Bush and the green cards,

Treebugs

    There was once a little village in the nooks of an old trees roots under its spreading canopy,
where the villagers enjoyed spending the warm afternoons in the shade with their families, drinking tea and eating the fungus cakes from their gardens or doing chores around the home or making little trinkets. They really liked making trinkets but had to spend most of their time growing the fungus if they had a garden or doing the other chores around the tree.
    Most of the village got their food or trinkets from trading things to their neighbors , either little trinkets for their homes or food or help on their chores. Some villagers made trinkets which the others bought and sold and were even sold to other villages in other trees. In fact the trinkets became so popular that the trinket makers had to have their neighbors help make the trinkets to have enough. That is until the trinket makers found another village of bugs that would make the trinkets for less than the neighbors that had been making the trinkets for them . They also found they could teach the little bugs to do the chores and work in the garden and get twice the work done for what the neighbors would want, and the little bugs were actually getting twice the food they got at the tree they came from, so they could send food home, and maybe a few trinkets too.
    When the other little bugs from the neighbor tree saw what their neighbors were doing , they wanted to go to the big tree and do chores there for twice the food too. Soon there were so many little bugs doing chores , there were no more chores for the villagers to do, unless they wanted to starve, and so they started making and collecting more trinkets.
    Most of the trinkets they collected were made by the other village of bugs, for less, who were also now making their own type of trinkets to sell to the villagers and the other trees for less, although they weren't always made as well as the original trinkets. The villagers liked collecting the trinkets and thought the trinkets were good for improving their image.
    Although it now took more food to get the trinkets from the other village it was still less than the neighbors asked for their trinkets, and they also liked not having to give so much food for the other chores being done. So soon the villagers were giving food to the little bugs and the neighbor tree bugs and they found they needed even bigger homes to keep the trinkets in.
Nobody had seemed to notice that the best fungus gardens were being carved out for houses, since the fungus grew in the soft parts of the roots which made it easier to hollow out so you could make a home in half the time of carving a home from solid wood, especially a large home which was carved from bigger gardens and soon they found themselves running out of gardens, and food.
    But this was ok because they now had lots of trinkets they could trade with the neighbor tree for food, although they were older trinkets and even if some were prized as special, most had become old and tired or had broken because they weren't made well being the cheaper types, or just not as fancy as the new ones from the other trees, so they would not get as much food as was given for them when new, but many had been collected over the years and so it was some time before they started becoming scarce.
It was soon after that the little bugs started going back to their homes in the other trees, with the village children following (so they could send food home, and maybe a few trinkets too), leaving the villagers with their few remaining trinkets, learning to take care of the few small gardens which sustained them, until, that is, the roots that had been carved into so much, gave way and their world fell,
leaving them to end their days in a rotting root in the middle of a small hot clearing in the woods.

There are morals to this story, but I forget what they are.

Anyone for some tea and fungus cake,? I just got a new trinket you might like.

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