Mount Rainier National Park from Ashford, WA, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are more or less lost in the wilds of Central Wisconsin where their back road travel was most recently obstructed by beaver. The toothy rodents had clogged a culvert with their dam building and the resulting back water had flooded several hundred yards of the road.
Being of unsound judgment the Keeper convinced Phyllis that the flooded road was passible, since there were signs that it had recently been traveled by a horse that had stopped to empty its bowels. It is this kind of natural reasoning–based on horseshit, that has served the keeper well down through his many years, and it did not fail him this time as he and Phyllis forged through the beaver flood and progressed onto their next adventure, perhaps involving roads blocked by migrating lemmings.
