Rajesh Chandra Maji

down at the site protesting about . pearl was angry about what they had found. it really amazes me , said pearl. in the human world the people elect politicians to serve them, yet the politicians in complete arrogance do exactly what they want! pearl thought for a moment then said. well team i think this might be our first job to help the people. let s go up to the site and see what is going on . pearl, louie and lulu took off and headed up the stream. they arrived at about half past eight. there was a large group of citizens with placards blocking the progress of a bulldozer. the insects could see that the bulldozer was there to remove bush and trees to clear a path for the pipeline. the citizens were chanting don t spoil our stream with your bloody pipe dream! over and over again. the trio glided in and landed right beside where all the action was taking place. of course none of the people around could see the blue "nymph like" forms that had just arrived. in front with the protesters was mr mcfarland with a placard saying don t spoil my property, put the pipe somewhere else . poor mr mcfarland. confronting the protesters was a bull necked contractor with a couple of cronies a little further back. "bull neck" had just about reached the end of his patience with the protestors who had been on site since 7.00 a.m. bull neck with a hand held loud speaker shouted you have been warned; unless you leave the site we will turn the hose on you . the protesters stood their ground, and kept on chanting. don t spoil our stream with your bloody pipe dream! feelings were running high. bull neck was getting mad; his face was red with anger. right , said bull neck hardly able to contain his rage. thirty seconds, you have been bloody well warned you lot. fred, point the hose at them! the hose, normally used to clean equipment, was connected to a powerful pump drawing water from the stream. the protesters still stood their ground and kept on chanting. after thirty seconds had passed, bull neck ordered the hose on. the blast knocked quite a few senior citizens including mr mcfarland to the ground. they were soaked. bull neck laughed. serve you right, i don t want to see you lot here ever again . the protesters had no alternative but to leave. pearl, louie and lulu rushed in to help those who had been knocked down. mr mcfarland, who of course couldn t see who had helped him to his feet, uttered, thank you, thank you , thinking it must have been some divine intervention. as the protesters reluctantly left, pearl, louie and lulu sat down in silence and studied the situation. once all the protesters had gone, the bulldozer started up again and carried on clearing bush and making a path to some distance away where there was a large mound of rock right by the stream. the rock stood in the way of the proposed pipeline. i suppose , whispered pearl, that is one of the pieces of rock they are going to blast and remove . the insects kept well out of the way and carried on observing. after about an hour the bulldozer had cleared the ground up to the rock. the bulldozer was then turned around and run back up to the road out of the way. with a cleared path now in place, bull neck drove a truck in loaded with prefabricated boxing sections. these were placed at regular intervals along the cleared path by fred and a mate called blue. it became obvious that these boxing sections were to be filled with concrete and thus form the supports for the pipe. it was just after 10.00 a.m. when bull neck yelled. smoko! fred and blue stopped what they were doing and went to the truck to get their morning tea. they sat around in a group laughing at what had happened with the protesters. louie being a bit of a mischievous bee at heart and still feeling a little angry about what had been done to the protesters whispered to the others. let s have some fun! louie moved closer to where bull neck was sitting with his back to him. louie picked up a stone and hurled it at bull neck. it caught him fair and square in the middle of his great thick neck. bull neck got to his feet rubbing the back of his neck and said what louie thought was d-u-c-k!!!! louie might have been wrong, after all why would someone say duck after being hit by something, one usually said it when they were about to be hit by something. who s there!? roared bull neck. bull neck of course couldn t see anybody. bloody kids i bet , he said to fred and blue. bull neck sat down again, rubbing his neck. louie picked up another stone and aimed it at bull neck again. this time he missed bull neck and instead hit fred. fred let out another almighty d-u-c-k!!! just as bull neck had done. louie thought this really was quite weird. fred, with the shock of the impact had the misfortune to throw his hot cup of tea all over bull neck. bull neck in response stood up and socked fred in the face! what the hell did you do that for , bull neck said to fred. bull neck not only had a sore neck from louie s earlier effort but was now burnt by the tea as well! sorry , said fred, who was obviously a bit scared of bull neck. s-sorry mate but i got hit by a stone like you . w-h-a-t!!! those little b... .s , (bleep, censored here) yelled bull neck and he walked over to the bushes where he thought the stones were coming from. the insects had to move quickly to get out of the way. come out of there