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« on: May 13, 2013, 08:17:08 AM »
Clever Merry went to Illuminated Truth State High School. Her Headmaster, Mr Duncan-Duncan was a very naughty man.
In her first year, she noticed the school swimming team were full of kids who did very little work. They had to pass all their tests to prove they were ready to swim for the school. Merry didn’t understand how they could all pass their tests if they never did any work.
Then, a year later it turned out that Mr Duncan-Duncan had been passing all the swimmers no matter how badly they did on their tests. What a clever Merry! What a naughty Headmaster!
When she was in grade three, Merry saw that the team for the Spelling Bee was doing much better than ever, but the Team Captain couldn’t even spell his own name. ‘This is odd’ thought Merry.
Then it turned out that Mr Duncan-Duncan had been providing the answers via headset. What a clever Merry! What a naughty Headmaster.
Merry made a choice. NEVER AGAIN! would she be played for a fool. NEVER AGAIN! would she be tricked by that naughty Headmaster. She kept her eyes peeled, and soon she could see the extent of his villainy. When the school sports day was cancelled because of predicted bad weather that never arrived, she knew that Mr Duncan-Duncan must have paid off the weatherman. When Jimmy Key broke his leg falling off the deck, she knew he had probably been pushed. And when there was a new room set up but unused she knew it was to be a holding pen for the naughty students to await medical experimentation.
Mr Duncan-Duncan watched Merry out his window, handing out fliers that accused the school of adding hormones to the drinking water.
“Well,” he mused to himself, as he applied whiteout to the school captain’s geography mark, “It was easy enough to get away with all this before… but now, it’s a cinch!”