Bartholomew is laying in his bed thinking, "Ok, how can I steal the outhouses and where can I take them?" Then Bart has a grin on his face as he remembers when the Blind School burnt down and that there is still rubble there he thinks, "I can use Pa's wagon and go to the Ingalls' tonight and haul their Outhouse to the rubble of the Blind School and just throw the Ingalls' Outhouse in the rubble."

It's now midnight, Bart gets his Pa's wagon as quietly as possible so not to be hard but first he looks in the barn and he finds a dolly that will help him lift the Outhouse. He puts the dolly into the wagon. Bart gets into the wagon and says quietly, "Giddy up" and the horses trot away.

Inside the Slater's house Mrs. Slater turns and says to her husband, "Honey, I think I heard something outside."

Mr. Slater answers, "You're imagining things. I didn't hear anything go back to sleep."

Bart is down the road from the Ingalls farm and he stops the wagon, "I better stop here and walk the rest of the way so they don't hear me."

When he gets to the Ingalls' he looks around and sees the Outhouse a little past the chicken coop and as he puts the Outhouse onto the dolly and pushes it off past the coop the Chickens begin 'clucking' but Bart is able to get far enough away before Mr. Ingalls checks to see what was starring the Chickens. Charles didn't see Bart.

"Charles did you see what the noise was about?" Caroline asks."

"No," Charles answered, "I guess it was nothing let's just go back to bed."

Bart is now at the place where the Blind School was and he smiles and laughs as he throws the Ingalls' Outhouse in the rubble, "There Albert! You have no Outhouse anymore!" He says to himself.

Bart goes home puts the wagon up and notices his mom and dad are still fast asleep, "Good, no one noticed I was gone," he thinks.

Bart goes to bed laughing and before he falls asleep he says to himself, "That will teach Albert a lesson! I hope he has to use the Outhouse sometime tonight or tomorrow morning. I will get the Town's Outhouse tomorrow night."

The next morning at the Ingalls' place, Charles Ingalls is the first one up in the morning to do chores and he goes on his usual routine and when he puts on his coat he looks out the window and sees their Outhouse is gone! He yells, "Caroline! We had crooks come last night!"

Caroline slowly wakes up and tries to get out of bed, and says, "What?"

"It must have been when the Chickens were 'clucking' but I don't see anyone or anything, it was just too dark." Charles answers.

Albert is getting up and asks "What's going on?"

"Our Outhouse is missing." Caroline answers.

"I bet it was Bartholomew," Albert says, "He said he was going to get even."

Albert, Grace and Carrie heads off to school. "If I found out it was Bart he is going to be sorry." Albert says as they are walking.

At school Albert saw Willie talking to some of the guys he walks up to them and says, "Something happened at our place."

Willie asks, "What?"

Albert answers, "Our Outhouse is missing my Pa found out this morning when he woke up."

"Wow," Willie said, "I wonder who took your Outhouse."

Albert replies I don't know, but I have a notion it was Bart."

Bart was sitting on the stairs writing in his journal he was smiling to himself when he overheard Albert say his Outhouse was missing. He writes in his journal, "I am glad I took the Ingalls Outhouse house. Now tonight I will take the Town's Outhouse and prove to these people that I am not stupid! Then the laugh is going to be on them and not me!"

Mrs Wilder rings the bell and all the kids go into the school for the day.

At the end of the school day, Albert, Grace and Carrie we're leaving to go home Carrie says, "Albert, I have to use the Outhouse Albert answers yeah we should probably go before we go home since we don't have a Outhouse for now."

Albert, Carrie and Grace all use the Town's Outhouse and Bart sees them walking toward the Outhouse and says to himself while laughing, "You won't have that Outhouse tomorrow!"

That evening at the Slaters, Mrs. Slater at supper says, "I heard the Ingalls' Outhouse is missing."

"Yeah!" Bart replies, "I heard that too I wonder what happened?"

After supper Bart is in his room and thinks to himself, "Ma and Pa have no clue. Now tonight the Town's!"

What will Bart do with the Town's Outhouse?

To Be Continued