One day Mogey and Smush were out playing stickball when Smush made a tremendous sliding catch. He slid so long and so fast on the seat of his pants that Mogey was sure the trousers would be threadbare by the time Smush finally caught the ball.
When Smush hopped to his feet the pants were still magically intact, but Smush's back left pocket had turned a brilliant shade of red.
"Smush!" Mogey called, running over to him. "What's happened to your backside? Be you alright?" Smush felt his back pocket and sighed.
"Oh I'm fine, Mogey," he said. "But my strawberry's crushed." He pulled out the flattened carcass of the offending berry that had stained his pants.
"Why in the world did you have a strawberry in your pocket?" Mogey demanded.
"For luck," Smush replied. "My great uncle Bertram McBeans used to tell me 'you'll always have a better stickball game if you've got a strawberry in your back left pocket.'"
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