11 Arurahruhmrah

Chapter 11 Arurahruhmrah "Quick!" Andrea shouted. "Take her legs, Arlo!" We picked up the sack with Mrs. Jafee in it and rushed back through the woods. "Help!" Mrs. Jafee shouted. "Put me down, doggone it! I'm your vice principal!" "No," I said, "you're a prisoner of war! And in the words of Abraham Lincoln, 'Nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you.'" "Arlo, I don't think Abraham Lincoln ever said that," Andrea told me. "Well, he should have." Andrea and I finally made it back to our side of the playground. We dumped the sack on the ground in front of Stonewall Jackson. "Great work!" Stonewall said. "Put a gag in her mouth to keep her quiet. I mean

him." Ryan and Michael wrapped a rag around Mrs. Jafee's mouth and tied it in the back. "What do we do now?" asked Neil the nude kid. "Tie her up with this rope!" Stonewall Jackson said. Neil tied up Mrs. Jafee. Everybody started yelling and cheering as word got around that our side had captured General Grant. "We won!" kids were shouting. "We won the war!" We were all yelling and screaming and celebrating when the strangest thing in the history of the world happened. A plane flew overhead.

Well, that wasn't the strange part, because planes fly overhead all the time. The strange part was that something was falling out of the plane. "What's that?" Emily yelled. "It's a parachute!" yelled Stonewall Jackson. "They didn't have parachutes during the Civil War," Andrea said. "They didn't have planes either."

It didn't matter what they had during the Civil War because the parachute was coming down right over our heads. "It's a man!" Ryan shouted. "It's a man with no hair!" Michael shouted. "It's Mr. Klutz!" Neil shouted. "Hooray for Mr. Klutz!" everybody started shouting. "He's back!" Everybody was happy to see Mr. Klutz again. But there was just one problem. His parachute was heading straight for the swimming pool at the side of the playground. SPLASH! It was a real Kodak moment. We saw it live and in person. Everybody ran over to the swimming pool. "Help!" Mr. Klutz yelled. "I can't swim! Glub glub glub glub!"

Stonewall Jackson jumped into the pool and fished out Mr. Klutz before he drowned. "Why didn't you go to the airport?" Ryan asked him. "Well," Mr. Klutz said, "I saw the school out the window of the plane; and since I learned parachuting at Principal Camp, I

thought that jumping out of the plane would be a lot faster than going to the airport." Mr. Klutz is nuts. "We missed you so much!" said Andrea, the big brownnoser. "I missed you all too," Mr. Klutz said. "Where did this swimming pool come from?" "Rent-A-Pool," I said. "You can rent anything." "But why is it in the playground?" he asked. "I nearly drowned." "It was Mrs. Jafee's idea," Ryan said. "She said studies show kids learn better underwater." "Where is Mrs. Jafee?" asked Mr. Klutz. "She's, uh… tied up," I said. That's when Mrs. Jafee came hopping out of the woods. She was still tied up in the