Hi,
This is Stefania,
And this is the next episode,
Part seven,
Of the story of Buster Bumblebee,
Our cute,
But naughty,
But lazy little bumblebee friend.
If you've missed the previous episodes,
The ones that came before this one,
You can find them in my Insight Timer profile,
And then you can catch up.
A jug full of bumblebees.
When the workers,
As well as Buster Bumblebee,
Heard the raking,
Scraping sound in the hall of their house,
They all stopped what they were doing and shrilled,
An enemy!
And with one accord,
They rushed for the front door.
They were terribly hungry.
Not wishing to miss anything that was going to happen,
Buster joined the mob and went sailing out into the open meadow,
And there,
Quite close to the door,
Stood the queer object that Buster had noticed together with Johnny Green only a minute before.
He wondered now what that strange thing was,
For Buster Bumblebee did not know a jug when he saw one,
And neither did the workers,
Nor any member of the Bumblebee family.
That's the enemy?
Cried Buster,
Suddenly pointing to the jug.
It was talking out of his mouth right into Johnny Green's ear when I came home.
Sounding a dreadful battle cry,
All the workers turned upon the jug and buzzed so near it that they couldn't help hearing the same roaring from inside which Johnny Green had listened with so much pleasure.
Buster's almost right,
Several of the workers shouted.
The enemy has hidden inside this thing and we'll have to go in and sting him.
At that,
The workers began to pop inside the jug which Johnny Green had thoughtfully left uncorked.
And Buster Bumblebee,
Still eager to hear everything,
Hastened to plunge inside the dim jug along with the rest.
It was soon not a dim,
But a dark jug.
For the moment the last angry Bumblebee had disappeared inside it,
Johnny Green stole quickly up from behind a haycock and slipped the cork into the mouth of the jug.
Johnny's face wore a grin of joy.
Perhaps he did not stop to realize that he was breaking up a happy home.
I got him!
He shouted aloud and then he shook the jug vigorously,
Listening with delight to the sound of the splashing water within.
Soon he set the jug behind the shouting haycock and sat down beside it to make further plans.
It was Johnny's intention then to drown everything on the farm that carried a sting.
Wasps,
Hornets,
Honeybees,
He was not quite sure about mosquitoes for he thought they might be hard to capture in great numbers.
Since he was intending to go swimming,
He did not care to waste much more of the afternoon by staying in the meadow,
So he proceeded to empty the jug.
It certainly looked as if the Bumblebee family had met with ill fortune.
Several dozen workers and Buster too lay limp and water soaked upon the ground when Johnny Green hurried away to the spring to get more water for his father and the hired man before he went to the mill pond.
But it was not long before the half-drowned Buster and his companions began to stir slightly.
Gradually the sun dried their wings and warmed their chilled bodies,
And one by one they picked themselves up and scurried into the house.
They never knew exactly what happened,
But the workers agreed upon one point.
They decided that somehow the whole trouble had been Buster's fault,
Though they couldn't explain in just what way.
Anyhow,
After that the workers looked on Buster with more disfavor than ever.
They were forever remarking how lazy and stupid he was,
And even the trumpeter was heard to declare that she was ashamed of him,
Though he was her own brother.
And that's it for this week's episode of Buster Bumblebee.
We're going to take a tiny break from Buster Bumblebee for the next episode because it's almost Christmas time,
And we've got a nice Christmas story for you.
It's about a little girl who doesn't have much,
But through the magic of Christmas,
All kinds of good things happen to her.
So come back and you can hear the story of little Picola.
I'll be uploading it very soon.
Until next time.
