“Pierre, Get The Eel.”
Character – French circus performer- Setting – the principal’s office
- Object – live eel
- Situation – power outage
“Pierre, get the eel.”
“Oui, Monsieur Crampton.”
Jacques blundered out of the office, knowing it would make no difference if he corrected the man about his name. After all, he mused, do not all the French look the same in the dark?
Also, he decided to bring candles, as well as the eel. It was not, after all, electric, and would not be of any use to drive back the darkness.
Halfway to the supply room, he resolved to run away from the circus. The wrongness of the preposition infected the whole proposition and he abandoned his resolve. Besides, they’d track him down. Like they tracked down Crampton.
Why, oh why hadn’t they just left him to run that wretched school?