Number five, exercise 52.0:02
Malcolm's story and try to read it in the same manner.0:08
Malcolm's story After Paul Jennings.0:14
Well, I came top of the class again.0:20
100 out of 100 for maths and 100 out of 100 for English.0:24
There isn't one kid in the class who can come near me.0:31
Next to me they are all dumb.0:35
Even when I was a baby I was smart.0:38
Since then I have always been very advanced for my age.0:42
Every year I win a lot of prizes.0:45
Top of the class, top of the school, stuff like that.0:48
I won a prize for spelling when I was only three years old.0:52
I am a terrific speller if you can say it.0:56
I can spell every word there is.1:01
Some kids don't like me.1:04
I know that for a fact.1:06
They say I am a show off.1:08
They are just jealous because they are not as clever as me.1:12
Last week something had happened.1:17
Another kid got 100 out of 100 for maths too.1:19
That never happened before.1:23
No one had ever done as well as me.1:26
A kid called Jerome Dejien bit me.1:29
He must have cheated.1:33
I was sure he cheated.1:35
It had something to do with that ice cream.1:37
I decided to find out what was going on.1:40
It all started with the ice cream man, Mr. Puppy.1:46
The old fool had a van which he parked outside the school.1:50
He sold ice cream, all different types.1:54
He had every flavor there is and some that I had never heard of before.1:58
He didn't like me very much.2:03
Go to the back of the queue, he said.2:08
Mind your own business, Pop, I told him.2:13
Just hand over the ice cream.2:16
I won't serve you unless you go to the back.2:20
I went round to the back of the van, but I didn't get in the queue.2:25
I took out a nail and made a long scratch on his rotten old van.2:29
He had just had it painted.2:35
Pappy came and had a look.2:38
Tears came into his eyes.2:41
You are a bad boy, he said.2:43
One day you will get into trouble.2:46
You think you are smart.2:49
One day you will be too smart.2:52
I just laughed and walked off.2:55
I knew he wouldn't do anything.2:58
He was too soft hearted.3:00
He was always giving free ice creams to kids that had no money.3:02
There were a lot of stories going round about that ice cream.3:10
People said that it was good for you.3:13
Some kids said that it made you better when you were sick.3:16
One of the teachers called it happy ice cream.3:20
It never made me happy.3:25
All the same, there was something strange about it.3:28
Take Pimples Peterson for example.3:31
That wasn't his real name.3:34
I just called him that because he had a lot of pimples.3:36
One day Puppy heard me calling Pimples that name and gave Peterson a purple coloured ice cream.3:39
Here, eat these, he said.3:46
I am giving it to you for nothing.3:49
It will help you get rid of your pimples.3:51
I laughed and laughed.3:54
Ice cream doesn't get rid of pimples.3:56
It gives you pimples.3:59
Anyway, the next day when Peterson came to school, he had no pimples.4:02
I couldn't believe it.4:08
The ice cream had cured his pimples.4:10
I made up my mind to put a stop to this ice cream business.4:13
Jerome Dadian had been eating ice cream the day he got 100 for maths.4:18
It must have been the ice cream making him smart.4:23
I wasn't going to have anyone doing as well as me.4:26
I was the smartest kid in the school.4:30
And that's the way I wanted it to stay.4:32
I wanted to get a look inside that ice cream van to find out what was going on.4:36
I knew where Pappy kept his van at night.4:43
So at about 11 o' clock I crept out of the house.4:46
There was no one round.4:50
When I reached the van I opened the door with a crowbar and shown my torch around inside.4:51
I had never seen so many tubs of ice cream before.4:59
There was every kind of ice cream you could think of tasting of apple and banana, cherry and mango, BlackBerry and watermelon and about 50 other flavors.5:04
Right at the end of the van were four beans with logs on them.5:17
I went over and had a look.5:22
These were his special flavors.5:25
Each of them had writing on the top.5:27
This is what they Happy ice cream for cheering people up.5:30
Nose ice cream for long noses.5:37
Pimple ice cream for removing pimples.5:40
Smart ice cream for smart Alex.5:44
Now I knew his secret.5:48
I decided to fix Puppy up once and for all and put sand into every bin in the van.5:51
But first I ate some smart ice cream.5:57
It couldn't do any harm.6:01
Not that I needed it.6:03
I was already about as smart as you could get.6:05
Anyway, I gave it a try.6:08
I left the van and went home to bed.6:12
But I couldn't sleep.6:15
To tell the truth, I didn't feel too good.6:18
So I decided to write.6:21
Now something is happening to me.6:28
I don't feel quite as smart.6:34
I have been trying to do a real hard sum.6:40
What does 1 and 1 make?6:52
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