n

Hefting the heavy mallet overhead, and with deliberate strokes, he began pounding the metal into shape over the anvil.<\/p>\n

Miserably walking away, Little Joe stuffed his hands into his coat pockets while shuffling his boots along the snowy pathway and kicking an imaginary stone out of his way.<\/p>\n

As if he\u2019d aged seventy years in the span of sixty seconds, Joe\u2019s forward movement slowed to molasses in wintertime.\u00a0 With a deep sigh, he reached for the doorlatch and slowly pushed the heavy oak door open and quietly closed it behind him.<\/p>\n

Unwinding the heavy scarf that Hop Sing had insisted he wear, Joe let out another sigh before wadding up the cloth and setting it on the credenza.\u00a0 Plopping down onto the floor, he pulled off one boot and then the other before setting them aside.\u00a0 Rising to his stocking feet, the unbuttoned his heavy coat and hung it on the lower peg of the coat rack placed by the long clock.<\/p>\n

Sighing once more, he walked farther into the great room and stopped when he heard a drawer to the desk his father used close.\u00a0 \u201cPa!\u201d Joe hollered as he hurried across the floor, \u201cOh, it\u2019s you.\u00a0 Sorry ta bother you, Adam.\u201d\u00a0 Turning, he slipped his hands into his pant pockets, lowered his head, and headed towards the settee.\u00a0 \u201cNo one\u2019s got time for me,\u201d not realizing he\u2019d said it aloud.<\/p>\n

Having finished with the ledgers as Ben had requested, Adam had planned to review an upcoming Army contract for beef, but hearing his brother\u2019s comment, \u201cJoe, wait a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNa, that\u2019s okay Adam.\u00a0 I know everyone\u2019s got important work to do and can do without me pestering them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rising from the chair, he followed Joe to the settee, where he picked his brother up and set him on his lap as he sat down.\u00a0 \u201cJoe, I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 Sometimes I forget what it was like to be so young.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiping a tear from his eye, \u201cYa, you had Pa all to yourself, and traveling across the country and all.\u00a0 Lot\u2019s different than me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich doesn\u2019t mean that I should shut you out.\u00a0 Pa always had time for me and my questions, and I guess in wanting to please Pa in getting all my work done by ignoring you, Pa wouldn\u2019t be too happy.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry I snapped at you earlier this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snuggling up against his brother\u2019s chest, \u201cJust ain\u2019t nothing I can do, and I can\u2019t go anywhere on my own riding Patches.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot with all the snow out there.\u00a0 You know Pa would have a fit.\u00a0 How can I help you, buddy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to know about Santa Claus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, you want to know about St. Nicholas, the Jolly Ol\u2019 Man himself.\u00a0 That\u2019s a tall order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking up, out from under a headful of hair that was well past needing a trim, \u201cBut you do know him, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t know him,\u201d wanting to forestall disappointing Joe any further, \u201cbut I do know\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTell me about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, for the next fifteen minutes Adam told Joe all he thought the youth needed to know, that is until their foreman, Charlie Yeagle pounded on the door before opening it and telling Adam he was urgently needed in the forge and that he\u2019d already sent someone into the settlement to fetch the newly arrived doctor and to see if they could find Ben.<\/p>\n

Setting Joe to his feet, Adam left the room, grabbing his heavy coat before heading out the door.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cLit\u2019le Joe what you doing!\u201d Hop Sing asked as he began setting the table and looked to see his young charge standing in front of the fireplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire went out, and I was just lookin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere still warmth from cast iron stove in fatha\u2019s office.\u00a0 Mr. Ben, he start fire when he get back with brothas.\u00a0 You too young.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Hop Sing.\u201d\u00a0 Shaking his head in exasperation, \u201cPa\u2019s told me, and Hoss\u2019 told me, and Adam\u2019s told me.\u00a0 I\u2019s just looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou come help Hop Sing set table.\u00a0 Honorable fatha and brothas return home.\u00a0 Food be ready for them.\u00a0 \u00a0Chop, chop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHop Sing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes Lit\u2019le Joe?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know about Santa Claus, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know only good boys and girls get presents,\u201d hoping that would encourage Joe to do as he asked, he turned around and headed back towards the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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

Fifteen minutes later, having not heard Joe opening the dish cabinet nor any noise that the boy normally made when setting the table, Hop Sing cautiously made his way back towards the great room and called out, \u201cLit\u2019le Joe?\u201d<\/p>\n

He heard a muffled, \u201cHere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walking farther into the room, towards the staircase, he stopped and called out, \u201cLit\u2019le Joe!\u201d one more time while looking upstairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere Hop Sing!\u201d sounded louder.<\/p>\n

\u201cLit\u2019le Joe!\u00a0 Where are you?\u201d\u00a0 With fisted hands on his hips, \u201cHop Sing want you come here right now!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLit\u2019le Joe, your fatha not be happy you hide from Hop Sing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not hiding, I\u2019m looking.\u201d\u00a0 The voice was louder, but still a bit muffled.<\/p>\n

Turning around, he noticed black dust sifting down from within the fireplace.\u00a0 Carefully walking across the floor, Hop Sing bent over and looked up.<\/p>\n

It was at that moment, that everything happened.\u00a0 Hop Sing reached up into the chimney, grabbing hold around the ankle bearing a no longer white sock.\u00a0 With a startled yelp, having lost his footing and his handhold, Joe plummeted down.<\/p>\n

Landing with a thud and a scream.\u00a0 A large, plume exploded into the room just as the front door opened.<\/p>\n

Ben\u2019s back was to the room, helping guide his middle son across the threshold.\u00a0 At hearing the commotion, Ben forgot about Hoss and the crutches he was using due to his splinted left leg, and turned around, only to shout, \u201cJumping Jehosaphat!\u00a0 What the\u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Not knowing which son needed him more, Ben looked left and right before hearing Adam state, \u201cI\u2019ll take care of Hoss, you go check on your youngest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Adam managed to get Hoss into the bedroom just off the dining room, even though his brother was complaining that he didn\u2019t want to go to bed.\u00a0 He\u2019d heard Hop Sing shouting and he wanted to plead and beg the cook to not go back to China.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoss, right now Pa\u2019s got his hands full, and adding you to the mixture just might make him want to join Hop Sing.\u201d\u00a0 Adam pulled the crutches out from under Hoss\u2019 armpits and pushed his sibling onto the bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam, don\u2019t forget my boot out in the buggy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reaching down to grab his brother’s lower leg, Adam worked to remove Hoss\u2019 other boot.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll get it when I get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBack?\u201d Pulling himself up to rest against the headboard and trying to slip under the covers, \u201cWe just got home, where ya goin\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

Holding the boot while trying to ignore the odor emanating\u00a0from within, \u201cI have a feeling Pa\u2019s going to want the doctor to make sure you didn\u2019t do any more damage to your broken leg when you fell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t fall, Pa dropped me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you tell him that.\u201d\u00a0 Dropping the boot with a thud, Adam straightened up and said, \u201cAnd I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll want to make sure Little Joe didn\u2019t get hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019d he do anyhow?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably trying to start a fire in the fireplace from what I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe done told him he\u2019s too young ta do that.\u00a0 That he needs to let Pa or one a us do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I have a feeling there\u2019s going to be a different kind of fire started; seems our little brother is going to get his britches warmed.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Pa asks, I\u2019m going for the doctor.\u201d\u00a0 And with that, Adam slipped from the house, jogged across the snow filled yard to the barn, and saddled his horse before heading out.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cI go back to China!\u201d<\/p>\n

Panicked, Ben wanted to follow the Oriental man as he headed back to the kitchen and subsequently, his sleeping quarters, but all he could do was listen to the ranting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go back to China!\u00a0 I cook, I clean, I no deal with naughty boy!\u00a0 Him make more work for Hop Sing!\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning his attention back to his youngest, who was trying to pry his arm from the firm grip he held, \u201cJust what were you thinking?\u00a0 Evidently you weren\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Pa!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not hurt, get up to your room!\u201d\u00a0 Turning the misbehaving child and swatting him on his back side, Ben looked at his blackened hands that mirrored the mess on the hearth, the floor, the table, and the furniture.\u00a0 Shaking his head, he finally forced his feet to move when he heard the bedroom door upstairs slam closed.<\/p>\n

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

Adam returned with the doctor in tow.\u00a0 Quietly they followed the voices to the kitchen, both heard Ben pleading with his employee.\u00a0 Neither could help it; the doctor and Ben\u2019s eldest burst forth with laughter.<\/p>\n

Turning and glaring, Ben shouted, \u201cI\u2019m paying your services as a doctor, not to stand there and laugh like a hyena!\u00a0 And you, you braying like a, a jack\u2026.\u00a0 Keep it up and I might just rethink your going to Boston to go to college.\u201d<\/p>\n

With healthy blushes and good graces, the two backed away with Adam showing the doctor the room where Hoss was resting.<\/p>\n

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

The doctor had left after examining Hoss, again.\u00a0 Much to everyone\u2019s relief, no further damage had been inflicted during the unplanned tumble. \u00a0With only damage to his pride, Joe was left to his own in his room.<\/p>\n

Hop Sing was still not convinced he would stay; and thusly warned his employer that as a result of everything that happened, he was done working for the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need get cleaned.\u201d\u00a0 Walking toward Ben, and pointing a finger into Ben’s chest, \u201cYou clean mess.\u00a0 You clean son.\u00a0 You finish cooking dinner.\u00a0 You clean dishes.\u00a0 You clean kitchen.\u00a0 Maybe I come back to work in morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

With almost everything set right, Ben settled down with his pipe in hand, and looked up at hearing footsteps on the staircase.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry for laughing Pa.\u201d\u00a0 Adam walked across the floor, taking a seat on the now clean low table in front of the fireplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry for getting mad, and don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not going to prevent you from heading to Boston come spring.\u201d\u00a0 Tamping down the tobacco in his pipe, \u201cSometimes, I just don\u2019t know what to do with that boy.\u00a0 Where does he get all these ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPa, he\u2019s only five and he did ask me to tell him about Santa Claus. That\u2019s what I was doing before Charlie came to tell me about Hoss getting injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you just had to mention that he came down the chimney?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just hope I can convince Hop Sing to stay.\u00a0 Somehow get him to understand what a precocious child your brother is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPa, I\u2019ll admit that Joe is sterling and bright\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd twice the trouble you and Hoss ever were.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pinching the bridge of his nose in an effort to hide the grin threatening to appear, \u201cPa, you have to admit…\u201d<\/p>\n

Arching an eyebrow, \u201cAdam, don\u2019t defend him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaking his head, \u201cI\u2019m not talking about Joe.\u201d\u00a0 Giving a slight laugh, while leaning forward\u00a0into his shoulders, both hands on the wooden table beside his hips.\u00a0 \u201cCome on Pa, when the doctor and I\u00a0peeked around the corner to the kitchen, you have to admit it was funny.\u00a0 Hop Sing yelling at you, arms going every which way, standing there, his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot*, just like Good Old Saint Nick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Failing to prevent his own smile, \u201cYes son,\u00a0Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night*<\/em>*. And all that.”\u00a0 Pointing with the mouthpiece of his pipe, “Now upstairs to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obeying his father; taking the stairs two at a time, \u201cNow dash away, dash away, dash away all<\/em>!**\u201d proclaimed Adam as he disappeared from sight.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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My Character<\/b>:\u00a0\u00a0Hop Sing
\n<\/em>My phrase<\/b>:\u00a0 “His clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.” (*)from<\/span><\/em>\u00a0A Visit from St. Nicholas<\/a>,<\/a>\u00a0better known as \u2018Twas the Night Before Christmas<\/u>\u00a0by Clement Clarke Moore.<\/p>\n

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Link to Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar – Day 4 – How Can You Mend a Broken Heart<\/a> by BluewindFarm<\/p>\n

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Summary:\u00a0 It might be white outside, but inside?\u00a0 Being a day like no other, was an understatement; and long after the sun had set Ben Cartwright was almost ready to declare that all three of his sons would be receiving lumps of coal in their Christmas stockings.
\nRating: G
\nWords: 2,350
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