Adam Cartwright was in a wallpaper store to chose a new wallpaper for the bedroom of his son Mitch. Of course the boy was there too. They were looking at some wallpapers when Adam got approached by a woman.
“Can I help you?”, she asked.
“We look for a nice wallpaper for the bedroom of my son”, answered Adam.
He pointed at Mitch who was looking at some wallpapers.
“Let me introduce for a moment: I am Stella Parker and design nurseries for children of around 5 years old”, said the woman.
“Adam Cartwright. That is my 4 year old son Mitch. He is ready for a boys room”, answered Adam.
Stella looked for a moment at Mitch and said, “For a diner with you I design a very nice boys room for your son.”
“Deal”, Adam said before he realized what he got himself into.
They exchanged addresses and telephone numbers.
A few days later Adam’s mobile phone rang. He saw that it was Stella so he answered it right away.
“Adam, I have the design for your son’s room ready. Shall we discuss it during dinner?”, asked Stella.
“Alright. I know a good and cozy restaurant”, answered Adam.
They arranged for time and date.
To mislead Adam Stella had made 2 designs. The original was with clowns and the one she showed to Adam was with farm animals.
“Adam, I have designed this for your little son. Wallpaper with farm animals and the furniture too like the bed, desk, chair. What do you think about it? I will decorate it and furnish it myself as extra service”, said Stella.
Adam looked at the design and was satisfied about it.
“Alright, you may do it. Mitch is fond of animals but afraid of horses though”, he said.
“I work fast and neat”, said Stella.
“How long do you need?”, asked Adam.
“If you can lure your little boy away for a whole day I make a great beautiful room for him. You will have to remove his stuff out if it”, answered Stella.
“I let him with my father go to the zoo in Las Vegas ”, said Adam.
On an afternoon Ponderosa ranch owner Ben Cartwright said to his grandson, “Mitch, tomorrow we go together to the zoo in Las Vegas. We go away early so that we are there in time.”
“Great grandpa”, the boy said excited.
The next day Ben and Mitch left very early in the morning. The brothers made the bedroom of the youngest Cartwright empty so that Stella could do her work. Nobody was allowed to see how it would become.
By evening time Stella came downstairs with her suitcases and she said, “The nursery is ready. But Mitch is the 1st who may see the room. It is his room. Good day gentlemen.”
She left very quickly because she also had seen the brothers of Adam and didn’t want to get a row with them. Especially Hoss, the younger brother of Adam, frightened her.
Not much later Ben and Mitch came home. The rancher had given his grandson a polar bear from the zoo.
“Daddy, look what I have gotten from grandpa”, Mitch said excited and he showed proudly his polar bear.
Adam said, “Mitch, there is a big surprise for you in your room. Just go and see.”
The boy ran straight to his room. He opened the door and came into his room. Mitch looked around amazed and ran then directly downstairs again.
“Daddy, there are all stupid and scary clowns in my room. Take them away”, Mitch said upset.
“Mitch, that can’t be. Miss Parker has furnished your room with all farm animals”, said Adam said amazed.
He went to look with his brothers and saw to their fright that Stella had furnished the room of their sweetheart with clowns.
“Adam, how can you do this to your son? You know that he’s scared to death of clowns”, said Joe.
“Stella had promised to use farm animals wallpaper and such. I’m going to give her a treatment. You look after Mitch”, answered Adam.
“How did your little son find his new room?”, Stella asked when Adam came storming into her office.
“He said: “Daddy, there are all stupid and scary clowns in my room. Take them away.” My son is scared to death of clowns. You had said that you would use farm animals as subject. I demand that you do it again”, answered Adam.
“Nonsense that your child is afraid of clowns. Every child likes clowns and so does yours”, said Stella.
“Mine finds them dead scary and I know for sure that Mitch won’t go to sleep in his ‘new and nice’ room”, Adam fierce.
“You can’t make me anything because I only have done what you said. Now out of my office because I have to make other little children glad”, snapped Stella.
Adam left and went to the family lawyer Ira Minton. He told everything and let the recordings hear.
“You have a big chance that you win. Especially when you let Mitch testify”, said Ira.
Mitch had become so upset that nobody could calm him down. Not even the loyal shepherd dog Cody didn’t succeed in it. Suddenly the young Cartwright ran to his room. Out of anger he tore down the wallpaper with clowns and he threw with the furniture as far as Mitch could do that. The new bed with clowns got so damaged that there couldn’t be sleep in anymore. Ben, Hoss and Joe heard the noise and went to check it out. When opening the door the men saw what was going on. Ben walked to his grandson and picked him up. In the arms of his beloved grandpa Mitch started to cry enormously.
“Calm down son. It’s alright”, the rancher said comforting Mitch.
“Grandpa, I don’t want to sleep in this room anymore”, Mitch said sobbing.
“You won’t have to anymore. We will arrange something for you”, was the answer of Ben.
Slowly Mitch calmed down. Ben decided to bathe him and then bring to bed. After his bath Mitch got put in a guestroom where he did sleep right away. Especially because he had his polar bear with him.
When Adam came home the Chinese cook Hop Sing had supper ready. The eldest Cartwright boy saw that the table was set for only 4.
“Pa, why has Hop Sing set the table for only 4?”, Adam asked amazed.
Ben told what had happened. Now Adam understood it and he told on his turn what Stella had done and what he undertaken against her.
“We support you for 100%”, Ben said when he had heard everything.
After supper Adam saw what his son had done.
“Pa, just give Mitch a baseball room when we are on vacation. At the attic there is a box with the baseball collection of Mary. She has left it to him. I want that he gets it now for his new room”, he said to Ben.
“Will be done”, promised Ben.
Stella felt the ground underneath her mean feet getting too hot and disappeared. Adam was furious about it when he heard that but tried to recover his relationship with Mitch. When the boy heard that he would get a new room of his own taste everything was alright at once.
While Adam was on vacation with his 4 year old son Mitch Ben decided with his 2 sons to change the bedroom of Mitch.
“Hoss en Joseph, you get the boxes of Mary and Mitch downstairs from the attic. The baseball collection of Mary is now Mitch’s. It’s on the box. I go with Griff and Candy empty the bedroom”, Ben said after breakfast.
“How are we going to do that? Mitchy is for 2 clubs”, said Hoss.
“He has 2 clubs and 1 room so we divide the room in 2. One half becomes for his Braves collection and the other half if for the Yankees”, answered his father.
They went to work.
Because Dan and Laura Walker had a wall paper company they were allowed to redecorate the bedroom but now with baseball wallpaper.
When Ben saw the final result he said smiling, “Now I’m afraid that my grandson won’t go to sleep at all.”
“When the room is completely equipped neither. Where is Mitch now?”, asked Dan.
“Adam had some business Los Angeles and took the boy along. They celebrate Adam’s birthday there and go to a few baseball games”, answered the rancher.
“So nicely quiet”, Laura said laughing.
“But then Hoss and Joe should be away too. Then it will be very quiet here”, Ben remarked.
Hoss en Joe took care that all furniture was put together. But foreman Candy Canaday and hand Griff King had to help as well.
The bed got placed in the middle of the room. There were put on 2 one person duvets with cover on it: 1 of the Braves and 1 of the Yankees.
“Then Mitch can choose under which duvet he sleeps”, Ben said when he got 2 questionable looks from his sons.
When arriving home from Los Angeles Mitch noticed that something had happened. Adam had that feeling too but didn’t let anything show.
The boy looked at the grownups on turns and asked finally, “Just tell what has happened.”
It looked like if Ben heard himself speak so he asked, “Mitch, what do you mean that something should have happened?”
“Something has happened because otherwise you wouldn’t look at me like that”, answered Mitch.
“That little lad is already as bad as his father. Pa, you can show it him anyway by now”, said Hoss.
“Alright. Mitch, close your eyes and ask any further questions”, said Ben.
Mitch closed his eyes and got carried upstairs by his grandpa. In his new room Mitch got put down. His father and uncles had followed them in the meantime.
“Open your eyes”, said the rancher.
Mitch opened his eyes and saw to his amazing a beautiful baseball room.
“Wow! How beautiful. This is much more nicer and better than those stupid clowns”, said the boy.
“We did know that you would like this much more than those stupid clowns as you call them. There is even a separate shelf for your baseballs”, said Adam.
“Thanks everyone”, Mitch said with happy eyes.
The Cartwrights knew that they had done it good this time for the youngest of the family.