Aunt Esmerelda awoke with a start.
"Lan's sakes, wha's dat?" she exclaimed.
"May I have some cookies, Aunt Esmerelda?" Hortense asked.
Aunt Esmerelda's eyes were rolling.
"I 'clare I seed somefin' goin' out dat a doh. Dis yere house 'll be de def of me. Cookies? 'Cose you can have cookies, honey."
Hortense helped herself freely, remembering that Andy would want some. With these in her hands she walked through the yard and around the barn, where she found Andy.
"Cookies!" cheered Andy, and falling upon his share which Hortense gave him, he ate them one after another as fast as he could, never saying a word.
"Didn't you have any luncheon?" Hortense asked.
"Of course," said Andy, "but I squeezed so thin getting out of that box that I'm hungry again."
"I suppose," said Hortense, "that when I want a second helping of dessert and haven't room for it, all I need do is to squeeze in and out of the box and then I can start all over again."