Monday, 8 June 2015

The problems with being a time travelling pirate 4

Pirates don’t know much about school so when I mentioned I’d got in trouble with my teacher for kicking a football and breaking a window, I thought I’d be all right. The crew were surprised that a farmer’s son went to school but they loved the story of how my ball landed in the fish tank (the fish were all right). Then I made my big mistake. I told them my teacher’s name – Miss Elliot. They all gawped at me. ‘Your teacher is a woman?’ growled Harry Hopp suspiciously. I’d forgotten that in 1706 all the teachers were men. I quickly said that of course my teacher wasn’t a woman. His name was Mister Misselliot!

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