A practical joke is a trick played upon a
person to annoy him and to amuse others. Practical jokes are pleasant as long
as the persons ridiculed are not hurt physically or put to any serious material
loss. The most appropriate time for practical jokes in schools in the first of
April.
On
the first of the April, this year, some boarders in our school hostel decided
to play trick on the hostel master and on the headmaster of our school one of
the rooms in the boarding house was tightly bolted for the inside. The occupant
then jumped out through the ventilator and hid himself in an adjoining room. He
had left a heap of smoldering coal under a table.
The
boy was very found of eating corn roasted on coal. It was reported that he had
'smuggled' some coal into his room the night before. Presumably, he had not
taken his cobs to the kitchen, lest other boarders should eat some of them.
Carbon dioxide produced by the burning coal was feared to have killed the boy,
while asleep The story was' so logically planned and so c1everly told that it
was readily accepted as genuine.
The
hostel master was the first to be informed of the incident. He rushed t6 the
scene. There he saw puffs of smoke coming out through the ventilators, and from
under the door. He was very much perplexed. Some dose friends of the 'dead'
boy, who did not know the truth of the matter, were in tears.
The
hostel master decided to break the door open. But one of the boys responsible
for the trick suggested that this should not be done without the headmaster's
permission. No such permission was needed but he decided to act upon this
advice. The headmaster was sent for. On arrival, he was informed that the
'dead' boy had burnt coal in his room to roast maize. This being an unusual
practice in a boarding house, the headmaster became very angry with the hostel
master for allowing it to happen. He told him that he had miserably failed to
do his duty, and threatened to take action against him. The latter replied that
he made it a practice to visit every room in the hostel at least once a night.
As a matter of fact, he had visited that room the previous night and had a long
talk with its occupant. He had seen no coal or maize in the room. The
headmaster refused to believe his story.www.Essayinenglishforfree.Blogspot.com
At
last the door of the room was forced open, and we all rushed in. The headmaster
pulled away the sheet covering the bed. There was no one there. Instead, there
was a large placard. It read. April Fool
All
the boys laughed a seeing this. The hostel master felt a little relieved, but
the headmaster was very angry. On his way out of the boarding house, he was
greeted by the boy who had earlier been feared to be dead. This made us laugh
more loudly than before, even the headmaster smiled.
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