"Hey Smush?" Mogey asked one day as he and Smush were sliding a fresh pot of toad-in-the-hole into the oven. "Where does the heat for our oven come from?"
"Well Mogey," Smush said, shutting the oven and grasping his friend on the shoulder, "you know how we take the double long wagon into the forest every fall?" Mogey nodded. "Then we chop down the dryest trees we can find and stack the lumber until the wagon is full to bursting?" Smush continued. "And then our workhorses, Greymane and Barnaby Ryan haul the wagon back home and we spend the next three weeks using the maul and the axe to split all that wood? And then we stack it all up in neat piles against the southwestern side of the house? Do you remember all that?"
"Yes, yes, I remember," Mogey said.
"Well right behind all that wood is a gas tank that the gas man comes to fill up every couple of months," Smush said. "That's where the heat in our oven comes from, dummy."
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