The Terrible Two Go Wild by Mac Barnett

Author:Mac Barnett [Barnett, Mac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2018-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

But who would set a mantrap in the woods? A jolly fellow seeking a school principal to round out his merry band? A fairy queen seeking a school principal to round out her woodland court? An insane hermit seeking a school principal to round out a balanced breakfast?

Principal Barkin hoped it wasn’t the last one and gave the bell a ring.

Chapter

16

Miles and Niles peered down into one of their traps and were surprised to find their school principal peering back.

“Ah.” Principal Barkin was chagrined. “I should have known. The Terrible Twos.”

“The Terrible Two,” said Miles.

“The Terrible Two,” said Principal Barkin.

Niles was quiet. He was lost in his own mind. At this moment, one Barkin was stuck in a tree while another one was stuck underground, and the symmetry of the situation tickled Niles’s brain. For Niles, pranking was an art, and he had an artist’s appreciation of a beautiful accident.

“What are you doing down there?” Miles asked.

Back when he had suspected Miles Murphy to be a prankster but believed Niles Sparks to be a model student, Principal Barkin had liked Niles much better than Miles. Now that he knew that Miles and Niles were both pranksters, he still preferred Niles.

“That is a question I should be asking you, Miles Murphy, even though I already know the answer, which is that I am obviously once again the intended victim of one of your ridiculous pranks. I seem to be stuck in a principal trap.”

“We’re not trying to catch principals,” Miles said.

“You’re not?” Principal Barkin brightened. “Well, I must say that I am pleased to hear it, since I’d hoped we’d gotten over our unfortunate dynamic after our last adventure,” said Principal Barkin, referring to a bunch of stuff from book two, “although I’m realizing now that we never made it clear what our relationship would be going forward, whether we remain antagonists, or whether we had joined together in a new and permanent secret supersociety called the Terrible Threes—”

“Three,” said Miles.

“Yes, joined together in a new and permanent secret supersociety, the Terrible Three—”

“We definitely didn’t do that,” said Miles.

Principal Barkin frowned. “Of course not. Well, I suppose we’ll sort all that out once school starts again.”

“You mean we’re not in trouble, Principal Barkin?” Niles asked.

“No! This is not a principal trap, and, since it is summer, I am technically not even your principal, so you should probably call me Barry.”

“But, Barry—” said Miles.

“I invited Niles to call me Barry,” said Principal Barkin, “not you, Miles.”

“But, Principal Barkin,” said Miles, “I thought a principal was a principal always, even on Sundays.”

“Who said that?”

“You did.”

Principal Barkin nodded. “Sounds like me. Wise words. Very wise words. But, Miles, you need to loosen up! We’re not talking about Sundays—we’re talking about the summertime. I mean, who knows what day of the week it is!”

(It was Sunday.)

“Plus, we are in the woods, boys! There are no rules in the woods, besides whatever rules the Yawnee Valley Park District enforces, hold on, I grabbed a brochure from

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