rural fiction

The Shetland Sheepdog Keeper, Miss Flaurie Shelty Boroughs, is a mistress to a family of seven Shelties.  Her Shetland Sheepdogs’ names are “Tea,” and “Coffee,” and “Trilby” and “Shelby” and “Welby” and “Colby” and “Alby.”  Today Flaurie is attired in a fairy princess bridal gown with her Shelties and awaiting a groom to come walking up alongside County Trunk U.  God told her that this day he would send a groom her way on this road.  This groom must pass God’s tests with three questions posed by the bride. The first four men who come walking down County U all fail the tests.  Will there come a fifth young man who can say, “Yes,”  to all three queries?

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