Theme 3: The marks (2/2)
Wording:
-One other exam! Blueberry Muffin moaned. "What have we done to deserve it?"
-We've got the worse teacher in the world, Huckleberry Pie sighed.
-And they are all so difficult! We have to work hard to have a good mark!
-It's unfair: Puddin' always has good mark, even when he doesn't study.
-Why? How does he do that?
-He has something more than us…
-What? His glasses?
Huckleberry Pie thought a moment.
-Exactly! He's so intelligent thanks to his glasses. Blueberry Muffin, you are a genius.
-Thank you… Have we to steal his glasses?
-No. We will not steal them, we'll borrow them… without ask him the permission.
-I agree! When will we "borrow" his glasses?
-Right now. Look, here he is.
Indeed, Plum Puddin' was walking toward them.
-Hi guy, Huckleberry said, hitting him hard under the head to make his glasses fall, "How are you?"
Blueberry Muffin quickly picked up the glasses.
-You make me loose my glasses, Puddin' said curtly. "Do you see them?"
He began to search his glasses, despite his bad view.
-No, Huckleberry lied.
-Unluckily for you, Blueberry Muffin completed, "We have to study for the test. Good luck!"
The two children came back at Huckleberry's house.
-Who try them first? He asked.
-Me! Blueberry answered. "You don't need them: You sit close to Plum Puddin', you can copy from him."
-Okay. What do you see?
Blueberry Muffin tried the glasses.
-Hey! It's strange… I can't see properly!
-Don't take them off. You have to keep them as long as possible, Huckleberry adviced.
He guided his friend until her house. They passed near to Puddin', but he didn't seen Blueberry was wearing that he was looking for.
Blueberry Muffin lay down on her bed.
-I have headache, she moaned. "Can I take off the glasses?"
-No, answered Huckleberry. "The headache is from your brain, which is full".
-I'm sick… I'll vomit!
-Plum Puddin'? What are you doing on the floor? Raspberry Tort asked.
-I have lost my glasses, he moaned, "And I don't dare come back home without them. Elderberry Owl will punish me berry severely."
-You can't search them with your terrible view. Listen, Strawberry Shortcake and me, we will help you to find your glasses.
Unluckily, no one of the three children managed to put one's hand on them.
-It's berry late, you better come back home, Raspberry Tort noticed.
Puddin' sighed.
-I'll have the biggest punishment ever to have lost my glasses…
-We can go with you, Strawberry Shortcake purpose. "We'll explain to Elderberry Owl this is not your fault!"
-He'll never believe us, Plum Puddin' said sadly, but he accepted the proposition.
-Here you are at last! Elderberry Owl shouted when he saw Plum Puddin' with the two girls. "I was die of worry! Where were you? And where are your glasses?"
-I've lost them…
-You WHAT?
-I'm sorry…
- Go immediately in your room, the owl order. "I'll give you an appropriate punishment later".
-This is not his fault! Raspberry Tort protested.
-I accidentally trampled them, Strawberry Shortcake explained. "If you want punish someone, punish me."
Elderberry Owl thought a moment.
-I'm sure you are lying to me to help Puddin', he finally said, "But I believe you. However, he will even so give a punishment to have not take care about his glasses."
The next day, Blueberry Muffin was too sick to go to school, and Huckleberry Pie gave back the glasses.
-Where was it? Elderberry asked.
-On the grass. When I saw it, I picked it up.
-So, Strawberry Shortcake hadn't trampled them, Elderberry murmured. "I knew they were lying to me."
-What did you said? Huckleberry asked.
-Why hadn't you immediately give back the glasses? The owl asked. "Do you know Puddin' had been punished?"
-Uh… I forgot.
-You forgot…
Finally, Blueberry Muffin missed the test. Plum Puddin', who hadn't wait the last second to study, had even so the top mark. He was berry happy to have found his glasses, so he let Huckleberry Pie copy from him. Huckleberry, who couldn't read well Puddin's appalling writing, done some mistakes, but he had however a good mark.
If Blueberry Muffin wasn't more intelligent thanks to the glasses, she was delighted to have avoided an exam.
Question 3.2: How have honestly a good mark without study?
Answer: You can do it if you are exceptionally intelligent. If you're not, go back to your homework.