- Summer ends and the narrator has to head back to boarding school, but this time he's got his chicken.
- He builds a secret chicken coop in the schoolyard for Granpa Chook, who seems to be pretty happy in his new digs.
- The narrator goes off to report to Mevrou, who is disappointed when he tells her that his bedwetting has been cured, because she won't get to beat him as much anymore.
- When he heads back to check on Granpa Chook, he finds him locked in a death match with a snake. Granpa Chook wins and eats the snake's head, so the narrator takes the body as a reminder of Granpa Chook's toughness, and that there was another hatless snake out there. We don't know about you, but this is the first time we've ever heard of such a vicious and bloodthirsty chicken, but we'll take it.
- The Judge comes back to school with a shiny new swastika tattoo on his arm, and tells Pisskop that he will be the first victim of Adolf Hitler. Charming, right?
- The jury, the Judge's lackeys, takes a blood oath, using the blood dripping from the narrator's nose, to kill all of the Englishmen in South Africa. How old are these kids again?
- No one really knows who Adolf Hitler is in the little kids' dormitory, and they decide he's probably the new headmaster, coming to replace their current headmaster, who has a drinking problem. What a drinking problem is, exactly, is another mystery to the little ones.
- That night the narrator vows to never let the kids at school make him cry again.
- The next morning Granpa Chook shows up in the window to wake everyone up with a cockle-doodle-doo. Unfortunately, he leaves some doo-doo as well, in the narrator's bed, so even though he doesn't wet the bed anymore he gets a beating for having chicken poop on his pillow. Gee, thanks Granpa Cook.
- Mevrou orders the narrator to bring Granpa Chook to the kitchen after breakfast, and it looks pretty rough for the poor old chicken. As she heads for the cleaver to chop off his head, though, two cockroaches climb up on her. This causes her to freak out and even wet herself. What goes around comes around.
- Granpa Chook eats the cockroaches, and for this reason he is allowed to live, and is given bug duty in the kitchen. This is one hungry chicken.
- The narrator becomes the Judge's slave, which protects him from too many beatings this year.
- Since the narrator is so much younger than all the other kids (he's placed with the seven-year-olds), he has to act like he isn't too smart to keep out of trouble. This is all part of his camouflage strategy, to never stand out and therefore never attract the bullies.
- On the day that England declares war on Germany, September 3, 1939, the old, drunkard headmaster shows up in the cafeteria and tells everyone that Adolf Hitler will bring freedom to South Africa. He will punish the English for having put the Boers (the Dutch in South Africa) in concentration camps during the Boer War. We're not too sure South Africa was Hitler's top priority during World War II, but… this headmaster guy apparently is. Don't forget—he's drunk.
- The narrator doesn't realize that the Boer Wars had ended almost forty years before, and thinks that this must still be happening in South Africa.
- The narrator decides that his mother must not be in a mental institution at all, but rather had been mistaken for a Boer woman and put in a concentration camp.
- Miss du Plessis and Mevrou drag the headmaster out of the cafeteria, but not before he starts a rousing round of Heil Hitlers. Um, awkward…
- The Judge rallies all the students around marching the English to the sea, and Pisskop is the only representative of the English in the school, so the older students declare him a prisoner of war.
- The narrator is distracted in class, planning his escape from his march into the sea, and accidentally blows his cover as a mediocre student. He shows that he knows all the times tables, even the ones the class hadn't gone over yet, and the teacher has her own little nervous breakdown, beating him until his ear bleeds. Because being smart deserves punishment?
- Miss du Plessis faints, and so does the narrator.
- When he wakes up, Mevrou tells him that he must tell the doctor that he fell out of a tree, and he obeys. Dr. Henny, an old family friend, comes to stitch up the narrator's ear, and tells him that they are all South Africans, not English or otherwise.
- Miss du Plessis is gone, and replaced by a new, easy teacher named Mrs. Gerber.
- The narrator starts to feel bad about having given his mother and Miss du Plessis nervous breakdowns, and for making Mevrou wet herself. Don't worry Peekay, it's not you, it's them.