MAW'S APPLE TREE (cont)

I hadn't been paying any attention to Snookie, but turned around to look at him when I heard him laugh.  There, wedged in the crotch of a branch sat Snookie with a big buck-toothed grin spread over his freckled face. Hanging right in front of him was an apple core still attached to the tree by it's stem. It was cleanly eaten all around. I sat there looking at him with admiration for his cleverness.  Then, hearing Maw's back door slam, we grabbed the nearest apple and slid down the tree and was off up the trail to Snookie's house.