It happened without that they had noticed it. Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright actually had to go working but the weather was far too good. Besides their brother Adam had left the house early again.
Adam Cartwright was for a few weeks busy with training his twins Mitch and Pam. To make sure that his brothers Hoss and Little Joe couldn’t interfere with it, it happened at a secret location. But the brothers searched as long till they had found the young ball players.
“Dadburnit, it is just unfair. We have to work hard and Adam can nicely play outside”, Hoss said indignant.
“That’s why he left so early with those twins of his”, reacted Little Joe.
“We just going to sit on this tree and watch. They have fun, so do we”, said Hoss.
So said, so done.
At the training field Mitch suddenly saw 2 persons looking at them.
“Daddy, we have watchers”, the boy said.
He pointed in the direction of his uncles. Now Adam and Pam saw the two watchers too. Adam sighed.
“They can never leave it too. Pa has ordered them to work and what do they do? Spying on us”, he replied.
Adam already had a solution.
“Here are 2 soft balls which can hardly hurt those two men. Pam, show your brother how well you can hit”, said Adam.
“Against one of those voyeurs?”, the girl asked.
Her father nodded. He pitched the ball and Pam hit the ball exactly to the head of Little Joe. He fell on the ground and reached for his head.
“@#$%^* ”, called the youngest Cartwright brother.
“You don’t have to scold at me so”, Hoss reacted dry.
He was so distracted by the scolding of his brother that he didn’t see that Mitch had hit the next ball. This one too came to head Hoss. Now the middle Cartwright brother became totally angry. But that was his younger brother too.
“Now those little ones will get their share!”, groaned Little Joe.
“And that father of theirs too”, Hoss said groaning.
They got up and ran to Adam and the twins.
“Daddy, we get company from 2 angry bulls”, said Mitch.
“I think they are in deeper trouble when grandpa hears this”, reacted Adam.
They laughed. Their laughter Hoss and Little Joe more angrier.
“Adam, you may raise your children a bit better. Just to hit their sweet uncles by 2 balls!”, said Hoss.
“Then you should have gone to work instead of spying on us. You know that pa has given me time off to train the kids”, replied Adam.
“What a beautiful eyes you have. Do you have those since your birth?”, asked Mitch.
Adam and Pam were rolling on the ground laughing. His uncles were too indignant to answer and went to work quickly.
“We have a whole lot to tell tonight to grandpa, mamma and aunt Betsy”, Adam said smiling.
Again Hoss and Little Joe had learned a lesson and they didn’t interfere unasked with the plans of their brother.