childrens story, #4

little jay made a triumphant declaration upon finally finding himself face to face with uncle dave.  in accordance with leprechaun-uncle/teacher lore, the capture of such a creature entitled his captor to all wrongly deducted points from up to three homework assignments, which was the sole purpose of little jay's quest after uncle dave.  the evil grader-gnomes very much enjoyed the act of point theft and thus committed it every time the opportunity presented itself.  instances had been reported wherein these evil grader-gnomes had stolen five points from a problem which had only four points possible.  these evil grader-gnomes were quite clever, however, and knew full well that if any given assignment came back with a negative score it would have very little chance of remaining uncomplained-about.

unfortunately, all this blather about the evil tendencies of the evil grader-gnomes gave uncle dave his much desired chance to escape.  he desired this opportunity so greatly because (as any being should be aware of) leprechaun-uncle/teachers have a reputation to keep up for being amazingly skilled at eluding capture.  the only notion of uncle dave that little jay could observe at this point was a hideously evil chortle which resonated menacingly throughout the building.  this most recent disappointment pushed little jay over the edge and caused him to seek stolen-point justice by some manner other than regaining the points.  and so he journeyed downward to the dank depths wherein dwelled the evil grader-gnomes.  he noticed that the evil grader-gnome domain had a very low level of luminance, which apparently introduced no inconvenience since evil grader-gnomes are almost completely blind.  little jay wasted no time in herding all the evil grader-gnomes he could fit into the elevator and then taking them up to the top.  he then proceeded to dump the evil grader-gnomes out the window and kept plunging the elevator back for more until the evil grader-gnomes were no more.  at this point there was (of course) much rejoicing and the need to capture uncle dave fell away.

the end