¹     "Uncle Fred," asked Cindy, "what is that?"
 
²     Cindy pointed to the brown thing in his hand. It looked like a short, thick stick.
 
³     "This?" Uncle Fred held it up. "This is a cigar."
 
⁴     He cut off the tip of one end. Then he lit a match. He held it to the end to start it burning.
 
⁵     He took some puffs on the cigar. Then he blew out a small cloud of smoke.
 
⁶     Cindy coughed. "Yuck," she said. "That is not nice. It stinks. Can you put it out?"
 
⁷     Uncle Fred looked at his cigar.
 
⁸     "I suppose I can. I can smoke it later."
 
⁹     Uncle Fred pressed the smoky end of the cigar into an ash try. Then he twisted it back and forth. The cigar stopped smoking.
 
¹⁰     "Why do you smoke, Uncle Fred?" asked Cindy.

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