Chapter 2

Gene and I had to go to summer school to get our education. Mr. Prud'homme is mad at both of us for skipping dinner last night. I tried talking to Mr. Prud'homme about not punishing us for skipping the dinner, and I succeeded. I decided to wear a pink tablecloth as an emblem of celebration of the first allied bombing of central Europe. Although you won't supposed to wear pink because it was disrespectful, Finny usually got away with anything. I also wore a tie as a belt and that was also disrespectful. Mr. Patch-Withers was the substitute headmaster, was embarrassed that I was wearing a tie as a belt. I think that in the war that "we ought to bomb the daylights out of them, as long as we don't hit any women or children or old people." Mr. Patch-Withers didn't discipline me for saying those things about the war. Gene and I walked along the river and I was talking to Gene about the bombing in central Europe, and I think that they really didn't bomb Europe. The rest of the group and I decided to give ourselves a name and we called ourselves "Super Society of the summer session."