Bill's New Frock: Part 6

By ANNE FINE

Bill glowered all through the rest of assembly. At the end, everybody stood up as usual.

'Now I need four strong volunteers to carry a table across to the nursery,' announced the headmaster. 'Who wants to go?'

Practically everybody in the hall raised a hand. Everyone liked a trip over the playground. In the nursery they had music and water and bright sloshy paints and tricycles and enormous lego. And if you kept your head down and didn't talk too much or too loudly, it might be a good few minutes before anyone realised you were really from one of the other classrooms, and shooed you back.

So the hall was a mass of waving hands.

The headmaster gazed around him.

Then he picked four boys.

On the way out of the hall, Bill Simpson heard Astrid complaining to Mrs Collins:

'It isn't fair! He always picks the boys to carry things.'

Publisher: Egmont

Price: $12.95

Age group: 8-10 yrs


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