The teacher discovered to her horror a long trail of ants crawling across her desk to the pile of exercise books she has left there, awaiting her marking. Those exercise books belonged to her class students who two days ago submitted their completed journal for her vetting and marking.
She quickly separated those books which were not affected and traced the trail to where the source was located that drew the ants there. It led to this particular exercise book which by now was filled with ants all over since it was disturbed. The teacher could not spray the insect repellent for fear that the spray may damage the students' written work.
When she opened the book, to that particular page, she was terrified with a double dosage. She saw the queen ant and its trail of ant workers with her eggs. Then she saw the ice cream stick taped to that page where all the ants were attracted to. She swiped the entire book into an A4 size plastic bag and sealed it tight.
The teacher took notice of whom the book belonged to and complete cleaning up her desk which by now has been infested with dead ants, ant eggs left behind by the workers and some scurrying ones trying their to stay out of the giant's deadly gaze. Thereafter she madly stormed upstairs to her class where the students were, holding on her hand the evidence of the trouble and inconvenience she had experienced.
"Tony!" "You explain to me, right now, what did you do that had made such a mess of me in my office? the teacher sternly demanded. Tony in a trembling voice told the teacher what he did with his journal book. The teacher for a moment, fainted in front of the class. While the other teachers came to her rescue, the classmates came to Tony and asked him what he said.
Tony said.
"I licked up my ice cream stick and simply stick it to the page of my journal book."
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