4 Ch4-Dumbheads

Chapter 4 Dumbheads I took a seat in the lunchroom next to Ryan and Michael. Ryan stuck two of my carrot sticks in his nose, and I told him I'd give him a nickel if he ate them. He did! too. Me, I won't even eat carrot sticks before you stick them in your nose. "Do you think that guy was really George Washington?" Ryan asked.

"I don't know," Michael said. "What do you think, A.J.?" That's when Andrea Young leaned over from the next table and opened her big mouth. "That wasn't George Washington, you dumbheads!" she said. "That was Mrs. Roopy wearing a powdered wig and an army uniform."

She may have been right, but I didn't want to admit it, because I hate her. Ryan took out a dollar bill from his backpack and looked at the picture of George Washington. "He sure looked like George Washing- ton," Ryan said. "George Washington has been dead for like a hundred years!" Andrea said.

"Even if George Washington was still alive," Emily said, "I'm sure he would have more important things to do than come to our school and read us stories." That's when it hit me. If that army guy was really Mrs. Roopy dressed up as George Washington, maybe Mrs. Roopy isn't a librarian at all! "Maybe she's just pretending to be a librarian," I said, "just like she was pre- tending to be George Washington." "Yeah!" Michael said. "Maybe she's a kidnapper and she's got our real librarian locked up in an empty warehouse at the edge of town. I saw that in a movie once." jmkfho. "We've got to save her!" Emily said with

tears dribbling down her cheeks. Then she went running out of the room. There was only one way to solve the problem. We cleaned off our trays and went back to our classroom to ask Miss Daisy if George Washington was really Mrs. Roopy in disguise. "Don't be silly," Miss Daisy said. "As it turns out, Mrs. Roopy is absent today. She's home sick in bed. It must have been the real George Washington." But what does Miss Daisy know? Everybody knows Miss Daisy is crazy.