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YOUNG CHRONICLE

November 14th, 2014

STORY: REACHING OUT FOR THE COOKIE JAR
Yana could eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, a tea snack (of
course), as dinner, then dessert and sometimes, for no reason at
all. She could trade in some of her favourite toys for a little bag of
cookies.
During the summer vacations, Yana, to her poor mother’s dread,
paced up and down the house, munching on cookies. She couldn’t
read through a story book with hundreds of pictures in it, go help
daddy water the posies in the evening, or even go skip with her
closest friends without a bag of cookies to accompany her.
One day, after making eyes, lips and noses on chapattis with jam
during breakfast, their pet dog Skippy walked into the kitchen as well, wagged his fluffy tail and looked up to
mummy – which meant that mummy had to reach out all the way up to the top shelf and fetch the dog biscuits.
Yana giggled as mummy went about her business for the doggy. “What’s funnier than your chapattis with
faces?” Mummy asked. “I just noticed”, Yana shrieked with delight. “Skippy and I are just as tall as each other.”
And she wiped the cookie crumbles off her face.

At first, Mummy just sniggered, but a moment later, she had a great idea. Since Skippy wasn’t tall enough to
reach for the dog biscuits on the top shelf, and he was as tall as Yana, if she kept the cookies that Yana
couldn’t get enough of on that very top shelf, she could never find them either and eat something healthy for a
change. So, that night, as Yana went to bed, Mummy took the jar of cookies and kept it high up on the shelf,
right next to the dog biscuits.

The next morning, as Yana woke up, she headed straight for the
kitchen and looked around for the cookies on the slab next to the
stove…it was all gone! The whole box of raisin cookies! Just as Yana
was about to give up, she spotted the box…right on the top shelf.
Of course, it was too high for her to get up to. But, this wasn’t
going to stop Yana from getting to her most favourite thing in the
world! She stretched out as high as she could, trying to get her
hands on the box of cookies, but it seemed well away from her.

However, Yana kept moving her hand closer…and closer…closer to the box, till she finally touched a cardboard
box! “This is it!” she thought. Without waiting even for a second, she put her hand right into the box, pulled out
a cookie and stuffed it into her mouth. She took a bite and let out a loud scream, “Aaaaaaargh!!!”
Hearing Yana’s cry, mummy rushed to the kitchen to find that Yana, in her eagerness to get her hands on the
cookies, had just taken a bite out of a dog biscuit. After all, she couldn’t see what she was reaching out for!

Mummy gave Yana a glass of fresh milk with strawberry crush in it for a change of taste. “Serves you right”
mummy laughed gently. “That should keep you away from cookies for a while!”

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