"No. O no. Only the bone of my ankle was broken."
"It smarted some, I guess; didn't it?"
"No. Now Hephzibah, what do those two letters spell?"
"C, a, ca. That don't mean nothin'."
"Now the next. D, a—"
"What's D, a?"
"D, a, da."
"What's that?"
"Nothing; only it spells that."
"How soon'll you be up again?"