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Nidhi smiled thinking how little Uncle Mathur cared about how her mother
felt about the toffees he often slipped her. She nodded and Uh-Oh brought
out the cookie jar. Nidhi chose a jam centred cookie. "Thank you uncle."
She said and turned to leave, when Uh-Oh called out. "What's your name
little lady?" He asked.

"Nidhi. I am Nidhi." She turned around and said, and then she pranced
away elated with the success of her mission.

"Great job Nidhi!" Suresh patted her head, when she returned.

The other kids congratulated her too. "But now what do we do next?" Payal
asked. "We need to do something else, right? Or this will be a dead end."

"You are quite right Payal." Mahesh agreed. "I was wondering the same
thing."

"Well you know, Lego was on the list of things he likes, so I had an idea."
Rahul ventured.

"Go on Rahul." Mahesh encouraged him.

"How about, we organise a neighbourhood Lego exhibition? It will be fun
for us and Uh-Oh may come and look around and we can get him talking.
What do you think?" Rahul looked hopefully at the others.

"Oh yes. Lets do that." Suresh clapped Rahul on the back. "Awesome idea!"

The Lego exhibition was announced and advertised with fliers on trees and
lamp posts. It was scheduled for the next Sunday. The idea caught on and
some grown ups decided to put up food stalls. The kids spent most of the
week fervently working on their Lego projects.

The exhibition was set up at the neighbourhood park. Soon after 9:00 a.m.,
people started filling in to the park. Some had brought their Lego projects
along. Others were setting up food stalls. Still others were looking a the
projects.

Suresh had made a red Lego Mustang. Nidhi had made a Lego vegetable
and fruit garden. Mahesh had made an aeroplane. Rahul had made a Lego

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