for
Treasurer. Unfortunately, this kid named Marty Porter is running for Treasurer, too, and he’s real brainy at math. So this might not be as easy as X thought.
X told Pad that X was ruhhih^ for student ^overhmeht, and he seemed pretty excited. X+ toms oo+ he rah for s+odeh+ government wheh he was my a^e, ahd he actually woh.
Pad do^ through some old boxes ih +he basement ahd foohd ohe of his campaigh posters.
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HONESTY
KNOVJ-HOW
VOTE
Frank Hefttey
FOR
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SECRETARY
X thought +he poster idea was pretty ^ood, so X asked Pad +o drive me +o +he s+ore +o get some Sollies. X loaded up oh poster board ahd markers, ahd X spent +he res+ of +he night makihg all my campaigh s+off. So le+s just hope these posters work.
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X krooni ny yos+ers ih +o school ioday, and X Have +o say, +Hey cane ou+ j>re-Hy ^ood.
I started hanging my posters up as soon as I got in. But they were only up for about three minutes before Vice Principal Roy spotted them.
Mr. Roy said you weren't allowed to write "fabrications" about the other candida+es. So I told Mr. Roy that the thing about +V>e head lice was true, and how it practically closed down +he whole school when i+ happened.
But he took down all my pos+ers anyway. So -today, Marty Porter was going a round handing out- lollipops +o buy himself votes while my posters were si+ting at -the Dot-ton of Mr. Roys -trash can. I guess -this means ry political career is officially over.
Vlell, ;+s finally October, and tkere are only tkirty days left until Halloween. Halloween is ry FAVORITE koliday, even tkougk Mom says Vm getting too old to 30 trick-or-treating anymore.
Halloween is Pads favorite holiday, +00, but for a different reason. On Halloween nigkt, wkile all tke otker parents are kanding 00+ candy. Pad is kiding in +ke kuskes wi+k a big trask can ■foil of water.
And
if
any teenagers pass by oor driveway, ke drenckes +kem.
In hoi sore Pad really ohdersiahds +he cohce^>i of
Halloweeh. Bui In hoi gohha be ihe ohe who
"Tohighi was ihe o^ehihg highi
of
ihe Crosslahd H^h School hauhied house, ahd I goi Mon +o agree io take ne ahd Rowley.
Rowley showed up a+ ry house wearihg h«s H“Howeeh cosiune
front
Iasi ^ear. Wheh I called hin earlier I iold hin io jusi wear regular cloihes, but
of course he didh'i lisieh.
I tried hot to let i+ bother ne too nuch, though. I’ve never been allowed +o go +o the Crossland haunted house before, and X wasn't going to let Rowley ruin it for ne. Rod rick has told ne all about it, and X’ve been looking forward to this for
about three years.
Anyway, when we got to the entrance, I started having second thoughts about going in.
But Mon seened like she was in a hurry to get this over with, and she noved us along. Once we were through the gate, it was one scare after another. "There were van^ires jumping out at you and people without heads and all sorts of crazy stuff.
But the worst ^>art was th
tailed os oot.
Mon nude the chalhsaw guy show
us
where the exit was, and that was +he end
of our
haunted house experience right +here. X guess i+ was a little embarrassing when Mon did that, but X'n willing +o let it go this one +ine.
haunted house really got ne thinking. Those guys were charging -five bucks a pop, and +he line stretched halfway around the school.
X decided +o make a haunted house
of
ny own. Actually, X had +o bring Rowley in on the deal, because Mon wouldn’t let ne convert our first ■floor into a full-out haunted nansion.
X knew Rowley’s dad wouldn’t be crazy about the idea, either, so we decided to build the haunted house in his basement and just not mention it to his parents.
Me and Rowley spent most
of
the day coning up with an awesome plan for our haunted house.
Saturday
The Crossland
Here was
our