One day we invited some friends to dinner. When it was about six o'clock, my wife found that we had little bread.

So she asked our five-year-old daughter, Kathy, to buy some.

“Here's a dollar,”my wife said,“get two loaves of bread, if they have it. If they don't have it, get anything. But hurry!”

Kathy hurried off, and we waited and waited. By a quarter past six, all the friends had arrived, but Kathy had not returned. Finally we saw her dancing around the comer with a bright new hula hoop whirling round her middle.

“Kathy!”her mother cried.“Where did you get that hula hoop, and where's the bread?”

“Well, when I got to the shop, they had sold all their bread,”answered Kathy,“and you said If they don't have that, get anything!”

一天，我们邀请了一些朋友来吃饭。 大约六点钟的时候，我妻子发现我们几乎没有面包了。

所以她让我们五岁的女儿凯西去买一些。  

“这是一美元，”我妻子说，“如果他们有的话，买两条面包。 如果他们没有，那就找点东西。 但快!”  

凯西匆匆离去，我们等啊等。 到六点一刻，所有的朋友都到了，但凯西还没有回来。 最后，我们看到她在拐角处跳舞，一个崭新的呼啦圈在她的腰间旋转。  

“凯西! ”她妈妈大喊了。 “你从哪儿弄来的呼啦圈，面包在哪儿?”  

“嗯，当我到商店的时候，他们已经卖完了所有的面包，”凯西回答说，“你说如果他们没有面包，就买任何东西!” 

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