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Yes, Cal realized he had made
a serious mistake, not only in the

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choice of superintendent, but in overriding
his own safety rules for taking boys.

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Pressed by the needs of the boys
themselves, he had accepted too many big,

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tough kids at one time. Now
he was faced with the choice of

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turning them over to the police or
putting in a man strong enough to control

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them. His heart on saving the
boys, Cal chose the latter course.

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But where do you find such a
man? Strong but not cruel, stern

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but fair. Cal's mind turned swiftly
to his former profession wrestling brother in army

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days, more than once he had
coaxed a recalcutrant soldier onto the mat,

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and by quote unquote accidentally proving that
he could be hurt, brought him back

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in line. It was one means
of convincing a man in a friendly way

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that you had the situation in hand. Cal called in a young professional wrest

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slur friend of his, oh boy
Brawnie. Even tempered, young Dory Funk

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had learned wrestling at Indiana University and
was now living with his wife and sons

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in Amarillo. A rough man in
the ring, Funk was a good family

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man outside of it. Cal explained
the crisis at the ranch to Funk and

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outlined his ideas for combating it.
Funk agreed to move his family out to

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the ranch, and by working closely
with Cal, helped straighten out the current

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confusion and will there be a double
cross? They agreed that Funk would take

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over the job of superintendent for a
period of three months, during which time

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Cal could locate a permanent man with
ranch discipline, which is something Dusty Rhodes

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never exercised. In a state of
temporary deterioration. Oh my god, Funk

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was on trial from the day he
arrived, discovering they could buffalo the former

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superintendent. The older boys had contemptuously
taken over and been running things to suit

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themselves. Funk's immediate problem was to
command their respect and obedience. A two

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hundred pound heavyweight, Funk was physically
equipped to handle roughnecks, but what he

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and Cal wanted was for him to
win their respect and friendship. An easy

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going, kindly giant, Funk had
an excellent relationship with his own two sons,

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and he agreed with Cal that those
kids are no different from minor yours.

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The problem is magnified because there are
so many of them. Inviting the

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big boys to work out with him
on the wrestling mat, Funk illustrated wrestling

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holes and techniques, and also managed
to get over to each boy the suggestion

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of potential power. If a boy
squealed, the wrestler apologized, sorry,

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I didn't mean to hurt you,
m but that slight pressure of superior controlled

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power was sufficient to take the starch
out of the arrogant young rebels. After

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a round apiece with Funk on the
mat, not one of the leaders of

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the Embryo Revolution suggested that they might
throw him in the river. It took

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the new superintendent several days to explore
the ranch grounds and find his way around

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the various footpaths, buildings, barns. During his first week at the ranch,

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he was following a path near the
cattle barns when he noticed a large

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wooden crate with the words Zoo scrawled
across the front and white paint. The

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screen door was open, and curious
to discover what this project was, Funk

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walked inside, finding nothing there but
a couple of empty straw lined boxes.

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He turned to find a bobcat standing
between him and the door. It's murderous

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yellow eyes, defying him to come
closer. Funk froze. He didn't know

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what to do. He was afraid
to walk around the animal for fear of

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being attacked. Yet he didn't want
to call out for help and let the

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boys know he was frightened. He
was still standing at that impasse, eye

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to eye with the bobcat when a
seven year old boy walked in the door

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of the cage and picked up the
bobcat in his arms. Come on,

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Angelina, it's yourn lunch time,
and he lugged her out of the cage

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follow Funk welted, then began to
laugh. At least he hadn't called for

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help. Angelina's menacing presence at the
ranch came to an abrupt then that year,

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however, when she was tried in
a boy's court and found guilty of

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murder. Her favorite ranch pet for
several years had been Chaquida the Monkey,

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who attended all sports on the shoulders
of her favorite boys, and was so

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cooperative that she allowed herself to be
trained to ride the back of the trick

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mule at the rodeo. Her playful
gregariousness, however, proved her downfall.

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Jaquida shared the zoo with Angelina,
and one night, still full of fun

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and high spirits and not ready to
go to sleep, Jaqita made the fatal

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error of sneaking up on the sleeping
bobcat and biting her tail. Shocked out

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of her sleep, and Angelina sprang
on her former friend and snapped off Jakita's

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head in one terrible bite. Oh
my god. The ranchers were inconsolable.

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Angelina was tried for the murder of
Jaqieda and found guilty in wrestler's court.

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Now I added that next morning of
staff member found Angelina floating in the lake.

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None of the staff ever discovered as
which boys had carried out the ventral

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sentence, but Angelina had paid the
death penalty for her crime darkness on the

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ranch. While Angelina was sentenced to
an infamous riverman grave, Jakita was buried

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with full formalities. All seventy six
ranchers wept at her funeral. The caretaker

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of the zoo dug a shallow grave
and the monkey's morning ma masters later at

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rest and dog Booth Hill with her
name on a marker which was planted Indian

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fashion, and a pile of boulders
lady, a handsome collie bitch, did

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her best to make up to the
grieving ranchers. So it's about this this,

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uh you know. So there's pets
on on the ranch. The boys

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are allowed to have pets, and
this one gave birth to thirteen pumps,

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and around Christmas time many of them
were given away his presence, and it

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says although the older ranch boys were
quick to acknowledge that the new superintendent Funk

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was their physical superior, they had
other means of testing Funk's control. While

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he was still new with the ranch. Funk woke one night at midnight to

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the sound of a clinging school bell. When Funk, here's the bell,

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he answers that I think we know
this. He rose, pulled on his

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trousers, and ran out to catch
the culprit. Although he arrived while the

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echo still hovered in the still air, he saw no one near the bell,

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which is located outdoors on an open
stretch of ground. Back to the

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dining hall. Who the fuck?
Next night, just at midnight, the

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bell rang again. This time Funk
didn't take time to put on his trousers.

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He sprinted for the dining hall in
his pajamas, but fast as he

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arrived, the bell ringers were faster. No one was there. The superintendent

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looked around, puzzled. He had
arrived within seconds after the bell was rung.

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Out of his open out into this
open stretch of ground between buildings.

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Under a bright moon. It would
have been difficult for a boy to disappear

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so rapidly. So the following night
the bell rang again, and once more

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Funk made a record dash for the
bell, with no more luck than before.

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He realized he was going to have
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the mischief maker. The next night, Funk waited till after bedtime, when

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all the boys were in bed and
all the lights out. Then he slipped

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quietly across to the mess hall and
hidden the shadow of the building facing the

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bell. Ten thirty eleven o'clock eleven
fifteen, no sign of life. The

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Superintendent snoozed lightly, slept to his
feet a leaped to his feet rather as

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the bell began clinging vigorously. He
stared at it in disbelief that bell was

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swinging to and fro, setting up
a wild clamor. But there was no

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one there. Funk shook his head
and walked cautiously over to the bell.

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It had not been a hallucination.
The bell was ringing by itself, wide

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awake. Now Funk walked around it
finally caught sight of what he was looking

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for, a thin, strong cord
which glinted briefly in the moonlight. Touching

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it lightly with his fingertips, he
followed the cord to the nearest dormitory.

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It led through an open wind into
the bedroom bathroom. Rather, the boys

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put the cord on the bell each
night just as they went to bed.

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Those on milk and duty removed it
early each morning. Anybody who got up

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during the night to use the bathroom
gave it a few twitches as he walked

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by. Superintendent assigned that dormitory to
quote, dig a few rocks. Privately,

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he was amused. Those kids were
full of normal high spirits, just

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like any other teenagers. You get
the same pranks out of them that every

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other that every family over the country
does on an individual scale. To me,

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that's what's great about the ranch.
The boys are not suppressed. They

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are free to get into all the
normal, everyday kind of deviltry that every

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boy gets into when he's growing up. Bosses. We continue with our story

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of Dorry Funk. I would like
you to please google a picture of Dorry

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Funk Senior and half his face in
mind as I god go through this.

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It's not anything offensive, it's not
anything wrong, it's anything badishest He doesn't

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look like you'd expect him to.
And let's not forget he's from Indiana,

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so he does not have a Texas
twang at all. I mean, he

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looks just like Terry Funk. He
doesn't. I mean, Jesus looks at

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Terry Funk Senior, not Dorry Funk
scene. I know exactly Jesus deviltry included

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Smoking Junior looks nothing like Senior Junior
with his stringy hair at the back of

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his cowboy hat. And this guy
just looks like he's gonna fucking hurt somebody.

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Oh my God, look at Dorry
Funk Junior's face and realize his nickname

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was Dunk. He looks like a
Dunk thinks such a weird guy.