The ever-alert Bubbles sprang to life spilling a box of onion sets on the carpet, “Your phone is ringing!”

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Willowy Winifred hopped into action picking up the onions. “We need onion plants if we’re going to have big onions.”

Rotund Rita answered the phone. “An emergency? Right now?”

“I gotta go to Wilbert's,” she said as she tossed a bag of onion plants on the table, grabbed her keys, and ran out the door.