"Fire!,” yelled the small child.
His mother ignored him.
"Fire!,” he screamed louder this time.
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His mother stopped her conversation with an older woman and looked at him sitting on the edge of his sandbox.
"I smell smoke! Fire!", he repeated his eyes now filled with alarm as he ran to her.
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His mother looked around and bent down, eye level with her child and said, "There is no fire."
"But I smell smoke", he said with a confused expression.
"Yes, smoke, but no fire."
The young child considered this for a few moments. "Mommy, if it's smoke, then it's a campfire. Can we roast marshmallows?"
The older woman holding a cigarette at her side dropped it to the ground and stomped on it with her shoe.
