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commotion, because she appeared,

carrying a baby.

"What's the matter?" she asked.

"Mom, Ricky ate all of the

cookies," the younger girl replied.

"No, I didn't," Ricky said.

"Well, all but one that we sold," the

oldest girl said.

The mother turned to me. "If you

can hang around a minute, I have a

nice, hot batch in the oven."

I nodded. "For hot cookies, I can

hang around."

She smiled and went back into the

house. I visited with the children, and

the girls extolled the virtues of their

mother's cookies.

I laughed. "I'm sure I can take

Ricky's word on that, huh, Ricky?"

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