The Little Genie In The Garden/Part 2

After nightfall, Sassette had to endure another bath that she had to take from working in Farmer's fields. Papa Smurf waited outside his house for her to finish bathing and to get dressed in her nightclothes.

Soon she stepped outside the door, looking like she was ready for bed. "Are you going to smurf me into my bed, Pappy Smurf?" Sassette asked.

"Of course I will, Sassette," Papa Smurf said. "It seems that you've had another day of fun working in Farmer's fields."

"But why does Smurfette think that I shouldn't be smurfing in the fields, Pappy Smurf?" Sassette asked as she walked alongside Papa Smurf to her playhouse.

"It would appear that Smurfette is just hoping that you would smurf after her in the manner of village duties that she sees are best suited for female Smurfs," Papa Smurf said.

"You mean like smurfing care of Baby Smurf?" Sassette said. "I love smurfing the babysitting, but I feel like I can smurf a whole lot more than just smurfing that."

"I'm sure that you want to contribute something to the village, Sassette, and that you feel able to smurf on any task that you would smurf your mind upon," Papa Smurf said. "It's just that there will always be Smurfs who feel that certain jobs are best left for the male Smurfs to do, and that there are jobs that are best left for the female Smurfs to do."

"So you think that I'm too weak to smurf my own weight with smurfing the jobs of the male Smurfs?" Sassette asked.

"Of course not, Sassette," Papa Smurf said. "But each gender has their own smurfticular strengths and weaknesses that make smurfing certain jobs like physical work and nurturing to be natural for those genders. A society like this wouldn't function well if it relied upon only one or both genders to smurf everything."

"Like only a male Smurf could be a Pappy Smurf like you?" Sassette asked.

"That's right, Sassette, and only a female Smurf could be a Mama Smurf, like Smurfette is to Baby Smurf and hopefully to her own child someday," Papa Smurf said.

"But you don't seem to smurf a problem with me smurfing in the fields with Farmer, do you, Pappy?" Sassette asked.

"You're free to work wherever you feel yourself led to work, Sassette, as long as it's within reason," Papa Smurf said as they entered into playhouse together. They saw that the boy Smurflings were already in their beds fast asleep. "Now I want you to close your eyes and not think about what the other Smurfs think of you smurfing in the fields," he spoke in a low voice as he helped Sassette into her bed.

"I'll try not to, Pappy Smurf," Sassette responded, also in a low voice.

Papa Smurf tucked Sassette into bed and kissed her goodnight. "I will smurf you again in the morning, my dear little Sassette," he said before he left.

Out in Farmer's fields by the smurfmelon patch, while everyone else was asleep, a plant had suddenly sprouted up from the ground and produced a gourd. -