Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10 Mr. Dillon came flying out of his office. "What's the matter?" Before Mrs. Waters could answer, Miss Shotsky burst into the little room. "Who screamed? Anyone hurt?" Miss Shotsky cried, looking first at the three kids. "Are you kids all right?" "Yes, and here's your friend, Miss Shotsky." Mrs. Waters pulled the closet door all the way open. "Well, for heaven's sake!" Miss Shotsky exclaimed. "And what's this?"

狄龙先生从他的办公室里飞奔出来。 “怎么啦?”沃特斯太太还没来得及回答，肖特斯基小姐就冲进了小房间。 “谁尖叫?有人受伤吗?”肖特斯基小姐先看了看那三个孩子，叫道。 “孩子们，你们还好吗?”“是的，这是您的朋友肖特斯基小姐。” 沃特斯太太把壁橱的门完全拉开了。 “啊，看在上帝的份上!”肖特斯基小姐叫道。 “这是什么?”

She removed a folded paper that had been taped to the skeleton's hand. She read it out loud: "APRIL FOOLS!" They all burst out laughing. "Someone has been playing a trick on the whole school!" Mrs. Waters said. "Well, Mr. Bones is going back where he belongs," Miss Shotsky said. She lifted the school skeleton off the hook. "Say bye-bye," she said, waving the skeleton's hand. Then she carried it into her office. Mrs. Waters went to her desk. She looked at her calendar. "Today is April Fools' Day," she said. "It

她取下粘在骷髅手上的一张折叠的纸。 她大声读了出来:“愚人节!”他们都大笑起来。 “有人一直在捉弄全校!”沃特斯太太说。 “好了，博恩斯先生要回到他该去的地方去了，”肖特斯基小姐说。 她把学校的骨架从钩子上吊了起来。 “说再见吧，”她挥舞着骷髅的手说。 然后她把它拿进了办公室。 沃特斯太太走向她的办公桌。 她看了看日历。 “今天是愚人节，”她说。 “这

totally slipped my mind." She carried her coat to the closet. She placed it on the hook, then bent down and picked something up off the closet floor. When she turned around, she was holding a pair of sneakers. She turned them over so everyone could see the bottoms. "Zigzag treads!" Josh said. "Are those the sneakers that everyone's been talking about?" Mr. Dillon said. "How did they get in your coat closet, Mrs. Waters?" Mrs. Waters stared at her boss for a moment, then shook her head. "I have no idea, Mr. Dillon." "Um, excuse me, I think I know," Dink said. Mr. Dillon looked at Dink. The lights glinted off his eyeglasses. "You do? Tell us, Dink." Dink blushed. "Well, someone decided to play an April Fools' Day joke on the whole school. So he took Miss Shotsky's skeleton and hid it in Mrs. Waters's closet."

我完全忘了。”她把大衣拿到壁橱里。 她把它放在钩子上，然后弯腰从壁橱地板上捡起什么东西。 当她转过身来时，她手里拿着一双运动鞋。 她把它们翻过来，让每个人都能看到底部。 “锯齿形踏板!”杰克说。 “这是大家都在谈论的运动鞋吗?”狄龙说。 “它们是怎么进入你的衣橱的，沃特斯太太?”沃特斯太太盯着老板看了一会儿，然后摇了摇头。 “我不知道，狄龙先生。” “嗯，对不起，我想我知道，”丁克说。 狄龙先生看着丁克。 灯光在他的眼镜上闪烁。 “你做什么?告诉我们，丁克。”丁克脸红了。 “嗯，有人决定在四月愚人节开全校的玩笑。 于是他把肖特斯基小姐的尸骨藏在沃特斯太太的衣橱里。”

Dink looked at Mrs. Waters. "He took your key so you wouldn't be able to open the door." "But why would this person hide his sneakers?" Mr. Dillon asked. "Because he left a footprint," Josh said. "And he planned to make more footprints later." "And he borrowed Mrs. Waters's powder to do it with," Ruth Rose said, grinning at Dink and Josh. "He took the key somewhere and had six copies made," Dink went on. "He drew six skeletons and left them and the keys in six different lockers, one for each classroom." Mr. Dillon shook his head. "Amazing! Why would he do such a thing?" "I think he wanted all the kids to search for the skeleton," Dink said. "I'm confused," Mr. Dillon said. He sat in Mrs. Waters's chair. "How could some stranger come into the school and do all this without being seen?" Dink glanced at Josh and Ruth Rose. They both nodded. "We think it was someone who works here, sir," Dink said.

丁克看着沃特斯太太。 “他拿走了你的钥匙，这样你就打不开门了。” “但是为什么这个人要把他的运动鞋藏起来呢?”狄龙先生问。 “因为他留下了脚印，”乔希说。 “他计划以后留下更多的脚印。” “他还借了沃特斯太太的粉，”露丝·罗斯笑着对丁克和乔希说。 “他把钥匙拿到某个地方，让人复印了六张，”丁克接着说。 “他画了六具骷髅，把它们和钥匙放在六个不同的储物柜里，每个教室一个。” 狄龙先生摇了摇头。 “神奇!他为什么要这么做呢?”丁克说:“我想他想让所有的孩子都去寻找那具骨架。” “我很困惑，”狄龙说。 他坐在沃特斯太太的椅子上。 “一个陌生人怎么能进到学校里做这些事而不被人看见呢?”丁克瞥了乔希和露丝·罗斯一眼。 他们都点了点头。“我们认为是在这里工作的人干的，先生，”丁克说。

"One of the teachers?" Mr. Dillon said. "But who? And why?" Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose looked at Mr. Dillon. They kept staring until the principal blushed. "Oh my goodness!" Mrs. Waters cried. "It was you, wasn't it?" "Caught," Mr. Dillon said, grinning. "But you wanted to get caught," Ruth Rose said. "That's why you left footprints and keys and notes." Mr. Dillon nodded. "Yes, I wanted to get caught. You see, I love April Fools' Day. When I was your age, I couldn't wait for this day. I played pranks all the time!" "I did, too!" Mrs. Waters said. "My sister was always finding frogs in her sweater drawer." "No one plays tricks or pranks anymore," Mr. Dillon went on. "Each year April first just slips by, unnoticed. "So I decided that this year would be different. This year, everyone would remember April Fools' Day."

“其中一个老师?”狄龙说。 “但谁?,为什么?”丁克、乔希和露丝·罗斯看着狄龙先生。 他们一直盯着看，直到校长脸红了。 “哦，天哪!”沃特斯太太叫道。 “是你，对吗?”“被抓住了，”狄龙笑着说。 “但你想被抓住，”露丝·罗斯说。 “所以你才会留下脚印、钥匙和纸条。” 狄龙点点头。“是的，我想被抓住。 你看，我喜欢愚人节。 我像你这么大的时候，我都等不及这一天了。 我一直在搞恶作剧!”“我也是!”沃特斯太太说。 “我妹妹总是在她的毛衣抽屉里发现青蛙。” “没人再搞恶作剧了，”狄龙接着说。 “每年的4月1日都会悄悄溜走，不被人注意。 “所以我决定今年要有所不同。 今年，每个人都会记得愚人节。”

Mr. Dillon kicked off his loafers and pulled on the zigzag sneakers. "I've missed these," he said. "I wear them to school every morning, then change to my loafers." Dink laughed. "We went around measuring teachers' feet, and all the time those sneakers were in the closet." The principal grinned. "I have to admit, I had a lot of fun. On Monday I went in to wash my hands at Miss Shotsky's sink. It was early; no one was here. Then I saw the skeleton with her scarf draped around its shoulders, and that's when I got the idea." His eyes twinkled. "I grabbed the skeleton, came back through our connecting door, and hid it in Mrs. Waters's closet. She leaves the key in the lock, so I just locked the door and kept the key." "Then you changed your shoes, right?" Josh asked. Mr. Dillon nodded. "I didn't realize I'd left a footprint. But when you told me that later, I

狄龙先生踢掉了他的乐福鞋，穿上了那双锯齿形的运动鞋。 “我很想念这些，”他说。 “我每天早上都穿着它们去上学，然后换上便鞋。” 丁克笑了。“我们四处测量老师的脚，结果那些运动鞋一直在壁橱里。” 校长咧嘴一笑。“我必须承认，我玩得很开心。 星期一，我到肖茨基小姐家的水池边洗手。 时间还早;这里没有人。 然后我看到了那具骷髅，她的围巾披在它的肩膀上，那时我就有了这个想法。” 他的眼睛闪闪发光。“我抓起那具骷髅，从相连的门回来，把它藏在沃特斯太太的衣橱里。 她把钥匙忘在锁里了，所以我就锁上门，留着钥匙。” “然后你换了鞋子，对吗?”杰克问。 狄龙点点头。“我没有意识到我留下了脚印。 但你后来告诉我的时候，我