karmickids: All hail the new swimming champ...

The brat emerged from class stony faced. He came to me and hugged me, his face crestfallen and terrified. It was the day he had had his interhouse swimmign competition for which his father had been training him for the past few days.

"Whatever happened, brat?" I said, hugging him back.

His face was woebegone. "Pappa will be very angry wid me, he will shaoud at me."

"Tell me what happened..." I replied. His classmates came tumbling out and one pulled his hair. "Manral, you lost, I won." The brat took a wild swing at him with his swimming bag and missed.

"So what, next time I'll come first," he replied defiantly.

I asked the boy who had come first, "Congratulations, you won the swimming competition, did you?"

"Yes," he said happily. "I came first. L came second and the brat came third."

"What?" I exclaimed, "Can you repeat that?" He did so happily. I asked the brat if that were, he nodded his head much like Prometheus on schedule for his daily date with the eagle.

I hopped and skipped and jumped around in glee, but not too much glee, you know.

And then I played it cool. "Fantastic that you came third with such little practice."

"Yus, and wid som more praktiss I will come fusht next time."

Source:

http://karmickids.blogspot.com/2012/07/all-hail-new-swimming-champ.html

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