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YOUNG CHRONICLE

November 28th, 2014

REACHING 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 favorite
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 favorite 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.

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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!”