"How came this big bump here?" she inquired. "Have you had a fall?"
"Naw,'m."
"A fight, perhaps, then?"
"Naw,'m."
She raised his chin to search his eyes.
"Would it be telling tales out of school to answer that question?"
Dee nodded, got redder and more bashful.
"Ef you had a tole me, I'd 'a' rubbed it with operdildoc," said the mother. "Boys that won't steddy mus' look for hard knocks."
"Does Felicia study?" pursued the visitor.
"I can't exac'ly say she don't steddy," returned the mother. "But she is the greatest one fur gittin' inter scrapes—"