pretty clever birds the parrot they can actually talk pronounce words of course they have no idea what the word means so we never take them seriously unfortunately that's not true with got them they use words just as carelessly as the pirates but sometimes we take them hi my school i'm the principal george eastman there were some people at my office this particular morning mr and mrs gage on their daughter jane they told me jane would have to leave school why because of the malicious gossip about it i was usually it's difficult for a boy or girl entering a new school to get acquainted make friends but in jeans case it was easy to get very good on her first drawing want to school award and the prize winning picture was posted on the bulletin board that girl song while jean new friend janice nelson was introducing her to some of the other girls the black one roland bill alice are to writing cazenove as we're making a little bet at the which would make the first date then he took his son getting gene back to the grocery store father had moved the story here so she could have him out there with a brand new student that already had won the art contest made a whole circle of friends had been asked to put her girls club and now here she was out with the most popular boy but when they brought home clean began to learn a little more about jack its popularity had gone to his head he was completely sure of themselves confident that none of the girls had resistance left didn't hurt his face but it certainly injured his pride to drive a laugh it off but he was thinking that he'd have to get even jack didn't lose any time giving the other boys a highly colored version of the bait to regain a self confidence and build themselves up and the when she got home she took over the telephone call although she'd missed yes got the spreads like wildfire especially with the help of girls like christine and by the end of the day the harm was done jane reputation was ruin the next morning christine still wasn't through she'd been jealous of the new girl's popularity and talent from the start now with a chance but the picture gave gina her first inkling that something was wrong you knew it had been torn down deliberately to ask your friend janet that she'd done something wrong but janet was too i'm comfortable embarrassed to tell james webb space everyone took pains to ignore her she felt like an outsider couldn't imagine why gene was person b will they marry hi it seemed so wonderful only last week now it was like a completely different school gossip jane was lonely and miserable all week but she was still hopeful that once she was initiated into the girls club things would be better not knowing this james started out on the scavenger hunt as eagerly as any of the others he was willing to work twice as hard as the other pledges the be initiated the rest of the pledges and finish their assignments and been notified of that acceptance before gene returned now the girls were really about jean came back with every one of our assignments completed what could she do next nothing christenings older she'd been blackball jane couldn't understand she'd done our assignments as well as any of them why had she been rejected for things that jane knew very well why because they didn't want her kind of girl in their club didn't build it and understand janice finally had to explain that they all knew about her about jack's story jeanne with don how could anybody believe that about her when mr and mrs de jure paymah home game told them what had happened but she hadn't been accepted by the club because of the gossip about it she thought she was quitting school so that's the story she told me that's where the gauges came to see me they agreed with jean it would be better if she left school but i asked them to wait give me a chance to do what i could gossip is difficult to fight you have to go right to the source and stam that's exactly what i did i called him jack one role asked him point blank if he was the god that jack was surprised he thought only women gods of man just well talk he admitted he'd start of the park but he never realized the harm it would do when i finished explaining what his loose pocket done to jean jacques asked me what he could do and i told him the way the only way he thought it over it wasn't going to be easy it would be embarrassing and we both knew it but he finally agreed give jack credit he went through with it is voice broke a few times but he managed to tell them all that there was nothing to the gossip that he had made up the story and was to blame for everything but that wasn't quite right i told him but anyone who listens the gossip is almost as much to blame as the person who spread that we were going to discuss the problem of the family make the whole school aware of the danger and make sure that no american student whatever again be hurt the way gene was the next day the whole student body