Relatively Smurfing/Part 4

Narrator's second story about Gargamel's other cousin took place about two years before Empath came home for good. It was on a day that Papa Smurf had the entire village working together on some important village projects that needed to get done. Several Smurfs were working on getting Farmer's fields all seeded and watered, and several others were working on getting enough wood chopped. Still others were working on fixing Smurf houses that have fallen in various states of disrepair. In fact, the village was so busy that there was hardly any time for anything else.

Tapper came around with a cart filled with bottles of cold smurfberry soda for his fellow Smurfs to enjoy while they were working. Everyone was so eager to get a break from their work that Tapper made several rounds with his serving cart to make sure every Smurf got a bottle of soda to enjoy. Of course, Recycler had to come by and make sure that his fellow Smurfs didn't throw out their soda bottles so that they could be cleaned out and reused.

Hefty was working with Tuffy, Timber, and Duncan McSmurf on chopping wood for the village. "Boy, there's surely a lot of work that Papa Smurf had us smurfing," Hefty said after wiping his brow. "It makes me wonder when we're going to smurf any time to relax."

"Don't tell me that the great Hefty Smurf is getting tired of smurfing, laddie," Duncan McSmurf said.

"I'm not tired of smurfing yet, Gutsy," Hefty said. "It's just that when you're smurfing a lot of time to just do nonstop smurf for hours on end, even a Smurf like me is going to need some time away from smurfing things like chopping smurf and smurfing up the garden and smurfing up houses and all that smurf."

"You said it, Hefty," Tuffy said. "I sure don't mind being a strong Smurf like you, but all this smurf is making me feel more like a slave than a Smurf."

"We could sure use a getaway from the village to smurf some time to enjoy ourselves after all this smurf that we're smurfing in, fellows," Timber said. "Problem is, we can't smurf back to that Smurf Paradise that Handy had smurfed because it's all now smurfed over by beavers."

"That's a real shame, because I really liked that place before it became our place of refuge from Gargamel," Hefty said. "But I wouldn't mind smurfing a trip to the beach somewhere."

To be expanded on.