First published by Scholastic, New York, USA Scholastic London, England IE DOUBLE DIRTY ROTTEN Scholastic Richmond, Canada Hyronsha Tokyo, Japan Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, Germany Carlsen Nordisk Copenhagen, Denmark Carlsen Forlag Oslo, Norway Kaleidoscope Paris, France Editorial Andres Bello Santiago de Chile, Chile BY HANS WILHELM Copyright: Hans Wilhelm, inc. ‘Wilhelm knows what will tickle the funny bones of young readers.” Punlahers WestyTYRONE THE DOUBLE DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER BY HANS WILHELM SCHOLASTIC INC. / new 2Boland vasa tite dines He and his fends were going to Swamp Ind fora week. They would et play games and seep out under the sors. Everybody was very excled. Everybody thats, except Boland, His worst enemy, Tyron, was coming alg to! Tyrone the Horrbe, as he was usually calle, was known to make trouble Lt of toubleAyone was ust 2 id his, ut he as bigger and anger than the others | No wonder he won the fist game so easy, ‘They played other games that had nothing to do vith being big or song Sil, Tyrone wen evry time, "Something s not quite ght hereMeanviil, Boland and his ends wore upset They had lost al their meteorites to Tyrone “How dhe do 42" Steg sal, shaking is head. “1m sure that he cheated” repled ery. Link soe" sak Boland ‘Next me we will watch him more closely We have fo catch him redhanded” ia al” Tyrone sald to himselt “Chesting easy — 35 Jong a8 nobody Ss cut”“The next game was the great dinosaur egg race Iwas Boland’ forte, ‘wards the end Boland was inthe lead, | "You lousy creep!” cred Boland closely followed by Tyrone. Suddenly Boland stumbled ] But Tyrone was aeady crossing the fish Une and fl over something big and green, with a big smile on bis fice. twas Tyrone’ fot“ets not the winne!” Boland tld his Bends Didnt you se how he tripped mez” ‘But nobody had seen it. They had al been too busy watching thelr es Naturally Tyrone swore he hadrit done anything wrong. ‘And 50 they had to give him the fist prize ‘whlch was 2 deliious choclate eg. ‘Once aguln Tyrone was pleased with hms “re, nded, cheating aays works A you have todo & tla big Ste”“Tine fr the Sek rae” Seta cals. "Count me ou ak Boland “Yow net plying any-more games with Tyrone" Nobody ebe wanted to play with Trone een But Sela sais, "Dont be sl: Nobody can chest sack rice. Besides, the winner gets the best ize ofall — a by chocolate dincsau Breryone wana 10 win the chocolate ainosu, and 96 the rase-¥SPon But ellevedE petit — once again, Tyrone came in ft‘Tyrone went off by ilmsel to enjoy his prize But this time Boland flowed hin, and dicovered tis secret Tyrone’ ack was cut open atthe bottom! He had not hopped like the others he an the race! “You double ality rten chete Bolnd cid “Glve back that chocolate dinoss ‘wu dont deserve? Then Tyrone got mean. "ull beter shut up, Lzanead” he sl "I you say one word abou this lo anyane eke, break every bone in your boaBut Boland told his ends everything Tm fed up with that brat” sl, and samped his fot. “But what can we do?” Sel asked “Tyrone is 9 ig and strong” “I Tyrone cant lay fit” Boland a, “wel cut him out ofthe next game. [ave an idea, Les mest tonight alter Tyrone goes 1 seen”Boland cd know but Tyrone had head everyting ‘And he vas not abut 0 wait ntl morning Late that nigh, ‘when the ciher dinoseus were sleeping, de tok the map and a shoe and sneaked of into the dark,Tyrone sated to alg wildy He aid ook where he was throwing the dit, He did’ see the swarm of bees behing him un i was too tate 9 come up found the spot “Aha” he said I win again Now the treasure wl be mine. All MINE"‘When they st the map and the shovel, ‘they Knew what had happened. “Tyrone tried to beat us again” Try si. “He wanted the surprise fr himsle” Ie looks Ike he gota sure allright” Boland sald with a smile,zctisoemaaepts nd Boland and his frends enjoyed the spectacular show But Tyrone was not happy. He wat so sore fom his be sings he had to say in the water al night