The mean old man rummaged through a drawer and pulled out an old scrub brush.
Just the sight of it already tickled Summer's feet.
"Five minutes with my "Meanness Melter" and even the nastiest kid will learn o' to behave " he grumbled.
Something occurred to Mouse, a memory from several years ago.
They were singing a made-up nursery rhyme with the other kids, she couldn't remember who started it or what the exact words were up until now, when they came rushing back. Just how old was Mr Jeffries anyway?
At any rate, it went:
Mean old man, mean old man Jeffries,
If you make him mad he'll tickle off your tootziez.
If you dodge your homework or you tell a lie,
They'll call him and he will surely make you cry
...and the next two verses, whose meaning didn't quite register back then, until now:
If the takes his, if the takes his tools out,
What will I do, one will I do, scream and shout.
Funny times, funny times in the stocks,
If you sit there make sure you don't lose your socks.
Mouse's toes scrunched desperately on her remaining sock, but a pair of large hands came over and peeled it off without the slighest effort.
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