How Stupid Jack Is

A beautiful day in the lodging house began. Dutchy fell out of bed, Blink debated not getting up at all and jack hid under the pillow. All was normal except, Kloppman was no where to be found. After not getting sufficiently yelled at, Jack peeked out from under his pillow, only to realize Kloppman was no where in site.
After some of the boys decided this was a good thing and slept Jack decided to lead a search party to find the old man

Unfortunately it was a very small search party because the boys wanted to sleep.

In fact as Jack looked back it was only him, Mush, and Kid Blink. Because the two hadn't really heard his yelling correctly and thought they were going to a surprise party...

They made a small stop at the girls LH to collect Tiger and Cards, who was visiting from Brooklyn. Nonetheless they were two of their favorite newsgirls.

Cards was not at all happy about being woken. Neither was Tiger, since the two girls had both been out very late last night. But that's another story.

Neither of the girls were that concerned about Klopmen. But they would feel differently if they did not have hangovers and a desperate need for coffee

As a matter of fact, it seemed like Jack was the only one that was concerned about the old man.

The rest were feeling mutiounus.

"Jack do you have a fecking clue where de man is?" Cards asked

Jack just mumbled a no and was met with a smooth slap by Tiger. "Maybe he jist went out for a vacation?" she suggested irritably.

"Maybe he was taken hostage!" Jack said.

"Who in there righ mind would take Klopmen prisoner?" Cards responded, quite annoyed.

"Spot!" Jack breathed. Tiger smacked her forehead in exasperation.

"Jack get dis thoough your stupid head, even Spot ain't dat dumb, righ Tigah?" Cards snapped. Mush nodded along

"Righ," Tiger confirmed, "Besides, what would Spot want wit ole' Kloppy?"

"Kloppy could actually be a millionaire." Blink muttered sarcastically.

"EXACTLY!" Jack yelled
Tiger and Cards both rolled their eyes in unison. "But he's not!"

"Jack, did ya check if he was still sleep'n?" Mush asked

Jack stopped in his tracks. "Uh... well... I... uh..." he stuttered.

Blink cracked his knuckles as the rest followed suit.

"I sugest ya do!" Cards hissed.

Jack ran back to the Lodging House, only to realize that Kloppman really was still in bed. He wasn't feeling well that day. Needless to say, Jack got soaked pretty good that day.

The moral of this story is:

Before you gather a search party of Newsies make sure the person is actually missing.


~ THE END ~