Chapter 14

CHAPTER 14 Michael spent the entire afternoon devising his scheme. The thought of treating Edgar the way he himself would want to be treated seemed silly. Why would he do that? Edgar didn't deserve it. What he deserved was a taste of his own medicine! When Michael should have been paying attention to Ms. McKay's lesson in long division,

he was drawing pulley diagrams and figuring out how much rope, how big of a bucket, and how high of a tree branch he would need to pull off his plan. A few times, Michael passed his drawings to Justin, who was trying his best to concentrate on the lesson. Then Ms. McKay noticed the boys passing notes to each other. "What is this?" Ms. McKay snatched the paper from Justin's desk. "Ummm..." Justin stammered, terrified that a trip to Principal P.'s office was in his near future. "Oh! Good work, boys!" Ms. McKay said cheerfully. "It's nice to see you applying yourselves!" She handed the note back to Justin. Michael shot Justin a "what just happened?" look. Justin handed Michael back the note. Luckily, Justin had used division to calculate how long it would take a bucket of goo to fall from a 10-foot tree branch onto Edgar's head. Michael smiled and gave Justin a thumbs-up.

Next, when Michael should have been paying attention to the social studies lesson about the Pilgrims, he was trying to figure out what he could use for the goo. Goo, as you probably know, is a general term for something slimy and disgusting, but it's not as easy as you might think to find a whole bucket full of it. It would take forever to collect that much worm slime. How much used kitty litter could he get from Mr. Nemesis on such short notice? Soon Michael had a list of crossed-out ideas, none of which had anything to do with the Pilgrims, taking up an entire page of notebook paper. The bell rang. "Did you figure it all out?" asked Justin. "Nope. Not yet," Michael answered. "Come on. Let's find Merle and Pearl."

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