It was a horrible, stinky, rainy day. Some rainy days are fun and exciting, but not this one.
This one stunk. All the children were wet and wore smelly WHAT? . The whole WHERE? smelled awful.
“Ooooh, it stinks in here,” said 1. WHO? .
Everybody laughed. But she was right.
There was one good thing, however. There was a new boy in class. New kids are always fun. Except no one could even tell what the new boy looked like. He was completely covered by his WHAT? .
“Class,” said 2. WHO? Teacher. “I’d like you all to meet Sammy. Let us show him what a nice class we can be.”
3. WHO? walked up and smiled at Sammy. But her smile quickly turned into a frown. “You smell terrible,” she said.
“ 3. WHO? !” exclaimed 2. WHO? Teacher. “That’s no way to greet a new member of our class.”
“But he does, 2. WHO? Teacher,” said 3. WHO? . “He smells awful.”
“You’re ugly,” Sammy replied.
“Now, Sammy, that’s no way to talk,” said 2. WHO? Teacher. “ 3. WHO? ’s a very pretty girl.”
“She’s ugly,” said Sammy.
4. WHO? spoke up. “Well, you smell terrible and are probably even uglier. But nobody can see you because you are hiding under that smelly old WHAT? .”
“That will be enough of that,” said 2. WHO? Teacher. “Now, Sammy, why don’t you take off your WHAT? and hang it in the closet? Let us all see how nice you look.”
“I don’t want to, you old windbag,” said Sammy.
“That’s because he’s so ugly,” said 3. WHO? .
“I’m sure he’s quite handsome,” said 2. WHO? Teacher. “He’s just shy. Here, let me help you.”
2. WHO? Teacher took off Sammy’s coat for him. But underneath it was still another WHAT? , even dirtier and smellier than the first one. They still couldn’t see his face.
“Ooooh, now he smells even worse,” said 1. WHO? .
“You don’t exactly smell like a rose, either,” Sammy replied.
2. WHO? Teacher took off his second WHAT? , but there was still another one under that. And the smell became so bad that 2. WHO? Teacher had to run and stick her head out the window to get some fresh air.
“You’re all a bunch of pigs!” Sammy screeched. “Dirty, rotten pigs!”
The smell was overpowering. Sammy just stood there, hidden under his WHAT?s .
“Send him home on the kindergarten bus,” said 5. WHO? .
“Not with me,” said 6. WHO? .
2. WHO? Teacher held her nose, walked up to Sammy, and removed his WHAT? . She threw it out the window. But he had on still another one.
Sammy hissed. “Hey, old windbag, watch where you throw my good WHAT? !”
2. WHO? Teacher took off another WHAT? and threw it out the window. The smell got worse, for he had on still another one.
Sammy began to laugh. His horrible laugh was even worse than his horrible voice.
When Sammy first came into the WHERE? , he was 120 cm tall. But after 2. WHO? Teacher removed 6 of his WHAT? , he was only 90 cm tall. And there were still more WHAT?s to go.
2. WHO? Teacher circled his name and removed another WHAT? . She threw it out the window. Then she put an X next to his name and threw another one of his WHAT? outside. With every WHAT? she took off, Sammy’s laugh got louder and the smell got worse.
Sammy stopped laughing and said, “Hey, old windbag, if you take off one more of my WHAT?s and throw it out the window, I’ll bite your head off.”
“They smell too bad for me to allow them in my WHERE? ,” said 2. WHO? Teacher. “You can pick them up when you leave.”
“They smell better than you do, Pighead!” Sammy shouted.
2. WHO? Teacher didn’t stop. She took off another one of his WHAT?s , then another, and another.
Sammy was only 10 cm tall, 7 cm tall, 5 cm tall. At last she removed the final WHAT? .
All that was there was a dead rat.
“Well, I don’t allow dead rats in my WHERE? ,” said 2. WHO? Teacher. She picked it up by the tail, put it in a plastic bag, and threw it away.
2. WHO? Teacher didn’t allow dead rats in her class.
“I’m glad Sammy isn’t allowed in our WHERE? ,” said 7. WHO? . “I didn’t like him very much.”
“Yes,” said 2. WHO? Teacher, “we caught another one.”
Dead rats were always trying to sneak into 2. WHO? Teacher’s class. That was the third one she’d caught since WHEN? .
