Mangoes for Pixie
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The Carter family had visitors. Pixie loved visitors. She liked to bark at them. She liked to smell them. Pixie was happy. She jumped up and barked. She wagged her tail. Uncle Nick and Aunt Julie petted her. Then they took out a present for the family. They said, “Here are six ripe mangoes for you.”
Mom was very happy with the present. She liked to eat mangoes. “What are mangoes?” wondered Pixie. She looked. She saw round green and yellow things. They smelled good. They smelled sweet. She poked her nose at the mangoes and wagged her tail.
“No, Pixie,” said Mom. Mom put the bag with the mangoes in it on the table. “Mangoes are not for dogs.”
Pixie went to her special spot and lay down. She waited for something to happen. Soon she went to sleep. She slept for a long time. When she woke up, she was alone. The family was gone. The visitors were gone. The house was empty. Pixie was bored.
She walked through the house. She went into the kitchen. She drank some water. She sniffed around. She ate some cookie crumbs off the floor. She smelled something good. The mangoes! She smelled the mangoes on the table. Pixie stretched her nose up to the table. How good the mangoes smelled! She sniffed and sniffed. She could touch the bag with her nose.
Pixie was excited. She jumped up in the air. She grabbed the bag with her teeth. Down came the mangoes! They rolled all over the floor. One rolled under the table. Pixie barked with joy! She chased the mangoes. She caught one. She tossed it up in the air. She caught it in her mouth. It was soft and sweet. She lay on the rug in the hall and chewed the mango. The juice dripped everywhere. She chewed and chewed on the big seed. Finally she left the seed on the rug.
Pixie found another mango and picked it up in her mouth. She went out her own little door to the back yard. She put the mango down and sniffed at it. She opened her mouth to bite it. Suddenly, there was a noise. Varoom! Varoom! It was the family car! The family was home. Mom was home! Pixie jumped up.
“Pixie!” called Mom, “Pixie, come!”
Suddenly Pixie remembered Mom’s voice. “No, Pixie,” it said, ”Mangoes are not for dogs.” Pixie knew she had done a naughty thing. She put her tail between her legs. She tried to run away from Mom.
Mom looked at Pixie. “Why are you running away?” she asked. “Have you done something naughty?” Pixie lay on her back on the ground and stared up at Mom with her big brown eyes.
Mom went into the house to look. She saw the mango seed on the rug. What a mess! She was mad. She looked around. She saw the bag with only three mangoes left. She found the mango under the table. She found the mango in the yard. Then she began to laugh. She laughed and laughed.
“Silly Pixie,” she said. “You just wanted to have your share of the present. But mangoes are not for dogs!”
Mom hid the mangoes and let Pixie come back in the house. Pixie was happy again. She wagged her tail. Mom was not mad. But no more mangoes for Pixie!
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