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The Neighborhood drumm's pricing scam tor reporters have uncovered a price gouging scheme at the school holiday bazaar that has been running unchecked for years. The popular chicken drumstick drummies have been sold at the bazaar for more than six times their retail value. I'm outraged, said a loyal customer who did not want to be see drummies new bazaar offers alternative to school event with a community reeling from the drumm scandal, two boys have decided to make things right. We've decided to start our own holiday bazaar, said greg heffley, an entrepreneur, see bazaar section a three. We realized we were gonna have to come up with some more pages for people to take our newspaper seriously, so we started brainstorming ideas for other sections we could add. I figured we needed a comics section, so we started there.

社区鼓手对记者的价格骗局揭露了学校假日集市上的价格欺诈计划，该计划多年来一直没有得到制止。 这款广受欢迎的鸡腿在集市上的售价是其零售价的六倍多。 “我很愤怒，”一位不愿意看到鼓的忠实顾客说，“新的义卖提供了学校活动的替代选择。随着社区受到鼓丑闻的影响，两个男孩决定纠正错误。” “我们决定开办自己的节日集市，”企业家格雷格·赫夫利（greg heffley）说。 我们意识到我们必须想出更多的版面，让人们认真对待我们的报纸，所以我们开始集思广益，想办法增加其他部分。 我想我们需要一个漫画区，所以我们从那里开始。

T.G.I.F. Hey you! Why are you running around in your underwear? It's Friday! Stinky Sebastian by Greg Heffley OK, WHO FORGOT TO WEAR DEODORANT? Ned the Napkin by Rowley Jefferson Can you clean up my spilled soda, Ned? How come you always ask ME? We added an advice column, where people write in questions about problems they're having. But we didn't have time to wait for people to send in real questions, so we just made a few up.

嘿，你！你为什么穿着内裤跑来跑去？ 今天是星期五!好吧，谁忘了擦除臭剂？ 你能帮我收拾一下洒在我身上的苏打水吗，内德？ 你为什么总是问我？ 我们增加了一个建议专栏，人们在那里写下他们遇到的问题。 但是我们没有时间等待人们发来真正的问题，所以我们就编了几个。

Ask greg Dear Greg. My wife is always criticizing everything I do. The other day it was a little chilly out so I wore socks with my sandals. My actually made me go back inside and put on shoes! I feel like she treats me like a child, but she has a very strong personality and I'm afraid to stand up to her. What can I do? Sincerely, FRUSTRATED Dear FRUSTRATED, It's NEVER okay to wear socks with sandals! You should apologize to your wife immediately. Greg Dear Greg Are you single? Sincerely, THE LADIES Dear THE LADIES, Why, yes, I am! Greg Rowley was all excited about this newspaper, and he said he wanted to be like a real reporter and go out looking for stories. So I told him he should go around the neighborhood and see if he could dig up any dirt. But what Rowley came back with wasn't exactly hard- hitting news. Kitten has a fun day By ROWLEY JEFFERSON Yesterday Mrs. Salter's kitten Mittens was seen frolicking in her front yard. Mittens spent an hour and a half chasing after a butterfly that was flying around Mrs. Salter's azaleas, and when the butterfly flew off, Mittens got very interested in something that was jumping near the front porch. But by the time I got close enough to see what Mittens was chasing, the thing had hopped away.

问格雷格亲爱的格雷格。我妻子总是批评我所做的一切。 有一天，外面有点冷，所以我穿着袜子和凉鞋。 我竟然让我回去穿鞋！我觉得她把我当孩子一样对待，但她的个性很强，我不敢和她对抗。 我能做什么？真诚的，失意的，亲爱的失意的，永远不要穿袜子搭配凉鞋！你应该立即向你妻子道歉。 亲爱的格雷格你是单身吗？ 亲爱的女士们，啊，是的，我是！格雷格·罗利对这份报纸感到非常兴奋，他说他想成为一名真正的记者，出去寻找新闻。 所以我告诉他，他应该去附近转转，看看能不能挖到什么脏东西。 但罗利带回的并不是什么令人震惊的消息。 小猫玩得很开心昨天有人看见索尔特夫人的小猫米滕斯在她的前院嬉戏。 米滕斯花了一个半小时追赶一只在索尔特夫人的杜鹃花周围飞舞的蝴蝶，当蝴蝶飞走时，米滕斯对前廊附近跳跃的东西产生了浓厚的兴趣。 但当我靠近看米滕斯在追什么的时候，那东西已经跳开了。

I decided to make myself editor in chief so I could control the kinds of things we had in our newspaper. Because if Rowley had his way, our paper would be like a little girl's coloring book. Mom told us we should go to some businesses downtown and see if anyone was willing to pay for ads to cover the cost of our first printing. The only person who was willing to buy an ad in our paper was Tony from Papa Tony's Pizza, and I'm pretty sure the reason he agreed to help is because we're in there at least twice a week and he didn't want to lose our business. Tony gave us just enough money to buy some color ink cartridges, so we printed a hundred copies.

我决定让自己成为总编辑，这样我就可以控制我们报纸上的各种事情。 因为如果罗利按他的方式来，我们的纸就会像小女孩的涂色本。 妈妈告诉我们，我们应该去市中心的一些企业，看看是否有人愿意为我们的第一次印刷支付广告费用。 唯一一个愿意在我们的报纸上买广告的人是Papa Tony's Pizza的Tony，我很确定他同意帮忙的原因是因为我们每周至少上两次，他不想失去我们的生意。 托尼给我们的钱刚好够买一些彩色墨盒，所以我们印了一百份。

Monday Yesterday we went around town trying to sell our papers, but nobody wanted to pay and we had to start giving them out for free. When we handed a paper to Tony, he didn't seem too happy that his ad was running next to a negative review of his restaurant. I told him if he bought a BIGGER ad for the NEXT edition of the paper, we could arrange for a more positive write-up. We still had a few dozen papers left, and since we were handing them out for free, I figured I could unload them at school.

星期一昨天，我们在城里到处卖报纸，但是没有人愿意付钱，我们不得不开始免费分发报纸。 当我们递给托尼一份报纸时，他似乎不太高兴，因为他的广告旁边是对他的餐馆的差评。 我告诉他，如果他为下一期报纸买一个更大的广告，我们可以安排一篇更积极的报道。 我们还剩下几十份报纸，既然我们是免费分发的，我想我可以在学校卖掉它们。

But when I started giving them to kids as they walked in the door, Vice Principal Roy asked me what I was doing. He said I couldn't hand out an "unauthorized publication" on school grounds and that he was going to have to confiscate my papers. But I knew what this was REALLY all about. Vice Principal Roy was just spooked that we were gonna give the school a run for its money with our Holiday Bazaar. I was still pretty mad about the whole thing when I got home this afternoon, and I decided I wasn't gonna just roll over and let Vice Principal Roy shut us down. Even though Vice Principal Roy took our papers, I figured I could make some signs and hang them up around town to advertise.

但当我开始给孩子们发放卡片时，罗伊副校长问我在做什么。 他说我不能在学校操场上分发“未经授权的出版物”，他将不得不没收我的论文。 但我知道这到底是怎么回事。 罗伊副校长只是被我们要在节日义卖上和学校一较高低吓到了。 今天下午回到家的时候，我还是对整件事很生气，我决定我不能就这么放弃让罗伊副校长叫停我们。 虽然罗伊副校长拿走了我们的报纸，但我觉得我可以做些牌子挂在镇上做广告。