Mrs. Bevan makes a new rule to banish any ostentatious sign of piracy. Jim’s wooden cutlass and jolly-roger are confiscated. He can count on Matilda to fight back, but Bevan is on fire: she extends her rule to every child in town! No more noises, no more playing in the streets, no more rude manners, as those are all deemed “signs of piracy”! Jim and Matilda end up in her “reform boot camp” …Ok fine, you know what? The kids are actually going to help Bevan. They pretend she has changed them and patrol the streets with whistles: no more gathering! No more shouting! Curfews! Adults fall under the rule too! Bevan is ecstatic, it’s like a dream come true! Until Jim and Matilda turn their whistles against her. No more Bingo!! Now that should put an end to that state of emergency!