Later that night, after dinner was over, Bo excused himself and went into his bedroom. He got the skunk out from under his bed and climbed out the window with it. He ran into the woods just outside the barn so that the smell wouldn't stick to the barn.
Once the skunk was ready, Bo ran back to the house and climbed in through the window. Luke came in about ten minutes later and noticed that Bo seemed unusually happy for this time of night. Normally Bo was half asleep when Luke came in to go to bed and he thought that this was weird.
"Why are you so happy for cousin? Normally you're almost asleep."
Luke asked having no idea of what was about to happen. Bo looked at his cousin with an amused grin on his face.
"Oh nothin'. Just thinkin' about what happened in town today." Bo lied.
"What happened in town that's got you so wound up?"
"Oh just Boss Hogg and Rosco making jackasses out of themselves again. Only this time they did an exceptional job."
"Okay…. Well I'm surprised. I didn't think that Boss and Rosco could get any more stranger. Well I guess they can." Just as Luke finished talking, a large raccoon came out of the closet running out of the room with a pair of Luke's clean boxer shorts.
Luke saw the raccoon and started running after it while Bo sat on his bed laughing his head off. He decided to get up and go watch his plan unfold. Luke chased the raccoon outside and into the woods. Bo was following close behind. Jesse and Daisy came out of their rooms to see what the all the ruckus was about. Neither one had any idea of what was about to happen.
Meanwhile while the raccoon was running away with Luke's bower shorts, Luke was chasing the raccoon, while Bo was chasing Luke. All the while getting closer to the next part of the plan. Luke was finally catching up to the raccoon. But just as Luke was about to jump it, the raccoon ran up a tree and Luke fell flat on his face. Bo couldn't help but laugh at his cousin. When Luke sat up, he had a mouthful of leaves and twigs. He spit them out and turned to see Bo standing there laughing his head off.
Just as Luke took a step closer to Bo, Bo whistled and a fat black and white skunk came out of a burrow it had been hiding in. Luke saw it at immediately froze. Unknown to both Bo and Luke, something had been watching the whole scene from up in the trees. Just as the skunk was standing on its front feet getting ready to skunk Luke, something fell out of the tree and landed in Bo's hair. Bo screamed at the sudden surprise and started running around trying to get what ever it was out of his hair.
Bo didn't realize that he had stepped in the path of the skunk. What ever it was jumped out of his hair just as the skunk sprayed both Bo and Luke. Both boys screamed at the sudden surprise and at the nasty odor. Bo looked up in the trees and saw the culprit. That same squirrel that was in cahoots with Luke and done it again. Bo was so mad that he ran back to the farm and got his bow and arrows. He ran back to the same spot that Luke was frozen in. Bo got an arrow ready and aimed the best he could in the dark.
The arrow flew through the air and stuck in the tree. The squirrel climbed higher and eventually disappeared in the darkness. Bo was cursing at the top of his lungs saying thing that would make every Duke that had passed on roll in their graves. Luke stood there still frozen from not only the smell of the skunk, but also from the sudden outburst of words from his cousin.
Bo stormed back to the farm knowing that he would be forced to sleep in the barn along with Luke until the smell was gone. He also knew that he and Luke would have to get a tomato juice bath in the morning and that they would get their hides tanned afterwards. Luke followed after his cousin who was still ranting and raving.
Luke also knew that they would both get their hides tanned in the morning. But Bo would get it worse since he was the one who planned the whole thing. It was then that Luke realized how mad he was at his cousin. He took off running after Bo intent on giving him a piece of his mind.
Back at the farm, Jesse and Daisy had been sitting on the porch waiting for Bo and Luke to get back. Jesse suddenly got a whiff of skunk, then caught sight of Bo come out of the woods the smell instantly growing stronger. He made his way to the barn and put his arrows and bow away.
He then went back out and sat under the old oak not even having noticed his uncle or Daisy on the porch. Luke came out a few minutes later and the smell grew even stronger. Jesse then realized why the smell of skunk got so strong when his nephews came out of the woods. It was them that smelled like skunk. He decided to let them be to let the smell settle down some.
Tomorrow he would have a good talking to with them and then give them a good long tomato juice bath, then he was going to ask them how they got skunked. Luke never even spoke a word to Bo the rest of the night. Neither boy got any sleep due to the stink coming off of both of them.
The next day Jesse got up extra early to get the boy's tomato juice bath ready. Luke was the first one to get the treatment. Luke had never been so humiliated in his whole life. His face was almost as red as the tomato juice he was bathing in. Bo couldn't help but laugh at his cousin as Jesse dumped a large bucket of juice on Luke's head and start to scrub his hair. Luke was then told to sit in the tub until Jesse came back out. Luke noticed Bo was laughing at him. He passed his youngest cousin an evil glair that didn't even seem to faze him.
"Hey cousin, I wouldn't be laughing if'n I was you. Your gonna be next. Then afterwards your mine." Luke warned. Bo still didn't seem to be fazed. He just continued to sit under the old oak laughing at his cousin. Jesse came back out about an hour later. By that time despite the high temperature Luke was shivering a little from the cold juice he was forced to sit in. Jesse had a towel in his left hand and another bucket in his right hand that was filled with some kind of liquid. Luke could only guess what it was.
Jesse walked over to his nephew and gave him the towel to wrap around himself while Jesse cleaned out the tub. Once that was done, Luke was ordered to stand still while Jesse dumped the contents of the bucket on Luke's body. Luke screamed a bit when the freezing cold liquid made contact with his bare skin. Luke stood there in the yard with the towel still wrapped around his waist.
He started shivering more when a light wind came in from the north. Bo couldn't help but laugh at his cousin. He jumped slightly when Jesse yelled for him to get ready for his 'bath'. Bo hesitantly got ready and did the same thing that Luke had done. Jesse then repeated the same treatment that he had used on Luke. Luke saw this as his chance to laugh at Bo.
Luke started laughing uncontrollably when Bo gave a loud cry of surprise when Jesse dumped the cold tomato juice on his head turning his blond hair beet red. Jesse heard Luke laughing but decided not to do anything about it. He figured it would teach them both a lesson. After a couple of hours later Bo was finally done. It took longer for him since he got the worst of the skunk spray. After both boys were completely dressed again in clean skunk free clothes, Luke saw that as his chance to get back at Bo for getting him skunked. But not before Jesse demanded an explanation.
Bo told his side of the story of how he borrowed a skunk and raccoon from some place Jesse had never heard of before. Then it was Luke's turn to explain. He didn't bother telling Jesse about the squirrel incidents since he already knew about them. Jesse decided that he was going to take the switch to both boys for one Luke having a squirrel torment Bo and two for Bo causing the both of them to get skunked. They both were lead to the barn where they got ten switches each.
After they were done, Jesse went inside to get cleaned up himself. When Bo and Luke were certain that Jesse was gone, they started chasing each other around the farm yelling at the top of their lungs. Neither of them caught the other so they just kept running until they were both exhausted. They then started laughing at each other. Not out of anger but mostly out of having humiliated the other.
They made up and went inside together once again the best of friends. They never had a major fight like that again. Luke fired the squirrel after he saw it again. The squirrel didn't take it too well and threw several acorns at Luke's head. Luke ignored the acorns being thrown at his head as he headed back to the farm. Bo threatened to sue the company that he 'borrowed' the skunk and raccoon from, unless they gave him a full refund. Of course Bo got his money back and both boys learned their lessons. Things returned back to what passes for normal in Hazzard.
well thats the end of the squirrel series. it was sure fun to write them! if you enjoyed the stories please let me know! more reviews means sooner updates on my other stories. so please R&R!