At the teacher's direction a pretty little girl named Suzie climbed into the canvas bag and waited while it was tied shut. Then the whistle was blown and the rest of the children rushed forward, kicking the bag with their shoes, stomping up and down on it and generally doing whatever they liked in order to produce the loudest screams. Today Billy had brought a baseball bat from the sports shed and with a nod from Miss Fields he began to swing it down making a series of sickening crunches.

Whenever this game ended the teacher would open the bag and allow the girl to crawl out for her picture. On the bulletin board there was one of Katie showing heavy bruises and holding her bent arm with the bone poking out. Next to it was Sandy who smiled shakily with her front teeth complete smashed and one eye sealed shut by the massive swelling of her cracked skull. And Alice was shown on the floor with her hands under her skirt trying to hold back the river of blood hemorrhaging out from her ruptured internal organs.

Sometimes they didn't get out and that was a good lesson for everyone. Girls were only made for fun and sometimes that meant that they had to go away. When that happened Miss Fields would tell everyone to say goodbye and then heave the silent or occasionally whimpering bag into the garbage compactor before starting the first graders on their next educational activity.