Lint's New Teacher

By A M Layet

Stone Age school boy Lint has a very happy first day back at school! Clan Chief Ghun has forgotten to appoint a new teacher. Eventually Clan Chief Ghun realises his mistake and appoints a teacher who puts a stop to all the fun. It's not long before the boys decide to take matters into their own hands once more. But this time, it's going to be a real battle, as the new teacher is strong, smart, armed and dangerous!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skillywidden
• Release date: Aug 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311370877

A M Layet

A M Layet began writing because, like baking, homemade tastes better. If you come across one of her tasty treats, tuck in and enjoy.

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A Reminder of How Things Used to be in the Good Old Days of the Stone Age...

It is cold, wet and muddy. (Some things never change). There are no cosy, comfortable beds, burgers, or take aways. But there are wild animals, wild mothers, wild sisters, and school. Also, roaming around the village, there is:

Lint – our hero, brighter than a spark.

Ma – Lint’s mother. Lint’s Pa died years ago, and since then, Ma has been flexing her muscles. She’s starting to look more like a man than the men do.

Olgan – Lint’s older sister. The fact that she is a girl is kept absolutely secret by all of the family, so that Olgan can attend the boys’ school and learn how to hunt. Also she’s smart; a little too smart, if you know what I mean.

Clan Chief Ghun – The boss. Not a very competent one, but no one seems to have noticed.

Magna – The girl’s teacher and a formidable woman, as the boys discovered last year when they attacked the girls. Magna beat them with her club and chased them back to the village.

Chapter One

When Olgan told Lint school started tomorrow, Lint looked at her blankly. Why tell me, he thought, it’s nothing to do with me. But then, one awful moment later, he remembered. It had everything to do with him. He went to school now. He had completed a whole year at school. It had been terrible. Or rather, Ekk, their vicious and lazy teacher, had been terrible. Ekk had seemed to think the whole point of school was to punish children, and, in particular, he had liked to punish Lint. For Ekk, school had nothing to do with learning. Lint had disagreed with this idea.

So Lint had organised a rebellion against Ekk, and the children had managed to drive him away at the end of the last school year. He had never been seen since. The boys had done what they liked all summer, and Lint had completely forgotten that school existed. But if school really was starting tomorrow, as Olgan said it was, there would have to be a new teacher. But who could that be? Lint had no idea.

Clan Chief Ghun also seemed to have no idea who the new teacher would be. He had not given the matter any thought at all over the summer break. This was not surprising; he rarely gave any matter much thought.

In fact, nobody had given the matter any thought at all. On the following morning, when the children trooped over to their clearing in front of the school cave and waited for their teacher to appear, they waited in vain. No-one came.

At first they didn’t notice there wasn’t a teacher. Then, they did notice, but they didn’t care. They were too busy running around. When they had had enough of running around, there were a few fights between the boys. When these ended badly, they all looked around for a teacher. At that point, some of them actually wanted a teacher to appear. But still no one came. Eventually the boys wandered off in ones and twos, bored, to sit down or find something to eat. No one thought to ask Clan Chief Ghun, or anyone else, who their new teacher was.

The next day they all lined up for school as before. As before, no one came. Very quickly the children decided there was no point waiting and headed back to the village and