Miss Landers is returning to Beaver's class and everyone is excited; Judy Hensler even has a group poem to read. While Miss Landers appreciates the poem, Miss Landers has decided to assign books to read before term ends. Beaver hands his list to Ward to check over and Ward wonders if he can find Beaver a manlier book to read. Maybe Ivanhoe? Beaver looks at the book and says it's a lot thicker than Hoppy the Kangaroo.
Beaver is really getting into the book and he is staying up late to read it in bed; and Beaver is playing at being a knight in his spare time. Beaver notices that knight like Ivanhoe protect women just like cowboys in white hats. On his way to school, Beaver sees a kid pushing a girl around. Beaver steps and gets into a fight with the boy only to find out the girl is the boy's sister, so Beaver is seen as a bully and is now forced to ride at the back of the bus. When Ward gets home, June says she got a call from Miss Landers about Beaver fighting with a new boy in the school. Ward figures Beaver has taken Ivanhoe a little too much to heart. Beaver is thinking he should have read Hoppy the Kangaroo instead.
Beaver has been waiting up in his room for Ward to come up. Ward gets Beaver side of the story and figures Beaver's intentions were good and he will call and explain everything to Miss Landers. In school Miss Landers explains to the class what the circumstances of the fight were; Judy Hensler is crushed that Beaver isn't being punished. Worse, Beaver is being seen as the good guy.
After school Beaver is up in his room writing out his own code of knighthood and is thinking of starting a club: he can charge members a dime to join. And at school Beaver is signing up members when it is suggested that Beaver deal with a local bully, Clyde Appleby. Beaver finds Clyde and wants to straighten him out but Clyde is about a head taller than Beaver. When a fight breaks out it seems pretty clear that Beaver is getting the worst of it.
Ward wants to know what is going on and June just wants Ward to put a stop to this. Her little dear is all bruised. Ward tries to explain times have changed; today we don't take things into our own hands, we go to or alert the proper authorities. Ward tells Beaver to remember that discretion is the better part of valor. Wally translates for Beaver: don't pick fights with big guys, June is placing Ivanhoe up where it won't cause any more trouble. When Beaver takes to Wally about it would have been fun to live in the olden days; Wally disabuses Beaver by telling him those castles didn't have heat, people died of the black plague, and you wouldn't want to meet a fire breathing dragon on the way to school. Beaver concludes the only way to have fun in the olden days is just to read about them.
Beaver is right to be confused when he wonders what happen to those old values like defending women, helping the poor, and fighting off bullies. No doubt there are a lot of people today who would like an answer to those questions.
Beaver is really getting into the book and he is staying up late to read it in bed; and Beaver is playing at being a knight in his spare time. Beaver notices that knight like Ivanhoe protect women just like cowboys in white hats. On his way to school, Beaver sees a kid pushing a girl around. Beaver steps and gets into a fight with the boy only to find out the girl is the boy's sister, so Beaver is seen as a bully and is now forced to ride at the back of the bus. When Ward gets home, June says she got a call from Miss Landers about Beaver fighting with a new boy in the school. Ward figures Beaver has taken Ivanhoe a little too much to heart. Beaver is thinking he should have read Hoppy the Kangaroo instead.
Beaver has been waiting up in his room for Ward to come up. Ward gets Beaver side of the story and figures Beaver's intentions were good and he will call and explain everything to Miss Landers. In school Miss Landers explains to the class what the circumstances of the fight were; Judy Hensler is crushed that Beaver isn't being punished. Worse, Beaver is being seen as the good guy.
After school Beaver is up in his room writing out his own code of knighthood and is thinking of starting a club: he can charge members a dime to join. And at school Beaver is signing up members when it is suggested that Beaver deal with a local bully, Clyde Appleby. Beaver finds Clyde and wants to straighten him out but Clyde is about a head taller than Beaver. When a fight breaks out it seems pretty clear that Beaver is getting the worst of it.
Ward wants to know what is going on and June just wants Ward to put a stop to this. Her little dear is all bruised. Ward tries to explain times have changed; today we don't take things into our own hands, we go to or alert the proper authorities. Ward tells Beaver to remember that discretion is the better part of valor. Wally translates for Beaver: don't pick fights with big guys, June is placing Ivanhoe up where it won't cause any more trouble. When Beaver takes to Wally about it would have been fun to live in the olden days; Wally disabuses Beaver by telling him those castles didn't have heat, people died of the black plague, and you wouldn't want to meet a fire breathing dragon on the way to school. Beaver concludes the only way to have fun in the olden days is just to read about them.
Beaver is right to be confused when he wonders what happen to those old values like defending women, helping the poor, and fighting off bullies. No doubt there are a lot of people today who would like an answer to those questions.
