

Lily and Ben were playing in the barn. They liked to pretend they were animals. Lily was a cow and Ben was a horse. They mooed and neighed and ran around the hay.
"Let's become something else," Ben said. "What do you want to be?"
Lily thought for a moment. She saw a red jar on a shelf. It had a picture of a pepper on it. She was curious.
"I want to be a pepper," she said. "A spicy pepper."
Ben laughed. "That's silly. How can you be a pepper?"
Lily climbed on a stool and reached for the jar. She opened it and smelled it. It made her nose tickle. She took a pinch of the red powder and put it in her mouth.
"Wow!" she cried. "It's hot! It's spicy!"
She ran to the water bucket and drank some. Ben followed her and tried some too. He made a funny face.
"Yuck!" he said. "That's not good. That's not fun."
Lily agreed. She spat out the powder. She felt her tongue burn.
"Let's not be peppers," she said. "Let's be something else."
Ben nodded. He looked around the barn. He saw a basket of eggs. He had an idea.
"Let's be chickens," he said. "Chickens are fun. They cluck and lay eggs."
Lily liked that. She forgot about the spicy powder. She followed Ben to the basket. They pretended to be chickens. They clucked and flapped their wings and laid eggs. They had fun.
They were happy they became chickens. They decided they liked chickens better than peppers. Peppers were too spicy. Chickens were just right.
