Tom is an eight-year-old boy. He is sick to death of school because he doesn't want to do his homework. He is always looking for excuses not to do it. When he has a cold, he tells his morn he is badly ill and he can not do his homework. Though Tom's mom is angry, she doesn't know what to do with him.
Most of the time, Tom goes to school without finishing his homework. Even though he finishes his homework, he usually does it very carelessly.
One Thursday evening, Tom told his morn that he couldn't do his homework because he was having a fever. After his morn took his temperature, she realized that Tom didn't tell the truth. So he had to do his homework. To his mom's surprise, the light in Tom's bedroom was still on at midnight. His morn opened the door quietly and found Tom was already asleep. His homework was only half done.
The next evening, Tom went back home from school, his morn asked, "Did your teacher punish you today? I know you didn't finish your homework last night."
"No, mom," Tom answered.
"How did you make it?" his mom asked him. "What did you say to the teacher?"
"I told my teacher that an accident happened to me this morning."
"What?" Tom's morn looked at him with eyes wide.
"The school bus fell into the pool on my way to school," Tom said, "I climbed out of the pool, but my homework didn't climb out of the pool."
"But you didn't take the school bus!" Tom's morn said.
"Of course, I didn't," Tom said. "But my teacher didn't know that.
