Raccoon in the chimney

music station that might just convince the raccoon to bring his friends over. By now it was getting late and the boys went off to sleep.

The next morning all was quiet and the boys went off to school assuming that the raccoon had moved off to quieter accommodations. They were wrong. That night when they returned from school they saw a raccoon sitting in the chimney pipe on the roof looking down at them. The oldest boy sighed, "I guess we should go to the store and get some mothballs." "I guess he likes Rush", said the middle boy. They put their knapsacks in the house and headed off to the hardware store.

During their walk to the store the oldest boy explained that they would put the mothballs in a nylon stocking and lower them down the chimney on a string. This would make it easier to remove them after the raccoon had left. If they just dropped them down the chimney it would be extremely difficult to get them out of the chimney as none of them was thin enough to slide down the chimney like the raccoon, The damper that kept the raccoon from getting into the house wouldn't open far enough for them to get into the chimney from below.

When they returned the youngest boy went off to look for an old nylon stocking while the middle boy went to look for some string and the oldest boy went to get the ladder so he could get on the roof. The oldest boy put on some gloves so his hands didn't pick up the smell of mothballs, and held the stocking open while the middle boy poured the mothballs inside, he then tied the stocking closed and attached the string. The middle boy again held the ladder as the oldest boy climbed up the ladder with his smelly cargo and lowered the mothballs down the chimney. The raccoon wasn't sitting on top the chimney any more, all the noise the boys had made had probably chased him down the chimney. He also tied a short length of wood to the opposite end of the string from the mothballs so that the string wouldn't be pulled down the chimney by the raccoon.

Will the mothballs work, will the boys see a return to peace and quiet in their house? Be sure to read the exciting conclusion to Raccoon in the attic.

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