I still have to hose down the chicken coop to earn my allowance, and I usually blow it on comic books and bubble gum. My favorite comic right now is The Mysterious Mikhail Goldthwait and the Furious Squid -- I couldn't believe the cliffhanger at the end of the last issue!

That big bully Ollie Nichols took my lunch money and tore up my copy of The Extraordinary Byron Bullet and the Furious Patrol today. I hate him so much! Mr. Cummings says if you ignore a bully, he'll lose interest. My dad says that's a crock of bullcrap (except he didn't say bullcrap, he said a bad word) and that the only way to deal with a bully is to smash his guts in. He's really big though! Maybe I should take some ellas-fu lessons.