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In the middle of the first week of Matilda's first term, Miss Honey said to the class, ' I have some important news for you, so listen carefully. You too, Matilda, Put that book down for a moment and pay attention.'

Small eager faces look up and listened.

 

 

'It is Headmistress's custom, Miss Honey went on, ' to take over the class for one period each week. She does with every class in the school and each class has a fixed day and a fixed time. Ours is always two o'clock on Thursday afternoon, immediately after lunch. So tommorow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson. I shall be hear as well, of course,  but only as a silent witness. Is the understand?'

 

'Yes, Miss Honey,' they chirruped.

'A word of warning to you all,' Miss Honey said.

'The Headmistress is very strict about everything. Make sure your clothes are clean, your faces are clean and your hands are clean. Speak only when spoken to. When she ask you a questio, stand up at once before you answer it. Never argue with her. Never answer back. Never try to be funny. If you do, you will make her angry, and when the Miss headmistresss gets angry you had better watch out.'

'You can say that again,' Lavender murmured.

'I am quite sure,' Miss Honey sain,'that she will be testing you on what you are meant to have hearnt this week, which is your two-times table. So I strongly advise you to swot it up when you get home tonight. Get your mother or father to hear you on it.'

 

 

'What else will she test us on?' someone asked.

'Spelling,'Miss Honey said.

'Try to remember everything you have learnt these last few days. And more thing. A jug of water and a glass must always be on the table hear when the Headmistress comes in. She never takes a lesson without that. Now who will be responsible for seeing that it's there?

'I will,' Lavender said at once.

'Very well, Lavender.' Miss Honey said.

'It will be your job to go to the kitchen and get the jug and fill it with water and put it on the table hear with a clean empty glass just before the lesson starts.'

'What if the jug's not in kitchen?'

'There are a dozen Headmistress's jugs and glasses in the kitchen, They are used all over the school.'

'I won't forget. I primis I won't'

 

 

Already Lavender's scheming mind was going over the possibilities that this water-jug job had opened up for her. She longed to do something truly heroic. She admired the older girl Hortensia to distraction for the daring deeds she had performed in the school.

She also admired Martilda,  who had sworn her to secrecy about the parrot job she had brought off at home, and also the great hair oil switch which had bleached her father's hair. It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot.

 

 

On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities, and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her, she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo.