WORD POWER
By Jean Little
1. I was eating my porridge when Hogh in the great hurry, fell down the stairs.
2 Before Mother could get up, he limped in, snilling slightly, and displayed a
bumped elbow for her inspection, Mother examined it gravely
3. "A slight hematoma," she said in a serious voice. "And an abrasion almost
invisible to the naked eye.
4. You'll live." Hugh, who always recovered with the speed of light and
who won Mother's admiration with his bravery, chuckled at the impressive words.
5. "What does that mean?" he asked "A little bruise and a scrape I can hardly see."​