One cool autumn morning, Mogey and Smush were out pioneering. They pioneered at least twice a week, because someone had to tame the unbridled wilderness of West Baxterlake, and no one else was really brave enough to do it. So Smush had on his coonskin cap and Mogey had fixed a bayonet to the end of his musket and they both carried sacks of brightly colored I Voted buttons in case they met any hostile natives.
They were making their way through the bush when they came across the largest mushroom they'd ever laid eyes on. It was more than ten feet across and a deep chesnut brown speckled with acid-purple spots.
"Whoa," said Smush. "What should we do?"
"Well," Mogey replied, "as pioneers, I think the scholarly thing to do would be to take a scientific sample." So he took out a sterile test tube and carefully sliced a tiny sliver of mushroom as a sample. He placed it inside the container then covered it with wax paper and newspaper and set it carefully inside his pack.
"What now?" Smush asked.
"The only academic thing left to do is jump on it I suppose," Mogey said studiously. He and Smush both took flying leaps and landed on opposite sides of the giant shroom. The great fungus held their weight for just a moment and then crumbled with a loud mushroomy Fwump!
"Good science on that one," Smush said. "Some of the best science I've ever seen."
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