Dick is elght years old. He is polite. It's Saturday today. Dick, his sister and his mot
her stay at home. He is watching TV and his sister is doing her homework. At ten his fath
er comes back with a bag of apples. Dick likes apples very muchand he want toeat one. His
mother gives him four apples and says, "Go to washthem in the kitchen." Dick washes the a
pples and then gives them to his mother. His mother says, "Which apple do you want, Dick?
" "The biggest one, mummy." "What?"says his mother. "You should be polite and want the s
mallest one."