It was Dad who took me to school today, after lunch. I like it
when Daddy comes with me, because he often gives me money to buy
things. And there, it did not miss. We walked past the toy store and,
in the window, I saw cardboard nose that is put on the face to make laugh the
friends.
"Dad, I said, buy me a nose!"
nose, goal I showed him a big, all red, and I said to him:
"Oh, Yes Dad! Buy me this one, it looks like the nose of uncle Eugene!"
Uncle Eugene is Papa's brother; he is fat, he tells jokes and he laughs all
time. We do not see much, because it travels, to sell things very
far away, in Lyons, Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne. Dad started to laugh.
- It's true, he said Dad, it looks like Eugene's nose in smaller. The next time
that will come to the house I will put him.
And then we entered the store, we bought the nose, I put it on
my face; it holds with an elastic, and then Papa put it on his face, and then the
the salesman put it on her face, we all looked in a mirror and we had fun
laugh. You will say what you like, but my daddy is very nice!
Leave me at the door of the school, Dad said to me: "Above all, be wise and try not to
not have trouble with Eugene's nose. "I promised and I entered
school.
In the yard, I saw the buddies and I put my nose to show them and we all
laugh.
"Looks like my Aunt Claire's nose," said Maixent.
- No, I said, it is the nose of my uncle Eugene, the explorer.
- You lend me your nose? asked Eudes.
- No, I answered. If you want a nose, you have to dad to buy it
at!
"If you do not want to lend it to me, I'll give you a blow with your fist at your nose!" he told me
Eudes, who is very strong, and bing! he tapped the nose of Uncle Eugene.
I did not hurt, but I'm afraid he broke the nose of Uncle Eugene;
so I put it in my pocket and kicked Eudes. We were there to
beating, with the buddies watching, when the. Tea
Bouillon is our supervisor, and one day
like that.
"So," said the Bouillon, "what is happening here?"
"It's Eudes, I said, he punched me on the nose and he broke it
The Bouillon opened wide eyes, he bent down to put his face in front of
and he said to me: "Show a little ..."
So, I took Eugene's nose out of my pocket and showed him. I do not
to know the nose, the bouillon, to see the nose
of Uncle Eugene.
"Look at me in the eye," said the Bouillon, who got up. I do not like
not that you make fun of me, my boyfriend. You will come in Thursday in Restraint, it is
Including?
I started crying, so Geoffroy said,
"No, sir, it's not his fault!
The Bouillon looked at Geoffroy, he smiled, and he put his hand on his shoulder.
"It is well, my dear, to denounce another one in order to save a comrade."

- Yeah, Geoffroy said, it's not his fault, it's Eudes's fault.
The Bouillon became all red, he opened his mouth several times before speaking,
and then he gave a restraint to Eudes, one to Geoffroy, and another to Clotaire, who laughed.
And he went to ring the bell.
In class, the teacher began to explain stories of when France
was full of Gauls. Alceste who sits next to me, asked me if the nose of
Uncle Eugene was really broken. I told him not, that he was only a little
flattened at the end, and then I could it out of my pocket to see if I could fix it. And this
which is nice, is that by pushing with the finger inside, I got to him
give the form it had before. I was very happy.
"Put it to see," Alceste said to me.
So I bent down under the desk and I put the nose, Alceste looked and said,
- It's fine, it's fine.
- Nicolas! Repeat what I have just said! cried the mistress, who made me very afraid.
I got up at once and wanted to cry, because I did not know
what she had just said, the mistress, and she did not listen to her. Tea
mistress looked at me with round eyes, like Bouillon.
- But ... what do you have on your face? she asked me.
"It's the nose that my dad bought me," I said crying.
The mistress, she got angry and she screamed, saying she did not like
and if I continued like that, I would be dismissed from school and
become an ignorant and that I would be the shame of my parents. And then she said to me:
"Bring me that nose!" "
Then, I, I follow