Fairy Tale: Ant explains for Hedgehog (aka Sonic) why the contract has to be smart.

In the heart of the dense forest was a small meadow all covered with blueberry bushes. On its edge stood a large old stump, on which sat a sad Hedgehog, and settled next to his friend, the Ant. And the Ant couldn't understand why the Hedgehog was so upset: he sighed and began talking feet, then firmly thought, Yes again, sighed, and legs never chatted. And so it went on for half an hour. Finally, the Ant could not resist and asked:

— Hedgehog, why are you sad?

The hedgehog in this moment just decided to talk to him legs or not, but the question caught him off guard. He jumped up and began to walk around him in circles. The ant tried to run after Sonic, but quickly got bored and decided to climb on a stump and just follow his friend out of there. The hedgehog took a few steps, stopped, looked up and said:

— And how can we not sad? Would you, Ant, sad, if you promised to drink tea with cheese?

The ant raised his mustache:

— Well, of course, if I didn't love tea with cheese. But I love him, so no, not sad.

Yeah. — said the Hedgehog, but contrary to expectations did not go anywhere, and just stared at the ground.

— Well, if you have collected two pound of berries, both gave, and when he came in the afternoon, there is no tea, no cheesecake? Then you would be sad?

The ant started to catch on to the sad story of a Hedgehog, but decided to clarify:

— What is wrong with you if such a thing happened, the Hedgehog?

He glanced to the side, scratched his ear and shrugged:

— No, a friend of mine. You don't know him, he lives in the ravine.

— Clearly, — nodded Ant — yeah, I'd be upset, probably. A deal's a deal, and indeed, there's only one way to joke with such things as tea cheesecake. And what about your friend, the Badger did not go?

— Badger? The simpsons as much as sneezed in surprise, — what! Will I have Badger on such trifles to disturb.

Ant opened his mouth, but the Hedgehog quickly recovered:

Well, my friend, I mean, is there Ant sighed, but continued to nod, even Badger with his problems to sort out. And indeed, to him going, while the Protein will lead, yet all the talk. Yes, and it is likely his tea cheesecake to drink than my food give.

— To Protein?

— Well, Yes, she's the berries took.

The hedgehog was silent, Ant — too, both of them were deep in thought. On the face of a Hedgehog could read the frustration and desire in a short time to eat, while the Ant was trying to portray a mustache solidarity to trouble a friend (friend), but he turned out badly — he still looked very happy.

— Ant, why are you so happy? The hedgehog frowned, and for a second forgot about the issue of impending snack.

Ant tried to think suddenly, but in the end threw up their paws and answered honestly:

— Yes, I tried to imagine what I would do in your situation...

— My friend! — corrected the Hedgehog

Yeah, your friend. So, I tried to imagine myself in his place, but I did not succeed. Then I decided that this is a good thing, so now sitting pretty.

The hedgehog blinked silently and stared at the Ant, and he tore off the straw and began to slowly chew its tip.

Wait, Ant. As well, you can not imagine being in my place? is there Ant nodded with satisfaction.

— You must have been in a similar situation!

— No, — shook his head Ant.

— So, your friends, other ants were!

— No, — shook his head again satisfied Ant.

The hedgehog is also pulled out of the grass straw and began nervously chew it. Ant looked over it, and then said:

— You, whack, no offense and don't get mad, just we, the ants, this story could never happen, that's all. So it's hard to share your grief.

Yeah why couldn't she? — said the Hedgehog.

Well, because we have a pheromone trail.

— Peracutely? — did not understand the Hedgehog.

— Pheromone. I don't know how to explain it. Here you raspberries with the strawberries smell different?

The hedgehog snorted.

Well, you asked. Of course, will be different.

— Well, I not only raspberries with the strawberries, but any clearing smell from the other will differ, and every tree, and every ant. But only if there is a trail, you know?

"No," honestly replied the Hedgehog, but now it was clear that the story of the mysterious trail of his interest.

— Here look. Each ant is able to leave a special mark, which not only smells funny, but a lot of things and tells the other ants, like a letter.

"Suppose," the Hedgehog sat on the grass and listened. The ant got up on his feet and stump continued to broadcast:

— Well, it turns out that everywhere where there was one ant, ran two, three, everywhere we leave some information and we try to post and pass on the rest. So it turns out that usually in the anthill everything about everybody know everything. Now, do you understand?

At all do not understand. Well, mark, you know, and then what? We, too, in the forest by mail, you might think.

— You are the mail. Okay, look. We not only tell each other about who went where, we also say that where is. For example, if someone found a new clearing with food. If he was here first, he will leave a special signal. The rest will come, check and confirm that he is indeed the first — and the nest will know it first. So he will get extra portion of food from this clearing, understand?

— About the food — okay, but I have no idea what you're getting at, Ant.

— And then you look, — Ant began to pace the hemp left and right and actively gesticulating antennae.

— Once everyone knows who, where and when to find food, no one is trying to deceive others, because it makes no sense — still check. So far the food one does not carry away, needs helpers, so it is convenient on our trail, still talking to who, where and how much food I carried, and who is who and how many gave.

— So-so-so — the Hedgehog now leaned on the ground and carefully squinted up at him, anticipating the denouement postanovas history.

Well, here it is! If I promised Protein two pound of berries, I would certainly have recorded in the trail. But only after it there I would, what do I get for these berries due.

— Tea with cheese! — exclaimed the overjoyed Hedgehog, and Ant triumphantly raised his paws to the sky:

— Exactly! Exactly what tea with cheese. Now here's the key: everyone knows that Protein I was promised tea cheesecake, moreover, since the entire food stock in the hive, she will have to go, because more to take them nowhere.

The hedgehog opened his mouth again, closed it and shook his head.

— Again, do not understand.

Ant sighed, but continued:

— In the anthill everything in common, everyone just knows who, how and what food to take. All track recorded! If you want something to drag on the sly, it will have a new nest to build, where you're the only resident. Only then do you anything with other ants will not change, because you're in a track will not. So.

— Well, what about Squirrel? — remember the Hedgehog.

— And, well, it's simple: as soon as I kuzuki brought to the warehouse and the trail is recorded, Belkin tea cheesecake to my will. Because this track was a long time ago that we have agreed. We even have this special word is:"Smart contract".

— The Badger does not need to go? — incredulously asked the Hedgehog.

— To go anywhere is not necessary, all and so all know. But, yeah, the Badger in this scheme is not required.

— And without ant and lemon...

— Pheromone.

— Yes, without it — no way, huh?

— It turns out so, — have calmed down finally the Ant and sat back on the stump.

— Yeah, — handed it to the Hedgehog. — Why am I not a Ant.

Both thought and continued to chew their straws.