Mrs. Rogers was not a nice lady at all. Eleven of us from James’ class were invited to his house for his 9th birthday party. So all in all there were twelve of us.
When it came to dessert time Mrs. Rogers put out thirteen dishes, and she said we would play a game. There were twelve of us and thirteen dishes. One of them was poisoned! She knew which one was poisoned but we didn’t. Of course it was just a game so probably none of them were poisoned, but you never can be too sure. So we all picked a plate and pretended to start eating.
When everyone had a dessert plate there was still one dessert left so Mrs. Rogers took it herself. We all knew that Mrs. Rogers would not have taken it to eat if it was the poisonous dish. She definitely had a safe dish.
Barney Halifax swapped plates with her when she wasn’t looking. Ha! Boy was he glad he did.
Weave a Web 
Leave it to Bratty Barney to ruin Mrs. Rogers’ fun.
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Don’t worry. When Bratty Barney was leaving on his bike she ran over him with the car
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Eeeek!
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Aha! You’ve played that game too?
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And we are still hear to tell the tale.
Yvonne
Sent from Samsung tablet.
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You are cunning as a snake!
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Argh. I have just noticed my spelling error. You can now say “Their, there, they’re” to me.
Are snakes cunning??
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To my shame I never noticed you’re speling eror evar.
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You are two kind too me.
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Not many will want to go to James’s unlucky-for-some 13th I’d imagine.
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The 13th is always a hurdle.
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I know a Mrs Roger’s and she is still trying to poison me
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Eek! She may get hoisted by her own petard!
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What is a petard, anyhow?
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I knew what a petard was (cos I looked it up once) but didn’t know about Hamlet.
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I hope
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Well, here we go:
“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase’s meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown (“hoist”) off the ground by his own bomb (a “petard” is a small explosive device), and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice.
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Fun party game!
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With friends like that, you don’t need enemies. Good on old Barney.
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She got her just desserts.
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Reminiscent of the fantastic Watermelon Man story. I like this and will send it onto the kids. Cheers Bruce.
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Thanks Matt. Yes it has traces of the watermelon. Never thought of that!
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It does indeed. Connie loved ‘Party Game’, but the kids haven’t given their verdict yet. In 3 hours they get home from school and we’ll see where it sits on the experts list. Haha
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I hope these murders are not give the kids ideas!
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I’m hesitant to think they may retain the faculty to possess ideas after this article.
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