Volume 1, No. 1

The Plague / Hooper ... 9 

to know what was SO FUNNY, Jerry said without even a trace of a blush, "You got Super Boy Flea Proof" written right across your ass!"
None of us really remembered what happened next. We all closed our eyes and prayed to be spared the wrath of one Miss Gordon, Grade 4 teacher, Dunlevy Elementary School. Somebody thought that Jerry was sent to "the office" and got the strap. Cynthia Sweeney probably cried like the baby she was. All we really knew was that there was a class detention that afternoon, and all of us -- boys included, had to wash off every "S.B.F.P." that had been written around the school. There were threats of further detentions if "S.B.F.P." ever appeared again, anywhere, at any time on that school ground.
Poor Cynthia Sweeney. She was so upset that she missed one "S.B.F.P." The next day Miss Gordon spied the small vaccination mark. "What's that?" she hissed at Cynthia. There is was. Everyone could see it -- the