英文短篇故事（纽约）174 A Sticker on Every Apple

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 　　Randy was peeling the sticker off an apple. He asked, "Where do these stickers come from?" His dad said, "You know about the tooth fairy, right? He leaves a dollar under the pillow when kids lose their baby teeth. Well, these stickers come from a fairy, too—the apple sticker fairy. He travels around the world putting stickers on all the apples." Randy said, "But that's a lot of apples. That's a lot of stickers. Doesn't he get tired?" His dad said, "No, fairies don't ever get tired. The apple sticker fairy can lick¹ the stickers and put them on all the world's apples and never get tired." Randy asked, "He licks² the stickers? His cooties are on all the stickers and all the apples? Yuck! I don't want to eat an apple with cooties on it." His dad said, "Don't worry. Fairies are like angels. They don't have cooties."