Dark Lord by Jamie Thomson

Author:Jamie Thomson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2011-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

The Trouble with Sooz

Sooz stood despondently in Grousammer’s office. She was in big trouble this time! He had taken her to his office, told her in no uncertain terms to wait there, and then rushed off to deal with the fire department, the police, and the bomb squad. As she stood there, worrying about what was going to happen, she noticed a book on Grousammer’s desk. It looked like his diary. She couldn’t help herself … With a guilty backward glance at the door, she leaned over, turned the diary to face her, and opened it.

The Diary of Hercules Grousammer

A RECORD OF THE EXPLOITS OF THE GREAT EXPLORER

MOUNTAINEER, LEGAL MIND OF THE CENTURY … TEACHER

One day, this will constitute the memoirs of

the greatest school principal ever!

Sooz grinned—Hercules, what a name! Wait till she told Dirk. She flipped through a few pages near the end at random.

May 8

I took a nap in the school garden today. I woke up

an hour or so later with several painful bee stings.

Can’t understand how getting stung like that didn’t

wake me up! What was most odd was that the bee

stings formed a perfect circle around my jawline

and neck.

May 9

I don’t know why, but I just get the feeling that

that little reprobate Dirk Lloyd had something to

do with that bee sting episode. If I could find a way

of expelling the boy I would. Oh, for a return to

corporal punishment!

May 23

One of the little horrors managed to steal some

school report cards, and wrote up a set of reports

on the teachers, and then passed them around to

all the children in the playground. I’ve attached a

copy, as evidence should I ever find the culprit. And

when I find out who did it, they shall be punished

severely! We must maintain the proper respect and

deference due to us teachers! I already have my

suspicions … If ever they did a book or a movie on

the childhood of one of those Bond villains, like

Dr. No or Blofeld, or a supervillain like that

preposterous Dr. Doom, they’d not be far off the

mark with that Dirk Lloyd boy. If ever a boy was

going to grow up to be such a criminal mastermind

it’s him. Hmm—“it is he,” I should say. Don’t want

to lose points for poor English, ha ha.

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