Object: An ice cream cone (but keep it hidden until needed)

Good morning, boys and girls. Way back in 1904, long before any of us were born there was a man who sold waffles at the St. Louis World's Fair. Perhaps you have been to an amusement park and had a Belgian waffle with lots of strawberries and whipped cream on it. Those were the kind of waffles this man was selling. But he made a serious mistake. He ran out of plates for his customers, and what's worse, none of the other people who were selling food at the World's Fair would sell him any of theirs. He knew people couldn't eat waffles covered with syrup or…