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Read by Angela Gauthier, P.P.S.B. School Nurse

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naturally my mother wasn't too crazy about the herdmans since they were always mopping up floor with Charlie but she had too much to do she said to spend time complaining about them she would leave that to Alice when Wilkins mother who was so good at it this is wendelken complained about them all the time to everybody it was her second favorite subject besides how smart Alice was and how pretty and how talented and how go go two ways of Gladys Herdman bit her to death every time he turned around and this is when the Coon was volunteering Alice to be the star of something the main fairy or the play all for the clean up our streets post a girl and when the Chamber of Commerce bought a respirator for the hospital they put a picture of it in the paper and sure enough there was Alice hooked up to the respirator misses window can said she didn't have anything to do with that the photographer just looked around and said I wonder if that pretty little girl would be willing to pose with the respirator but nobody believed her Alice didn't get any Applause for this either but she carried the picture around anyway and showed it to anyone who Honesdale she showed it to Imogene Herdman at recess and imaging took one look and hollered get away from me don't touch me whatever you've got I don't want it which the school nurse in a hurry in case Alice had smallpox or something it emptied the playground in a hurry to everybody figured that if it was something Imogene Herdman was catch it would wipe out the rest of us because ordinary germs didn't even slow down the herdmans they never got mumps or pink eye or cold or stomach eggs or anything the Snake once bit Leroy Herdman and Leroy's legs swelled up a little bit but that was all the snake die Leroy brought it to school and tied at all turn down the light cord and the teachers supply closet and about five minutes later the kindergarten teacher Miss Newman came in and pulled the cord she had all the tailed all the day helpers with her six kindergarten kids carrying parts of red finger paint and when Miss Newman scream they all drop their pots and finger paint flew all over the place then somebody upset two big boxes of chalk and they all tramped around and that and when the janitor heard the Racket and open the door he just took one look can went straight to get the principal he said there had been some terrible accident and the Supply Closet was full of bloody people apparently all cut up and screaming and by the time the principal got there miss Newman had pulled herself together and was hurting the little kids down the hall to the washroom and then the recess bell rang so the hall was full of kids and teachers calling to miss Newman what happened what happened and the principal telling everyone Move Along Move Along Ride Along nothing Christie of course there was plenty to see the whole thing look like a big disaster we had just read about in history called the children's Massacre and all the commotion Birdman just walked into the Supply Closet untied his snake and put it in his pocket and walked out again  when we got back from Recess the principal and miss and the janitor and the boys basketball coach wall crawling around the floor the supply closet and Miss Newman was saying I tell you there was a snake crawling up the light cord course they never did find it because nobody looked in Leroy's pocket I couldn't understand why the snake died and Leroy didn't but when I asked my father he said that Leroy probably stretched his story a snake bit him my father said and then he found a different snake that was already dead and that's what I think go to said she bet it wasn't a snake at all that Leroy just tied a whole lot of poor worms together but I decided that Leroy was telling the truth for the first time in his life snake was perfectly healthy bit Leroy and immediately died so maybe misses when will come wasn't far wrong to pour iodine all over Alice and maybe Alice shut up about this treatment and just be glad she wasn't dead black snake

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