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     â sherman, iâm serious, â the dog immediately said upon hearing the half-hearted response heâd received, attempting to keep his tone gentle but firm. â you know iâm not tolerating anyone mistreating you, let alone â this. â it was admittedly taking a great amount of effort for mr. peabody not to allow his genuine frustration of the situation to get the better of him â it would, after all, not help anything, much less help sherman. but frankly, could anyone blame him ? his boy had been physically harmed, his glasses broken. it was completely unacceptable.
     â you know well that iâll deal with it either way, â he continued, â but if this becomes a reoccurring problem, then i have to know, ok ? â that was the other thing about this that had taken him aback â peabody had always emphasized the importance of communicating problems like these with him, but he had also always made certain to pay attention to shermanâs behaviour just in case, anyway. after all, the boy was merely 10, and sometimes admitting to having issues in school was easier said than done. however, when heâd received that phone call informing him that sherman had received his slight injury, it had been nothing less than an unexpected and highly unpleasant shock. he had not noticed anything unusual about his sonâs behaviour in the past while â in fact, everything had seemed perfectly normal up until then ! and considering he thought he was usually quite observant, he could only assume that sherman had only just become the target of a particularly nasty bully, and was reacting according to that. it admittedly didnât occur to him, in all of his frustration, that he may have been lacking in certain details that wouldâve made the situation a little more clear.














