This story begins a few weeks or some other undefined period of time after Cal's What a Man's Gotta Do (A Fair Day's Work). Heyes is still pretty sore after being cheated out of his poker winnings by Marsden and his men. If you want to know why he’s so sore, well, go back and read Cal’s story. You’ll be glad that you did!


“Dear Mister Marsden,” the lady said in a confidential tone, leaning towards the man sitting opposite her, “you heard...

This is a story of Heyes and Curry at the Valparaiso Home for Waywards.




Jupiter Snodgrass waited deferentially in front of the superintendent’s desk for a reply. While he waited, he studied the superintendent. The man never ceased to fascinate him. He was a cadaverous man, lean and gaunt with high sunken cheekbones, long limbs and long thin spidery fingers. Jupiter watched those fingers twining and entwining around each other while their owner was preoccupied in thought.

Finally, Superintendent McDermott gave his response.

“You...

 
A popular game played on the ASJ Collection website message board called Quipable Kid, Noteworthy Heyes, or something close to that, inspired this story. The idea is to post a quote from one of the boys. The next person posts which character said the quote, what episode it is from and posts the next quote. As you can see this is a real test of one’s memory. Incredible as it may seem, I’never played this game. That doesn’t mean my memory is lousy, it just means that, well, it means I never played that game. But, it occurred to me that people may get the wrong idea and think...

I decided to write a crossover story, which you may or may not know, and may or may not care, is generally a deft merging of two television series. I wanted to stick with a Western show for my first crossover story because I don’t think I could  produce as successful a result if I used, say, a science fiction story.   When I couldn’t come up with a Western that hadn’t already...