Barry Behind Bars

Good evening all you beautiful people! Let's pick up where we left off, shall we?

I know this was not a saintly thing to think but as Sally described Barry behind bars, his orange fur once so proudly groomed, dirty, clumped together, slinking in a corner instead of proudly yelling from the fenceposts, I felt a little good that he got just exactly what he deserved.

If she was surprised to see him, he was equally if not more surprised to see her.

"What are YOU doing here?" he hissed, a hiss that would have once scared didn't now with him being behind bars and Maude's words telling her she would be safe echoing in her ears helped too.

"I'm here to see who they locked up for making trouble around here. What did you do Barry?"

Barry answered with a look of contempt, "As if I need to explain myself or anything to you."

Sally looked around - the cage was set way back in a shed, surrounded by bales of hay and it looked as though no human had been there for some time. There was dust on the tools hanging from the wall, she told me that she remembered noticing that, and this small shed was very far away from the farmhouse or any of the animal pens. It had all the appearance of being forgotten.

Then, our little Sally, said pretty much the best thing she could have said in that moment and I just know how riled up Barry would have gotten about it.

She looked at him and said, "That's okay, it looks like your words don't matter much anymore anyway."

An with that she left him and Arnott took her back to Maude.

How good is that??

I will try to tell everything else that happened in as few words as possible because there is work to be done on our next steps.

Maude told Sally that Barry had come up to their yard and had introduced himself as the leader of a nearby farmyard who had been sent to get more farmyards to see him as their leader. He did not go about things in a very good way and was immediately starting to talk about how some animals were better than other animals and he did not realize that Maude's yard - as she was the leader - was one of fairness and equality.

He was caught trying to attack the chicken coop by an old ram that he had ignored, thinking the ram too old to do anything about it. Boy was he wrong. The ram butted him so hard he fell unconscious and when he woke up he was in the cage and had been there ever since.

They fed him but didn't pay him much attention other than that.

He was always yelling about the COA and how they had been against him from the start.

"When you said you were with them, I knew you were against him and were probably my kind of animal," Maude said smiling.

Sally was welcomed fully into the yard and even though she was supposed to come back and report to us right away she saw an opportunity and took it, and that next part will explain why she was gone for so long which is a question I am sure you were waiting to ask me and one that I will answer when I return tomorrow.

Remember that writing out all of these words in one sitting gets very tiring on this old neck of mine. 

Thank you for reading and good night to you all.