APRIL 1
To pull his brothers their legs
Adam
Cartwright had thought a very sneaky
plan. Via a befriended drawer the eldest Cartwright boy had made a
wanted
poster of his two younger brothers.
Sheriff Clem Foster didn’t know what he saw when he was passing by
his
office. The authority-carrier of
well.
“Hoss and Joe have robbed a bankrobbery
Here in
believe it but they are up to it anyway”, Clem said to himself.
He grabbed his horse and rode to the Ponderosa.
On the way Clem ran into Adam.
“Adam, did you know that your little brothers have robbed the bank
of
on”, said the sheriff.
“I have made that poster to pull their legs. If you play the game
along
with
me you share into the fun”, Adam replied smiling.
The sheriff looked at him questionable.
“You just go to the ranch and speaks
with them
about the bank robbery. Then
you take them down to your office. Then they get locked up until
they get
raved. I will come and get them by eveningtime”,
said Adam.
Clem asked, :“You know what date it is
today?”
Adam nodded and replied, “That’s why.”
The gentlemen rode away from each other.
At the ranch of the Cartwright family the brothers Hoss and Little
Joe were
sitting on the porch laughing and talking.
“Joe, what would you do if you would get of found suddenly a large
sum of
money?”, asked the eldest of the couple
whom was
Hoss.
“Take all beautiful ladies in the area out to dinner. What would
you do
with
it?”, Little Joe wanted to know.
“I would start a restaurant with it because then I am the best
customer
myself”, was the reply of Hoss.
“And hire Hop Sing as a cook for sure? Then you would hear pa”, his
brother
laughed.
“Pa may serve as washing-up helper ”,
howled Hoss.
Both brothers were rolling on the floor laughing. So bad that they
didn’t
even saw that Clem had rode upon the yard and was looking seriously
at
them.
“Finished with laughing gentlemen Cartwright?”,
asked the sheriff.
“Er what Clem?”,
Hoss
asked amazed.
Little Joe too looked amazed at the visitor.
“Would the gents now like to mount on their horses for to go with
me to?”,
asked Clem.
“Clem, we always go with you.You are a good friend of ours. You know that”,
Little Joe said while he got up.
“I know that indeed”, sighted Clem.
Hoss mounted on his horse, just like his brother. They left the
yard and
rode in a quick tempo to town.
Out of pre-caution Adam had removed the wanted poster and hung it
up at the
office of the sheriff. When the brothers Cartwright and the sheriff
arrived
in town Adam was already in the Silver Dollar Saloon. In front
of him stood
a filled glass of beer. From where he was standing Adam saw his
brothers
going into jail. He turned around and enjoyed the goldyellow
liquid.
“Clem, why did we actually have to be here.
Are
you lonesome as a sheriff?”,
Hoss asked amazed.
“He just needs our genius support to be able to solve the crime in
City
They started to laugh again.
“Very funny boys. I dare to bet
that you
won’t be laughing anymore in your
workingroom”, Clem said dry.
He got the keys of a cell and pushed the boys into a cell. Here
after he
locked the door.
“Keep working boys”, the sheriff said smiling.
Just then the brothers realised that
they had
fallen into it.
“Why are we here?”, groaned Hoss.
Little Joe had become so angry that he couldn’t think of anything
sense.
“I have never arrested two bank robbers so easily before”, said
Clem.
“Which bank have we robbed then?”,
Little Joe
asked furiously.
“The bank in this town”, was the answer.
“We haven’t done that!”, said Little
Joe.
“Are these then your twinbrothers?”, asked Clem asked while he showed the
poster.
Both brothers were quiet at once. They looked at each other and
thought the
same thing.
“Dadburnit.
That brother of ours is behind this”, groaned Hoss.
“Adam? That souns
unlikely to
me. He would never do such a thing”, reacted
Clem.
“Hoss, you must admit that we have giving him a hard time lately”,
said
Little Joe.
“That is so but then he doesn’t have to get back at us like this”,
his
brother reacted.
Clem left the brothers alone in the cell and went to do his round.
In the saloon Clem ran into Adam.
“Your brothers are furious because they are in jail”, said the
sheriff.
“Nice. Then at least they cannot get into any trouble”, reacted
Adam.
“That’s true”, assented Clem.
The sheriff went ahead.
At
prison he heard them raving against everything which was loose and
fastened.
He went inside and said to Clem, “I come to get the prisoners.”
“Finally. I thought you would never come to get them”, said the
sheriff.
He got up and walked to the cell.
“You may go”, said Clem.
“Why? Do you finally understand that we are innocent??”,
asked Hoss.
“You are just as innocent as Santa in the summer”, said Clem.
They walked to the office and saw a smiling Adam sitting.
“What are you sitting ther so smiling?
Because of
you we have wasted a whole
afternoon by sitting in the cell”, raved Little Joe.
“You réálly are as stupid as you look
like. Don’t
you know what date it is
today?”, asked their brother.
“No, just you tell us that then”, Little Joe asked inpatient.
“It is April 1 today. Are you coming home?”,
Adam
asked cheerful.
There was nothing else to be done for the brothers than to go along.
Grumbling Hoss and Little Joe rode with Adam back home where their
father
Ben waited for them.
Heidi