3417. When I got a hold of it I was unable to look through it because everyone was jumping all over me trying to get it away from me before the bell rang, which was any second. I ran away from them trying to get far enough away to get a second to hold it up to my eye. I ran around the back end of Mrs. Hagner’s old brown Hudson and up between her car and Mr. Roach’s Buick and I banged into the Hagner’s rear view mirror and it snapped off and fell on the ground at my feet.
3418. Everyone froze, and then the bell rang. It was a disaster that could have many outcomes and all of them bad. About ten of us were involved and we could all be to blame because of the telescope, or just I could be to blame because of the mirror.
3419. I could
pick up the mirror and take the blame, or kick it under the car and claim
ignorance, but what I did was probably a misguided idea of half-hearted devious
honesty. I picked up the mirror, but
at the same time I pushed the telescope into the cuff of my jeans where no
teacher would ever dream of looking for it.
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