13. A Bad Idea

CHAPTER 13 A BAD IDEA That afternoon, George and Harold sat in their tree house feeling sorry for themselves. "She can't get away with that," said George. "We've got to tell somebody about this." "Nobody's going to believe us," said Harold. "Well, there is one thing we can do," said George. He opened the drawer to their drawing table and searched through the pennies, paper clips, dried spitballs, and rubber bands. Then he pulled out a dusty plastic ring with some gum stuck on it. It was the 3-D Hypno-Ring.

"Oh, no!" said Harold. "I thought we threw that thing away!" "We just threw the instructions away," said George. "But I remember how it works." "Do you remember what happened the LAST TIME WE USED IT?" asked Harold. "Yeah," said George. "But we were fooling around last time. This time we'll be serious. We won't make any mistakes! All we have to do is hypnotize her into changing our grades back to normal. That's all!" "I don't know..." said Harold. "It sounds like a bad idea to me!" "Worse than FLUNKING the fourth grade?" asked George. "Good point," said Harold.