The Stories Huey Tells

My mom and dad have a rule. At every meal, Julian and I have to eat at least a little bit of everything on our plates. Julian doesn’t mind. My mom says that ever since he was a baby he liked to eat every single vegetable and all kinds of strange foods. When I was born, my mom thought that I would be like Julian. I’m not. It’s because of me that they made up the rule. Because of the rule, I have eaten a little bit of oysters and asparagus. I have eaten a little bit of eggplant and turnips. I have eaten a piece of radish so tiny that afterward I had to use a magnifying glass to show my parents there was some-thing missing from that radish. Because of the radish, they added to the rule. You cannot use a magnifying glass to prove you tasted something. You have to eat more of it than that. There is one other part to the rule.