I would have given me more time. Except for Thomas, I hadn’t met any of the local boys yet. And my new teacher seemed like the kind of guy you just couldn’t figure out. At first, at Granny’s, he’d seemed swell. Then he got into Uncle Jim’s cider at supper. He got edgy and peevish, like he was holding back from boiling over. I thought it was funny when he got pie-eyed in the parlour and talked dirty. But he really annoyed Aunt Gert in the kitchen, and Uncle Ed had to practically toss him out the back door. I’d never seen anything like it back home. Added to this was the prospect of facing thirty new kids, in nine different grades, all crammed into one room. Besides, we hadn’t even unpacked. And I was sure I was coming down with something, after the long trip. To move things along some, I decided to try a trick my best friend, Jimmy O’Connor, had pulled on his parents back home—one that, for sure, got him a day off school. I slipped out of bed and eased the covers over a sleeping Alfred.
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