By
Heidi
For a few days now everyone at the Ponderosa Ranch was behaving
mysteriously. Perhaps it was because it was nearly Easter was. The twins
Mitch and Pam Cartwright noticed that their family members showed very
strange behaviour when they came in or were present. So also that certain
afternoon. The whole afternoon the children had been outside. Inside ranch
owner Ben Cartwright had called in for a family meeting due to Easter.
"Boys, I have called you together because we have something to discuss.
And
it is mainly about two kids who make our ranch unsafe", said Ben.
"I didn't know that Hoss and Joe were still kids because mine never
do
that", reacted Adam.
He was the eldest Cartwright son and besides the father of the twins. Two
angry looks came up his side coming from his brothers Hoss and Little Joe.
Ben though could appreciate the reaction of Adam.
"To keep them busy on Easter morning you hide the eggs in the shape
of a
search", said the rancher.
"We will hide them so good that the twins still will be looking for
them in
thirty years time", Little Joe, the youngest Cartwright brother said.
"I seem to remember that there were once three brothers who were looking
for
Easter eggs a whole morning", said Ben.
"That came because Candy helped Mitchy", the middle Cartwright
brother
listening to the name Hoss said.
"You hide the eggs and the twins will look for them. And not a word
about it
to those two", said Ben.
His sons nodded.
That evening during supper Mitch and Pam noticed that their father, grandpa
and uncles were hiding something from then. They looked at each other
understanding and came into action.
"Are we doing anything special for Easter yet?", asked Pam.
"Just a breakfast and then to church for the church service. Then
there is
an extended lunch", replied Ben.
"We do get something of chocolate, don't we?", Mitch asked for the security.
"You do get that. You know that, don't you?", Adam asked on his turn.
Mitch nodded.
"Why weren't we allowed to come inside this afternoon?", his sister asked.
"What do you mean?", Hoss asked amazed.
"Grandpa said that we had to stay outside all afternoon due to important
business. Don't we belong to that as well?", asked Pam.
"That is so but I don't know if business are interesting for you",
said
Adam.
"When you are so old that you can't run the ranch anymore then we
have to do
it. You always say that you can't start young enough so.......", reacted
Mitch.
"Eh Mitchy, may I point out to you that we ain't that old yet", said Hoss.
"No, but very much older than we are", his nephew said.
This answer of Mitch didn't please any of the grownups.
How or what the twins tried, they didn't find out what their family members
had discussed.
Easter.
Like usual everyone was up early in the Cartwright house. But this day
the
brothers had gotten up extra early. Even though they tried to do as silent
as possible this didn't work out because the twins woke up by the clattering
of Hoss and Little Joe.
The brothers hid the eggs as good as possible while Ben received the
children.
"Grandpa, Cody needs to go. May we walk with him?", asked Mitch.
"Go. The eggs are hidden at the yard so stay there", Ben said
for the
security. voor de zekerheggd.
The twins promised that. The rancher knew that he could trust his
grandchildren. Pam grabbed a yellow basket for the eggs. He let them outside
where Mitch noticed right away that there was a whole lot going on.
"Cody, find the track of daddy, uncle Hoss and uncle Joe", he
said to the
dog.
Cody sniffed for a moment and walked then to all the spots where the
brothers had been. By each hidden egg he barked. The twins put all eggs
in
the basket and in no less than ten minutes after the brothers had come
inside the twins returned again but now with a full basket. For the security
Mitch had asked foreman Candy Canaday to go and walk with Cody when they
had finished with searching.
"Well, that wasn't very difficult though. Who had hid the eggs? Santa?",
asked Mitch.
"No, us. Why?", asked Hoss.
"We had founnd them right away", his niece replied.
"They were good hidden anyway. How come that you have found them so
fast?",
asked Little Joe.
"That has two reasons: 1) we are the children of Adam Cartwright and
2) we
had help from a very good friend", replied Mitch.
Now the twins didn't tell who had helped them searching and Candy too was
silent as the grave.
The grown up Cartwrights did understand that they had to get up earlier
to
fool the twins. Though it became an Easter for never to be forgotten.