PERKINS: Wait... I’m sorry.... You BEAT my son to death?
HEADMASTER: Yes, Yes. So it would seem. Please, I’m not used to being interrupted. You see, the library card system was introduced....
PERKINS: Well, exactly what happened?
HEADMASTER: Well, apparently the boys were just slipping into the library and TAKING the books.
PERKINS: No, during the beating!
HEADMASTER: Oh, that. Well, one moment he was bending over; the next he was lying down...
PERKINS: DEAD?!
HEADMASTER: Ummm... deadish. Mr. Perkins, I find this rather morbid fascination with your son’s death quite disturbing. What I’m talking about is his attitude, and quite frankly I can see where he gets it from.
PERKINS: Well, did you have to beat him to death?!?!
HEADMASTER: Well it was perfectly obvious to me the first day here, I fear. I wondered then as I wonder now if he hadn’t turned out a very different boy indeed if you had administered a few fatal beatings early on.
PERKINS: Are you MAD?!?!
HEADMASTER: I’m furious! In order to accommodate the funeral, I’ve had to cancel afternoon school on Wednesday!
PERKINS: This is preposterous!
HEADMASTER: Yes it is. Or at least it would be... if it were true.
PERKINS: WHAT?!?!
HEADMASTER: I’ve been joking, Mr. Perkins. Pardon me, it’s my strange academic sense of humor. I’ve been pulling your leg.
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