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Since they
were anchored alongside FFOI, many of them
decided to camp out on land for the night.
After the exquisite evening meal, G & J
brought their hammock out to find a good tree
to hang in. Then J had a brilliant idea; wonder
why Granma didn’t think of it! "Hey! We
are next to land and if they put the gang plank
down we can lead the horses out and tie them
and they can eat some grass!" "Wow!" said
G. "What would I do without you, Hoo!
You are brilliant, J-man!" She talked
it over with Simeon. "Perfecto!" is
what he said so that’s exactly what they did.
It would be good for the horses to get out
and stretch their legs too before another ride
on a ferry.
Then G had a brilliant idea too! "Simeon!" oh,
Simeon! "Tienes un mecate o hilo de color
blanco … mucho y muy, muy largo?" she asked.
(Do you have some white rope or string, a lot
and real, real long?) He thought for awhile.
Then he said "Tenemos una red viejo de pescar;
pienso que es medio blanco. Puede servir?" (We
have an old fishing net that is sorta white.
Will that work?)
Penguins went to find the old fishing net and
G said that with some work they could pull the
strings apart and use them. Maybe if she could
get some help, but the birds didn’t have hands
for that kind of work. "Que quieres hacer?" asked
Simeon. (What do you want to make?) G’s brillant
idea; of course after J’s first brillanter idea: "Quiero
hacer hilos o mecates delgados para ser un ‘fence’
para los caballos. Ellos estan acostumbrados
al hilo blanco electrico y esto servira’ muy
bien," she said. (I want to make white strings
for a fence for the horses. They are use to a
white electric fence and this will work just
great.) Simeon didn’t understand anything about
the words ‘electric fence’ but then he got a
brilliant idea too! Seemed like brillance was
just comin’ in by the truck load.
Simeons' idea was to send an FF representative
to talk to the rat, ferry boat driver, to ask
him to find other rats and mice that wanted to
work for money. They could help untangle the
net and make it into long cords real quick and
then G & J could put up the fence before
dark. What a brilliant plan! They only had a
couple hours left of daylight. So that’s what
they did. In the meantime, Julio took the horses
down the gang plank - they were a little rowdy
- and he tied them to trees. One at a time he
led them around for some exercise and to eat
grass. Da Muff of course went everywhere that
J went, tinkling.
While J did this, a whole herd of mice and rats
showed up and bowed before Simeon. Some penguins
brought the net down to land and the mice and rats
were given instructions and an example by G. They
set to work and their little fingers flew. "Perfect!" says
G. "We’ll have a fence in no time!"
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